THE’Saudi Arabia The protagonist of the diplomacy on Ukraine. Monday 24 March, Riad will host a new round of interviews, directed by United Statesto try to take steps on a truce still left on paper, as shown by the umpteenth battle of drones who obscured the Russian and Ukrainian skies. And if a direct negotiation between Moscow and Kiev is still premature, the emissaries of Donald Trump they will see the teams sent by separately on the same day Volodymyr Zelensky And Vladimir Putin. In the middle of this game, the Kremlin He has not missed the opportunity to reiterate that only Washington is an interlocutor credible for peace, while on the contrary the Europeans are re -arguing against Russia, making the “war party” prevail.
The second tour of consultations for a cease-fire in Ukraine, with good offices of Mohamed Bin Salmanit was already in the air, but now the date of March 24 has been formalized. The novelty is that Russians and Ukrainians will be simultaneously with Riad, even if with “technical” delegations, therefore not at the highest level of officials as had happened in the previous meetings. Moscow, in particular, made it known that it will be represented by Grigory Karasinpresident of the Senate International Affairs Commission, e Sergei Besedacouncilor of the head of the services of theFSB. On the remote comparison table, two parallel but connected dossiers. On the one hand, the actual green light to cease the 30 -day fire Limited to infrastructures, agreed by Trump in the latest calls with Putin and Zelensky. On the other, the start of a discussion on a respite extended to the sea.
The path of the negotiation appears once again rough, because the mediation carried out so far by White house He only produced verbal agreements between Moscow and Kiev, who have not been supported by the facts, with the parts that have continued to accuse each other to want to sabotage the truce. The result, a swarm of 171 drones launched during the night against Ukraine, and in response the “most massive attack of always” conducted by the wing -free aircraft of Kiev against Saratovas reported by the governor of the Russian region.
Waiting for riads on the truce, Moscow looks with irritation to the moves of theEUwhich confirmed its support without sagging in Kiev and which sees in Russia a growing threat to the safety of the entire continent. In the sights of the Kremlin there is the rearmament plan proposed by Von der leyen commissionwho arrived on the leader’s board table. “Every day we hear many signs from Brussels and the capital, the main ones now concern the plans to militarize Europe,” said Putin spokesperson Dmitry Peskovadding that these plans are “clearly dissonant with the mood of the presidents of Russia and the United States to seek ways to start a process of peaceful solution”. The spokesperson for Moscow’s diplomacy has thought about the dose: “The most avid in Berlin and other European capitals must know that we will respond quickly and firmly to any militarist aspiration, to prevent any threat to our security”, he warned Maria Zakharova. Putting on the finger especially on Germany, which has approved a historic constitutional modification to allow massive military expenses.