Ukraine and the United States perform a decisive acceleration towards peace, overcoming the break that consumed between Donald Trump And Volodymyr Zelensky in their last face to face. Gedda’s summit between the delegations of the two governments went better than expected. With a joint press release, at the end of a negotiating marathon, who seized a possible turning point after more than three years of conflict: Kiev accepted the American proposal of a 30 -day respite and Washington in return promised that he will immediately resume inviting military aid and to share his intelligence. “Now the US understand our arguments,” Zelensky exulted, feeling that he has come out of the corner. A mood confirmed by the words of the American president, who for the first time launched the ball in the Putin field: “I hope it agrees with the plan” for the truce, “I will talk to him perhaps this week”, also with the hope of coming to a “Total fire in the next few days”. In the meantime, new contacts will start between Russian and American officials, but Trump has already announced that he will again invite Zelensky to the White House.
The day in Gedda was long and intense: the first meeting between Americans and Ukrainians called to store the disaster of the oval study, on February 28, which had cost Kiev the stop to military aid and intelligence. In the Saudi city, two high -level delegations were confronted, demonstrating that the goal of the two sides was to be serious: for the USA the National Security Councilor Mike Waltz and the Secretary of State Marco Rubiofor Kiev the head of the presidential office Andriy Yermak and the foreign and defense ministers Andriy Sybiga And Rustem Umerov. “We are ready to do everything to reach peace”, were the first words to Yermak journalists, before immersing themselves in negotiations in the lobby of the Ritz-Carlton hotel. A position of “opening”, with the hope of a “constructive and friendly conversation with our American partners”, assured the councilor of Zelensky, while the day before the Ukrainian president had opened the road by meeting the prince Mohammed Bin Salmanto consolidate Saudi mediation. Before the Gedda Kiev summit, he had offered a limited fire in the skies and in the sea, as the first step towards a wider agreement with Russia, while the US had asked the Ukrainian territorial concessions in Moscow and the signing of the ceases on the minerals with Washington. And just on respite and rare lands, according to what is filtered by the Ukrainian media, the first session of the interviews was concentrated, which lasted three hours. At the end of the morning Waltz and Rubio, intercepted by the media in the hotel hall, reported that the discussion was “making progress”.
“Everything proceeds normally, many issues have been addressed,” a Ukrainian official filtered. In the afternoon the resumption of interviews, which lasted a total of over nine hours. The long negotiation has produced very concrete results. In the joint note, the two sides announced that “Ukraine expressed the willingness to accept the United States proposal of a ceased the immediate and provisional fire of 30 days, which can be extended by mutual agreement between the parties and which is subject to the acceptance and simultaneous implementation by the Russian Federation”.
Washington will also resume “security assistance for Ukraine and remove the break on intelligence sharing”. Trump then collected the Ok of the Ukrainians to “conclude as soon as possible a complete agreement for the development of critical mineral resources”, also to “compensate for the cost of American assistance”. Kiev managed to have the pressure in the statement that “European partners will be involved in the peace process”. And the European leaders “welcomed the news that came from Gedda”. In this phase the United States still will speak the fly. “The ball is now in the hands of the Russians,” said Rubio clearly and new contacts are scheduled at officials, as confirmed by Moscow. Thursday would also be expected in the Russian capital of Trump Steve Witkoff. As for the Kremlin, we are waiting with the caution that has characterized Putin so far despite the rediscovered harmony with Trump. A few hours after the start of the Saudi summit, among other things, Dmitry Peskov He had denounced a massive drone attack on Moscow, warning that in this way Kiev could “compromise peace”.