Kirill Dmitriev wrote on Elon Musk’s X platform for the first time since 2012 this week to declare US-Russia cooperation was “key to address world challenges.” Then he posted a video graphic depicting a joint mission to Mars with the US and Saudi Arabia on what appears to be one of Musk’s SpaceX rockets.

A look at where things stand after the first month of Trump's second term: Trump dispatched top foreign policy advisers to Saudi Arabia for direct talks with Russian officials that were aimed at ending Moscow’s war against Ukraine.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio arrived in Saudi Arabia on Monday ahead of expected U.S.-Russia talks there on ending Moscow's war on Ukraine, though Kyiv's representatives are not expected to take part.

US President Donald Trump is pushing for a quick end to the war in Ukraine, and earlier this week, top US and Russian officials met for peace talks in Saudi Arabia — without any representatives from Kyiv present.

European leaders were dismayed that their officials and those from Ukraine weren't invited to preliminary U.S.-Russia talks last week in Saudi Arabia. The very short U.S. draft resolution offers mourning for “the tragic loss of life throughout the Russia-Ukraine conflict” and “implores a swift end to the conflict and further urges a lasting peace between Ukraine and Russia.

At a conference held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, the Trump administration concluded their initial discussion of the Russo-Ukranian war with Russia by Feb. 18. However, despite being a main party in the conflict in question,

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday that he has not discussed resolving the conflict in Ukraine in detail with President Donald Trump, and neither did Russian and American negotiating teams when they met last week in Saudi Arabia.

Today marks three years since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Last week, Trump administration and Russian officials met in Saudi Arabia to talk about ending the war. It was America's first direct,

But when Russian and U.S. officials met in Saudi Arabia this week, Chinese President Xi Jinping was nowhere near the table, instead meeting with China's tech entrepreneurs in Beijing. China's priorities are clear: it is focused on repairing its economy and trying to hammer out a deal with U.

Mr Trump is the guiding force of the talks, the early throes of which have started—without any input or representation from Ukraine and Europe—in Saudi Arabia. If he chooses to include Europe at all,