Ukraine, there is an agreement with the US. Kiev has in fact supported the US proposal for a 30-day ceasefire with Russia, in exchange for which Washington announced the “immediate” lifting of the suspension of aid to Ukraine, during the Jeddah Summit, in Saudi Arabia. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said yesterday evening that Ukraine has agreed to “immediate negotiations” with Russia, which was absent from the talks, and that the ball is in Moscow's court to accept a truce. The response was not long in coming: the Kremlin spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, urged "not to rush too much", Moscow is waiting to receive detailed information from Washington on "the negotiations that have taken place and the agreements reached", Peskov added.
Ukraine, there is an agreement with the US: 30 days of truce
US must now “persuade” Russia to accept 30-day ceasefire, Ukrainian president says Volodymyr Zelensky. “Ukraine accepts this proposal,” he added in his daily speech broadcast on social networks. The question now is “how” and not “whether” the war in Ukraine should end, he said. Mike Walz, U.S. national security adviser. The two countries also agreed to conclude a deal on Ukrainian minerals “as soon as possible,” according to the final statement released after more than eight hours of discussions. The meeting was held in Jeddah on the Red Sea, a few hours after Kiev's largest drone strike on Russian soil since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022.
Ukraine, US aid returns to Kiev
After more than three years of war, here is the proposal for a partial ceasefire with Russia. US military aid to Kiev and intelligence sharing had been interrupted after thealtercation in the Oval Office, on February 28th, between the President of the United States Donald Trump and Zelensky.
“Ukraine expressed its readiness to accept the United States’ proposal for an immediate and interim 30-day ceasefire, which can be extended by mutual agreement of the parties and is subject to simultaneous acceptance and implementation by the Russian Federation,” the joint statement released today read. “The United States will let Russia know that Russian reciprocity is the key to peace,” the statement added. Then, “the United States will immediately lift the suspension of intelligence sharing and resume security assistance to Ukraine,” the joint statement said.
Ukraine, the Kremlin's accusations
Marco Rubio and the Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiga attended the meeting, at a time when Trump is pressuring Ukraine to end the war. “We are ready to do everything to achieve peace,” said the head of the Ukrainian presidential office, Andrii Iermak, entering the negotiating room. In this context, Ukraine said that the massive attack conducted with hundreds of drones, which targeted Moscow and its region, more than 400 kilometers from the Ukrainian border, should “encourage” Russian President Vladimir Putin to accept a air truceThe attack killed three people, according to municipal authorities. The Kremlin accused Kiev of hitting “social infrastructure, residential buildings”. According to Moscow, 343 drones were shot down in the attack, which also targeted the Kursk region on the border with Ukraine. In Ukraine, Russian shelling killed six people on Tuesday in the eastern Donetsk region, according to its governor. Asked about the negotiations in Saudi Arabia, the Kremlin said it was up to Ukraine to show it was ready to make peace. “It doesn’t matter what (we) expect,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said bluntly.
Meanwhile, yesterday evening, Colonel Pavlo Palisa, Deputy Head of the Ukrainian Presidential Office, reported that theUS security assistance to Ukraine has already been restored. “I have confirmation that US security assistance has been restored. Agreements are starting to be implemented. The fight continues!” wrote Palisa, who was part of the Ukrainian delegation in Jeddah, on Facebook.
Ukraine, will Putin accept truce? Moscow slows down
The first response, not surprisingly, is not so clear. The Kremlin is dampening enthusiasm for an immediate truce, and does not rule out the possibility of a new telephone conversation between Putin and Trump in the coming days. “If such a need arises, it will be organized very quickly, the current channels of dialogue with the Americans allow it to be done in a fairly short time,” Russian spokesman Peskov said, quoted by Interfax.
Updated Wednesday 12 March 2025 at 12:XNUMX
