{"id":33654,"date":"2025-02-18T13:43:02","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T13:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/18\/russian-and-us-officials-meet-in-riyadh-without-ukrainians-first-thing\/"},"modified":"2025-02-18T13:43:02","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T13:43:02","slug":"russian-and-us-officials-meet-in-riyadh-without-ukrainians-first-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/18\/russian-and-us-officials-meet-in-riyadh-without-ukrainians-first-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian and US officials meet in Riyadh \u2013 without Ukrainians | First Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Negotiations get under way, with Kyiv and other European powers sidelined. Plus, why gen Z has ditched capitalization<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/info\/2018\/sep\/17\/guardian-us-morning-briefing-sign-up-to-stay-informed\">Don\u2019t already get First Thing in your inbox? Sign up here<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Good morning.<\/p>\n<p>The negotiations over a ceasefire in Ukraine between the US and Russia, with Kyiv and other European powers sidelined, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2025\/feb\/18\/russia-us-ukraine-peace-talks-donald-trump-vladimir-putin-volodymyr-zelenskyy-saudi-arabia-live-latest-updates-news?filterKeyEvents=false&amp;page=with%3Ablock-67b4389d8f08b8338f0d6fcc#block-67b4389d8f08b8338f0d6fcc\">have begun in Riyadh<\/a>, the capital of Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What was said in Paris?<\/strong> There were calls for boosts in defence spending \u2013 but some, notably Germany, wanted to stymie discussion of European boots on the ground in peacekeeping efforts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What has Ukraine said? <\/strong>Zelenskyy has said Kyiv will not recognize any deal made without its participation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Does he immediately get the role?<\/strong> He has been serving in an interim capacity since Trump\u2019s second term began; his permanent appointment must be confirmed by the Senate.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/feb\/18\/first-thing-russian-and-us-officials-meet-in-riyadh-without-ukrainians\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Negotiations get under way, with Kyiv and other European powers sidelined. Plus, why gen Z has ditched capitalization Don\u2019t already get First Thing in your inbox? Sign up here Good morning. The negotiations over a ceasefire in Ukraine between the US and Russia, with Kyiv and other European powers sidelined, have begun in Riyadh, the &#8230; <a title=\"Russian and US officials meet in Riyadh \u2013 without Ukrainians | First Thing\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/18\/russian-and-us-officials-meet-in-riyadh-without-ukrainians-first-thing\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Russian and US officials meet in Riyadh \u2013 without Ukrainians | First Thing\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}