The Trump administration has lifted its suspension of military aid and information sharing for UkraineAnd Kyiv indicated that it was open to a 30-day ceasefire in the war with war with RussiaPending the Moscow Agreement, US and Ukrainian officials said on Tuesday following talks in Saudi Arabia.
The administration’s decision marked a clear change of only a week ago, when he imposed the measures in an apparent effort to push the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy to participate in talks to end the war with the invasive Russian forces. The suspension of American aid occurred a few days after Zelenskyy and President Donald Trump discussed the conflict at a white house.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who directed the American delegation to talks in Djeddah, said Washington would present the ceasefire offer to the Kremlin, who has hitherto opposed a permanent end of the conflict without accepting any concession.
“We will tell them that this is what is on the table. Ukraine is ready to stop shooting and starting to speak. And now it will be up to them to say yes or no, “Rubio told journalists after the talks. “If they say no, then we will unfortunately know what is the obstacle to peace here.”
Trump’s national security advisor Mike Waltz added: “The Ukrainian delegation said something very clear today, that they share President Trump’s vision for peace.”
Tuesday’s discussions, which lasted nearly eight o’clock, seemed to rest – at least – the animosity between Trump and Zelenskyy who broke out at the meeting of the Oval Office last month.
Waltz said negotiators “were put in substantial details on how this war was going to end permanently”, including long -term security guarantees. And, he said, Trump agreed to lift the break immediately in the supply of billions of dollars in American military aid and intelligence.
Search for an agreement with Russia
Trump said he hoped that an agreement could be solidified “in the coming days”.
“I said that Russia had been easier to manage so far than Ukraine, which is not supposed to be as it is,” said Trump later on Tuesday. “But this is the case, and we hope to have Russia. But we have a complete ceasefire from Ukraine. It’s good.”
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The Kremlin has made no immediate comments on American and Ukrainian statements. Russian Ministry of Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova only said negotiations with US officials could take place this week.
Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff should go later this week to Moscow, where he could meet Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to a person familiar with the issue but not authorized to comment on publicly. The person warned that planning could change.
The officials met in Saudi Arabia only a few hours after Russia shot down more than 300 Ukrainian drones in the largest attack in Ukraine since the large -scale invasion of the Kremlin. Neither the American officials nor Ukrainians made a comment on the dam.
Russia has also launched 126 drones and a ballistic missile in Ukraine, said Ukrainian Air Force, as part of the incessant beat of Moscow in civil zones.
Zelenskyy renews calls for lasting peace
In an address published shortly after the end of Tuesday talks, Zelenskyy reiterated Ukraine’s commitment to sustainable peace, stressing that the country has asked for the end of the war since its beginning.
“Our position is absolutely clear: Ukraine has endeavored from peace from the first second of this war, and we want to do everything possible to achieve it as soon as possible – in complete safety and in a way that guarantees that war does not return,” said Zelenskyy.
The Ukrainian presidential aid Andriy Yermak, who directed the Ukrainian delegation, described the positive negotiations. He said that the two countries “share the same vision and that we are heading in the same direction towards the just expected peace by all Ukrainians”.
In kyiv, Lena Herasymenko, psychologist, accepts that compromises will be necessary to end the war, but she said that they had to be “reasonable”.
“We had massive losses during this war, and we do not yet know how much we will have,” she told the Associated Press. “We suffer every day. Our children suffer and we do not know how the future generation will be affected. »»
Oleksandr, a Ukrainian soldier who could only give his first name because of the security restrictions, warned that Ukraine could not drop his guard.
“If there is a ceasefire, it would only give Russia time to increase its firepower, its workforce, its missiles and other weapons. Then they would attack Ukraine again, “he said.
The Russians Hawkish repel against a cease-fire
In Moscow, Bellician politicians and military bloggers have strongly opposed a potential ceasefire, arguing that he would play in kyiv’s hands and damaged Moscow’s interests at a time when the Russian army has the advantage.
“A ceasefire is not what we need,” wrote the hard-on-line ideologist Alexander Dugin.
Viktor Sobolev, a retired general who is a member of the lower room of the Russian Parliament, warned that a 30 -day truce would allow Ukraine to strengthen arms supplies and bring together his troops before resuming hostilities.
Sergei Markov, a pro-Kremlin political commentator, suggested that Moscow could ask for Western weapons supplies in Ukraine as part of a cease-fire. “An embargo on arms supplies in Ukraine could be a condition for a truce,” he wrote.
The Kremlin sticks to its peace conditions
Russia has not publicly offered any concessions. Putin said on several occasions that Moscow wishes a full settlement, not a temporary truce.
Russia said that he was ready to stop hostilities provided that Ukraine abandons his attempt to join NATO and recognizes the regions that Moscow occupies as Russian. Russia has captured almost a fifth of the territory of Ukraine.
The Russian forces have held the dynamics of the battlefield for more than a year, although a high cost of infantry and armor, and push points selected along the front line of 1000 kilometers (600 miles), in particular in the Eastern Donetsk region.
Ukraine has invested massively in the development of its weapons industry, in particular high -tech drones that have deeply reached Russia.
Baraa Anwer associated press writers in Djeddah, Saudi Arabia; Hanna Arhirova and Dmytro Zyhinas in Kyiv, Ukraine; And Aamer Madhani in Washington contributed to this report.
