US and Ukrainian officials held bilateral talks today (23) on Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on the eve of tomorrow’s second round of negotiations between American and Russian representatives.
The détente between the two superpowers aims to reestablish good diplomatic relations and end the war in Ukraine.
According to Ukraine’s defense minister Rustem Umerov, today’s talks with Ukraine centered on proposals to safeguard energy facilities and critical infrastructure.
This comes as US special envoy Steve Witkoff expressed great optimism about the chances for ending Europe’s deadliest war since WW2.
Reuters reported:
“’I feel that (Russian President Vladimir Putin) wants peace’, Witkoff told Fox News on Sunday. ‘I think that you’re going to see in Saudi Arabia on Monday some real progress, particularly as it affects a Black Sea ceasefire on ships between both countries. And from that, you’ll naturally gravitate into a full-on shooting ceasefire’.”
White House National Security Adviser Mike Waltz also said today that the United States is negotiating ‘a range of confidence-building measures’ with the goal of ending the war.
“Announcing the start of the Riyadh talks, Ukraine’s Defense Minister Rustem Umerov, who is heading his country’s delegation, said on Facebook: ‘We are implementing the President of Ukraine’s directive to bring a just peace closer and to strengthen security’.”
A full cease-fire was agreed to by Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky, but Putin only committed to an energy and infrastructure attack pause for 30 days.
Since then, Ukraine has breached the agreement with attacks on Russian energy facilities.
“Trump said on Saturday that efforts to stop further escalation in the Ukraine-Russia war were ‘somewhat under control’. The U.S. hopes to reach a broad ceasefire within weeks, targeting a truce agreement by April 20, Bloomberg News reported on Sunday, citing people familiar with the planning.
Asked on Sunday about the goals for the broader negotiations, U.S. National Security Adviser Waltz said that after a Black Sea ceasefire was agreed, ‘we’ll talk the line of control, which is the actual front lines. And that gets into the details of verification mechanisms, peacekeeping, freezing the lines where they are’, Waltz said. ‘And then of course, the broader and permanent peace’.”
Trump’s conversations with Putin have sent Euro-Globalists into a panic, fearing Washington could be turning its back on them.
Talks between the Ukrainian & US delegations in Riyadh are over — RIA Novosti
Pavel Palisa, Deputy Head of Ukraine’s Presidential Office, declined to comment on how the talks went
He did tell RIA that the Ukrainian & Russian delegations will NOT have any contact in Riyadh https://t.co/p0E1hGDDnp pic.twitter.com/3VWGZYEXlQ
— RT (@RT_com) March 23, 2025
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