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Ukraine set for crucial talks with US on ending war with Russia
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is due to arrive in Saudi Arabia on Monday, a day ahead of crucial talks between Ukrainian and US officials on ending the war with Russia. Highly anticipated negotiations on Tuesday on resolving the three-year conflict will see US and Ukrainian officials...
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Ukraine set for crucial talks with US on ending war with Russia
AFP
Kyiv, Ukraine
Published: 10 Mar 2025, 09: 53
Trump and Zelenskyy have traded sharp rhetoric about their differences over the minerals deal and Russia’s war in UkraineDeutsche Welle file photo
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is due to arrive in Saudi Arabia on Monday, a day ahead of crucial talks between Ukrainian and US officials on ending the war with Russia.
Highly anticipated negotiations on Tuesday on resolving the three-year conflict will see US and Ukrainian officials meet for the first time since Zelensky's disastrous White House visit last month.
Zelensky said he would on Monday meet Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the country's de facto leader, after which his team "will stay for a meeting on Tuesday with the American team".
At the talks in the Red Sea port city of Jeddah, US Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff has said Washington wants "to get down a framework for a peace agreement and an initial ceasefire as well".
Zelensky has said Ukraine is "fully committed to constructive dialogue", but wants its interests to be "taken into account in the right way".
"We hope for results, both in terms of bringing peace closer and continuing support," he said in his evening address on Sunday.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio will fly to Jeddah on Monday, the US State Department said. Mike Waltz, US President Donald Trump's national security adviser, has also confirmed his participation.
'In constant contact'
Zelensky said his negotiators will include Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiga and Defence Minister Rustem Umerov, his chief of staff Andriy Yermak and Pavlo Palisa, a military commander and Yermak's deputy.
Kyiv is in "constant contact with the US team," Zelensky said.
Washington has currently suspended military aid to Ukraine as well as intelligence sharing and access to satellite imagery in a bid to force it to the table with Moscow, which launched its all-out invasion in February 2022 on orders from President Vladimir Putin.
Trump has renewed communication with Putin and criticised Zelensky, raising fears in Kyiv and among European allies that the US leader may try to force Ukraine to accept a settlement favouring Russia.
On Friday, however, Trump said he was considering further sanctions on Russia for "pounding" Ukraine on the battlefield.
Ukraine's European allies last week held a summit with Zelensky and announced they would greatly increase defence spending.
Britain and France have proposed a truce for Ukraine, at sea and in the air, and a halt to Russia's bombardment of Ukraine's power facilities.
Ukrainian and British diplomats held talks in Kiyv at the weekend, Zelensky said.
The Saudi talks come after the public altercation between Zelensky and Trump in the White House led to the Ukrainian leaving without signing a minerals deal demanded by the US leader.
Zelensky later called the incident "regrettable" and said he was ready to work with Trump's "strong leadership".
He also expressed readiness to sign the deal on strategic mineral reserves.
Witkoff said Trump received a letter from Zelensky, calling it "a very positive first step" and "an apology".
Asked if Ukraine would sign the deal in Saudi Arabia, Witkoff said: "I think Zelensky has offered to sign it, and we'll see if he follows through."
'Not ready for peace'
Witkoff visited Moscow in February to secure the release of a jailed US teacher, and later said he spent a long time talking to Putin and "developing a relationship" with him.
Waltz was in the Oval Office during Zelensky's combative meeting with Trump and JD Vance.
He later told Fox News that Zelensky "is not ready to talk peace" but "time is not on his side".
In an interview with CNN, Waltz said that if Zelensky's "personal motivations or political motivations are divergent from ending the fighting... then I think we have a real issue".
Saudi mediator
Saudi Arabia has become a key host for US diplomacy with Russia and Ukraine.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Rubio met in Riyadh last month, agreeing to resume dialogue and start talks on the Ukraine conflict.
Zelensky has visited Saudi Arabia several times since Russia's invasion in 2022 but postponed a trip last month, citing a lack of an invitation to the Russia-US talks.
In 2022, five prisoners held in Russian-controlled Ukraine were flown to Riyadh to be exchanged after negotiations involving the crown prince.
Putin said the crown prince also helped secure the release of jailed Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, jailed by Russia for "espionage" last year.
