Today, the Trump administration's top national security officials are all in Saudi Arabia,

ahead of a meeting tomorrow with Russian officials that marks the beginning of Ukraine peace talks.

The fact that those talks are bilateral has sparked deep worry across Europe,

especially after comments by senior U.S. officials in Europe over the last week, critical of U.S. allies.

Here's Nick Schifrin.

In Riyadh today, a meeting with Saudi Arabia's powerful crown prince.

Before negotiations begin to end Europe's deadliest conflict since World War II,

tomorrow's Secretary of State Marco Rubio, National Security Advisor Mike Walts, and

Special Presidential Envoy Steve Whitkoff, will meet with Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei

Lavrov and Putin's foreign policy advisor, Yuri Ushikov, no Ukrainian or other European

officials.

Which led Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky today

during a visit to the United Arab Emirates to call the talks illegitimate.

Ukraine regards any negotiations on Ukraine without Ukraine as ones that have no result, and

we cannot recognize any agreements about us without us.

This weekend, President Trump assured that Ukraine would not be sidelined.

Do you have sex Zelensky to be involved in these conversations?

What will his school be?

Yeah, I do. He will be involved.

I'm a school of realism.

But at the Munich Security Conference, Special Envoy Keith Kellogg made it clear other

Europeans would not be invited because he said previous European-led ceasefire negotiations

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