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US and Allies Met Secretly With Ukraine on Peace Plan
- Russia wasn’t invited to meeting in Riyadh and China didn’t go
- Allied efforts to win support for Kyiv’s approach sputtering
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A secret meeting took place last month between Ukraine, its Group of Seven allies and a small group of Global South countries to try to rally support for Kyiv’s conditions for holding peace talks with Russia, according to people familiar with the matter.
The previously undisclosed Dec. 16 meeting of national security advisers was held in Saudi Arabia and followed larger, publicized gatherings aimed at countering Moscow’s attempts to divide and paint Ukraine and its allies as unwilling to negotiate an end to the war.