The United States says that the deal has reached safe movement in the Black Sea, after talks with Ukraine, Russia

The United States said on Tuesday that it had reached an initial agreement with Ukraine and Russia to stop the fighting and ensure safe navigation in the Black Sea in separate talks with both sides. But many details have not been resolved and made the Kremlin the deal is conditional on lifting some Western sanctions.

With the conclusion of the United States, three days of talks with Ukrainian and Russian delegations in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia have been announced in possible steps towards a limited ceasefire.

While a comprehensive peace deal still seems far away, Ukrainian President Folodimir Zelinski praised the conversations as the early “correct steps” towards a peaceful settlement of the comprehensive war that entered its fourth year recently.

He said in a press conference: “These are the first steps – not the first steps, but the initial – with this presidential administration towards completely ending the war and the possibility of a complete ceasefire, in addition to steps towards a sustainable and fair peace agreement.”

American experts met separately with Ukrainian and Russian actors in the Saudi capital for the leaders, and the White House said in separate data after talks with Ukraine and Russia that the two sides “agreed to ensure safe mobility, eliminate the use of force, and prevent the use of commercial ships for military food in the Black Sea.”

The details of the potential deal have not yet been released, but it seems to define another attempt to ensure the safest black sea is shipped yet Agreement 2022 In which the United Nations and Turkey were mediated, however It stopped by Russia Next year.

“We are making a lot of progress,” said US President Donald Trump on Tuesday at the White House. “That’s all I can report.”

When Moscow withdrew from the shipping deal in 2023, it complained that a parallel agreement promised to remove obstacles to Russian exports of food and fertilizers was not honored. She said that the restrictions on shipping and insurance hindered her agricultural trade. Kyiv Moscow was accused of violating the deal by delaying ship inspections.

After Russia hung its part of the deal, it regularly attacked the southern ports in Ukraine and the grain storage sites.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in the televised comments on Tuesday that Moscow is now open to revive the Black Sea shipping deal, but it warned that Russian interests should be protected.

In a clear reference to the demands of Moscow, the White House said that the United States “will help restore Russia’s access to the global market for agricultural exports and fertilizers, decrease in maritime insurance costs, and enhance access to ports and payment systems of such transactions.”

Kirill Dmitryv, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s envoy for investment and economic cooperation, praised the results of the talks as “a major shift towards peace, strengthening global food security and basic grain supply for more than 100 million additional people.”

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Russia wants to reduce sanctions

But the Kremlin warned in a statement that the Black Sea deal can only be implemented after sanctions against the Russian Agricultural Bank and other financial organizations participating in the trade of fertilizers and fertilizers, and it is guaranteed to reach the rapid international payment system.

The Kremlin said that the agreement is also conditional on lifting sanctions against Russian food and fertilizers, and to remove the restrictions imposed on agricultural equipment exports to Russia. He also emphasized that the inspections of commercial ships will be necessary to ensure that they are not used for military purposes.

Zelensky Britter felt Russia’s request to lift the sanctions, saying: “We think it will weaken our position.”

However, Trump noted that the United States is thinking about the Kremlin conditions: “We are thinking about all of them now.”

A senior official in the Ukrainian government, who is directly familiar with the talks and occurs, said, provided that his identity was not disclosed because he was not allowed to publicly comment, that the Kiev delegation does not agree to lift the sanctions as a condition for a ceasefire and that Russia has not done anything to ensure sanctions.

The official also said that European countries do not participate in sanctions discussions, although sanctions are subject to the responsibility of the European Union.

UMEROV Minister of Defense Minister Umerov has warned that KYIV will see the deployment of Russian warships in the Western Black Sea as “a violation of commitment to ensure safe transport in the Black Sea and a threat to Ukraine’s national security.”

“In this case, the right to exercise the right to self -defense will have the right,” he said.

Stop energy infrastructure

The White House also said that the parties agreed to develop measures to implement an agreement reached in the calls of US President Donald Trump with Zelinsky and Putin to ban strikes against energy facilities in Russia and Ukraine.

The conversations in Riyadh, which did not include Russian and direct volcanic contact, were part of an attempt to clarify the details about a partial stopping of the fighting in Ukraine, which began to invade Moscow in 2022.

It was a struggle to reach a 30-day limited fire stop-which both sides agreed to the principle last week, even as they continued to attack each other with drones and missiles.

after Trump Putin Summoning last week, the White House said that the partial ceasefire would include ending attacks on “energy and infrastructure”, while the Kremlin confirmed that the agreement indicated more narrowly to the “energy infrastructure”. The White House statement on Tuesday returned to the formulation used by Russia.

The Kremlin, which accused Ukraine of violating the agreement to stop the strikes on the energy infrastructure, published on Tuesday a list of the 30 -day energy facilities for the strikes that started on March 18. She warned that every party was free to cancel the participation in the case of violations on the other side.

Zelenskyy noted that great uncertainty remains.

“I think there will be a million questions and details,” he said, adding that the responsibility for possible violations is still unclear.

He emphasized that Ukraine is open to a full 30 -day ceasefire, as Trump suggested, which led to confirmation that Kiev was “ready to move quickly towards an unconditional ceasefire.”

On Tuesday, Britain urged Russia to agree to “a full and unconditional and unconditional ceasefire that Ukraine proposed.

The British Foreign Ministry said in a statement that it was in close contact with the United States and Ukraine after the talks in Riyadh ended. The United States thanked its efforts in the ceasefire agreements.

“President Zelinski has already shown that Ukraine is the Peace Party by proposing a full and unconditional ceasefire,” the Foreign Ministry said. “We hope that President Putin will agree to this without further delay.”

Putin Russia has completely stopped shooting at the arms supplies stopped to Kiev and suspended military mobilization in Ukraine – the demands that Ukraine and its Western allies have rejected.

The United States has noticed its commitment to helping the exchange of war prisoners, the release of civilian detainees, and the return of Ukrainian children who were transferred by force.

In other developments, the Russian Foreign Ministry warned in a statement that Moscow would not agree to surrender to control the nuclear power plant in Zaburizia, the largest in Europe, which Russia seized in the opening days of the invasion.

Trump suggested that Zelinski Consider the transfer of ownership From the power plants in Ukraine to the United States for long -term security, while the Ukrainian leader said they specifically talked about the Zaporizhzia factory in a call last week.