The officials of the United States and the Ukrainians had to meet in Saudi Arabia on Sunday to talk about how to stop the Russian invasion, said a member of the Ukrainian delegation AFPwhile the Kremlin warned about “difficult negotiations” and a long journey to peace.
The president of the United States, Donald Trump, is pressing for a rapid end of the three -year war and his envoy said Sunday that he expected a “real progress” of conversations in Riad, which will see US officials have separate discussions with delegations from Ukraine and Russia.
Although both parties propose different plans for temporary height cessation, the attacks have continued incessantly. A Russian strike against the Ukrainian capital killed three civilians during the night.
Originally scheduled to take place simultaneously in Saudi Arabia on Monday, conversations about a partial truce now seem to take place one after another.
“It is planned that the meeting with the Americans will be held tonight” in Riyadh, a Ukrainian source told journalists, including AFP.
Russia’s negotiators said they would have conversations with the American side on Monday.
Trump Steve Witkoff envoy expressed optimism that any agreement reached would pave the road to a “complete” fire.
“I think you’ll see in Saudi Arabia on Monday a real progress, particularly because it affects a high black fire in ships between the two countries. And of that you will naturally gravitate up to a high full -shot fire,” he told a high fire, “he said. Fox News.
But Kremlin on Sunday minimized the expectations of a quick resolution, saying that the conversations were just beginning.
“We are alone at the beginning of this path,” said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, Russian State TV. He said there were many outstanding “questions” and “nuances” about how a possible fire could be implemented.
The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, has rejected a so-called American-Ukrainian team for a complete and immediate 30-day pause, instead proposing an arrest in attacks only in energy facilities.
“There are difficult negotiations ahead,” Peskov said in the interview, published on social networks.
Black Sea
Peskov said that Russia’s “main” approach in his conversations with the United States would be a possible resumption of a 2022 Black Sea Grain Agreement that secured safe navigation for exports of Ukrainian farms through the Black Sea.
“On Monday, we intend to discuss the agreement of President Putin to resume the so -called Black Sea initiative, and our negotiators will be ready to discuss the nuances around this problem,” said Peskov.
Moscow retired from the agreement, negotiated by Turkey and the United Nations, in 2023, accusing west of not maintaining its commitments to relieve sanctions on the exports of Russia of agricultural and fertilizer products.
A senior Ukrainian official said previously AFP That Kyiv would propose a widest fire, covering attacks on energy facilities, infrastructure and naval attacks.
Both parties launched new drones attacks on the eve of the negotiations. Ukrainian officials said that an attack with Russian unmanned planes killed three civilians in the capital kyiv, including a five -year -old girl and her father.
AFP The reporters in the capital saw emergency workers who treated the injured in the early hours of Sunday in front of damaged residential buildings, beaten in the strike. Mortal attacks in the well -protected capital are rarely than in other parts of the country.
The Ukraine Air Force said Russia launched 147 drones in the country in the last bombing.
‘Mutually beneficial’
Zelensky urged his country’s allies to exert a new pressure on Russia. “New decisions and new pressure on Moscow are needed to end these attacks and this war,” he published on social networks on Sunday.
Russia said he had repelled almost 60 Ukrainian drones during the night. The authorities said that a man was killed in the southern region of Rostov in Russia when his car was lit by the fall of drone waste and that a woman was killed in the border region of Belgorod, also by a drone attack.
The Ukrainian army said he had captured a small village in the east region of Lugansk, a rare success on the battlefield for kyiv’s army.
Moscow goes to Saudi conversations in the midst of an approach with Washington Bajo Trump that has increased confidence in the Kremlin.
Peskov said Sunday that “the potential for mutually beneficial cooperation in a wide variety of spheres between our countries cannot be exaggerated.”
“We can disagree on some things, but that does not mean that we should deprive ourselves of mutual benefit,” he added.
