The new round of conversations in Saudi Arabia between Russian and American representatives about the establishment of a 30 -day truce in Ukraine continued Monday for more than ten hours without being achieved for the moment significant agreements, although the party … Russian says he is satisfied with the march of negotiations. In Riad, the Ukrainian delegation still remains with the intention of meeting again this Monday with the American, as they did on Sunday, and listening to what has been able to agree with Russia.
The senator and member of the Russian negotiator team, Grigori KarasinHe told the Russian Agency Interfax that «the consultations of Russian-American experts in Riyadh are being held creatively already full performance. Interesting debates are taking place on issues of great news ». Karasin, who is head of the International Policy Committee of the Federation Council (Upper Chamber of the Russian Parliament), however, that “not all negotiations necessarily end with important documents and agreements. Before, you have to maintain constant contact and understand the point of view of the other ».
The other member of the Russian delegation is Serguéi Besedahigh position of the Federal Security Service of Russia (FSB, former KGB). Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov has already warned that conversations will be “difficult” and could last a long time. “There is still a lot of work to do at the technical level,” said Pisskov this Monday in his usual appearance before the press. In the same line, the spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry has been expressed, María Zajárovapointing out that “working in several directions.” The US delegation includes the planning director of the State Department, Michael Anton, the special emissary of the White House, Keith Kellogg and the National Security Advisor, Mike Walz.
The discussion issues associated with the High Fire of 30 days, according to Moscow and Washington, revolve around the cessation of hostilities in the Black Sea with the consequent resumption of grain exports by Ukraine and Russia and the end of attacks against Ukrainian ports, the thorny territorial issue, the use of the nuclear power plant in Zaporiyia, under the total control of Russia in Russia The news, but whose energy depends broad areas of Ukraine, a massive exchange of prisoners and the security guarantees that kyiv must receive in the final perspective of a definitive peace agreement.
During the telephone conversation that the Russian President, Vladimir Putin and his American counterpart, Donald Trump, the first He questioned the viability of a 30 -day truce In the current situation and called to continue negotiating to specify all the aspects that may result from complicated application, such as the high fire verification in a front line that, according to Putin, has two thousand kilometers in length.
Partial truce
What Putin did accepted was a moratorium on mutual attacks against energy infrastructure and the Ukrainian leader, Volodimir Zelenski, supported the initiative, although he warned that the technical parameters of that high the partial fire need to be elaborated. Now, both kyiv and Moscow accuse each Black Sea security would be the next priority point to agree on.
The Russian newspaper in English ‘The Moscow Times’, citing anonymous sources of people close to the Kremlin, argues that Putin “has given order to the negotiators of reaching the bottom of each comma” in the documents they agree to “stretch” the maximum of peace conversations. According to The Moscow Times, the Russian President “committed to prolong as much as possible the negotiating process to seize as much territory as possible before a high fire.” “Time is on our part now and we will try to make the most of it,” said one of the sources of the Russian newspaper.
Another of the consulted admitted that the Kremlin «expects Washington to take a blind eye to the new Russian advances on the battlefield or even press kyiv to remove its troops completely from the occupied regions (…) Moscow intends to consolidate at any price the control over the annexed territories, since Putin cannot afford to lose them after their status was consecrated in the constitution.
For his part, the Russian political scientist Alexánder Morózov, in statements to the Telegram MO channel, estimates that «Putin’s main objective in the negotiations is to take them to a situation in which The United States ends ending military support to Ukraine». According to Morózov, “Putin’s demands are reduced to three points, of which it will not deviate under any circumstance: not to the expansion of NATO, demilitarization of Ukraine and a new security treaty for Europe.”
The Russian Defense Ministry accused the Ukrainian army of attacking the Kropotkinskaya oil pumping station on Monday in the Krasnodar region despite the high energy fire. And Peskov said shortly after that “the president maintains his order not to bombard the Ukrainian energy sector, but, of course, we are monitoring the situation very closely. Our American counterparts also have the ability to follow it and draw the relevant conclusions.
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