A historic ally of the US, the oil-rich state became an international pariah following the assassination of dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Turkey in 2018.
But Witkoff has said Trump's team has a "really good relationship with the Saudis".
AFP
Kyiv, Ukraine
Published: 10 Mar 2025, 09: 53
Trump and Zelenskyy have traded sharp rhetoric about their differences over the minerals deal and Russia’s war in UkraineDeutsche Welle file photo
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is due to arrive in Saudi Arabia on Monday, a day ahead of crucial talks between Ukrainian and US officials on ending the war with Russia.
Highly anticipated negotiations on Tuesday on resolving the three-year conflict will see US and Ukrainian officials meet for the first time since Zelensky's disastrous White House visit last month.
Zelensky said he would on Monday meet Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the country's de facto leader, after which his team "will stay for a meeting on Tuesday with the American team".
At the talks in the Red Sea port city of Jeddah, US Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff has said Washington wants "to get down a framework for a peace agreement and an initial ceasefire as well".
Zelensky has said Ukraine is "fully committed to constructive dialogue", but wants its interests to be "taken into account in the right way".
"We hope for results, both in terms of bringing peace closer and continuing support," he said in his evening address on Sunday.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio will fly to Jeddah on Monday, the US State Department said. Mike Waltz, US President Donald Trump's national security adviser, has also confirmed his participation.
'In constant contact'
Zelensky said his negotiators will include Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiga and Defence Minister Rustem Umerov, his chief of staff Andriy Yermak and Pavlo Palisa, a military commander and Yermak's deputy.
Kyiv is in "constant contact with the US team," Zelensky said.
Washington has currently suspended military aid to Ukraine as well as intelligence sharing and access to satellite imagery in a bid to force it to the table with Moscow, which launched its all-out invasion in February 2022 on orders from President Vladimir Putin.
Trump has renewed communication with Putin and criticised Zelensky, raising fears in Kyiv and among European allies that the US leader may try to force Ukraine to accept a settlement favouring Russia.
On Friday, however, Trump said he was considering further sanctions on Russia for "pounding" Ukraine on the battlefield.
Ukraine's European allies last week held a summit with Zelensky and announced they would greatly increase defence spending.
Britain and France have proposed a truce for Ukraine, at sea and in the air, and a halt to Russia's bombardment of Ukraine's power facilities.
Ukrainian and British diplomats held talks in Kiyv at the weekend, Zelensky said.
The Saudi talks come after the public altercation between Zelensky and Trump in the White House led to the Ukrainian leaving without signing a minerals deal demanded by the US leader.
Zelensky later called the incident "regrettable" and said he was ready to work with Trump's "strong leadership".
He also expressed readiness to sign the deal on strategic mineral reserves.
Witkoff said Trump received a letter from Zelensky, calling it "a very positive first step" and "an apology".
Asked if Ukraine would sign the deal in Saudi Arabia, Witkoff said: "I think Zelensky has offered to sign it, and we'll see if he follows through."
'Not ready for peace'
Witkoff visited Moscow in February to secure the release of a jailed US teacher, and later said he spent a long time talking to Putin and "developing a relationship" with him.
Waltz was in the Oval Office during Zelensky's combative meeting with Trump and JD Vance.
He later told Fox News that Zelensky "is not ready to talk peace" but "time is not on his side".
In an interview with CNN, Waltz said that if Zelensky's "personal motivations or political motivations are divergent from ending the fighting... then I think we have a real issue".
Saudi mediator
Saudi Arabia has become a key host for US diplomacy with Russia and Ukraine.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Rubio met in Riyadh last month, agreeing to resume dialogue and start talks on the Ukraine conflict.
Zelensky has visited Saudi Arabia several times since Russia's invasion in 2022 but postponed a trip last month, citing a lack of an invitation to the Russia-US talks.
In 2022, five prisoners held in Russian-controlled Ukraine were flown to Riyadh to be exchanged after negotiations involving the crown prince.
Putin said the crown prince also helped secure the release of jailed Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, jailed by Russia for "espionage" last year.
A historic ally of the US, the oil-rich state became an international pariah following the assassination of dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Turkey in 2018.
But Witkoff has said Trump's team has a "really good relationship with the Saudis".
