What the US and Russia might agree on without Ukraine and Europe

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio is meeting his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov today in Saudi Arabia.
Talks are aimed at setting up negotiations for a peace plan for Ukraine without Kyiv or Europe at the table. It's the first high-level meeting between the two countries since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion of its neighbor three years ago. A day earlier, European leaders held an emergency summit in Paris over the prospect of being excluded from peace talks.