Yesterday a Gedda (Saudi Arabia) The negotiations between Ukraine and the United States began to define the conditions of a possible fire with Russia. The interviews took place behind closed doors in a room of theHotel Ritz-Carlton and involved the main representatives of American diplomacy, including the Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the National Security Councilor Michael Waltzin addition to a Ukrainian delegation. This last was composed of the head of the Cabinet of the Ukrainian Presidency, Andriy Yermak, near the president Volodymyr Zelenskyby the Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrii Sybiha and the Minister of Defense Rustm UMEROV. “Ukraine supports the American proposal of a fire cessation lasting thirty days in the war with Russia,” negotiators jointly said. At the same time, Washington announced “the immediate revocation of the suspension of aid to Ukraine”, interrupted after the dispute between Zelensky And Donald Trump to the White House. “President Trump has decided to put an end to the suspension of safety aid since now”, the American representatives have specified while the Secretary of State Marco Rubio He said that “Ukraine has taken a step forward, we hope that Russia will also take his own.” Washington and Kiev also aim to close an agreement on minerals as soon as possible, who remained outstanding after tensions in the last meetings in the White House.
In the meantime, the spokesman for Russian diplomacy, Maria Zakharova He said that “Russia does not exclude contacts with the United States representatives in the next few days”. The colonel Pavlo Palisadeputy head of the Ukrainian presidential office, announced that security assistance from the United States to Ukraine has been officially restored. «I have the confirmation that the security assistance of the United States has been restored. The agreements are starting to be implemented. The struggle continues! », He wrote on his X profile. In addition to the resumption of military aid, the United States also restarted full sharing of intelligence with Kiev. This decision came after the agreement reached in Gedda on the proposal to cease fire with Russia. The news was reported by a high Ukrainian official to the agency Reuters.
Also Volodymyr Zelensky He was in Saudi Arabia to meet the hereditary prince Mohammed Bin Salman, but does not participate directly in the negotiations. His journey, scheduled last month, had been postponed after the announcement of an extraordinary meeting to Riyad between Marco Rubio and his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrovin which the issue of Ukraine had been raised without Kiev being involved in discussions. Zelensky said he went to Saudi Arabia “determined to do everything possible to end this conflict with a just and lasting peace”. As we told you yesterday the other night, Ukraine launched a massive attack with drones against the Moscow region and other objectives in Russia, demonstrating its ability to hit Russian territory, while in the last few days Russia had intensified the bombings against Ukrainian infrastructures. And now what will Vladimir Putin do? For the moment, the Russian president is silent, however, a high -level Russian source told Reuters that “any agreement to end the war in Ukraine will have to take into account Russian progress and respond to Moscow’s concerns”. Always the same source says “Vladimir Putin would have difficulty accepting the idea of the ceasefire without discussing the terms and obtaining some types of guarantee. Today Putin has a strong position because Russia is advancing, “added the Russian source.
Relevant regarding the beam between Moscow and Washington the telephone interview between the head of the CIA, John Ratcliffeand that of Russian external intelligence (SVR), Serghei Naryshkin. According to reports, the two high intelligence officials would have agreed “to maintain regular contacts with each other in order to contribute to guaranteeing international stability and security, as well as to reduce the clash in relations between Moscow and Washington”. As said now the ball passes to Vladimir Putin Which is now in an objectively delicate position given that on the one hand the hawks of Russian politics, for days they have rejected any hypothesis of “Dogovornicjok “(an agricchio without real guarantees, a term that is usually used in the Russian press to indicate the rigged football matches), while on the other side the oligarchs and entrepreneurs, who are waiting for nothing but the revocation of western sanctions, the release from the assets abroad and the resumption of commercial exchanges. Probable that Vladimir Putin Always to use football language, choose “to throw the ball in the grandstand” accepting the American-Ukraine proposal with a thousand reserves and distinguishes in order to take time and continue to advance in Ukraine. This however would expose it to the reaction of Donald Trump Which could deliver very hard sanctions including banking ones that would bring the Russian economy to their knees. In addition, the US could heavily skim the Ukrainians because everyone knows that the American president cannot ‘and does not want to lose this game. Donald Trump He announced that he will talk to the leader of the Kremlin Vladimir Putin “This week in the hope of seeing a total fire in the next few days.” Then added: “But to dance the tango you have to be two”
