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US Secretary of State Mark Rubio talks to the media on his military plane when he flies to the Jeddu, Saudi Arabia, March 10, 2025.
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On Tuesday, the United States and Ukrainian officials are negotiating in Saudi Arabia, noting for the first time when two parties have met since then A spectacular oval cabinet spat Between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian leader Loladir Zelensky in late February.
US Secretary of State Mark Rubio leads an American delegation, which includes a special messenger Steve Witco and national security adviser Mike Wals. The Ukrainian team is headed by the Chief of Staff of Zelensky Andri Irmak.
President Zelensky is not participating in the meeting, although on Monday he went to Saudi Arabia to meet with Prince Cake Mohammed Ben Salman in Eriyad. Saudi Arabia assumed the central role in the United States, Ukraine and Russia unification to seek the end of the three -year war in Ukraine.
The meeting on Tuesday was exhibited at the exhibition as “high performance”, given the increased tension between Washington and Kiev that it is pushed the US to cut all military assistance and intelligence with Kiev, exposing its fighting under high pressure.
The gathering, according to the United States, is intended to find out how serious Ukraine is concessions to end the war, although the compromises that the United States implies – for example, the retreat of the occupied territory of Russia and the oblivion of any future NATO membership are bitter pills for Kiev to swallow.
Prince of Saudi Arabia and Prime Minister Mohammed Bin Salman meets with US Secretary of State Mark Rubio on the Royal Palace in the Jed, Saudi Arabia, March 10, 2025.
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Rubio, who also met the Prince of the Saudi Crown separately on Monday, once again confirmed that Kiev would need to adopt Russian control over his territory as part of a broader peace deal. Currently, Russia occupies about 20% of Ukraine. Kyiv stated that she needed security guarantees within any peaceful deal to restrain his future Russian aggression, but the United States has still refused to offer these assurances.
“An important point in this meeting is to accurately establish their (Ukrainian) intentions, their desire, as they have said many times to reach the point of view when peace is possible.
“Once you understand where there are both sides, it gives you a sense of how big a gap is and how difficult it will be. So I hope it will be a positive interaction on these lines,” he said.
“The most important thing we have to leave here is a strong feeling that Ukraine is ready to do difficult things like Russians, you will need to do difficult things to end this conflict or at least suspend it in some form or form,” he said.
Offer to cease fire
US President Donald Trump meets with the President of the Ukrainian Boarding House on February 28, 2025.
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Ukraine is struggling to draw a lost position with the US, given the obvious rapprochement between Washington and Moscow, which last month meet in the Riyadh, and Ukraine and its European allies are expelled from the meeting.
Then the tensions between Kiev and Washington flared up in the public, which fell between Zelensky, Trump and Vice -President J. D. Vens in late February. After the dispute, the United States stopped all military assistance to Ukraine, as well as the distribution of exploration.
Kiev’s leadership took steps to repair relations and construction of bridges from them, calling what happened “regret” with Trump and other officials, who said Zelensky also apologized for the meeting he was introduced by US officials before he left the White House in a hurry In a hurry, in a hurry, in a hurry, in a hurry, in a hurry, in a hurry, soon, before he left the white house, in a hurry, in a hurry, in a hurry, in a hurry, in a hurry, – Leaving numerous critical minerals that have not subscribed.
