Putin sends Russia's top diplomat and Kremlin adviser to meet Trump officials in Saudi Arabia

Dmitry Peskovkremlin spokesman

Today, (Foreign Minister Sergei) Lavrov and (Putin aide) Yuri Ushakov will fly to Riyadh and a meeting is expected Tuesday with the Americans, devoted primarily to restoring the whole complex of Russian-American relations,

news agency AFP quoted Peskov as saying

Mykhailo Podolyaksenior ukrainian official

There is nothing on the negotiating table that would be worth discussing,

Podolyak said on Ukrainian television

Those are details, and I'm not dismissive of the details, they're important. But I think the beginning here is trust-building. It's getting everybody to understand that this war does not belong continuing, that it should end. That's what the president has directed us to do,

he said