A Ukrainian delegation that is committed to the end of the Three Year War with Russia with America’s top diplomat in Saudi Arabia will suggest a ceasefire for the strikes Black Sea and long-range missiles as well as the release of prisoners, shared two high-ranking Ukrainian officials on Monday.
The officers who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not entitled to speak publicly about the meeting on Tuesday also said the Associated Press that the Ukrainian delegation was willing during the talks to sign an agreement with the United States about the minerals of the Ukraine earth -a deal that US President Donald Trump ensures.
The officials discussed the measures for trust formation without further details before the meeting of the Ukrainian negotiation team with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Jeddah.
While Zelenskyy himself will not have in the talks with US officials held by Saudi Arabia, his team will try to repair the damage he went down in Washington on February 28th into an Oval Office argument with US President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance.
Military help and the secret service, which was previously offered by the United States and Kyiv has helped since the Ukraine invasion of Russia in 2022, helped.
The Saudi State of Television reported that Zelensskyy’s arrival in Jeddah, a port city on the Red Sea, where the Ukraine-USA summit will take place on Tuesday. After sunset, Zelenskyy should meet with Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, who was Ramadan at the end of daily fasting during the Muslim holy month.
US foreign minister Marco Rubio was also on the way to Jeddah. However, it did not seem that Rubio and Zelenskyy would meet there personally, although the US foreign minister should also meet Prince Mohammed.
Collecting information for Trump
In conversation with reporters on board his aircraft, Rubio said he and the national security advisor Mike Waltz would take the reactions of Ukraine.
If Ukraine and the United States reach an understanding of acceptable for Trump, this could accelerate the move of its government after peace talks.
“What we want to know is that they are interested in taking a kind of peace discussion and general outline of the things they could consider and realizing that it was an expensive and bloody war for the Ukrainians. They suffered greatly and their people suffered greatly,” said Rubio.
“And it is difficult to talk about concessions at all after something like this, but that’s the only way that will end up and will prevent more suffering.”
Determine how far we are really apart.
He added: “I will not determine conditions for what you do.
Zelenskyy said a team, including his head of staff Andriy Yermak, Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiha and Defense Minister Rustem Umerov, will take part in the talks on Tuesday.
Rubio will lead the American team.
The rest of Europe remains skeptical of how it turns out.
The European Union agreed to increase the defense of the continent last week and to suspend hundreds of billions of euros for security in response to the attitude of the Trump government towards Ukraine.
Great Britain organized a summit of European leaders on Sunday to support the support for the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Tristen Naylor, the director of the Oxbridge Diplomatic Academy, says that the US support of Ukraine is “important” and that European leaders could help repair the diplomatic relationship between the two guides.
Former American National Security Adviser John Bolton told CBC News that he suspected that a deal is signed about critical minerals during the summit, and Trump can “explain victory, and that could freed him for a while”. Bolton worked as a national security advisor under Trump during his first term.
In the meantime, Steve Witkoff, special representative of the White House, told Fox News on Monday that the break from US secret services with Ukraine was not limited.
“We never closed the secret service for … everything the Ukrainians need,” said Witkoff.
According to a US official, who was not justified with the matter, who was not justified to express the condition of anonymity, remains a break to exchange the US secret services that can be used for offensive purposes of Ukrainian forces.
The official suggested that progress to re -hire the secret services with Ukraine could be achieved during the Saudi discussions.
