The US and Ukrainian delegations started their meeting in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Washington, Kyiv’s main pension group ahead of Donald Trump’s inauguration as a US President in January, built his policy on Russia’s war with Ukraine to follow a quick end to the fights. Trump dealt directly with Moscow, stopped military help for Kyiv and shared the secret services with Ukraine, in which Russian troops marched in a scale in 2022.
A breathtaking dispute in the White House last month between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy deeply sour relationships.
The Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s key message to the USA was as good as an oval office meeting with President Donald Trump confused into a publicly screaming match. Ellen Mauro from CBC cuts through the chaos of this day to reveal what Ukraine was really afterwards and how a history of diplomatic disappointment desperately left the country according to US security guarantees.
In the suspension, this had a mineral contract that Trump has classified as the key to continued support and compensation for the US US military aid for Ukraine in the amount of around 65 billion US dollars since Russia entered three years ago.
Under intensive US printing, Zelenskyy has troubled to show that Kyiv ended the war, even though he did not win the security guarantees for the US security guarantees in the minerals that Kyiv considers to be important for every peace agreement.
“We have to understand the Ukrainian position and only have a general idea of which concessions they would do because they do not receive an armistice and an end of this war, unless both sides make concessions,” US Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters on the way to Jeddah on Monday.
The Top -Us -Diplomat is accompanied by Mike Waltz, the national security advisor of US security, if you meet with high -ranking Ukrainian officials led by Andriy Yermak, a top adjutant from Zelenskyy. Zelenskyy, who was in Saudi Arabia on Monday to meet Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, will not take part in the talks.
Although Rubio was more cautious, Trump’s special representative for the Middle East Steve Witkoff said that he was drafted into Ukraine diplomacy that he was confident that the minerals deal would be signed by US Ukraine.
Witkoff plans to visit Moscow to meet President Vladimir Putin, a person who was informed about the plans said after meeting the Kremlin leader in Russia last month.
The European Union is considering a plan for Ukraine and increases defense expenditure after US President Donald Trump has no longer heated up the EU’s concerns about Russian aggression by suspending the military aid of the American President of Kyiv.
The European allies of Ukraine argue that Ukraine can only negotiate a peace agreement with Russia from a position of strength and that Kyiv should not be brought to the negotiating table with an attacker.
Zelenskyy said that Putin does not want peace and warned that Russia could attack other European countries if his invasion of Ukraine does not lead a clear defeat.
Rubio declined on Monday to give concessions on each side, but said that Kyiv would have difficulty regaining her healthy area.
“The Russians cannot conquer the entire Ukraine, and obviously it will be very difficult for Ukraine in any reasonable time, forced the Russians up to the location where they were in 2014,” he told reporters.
Russia holds around a fifth of the Ukrainian territory, including the Crimea that annexed it in 2014, and its troops are pushing the eastern region of Donetsk.
The US and Russian officials met in February in the Saudi capital in a rare encounter between the former enemies of the Cold War. The discussions mainly focused on restoring relationships after almost complete freezing the official contact under the former US President Joe Biden, Trump’s predecessor.
