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paragraph_text: On 18 February 2025, 3 American delegates led by Marco Rubio and 2 Russian delegates led by Sergey Lavrov met in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia to discuss improving Russia–United States relations and plans to end the war in Ukraine. Despite the meeting being primarily about Ukraine, no Ukrainian or European delegations were invited to the summit. United States President Donald Trump has dismissed Ukrainian concerns that Ukraine was not invited to the summit, and also apparently implied Ukraine was to blame for starting the war. The Riyadh summit was the most extensive diplomatic meeting between the United States and Russia since Russia's February 2022 invasion of Ukraine.