The Kremlin said on Tuesday that Russian President Vladimir Putin was serious about negotiating a settlement to end the war in Ukraine as high-level talks began in Saudi Arabia, and that Russia would prefer to achieve all its aims peacefully.

European leaders are fuming at being left out of U.S. talks with Russia in Saudi Arabia. But they’re also just as angry for setting themselves up to be left out. “I think our problem in Europe quite often is that,

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The Kremlin said on Tuesday that it was Ukraine's sovereign right to decide whether it wanted to join the European Union and that Moscow did not intend to dictate to Kyiv how it should approach the question.