A deal in the desert? The United States and Ukraine meet before Russia stopped shooting talks

American negotiators are holding talks in the Saudi capital, Rayada, with their Ukrainian counterparts, separately with the Russians on Monday.

Washington’s goal is to make an immediate partial endowment of the war in Ukraine, followed by a comprehensive peace agreement.

Can the Riyadh talks produce this penetration that many people hope?

This depends on who you listen to.

“I feel that he (Putin) wants peace,” said Steve Whitchov, President Trump’s envoy.

However, Dmitry Peskov, a spokesman for the Kremlin, has wore expectations. He told “Russian State TV”: “We are only at the beginning of this path.”

Kiev has suffered from one of the heaviest attacks of Russian drones on Saturday night, with three people, including a five -year -old girl.

“We need to push Putin to give a real matter to stop the strikes,” said Voludmir Zelinski, President of Ukraine, on Sunday. “The person who brought this war must take it away.”

Meanwhile, it seems that the Kremlin is not in a hurry to participate in a ceasefire, as Vladimir Putin added on many “precise differences”, or preconditions, before agreeing to the 30 -day ceasefire proposed by Washington and agreed to Kiev.

In his leadership, the United States’ talks began shortly after Sunday, behind closed doors in one of many luxury institutions in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, with the Ukrainian delegation headed by the country’s defense minister, Rostum Omrov.

He said that these were “technical” discussions, focusing on the best ways to protect the energy facilities and critical infrastructure.

After the meeting, Umerov described the talks as “fruitful” in a post on X and said that they were working to achieve Zelinski’s goal of securing “a fair and lasting peace.”

Also, the black sea shipping corridors are under discussion, as it was reported that Russia is keen to revive a deal that allowed Ukraine to export grains from its ports without being attacked, in exchange for mitigating sanctions.

Both sides, Russia and Ukraine, carried out very devastating attacks on each other’s infrastructure.

Moscow has sought to drown the population of Ukraine in the cold and dark by targeting the generation of electricity, while Kiev is increasingly successful in its long -range drone strikes that struck decisive Russian oil facilities for its war effort.

President Trump wants a quick end to this war, which is the worst of Europe since 1945 that led to the victims combined on both sides of hundreds of thousands of men who were killed, wounded or missing.

The leadership of Ukraine, which is still suffering from this catastrophic row in the Oval Office last month, is trying to persuade Washington that it is not an obstacle to peace.

When the Americans suggested a 30 -day comprehensive shooting stop on the ground, the sea, and in the air in conversations in Jeddah this month, Ukraine quickly agreed to the conditions.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said at the time, which is now the ball in the Russian court.

But despite the failure of the United States to obtain Moscow to agree to the ceasefire, the Trump administration presses little or a non -existent, at least not in public places, on Russia. In fact, the opposite is exactly.

In an interview this weekend with the supporter of Rumb Taker Carlson, Steve Whitchov, the man who was driving the US ceasefire, seemed to take a position at odds with Europe.

He suggested that Ukraine was a “false state”, and Russia has provoked Putin and was a man from his trustworthy word.

Witkoff, a former real estate developer in New York and Golf partner in Donald Trump, too Rejection of the efforts of Prime Minister Sir Kerr Starmer To put a military force to help protect a final peace agreement in Ukraine, describing it as “status and position.”