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Ukraine to propose sky, sea truce at US talks in Saudi: official
Kyiv will propose an aerial and naval ceasefire with Russia during talks with US officials in Saudi Arabia this week, a Ukrainian official said on Monday as president Volodymyr Zelensky was due to arrive in the kingdom...
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Ukraine to propose sky, sea truce at US talks in Saudi: official
Agence France-Presse . Kyiv, Ukraine 10 March, 2025, 23:08
Kyiv will propose an aerial and naval ceasefire with Russia during talks with US officials in Saudi Arabia this week, a Ukrainian official said on Monday as president Volodymyr Zelensky was due to arrive in the kingdom.
The talks on Tuesday will be the first Ukraine-US meeting since a White House blow-up between Zelensky and US president Donald Trump that led to Washington halting military aid to Kyiv.
‘We do have a proposal for a ceasefire in the sky and ceasefire at sea,’ the official said.
‘Because these are the ceasefire options that are easy to install and to monitor and it’s possible to start with them.’
Ukrainian and US officials will meet in the Red Sea city of Jeddah to seek a way out of the conflict, more than three years since Russia launched its full-scale invasion.
Britain’s Financial Times newspaper, citing a source briefed on preparations for the talks, said Kyiv would propose a partial ceasefire hoping that Washington would resume military aid and intelligence-sharing.
Zelensky on Monday said Ukraine wants peace, insisting Russia was the sole reason that the war was carrying on.
‘Ukraine has been seeking peace since the very first second of the war, and we have always said that the only reason that the war is continuing is because of Russia,’ he wrote on social media.
Zelensky will meet Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the de facto Saudi leader, on Monday, before his officials sit down with the Americans on Tuesday.
He said Ukraine is ‘fully committed to constructive dialogue’, but wants its interests to be ‘taken into account in the right way’.
‘We hope for results, both in terms of bringing peace closer and continuing support,’ Zelensky said in his evening address on Sunday.
US Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff said Washington wanted to use the talks ‘to get down a framework for a peace agreement and an initial ceasefire as well’.
In Jeddah, the port city close to Islam’s holiest sites in Makkah and Medina, dozens of Ukrainian and Saudi flags flew on a main roundabout near the airport and on thoroughfares.
US secretary of state Marco Rubio will fly there on Monday, the US State Department said. Mike Waltz, US president Donald Trump’s national security adviser, has also confirmed his participation.
Zelensky said his negotiators will include foreign minister Andriy Sybiga and defence minister Rustem Umerov, his chief of staff Andriy Yermak and Pavlo Palisa, a military commander and Yermak’s deputy.
Washington has suspended military aid to Ukraine as well as intelligence-sharing and access to satellite imagery in a bid to force it to the table with Moscow, which launched its invasion in February 2022 on orders from president Vladimir Putin.
Russia could enjoy a ‘significant advantage’ against Ukrainian troops if the US sustains its pause on sharing intelligence, a senior Ukrainian official told AFP.
‘The main thing is how long it will last. If it lasts a long time, it will give the Russians a significant advantage,’ the source said.
Trump has renewed communications with Putin and criticised Zelensky, raising fears in Kyiv and among European allies that the US leader may try to force Ukraine to accept a settlement favouring Russia.
On Friday, however, Trump said he was considering further sanctions on Russia for ‘pounding’ Ukraine on the battlefield.
Ukraine’s European allies last week held a summit with Zelensky and announced they would greatly increase defence spending.
British prime minister Keir Starmer will host virtual talks on Saturday for the ‘coalition of the willing’ to build on last week’s summit, his office said.
The Saudi talks come after the White House clash saw Zelensky leave without signing the minerals deal demanded by Trump.
Zelensky later called the incident ‘regrettable’ and said he was ready to work with Trump’s ‘strong leadership’. He also expressed readiness to sign the deal.
Witkoff said Trump received a letter from Zelensky, calling it ‘a very positive first step’ and ‘an apology’.
Asked if Ukraine would sign the deal in Saudi Arabia, Witkoff said: ‘I think Zelensky has offered to sign it, and we’ll see if he follows through.’
Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov and Rubio met in Riyadh last month, agreeing to resume dialogue and start talks on the Ukraine conflict.
