More than three years after the beginning of the war with Russia, This Sunday they started in Saudi Arabia The conversations between Ukraine and the United States to reach a high fire agreement on energy facilities and critical infrastructure. President Volodomir Zelenski stressed that this second meeting between the delegation of kyiv and Washington’s in Riyadh was “very useful” and “constructive.”
“I just talked to (the Minister of Defense), Rustem Umérovwho informed me of the meeting and the progress of the negotiations. Our team is working absolutely constructively. The conversation is being very useful “said the president through his social networks.
After more than four hours of meeting, Uumerov himself held through his X account that “The debate was productive” and said that “key points, such as the energy issue.”
Anyway, Zelenski remarked: “Regardless of what we are talking to our partners, We must press (Russian President Vladimir) Putin to give a real order to stop attacks: Who caused this war, must end it, “he emphasized.
This was the second meeting of Ukrainian and American negotiating teams in Saudi Arabia after March 11 at Yeda. This time the conversations focused on a more technical plane.
The Ukrainian delegation is headed by UMEROV and includes the Secretary of State for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Oleksandr KarasévichCabinet vicejefes, Pavló Palisa and Igor Zhovkvaand the Deputy Minister of Energy, Mikola Kolisnikaccording to the Ukrinform agency.
The proposals for Protect energy facilities and the Critical infrastructure in a high partial fire.
The Russian delegation will arrive in Saudi Arabia this Monday to advance the negotiations by a truce
For this Monday, the head of the International Affairs Committee of the Russian Senate, Grigori Karasin, and the advisor of the Federal Security Service (FSB, former KGB), Serguéi Beseda, to also meet with the US delegation and move forward with the negotiations.
At the moment, it is not defined if the Ukrainian representatives will continue in the country for that time but in case it is the idea of the US is to make indirect conversations, which is known as proximity contacts or itinerant diplomacy. That is, the US delegation I would go from one room to another to mediate among Ukrainian and Russian representatives.
Both Ukrainian and Russian representatives come to Riyadh with different ideas in the mind of how a first part of the partial fire should be, since, according to US president, Donald Trump, he and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, They agreed on their telephone call on Tuesday a partial truce about energy and infrastructure.
The Kremlin declared exclusively a Unilateral energy trucethat kyiv supported after his call with Trump on Wednesday, but that He did not declare because he wanted to learn more about its implementation and also extend it to civil infrastructure.
In fact, Zelenski reiterated on Friday that the Ukrainian team had prepared for Riad not only one List of Energy Objectives that they should not attack the Russians, but also one of “civil infrastructure.”
From the United States, Steve Witkoff, one of President Donald Trump’s main advisors, was optimistic about meetings and considered that Putín “wants peace.”
“I think we’ll see on Monday Saudi Arabia real advancesespecially with regard to a high fire in the black sea for ships in both countries. From there, it will be natural to move towards a high total fire, “he added.
Source: Ambito
