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  • Russia won't accept Nato troops in Ukraine as part of any peace deal, says Lavrov

    02/18/2025 12:51:20 PM PST · by MinorityRepublican · 46 replies
    BBC News ^ | 18 February 2025 | Edited by Jacqueline Howard and Johanna Chisholm, with Tom Bateman reporting from Riyadh
    Along Ukraine's frontline, the war rages on. But global attention spanned thousands of miles away today, as representatives from Russia and the US met in Saudi Arabia to discuss an end to the conflict. Uninvited to those talks, and in Turkey instead, was Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky. He made it known he won't accept a deal made about Ukraine without Ukraine's involvement, and that he wouldn't recognise parts of Ukraine occupied by Russia. Speaking after the meeting, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov called the talks "useful", but said any type of peacekeeping forces in Ukraine would be "completely unacceptable". Marco...