i'm sumi somaskanda in washington. and this is bbc world news america. us and russian officials meet for four hours to jump—start ukraine

a deal if ukraine is sidelined from the talks. speaking at a news conference in turkey earlier today, the ukrainian leader said it was a surprise that ukraine was not included in the negotiations. a short while ago, us president donald trump told the bbc that he was "disappointed" to hear that kyiv was concerned about not having a seat at the negotiating table. i hear that, you know, they're upset about not having a seat. well, they've had a seat for three years, and a long time before that.

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meeting has taken place at that level in three years. on the left, as we came in, was marco rubio, the us secretary of state. there was steve witkoff, president trump's envoy to the region, but also now taking the russia and ukraine file. and the national security adviser at the white house, mike waltz.

and sitting across the table from them, sergey lavrov, the russian foreign minister, and yuri ushakov, a key foreign policy adviser to president putin. now, what was notablejust as much for who was there was, of course, who was not. the ukrainians have not been invited. that was a question that i shouted to mr rubio while we were still in the room. is the us sidelining ukraine, mr secretary? what concessions will there be asked of russia, mr secretary?

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