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Ukraine war talks: What the key players want

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European leaders are meeting in France as they scramble for a response to Donald Trump's plan to open negotiations with Vladimir Putin .

Russia 's foreign minister Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio are due to meet in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday .

Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and controls more than a fifth of its territory.

French President Emmanuel Macron called Monday 's informal meeting not a "summit," his officials insisted to help Europe coordinate a response to Washington 's increasingly unsympathetic posture towards the continent.

The mood in France a nation always wary of American geopolitical manoeuvring is particularly edgy right now.

Russia 's priority is clearly the meeting in Saudi Arabia , but not the talks in Riyadh .

Ukraine 's defence has cost tens of thousands of lives of its citizens.

The country has in the past insisted that any peace deal included the full withdrawal of Russian troops from Ukrainian territory.

With no security guarantees, it would also mean a new wave of war in a decade or so.

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