Zelensky has visited Saudi Arabia several times since Russia’s invasion in 2022 but postponed a trip last month, saying he was not invited to the Russia-US talks.
Agence France-Presse . Kyiv, Ukraine 10 March, 2025, 23:08
Kyiv will propose an aerial and naval ceasefire with Russia during talks with US officials in Saudi Arabia this week, a Ukrainian official said on Monday as president Volodymyr Zelensky was due to arrive in the kingdom.
The talks on Tuesday will be the first Ukraine-US meeting since a White House blow-up between Zelensky and US president Donald Trump that led to Washington halting military aid to Kyiv.
‘We do have a proposal for a ceasefire in the sky and ceasefire at sea,’ the official said.
‘Because these are the ceasefire options that are easy to install and to monitor and it’s possible to start with them.’
Ukrainian and US officials will meet in the Red Sea city of Jeddah to seek a way out of the conflict, more than three years since Russia launched its full-scale invasion.
Britain’s Financial Times newspaper, citing a source briefed on preparations for the talks, said Kyiv would propose a partial ceasefire hoping that Washington would resume military aid and intelligence-sharing.
Zelensky on Monday said Ukraine wants peace, insisting Russia was the sole reason that the war was carrying on.
‘Ukraine has been seeking peace since the very first second of the war, and we have always said that the only reason that the war is continuing is because of Russia,’ he wrote on social media.
Zelensky will meet Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the de facto Saudi leader, on Monday, before his officials sit down with the Americans on Tuesday.
He said Ukraine is ‘fully committed to constructive dialogue’, but wants its interests to be ‘taken into account in the right way’.
‘We hope for results, both in terms of bringing peace closer and continuing support,’ Zelensky said in his evening address on Sunday.
US Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff said Washington wanted to use the talks ‘to get down a framework for a peace agreement and an initial ceasefire as well’.
In Jeddah, the port city close to Islam’s holiest sites in Makkah and Medina, dozens of Ukrainian and Saudi flags flew on a main roundabout near the airport and on thoroughfares.
US secretary of state Marco Rubio will fly there on Monday, the US State Department said. Mike Waltz, US president Donald Trump’s national security adviser, has also confirmed his participation.
Zelensky said his negotiators will include foreign minister Andriy Sybiga and defence minister Rustem Umerov, his chief of staff Andriy Yermak and Pavlo Palisa, a military commander and Yermak’s deputy.
Washington has suspended military aid to Ukraine as well as intelligence-sharing and access to satellite imagery in a bid to force it to the table with Moscow, which launched its invasion in February 2022 on orders from president Vladimir Putin.
Russia could enjoy a ‘significant advantage’ against Ukrainian troops if the US sustains its pause on sharing intelligence, a senior Ukrainian official told AFP.
‘The main thing is how long it will last. If it lasts a long time, it will give the Russians a significant advantage,’ the source said.
Trump has renewed communications with Putin and criticised Zelensky, raising fears in Kyiv and among European allies that the US leader may try to force Ukraine to accept a settlement favouring Russia.
On Friday, however, Trump said he was considering further sanctions on Russia for ‘pounding’ Ukraine on the battlefield.
Ukraine’s European allies last week held a summit with Zelensky and announced they would greatly increase defence spending.
British prime minister Keir Starmer will host virtual talks on Saturday for the ‘coalition of the willing’ to build on last week’s summit, his office said.
The Saudi talks come after the White House clash saw Zelensky leave without signing the minerals deal demanded by Trump.
Zelensky later called the incident ‘regrettable’ and said he was ready to work with Trump’s ‘strong leadership’. He also expressed readiness to sign the deal.
Witkoff said Trump received a letter from Zelensky, calling it ‘a very positive first step’ and ‘an apology’.
Asked if Ukraine would sign the deal in Saudi Arabia, Witkoff said: ‘I think Zelensky has offered to sign it, and we’ll see if he follows through.’
Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov and Rubio met in Riyadh last month, agreeing to resume dialogue and start talks on the Ukraine conflict.
Zelensky has visited Saudi Arabia several times since Russia’s invasion in 2022 but postponed a trip last month, saying he was not invited to the Russia-US talks.
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