The conversations between USA, Ukraine and Russia In Saudi Arabia they have started this Sunday with the aim of reaching a high 30 -day fire that is the basis for a permanent truce. The first meeting has been between the two countries … That they have been allies so far in war, among those sent by the US president, Donald Trump, and his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodimir Zelenski. The most difficult task will start from this Monday, when the Russian delegation maintains its first contact with Americans.
After the first conversations, the own Zelenski He assured this Sunday in a televised statement in his country that contacts are being carried out “in a completely constructive way” and that the negotiations are “Productive.”
“But, regardless of what we say today to our partners, we need Putin to give the real order to stop attacks,” added the Ukrainian president in reference to the Russian president, Vladimir Putin. Zelenski said a few hours after the Russian bombings in the capital of his kyiv country, which have left seven victims, including a child and an old man, in the first Russian attack on the city in months.
«We have concluded our meeting with the American team. The discussion was productive and focused: we approached key points, including energy, ”said the head of the Ukrainian delegation, the Minister of Defense, Rustern Umerov. He added that Ukraine was working to make his goal of a “just and lasting peace” a “reality.”
The conversations occur after several contacts between the US and Russia, including at least two phone calls between Putin and Trump, who has sought to find tune with his Russian counterpart to end the war in Ukraine, in which his country has left tens of billions of dollars in military aid.
The first fruit of these conversations was the agreement for a truce on attacks on critical infrastructures and energy facilities and hope is that delegations go from Riyadh with a high temporal fire.
The US delegation showed this Sunday its confidence that conversations in Saudi Arabia get great progress. “I think Putin wants peace,” said Steve Witkoff, Trump’s special envoy to negotiations, in an interview in Fox News. «On Monday we will see great advances, especially in what affects a high fire in the black sea on the ships of both countries. And from there, we will naturally go to a complete fire ».
FIRST OBJECTIVE: HIGH FIRE
Despite optimism -Cauto, in the case of Ukrainians shown in Saudi Arabia, the basic positions on the end of the conflict are still very remote. Putin maintains immovable positions on not giving the territory that has taken in southeastern Ukraine – about 20% of the country’s total – and about the rejection of kyiv’s ambitions to enter the NATO. On the part of Ukraine, something similar happens: it refuses to renounce its territorial integrity or the sovereignty of deciding on what alliances the country can be added.
But much remains for that and Riad conversations only look for one FIRST FIRE That begins to lay the foundations of the rest. Trump National Security Advisor Mike Waltz explained this Sunday that the US seeks to define confidence construction measures between the aggressor, Russia, and the attacked, Ukraine. When a high naval fire is achieved in the Black Sea, “we will talk about the control line, the situation on the fronts,” he said.
“And in that they have to do with the details on verification mechanisms, maintenance of peace or freezing of the lines where they are now,” he added. “And then, of course, a broad and permanent peace.”
The temperature of the conversations will begin to see this Monday, with the first meetings with the Russian delegation.
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