KYIV ­— Ukraine will not take part in talks between Russia and the United States in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Monday, speaking via video link from the United Arab Emirates.

Zelenskyy’s arrival in the region at the same time as the U.S. and Russia are poised to meet for peace talks in Saudi Arabia has generated wide speculation about whether Ukraine would participate. U.S. officials told POLITICO at the Munich Security Conference this weekend that Washington had invited Ukraine to take part, a statement that was news to Kyiv.

“Ukraine will not take part in the negotiations. Ukraine did not know they were planned. And the visit to the region was planned long before the U.S. decided to meet Russia there,” Zelenskyy said, adding that any peace talks held without Kyiv at the negotiating table “will bring no result.”

Zelenskyy will travel to Turkey on Tuesday, when Russia and the US are expected to meet in Riyadh. He will then arrive in Saudi Arabia the following day. Zelenskyy stated that his visits have nothing to do with the talks.

Zelenskyy welcomed the possibility of European leaders joining the negotiations to provide Ukraine with security guarantees and pressure Putin for peace, despite the fact that it was previously considered unwise to speak with the aggressor during the war. Moscow and Washington, on the other hand, have dismissed the idea of European participation.

“It is not clear for me why European countries should participate in negotiations on Ukraine,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Monday

According to Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, the U.S.-Russia meeting will “first of all to the restoration of the entire complex of Russian-American relations,” as well as preparing for possible negotiations on the Ukrainian settlement and organizing a meeting between the two presidents.