The US and Russian officials focused on a close proposal for a ceasefire at sea between Kyiv and Moscow on Monday.
Also when the meeting was in Saudi Arabia, where a Ukrainian delegation was present on the side, a Russian rocket strike damaged a school and a hospital in Ukraine and wounded at least 88 people.
The talks, which concentrated on the attempt to achieve a Black Sea ceasefire, were presented by Washington as a step in the efforts of US President Donald Trump to end the three-year war.
A source of the White House said that progress was made in the Riyado discussions, and claimed that a “positive announcement” was expected in the near future.
The Ria news agency Ria said that the Russian delegation asked about its mood after the end of the conversations: “It’s good.”
A Russian source announced Reuters that the talks on the late Monday were completed and that a joint explanation of the draft was sent to Moscow and Washington for approval, with the parties wanted to publish them on Tuesday.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov previously said that no documents were signed, the TASS agency reported.
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On Monday, Trump listed other problems that he said to be on the table: “We are talking about the area.
Last week, Russia rejected a proposal from Trump for a 30-day ceasefire in Ukraine and has so far only agreed to an energy infrastructure attacks.
Rakets beat Sumy
When the talks were held in Riad on Monday, Russian rockets met the city of Sumy in northeastern Ukraine. In a video that produces a fire that produces a column of smoke, together with a school and a hospital that creates a column of smoke, and a hospital was damaged together with a school and a hospital.
At that time, the schoolchildren were in an animal shelter and turned off worse losses, he added.
“Moscow speaks of peace while performing brutal strikes in densely populated residential areas in large Ukrainian cities,” said Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha.
“Instead of making hollow statements about peace, Russia has to stop bombing our cities and ending his war against civilians.”
The talks in Saudi Arabia follow between Trump and the Two Presidents, Volodymyr Zelenskyy from Ukraine and Vladimir Putin from Russia last week. The Ukrainian officials met the Americans in Saudi Arabia on Sunday.
Trump, who has withdrawn the US diplomatic support for Ukraine and has publicly shifted to an attitude that Russia is far less critical than that of its predecessor Joe Biden, says he wants to bring the war a short end of the war.
Considerations to the Black Sea
The White House says that the initial goal of the Saudi discussions is to secure a maritime ceasefire in the Black Sea and enable free shipping flow.
However, the maritime battles have been a comparatively limited facet of the war since 2023 after Ukrainian attacks Moscow had to move his navy far away from contested waters, which made it possible for Ukraine to reopen and resume ports.
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“First and foremost, it is about the security of navigation,” said Peskov, the Kremlin spokesman. He said that an earlier agreement on the shipping of black seas had not met some of the requirements of Moscow.
A source that was informed about the planning of the Saudi discussions said the US team was led by Andrew Peek, a senior director of the National Security Council of the White House, and Michael Anton, a high -ranking official from the US State Department.
Russia was represented by Grigory Karasin, a former diplomat that is now chairman of the committee committee of the Russian Oberhaus.
Karasin was quoted by the Interfax news agency, said during an interruption of the talks on Monday that they were “creatively” progressing and that the two sides had discussed topics that were considered “irritants” in bilateral bonds.
Trump had expressed a broad satisfaction of the way talks were held and was free about Putin’s commitment.
However, the great European powers doubt whether Putin is willing to make real concessions or to stick to what they see as maximum demands that have not changed since he sent troops to Ukraine in 2022.
Putin says that he is ready to discuss peace, but that the Ukraine officially drop its NATO ambitions and has to withdraw its troops from the entire four Ukrainian regions that Russia unilaterally annexed.
Mike Waltz, the national security advisor of the White House Put on the nation On Sunday, the United States, Russian and Ukrainian delegations were gathered in the same facility in Riad.
In addition to a ceasefire from the Black Sea, Waltz said that the teams would discuss the “control line” between the two armies, which he described as “review measures, peacekeeping and freezing the lines where they are.
