RussiaUkraineWar Peace Deal Ahead ? -> Key European leaders met in Paris to discuss a possible Ukraine-Russia peace deal -> Negotiations between Russia & US will begin Tuesday in Saudi Arabia -> German Chancellor Olaf Scholz expressed frustration at the discussion around sending peacekeeping troops to Ukraine, arguing that it is "highly inappropriate" to discuss this before a peace plan has been decided -> Secretary of State Marco Rubio, national security advisor Mike Waltz & Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov are among top senior US and Russian officials who are involved -> According to an AP spokesperson, Ukraine President Zelensky will be visiting Saudi Arabia this week -> Sources also quoted potential defense spending packages which kept European FI under pressure