Top Trump administration officials are set to meet their Russian counterparts face-to-face for the first time Tuesday in Saudi Arabia to discuss bringing an end to Moscow’s three-year-old war on Ukraine.

The meeting will take place six days after President Trump spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin by phone and announced negotiations would begin “immediately.”

Secretary of State Marco Rubio, national security adviser Mike Waltz and Trump special Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff will make up the American delegation. 

Notably, Trump’s special envoy for Ukraine and Russia, Keith Kellogg, will not be in attendance — though he is scheduled to meet Thursday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who also was not invited to the Saudi talks.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and key Putin aide Yuri Ushakov will represent the Kremlin, along with Kirill Dmitriev, the head of Moscow’s sovereign wealth fund. 

Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov has said the Russian side will demand security guarantees and will not engage in an exchange of conquered territory to end Europe’s largest and deadliest conflict since World War II. 

Tuesday’s meeting will primarily focus on “restoring the full spectrum of Russian-American relations,” Peskov said Monday, adding that Saudi Arabia was chosen because it was a suitable location for both sides.

Trump has not said what concessions the US will seek from Russia, but last week said he didn’t see Ukraine realistically joining NATO — one of Kyiv’s two key requests it says it needs to keep Russia at bay, along with a restoration of Ukraine’s nuclear capabilities.

Witkoff did not elaborate Sunday on whether Ukraine will have to give up any territory in a potential peace deal.

“Those are details, and I’m not dismissive of the details, they’re important,” he told Fox News. “But I think the beginning here is trust-building. It’s getting everybody to understand that this war does not belong continuing, that it should end. That’s what the president has directed us to do.”

Zelensky confirmed Monday that no Ukrainian officials will be present at the Saudi meeting — despite Trump saying his Ukrainian counterpart will “be involved” in some way. 

Trump called Zelensky on Wednesday to brief him on the Putin conversation, after which the Ukrainian president admitted to reporters he was “not happy” the president called Russia first.

Zelensky has previously said Ukraine won’t agree to any peace deal without being physically present at the negotiating table.

The Ukrainian president also said after this past weekend’s Munich Security Conference that he hasn’t had his officials sign off on a rare-earth deal Trump has been pushing, because Zelensky didn’t see how it gave Ukraine security guarantees. 

Zelensky is due to be in Saudi Arabia Wednesday to discuss economic support for Kyiv, and said he hopes to get clarity on a future meeting with Trump after Thursday’s talk with Kellogg. 

On Monday, Rubio met with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, commonly known as MBS, and discussed the situation in the Gaza Strip. 

“The secretary underscored the importance of an arrangement for Gaza that contributes to regional security,” State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce said in a statement.

Saudi Arabia has been leading efforts to prepare an Arab plan in response to Trump’s proposal to relocate millions of Palestinians from Gaza to create a “Riviera of the Middle East.”

Rubio said last week that while Arab countries don’t like the US president’s idea for the war-shattered region, “the only plan is the Trump plan.”

“So if they’ve got a better plan, now’s the time to present it,” he added during a Feb. 13 interview with radio hosts Buck Sexton and Clay Travis. “So we’re looking forward to that.”

With Post wires