Ukraine and Russia agree to stop the fighting in the Black Sea, the White House says

The White House said on Tuesday that Ukraine and Russia agreed to stop the fighting in the Black Sea, and for the details of the stopping of strikes in energy facilities. This will be the first important step towards a full ceasefire, and the Trump administration was pushing it, but it is still less than this goal and is still not clear how and when this limited truce will be implemented.

Ukraine and Russia confirmed the agreement, although it seems that it comes with some dangerous warnings by Moscow. in statement On the talks, the Kremlin said that it will not honor the agreement until after the re -delivery of the Government Agriculture Bank to the international payment system and restrictions on “commercial financing operations”, which are some sanctions imposed after Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022.

In a statement on the US-Russia talks, it seemed that the White House was consistent with at least some conditions, saying it “will help regain Russia’s access to the global market for agricultural export and fertilizers, low maritime insurance costs, and enhance access to ports and payment systems for these transactions.”

The agreements came yet Three days of extensive negotiations in RiyadhThe capital of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, during which delegations from Ukraine and Russia met separately with American intermediaries.

The White House released two various Data He said that she was subjected to separate collisions with Ukraine and Russia in marine energy and energy attacks. The data added that Washington, Kiev and Moscow welcomed the participation of the third countries in “supporting the implementation of marine and marine agreements.”

Although the agreements were a penetration in the White House’s efforts to reach a ceasefire, but rather, in Ukraine after three years of widespread war, they did not show the main concessions from Russia, the country of the aggressor.

Kyiv and Moscow have an interest in stopping strikes on their own energy facilities, That caused pain for both sides. Russia, in particular, will earn a ceasefire in the Black Sea, as the repeated Ukrainian sea attacks forced to retreat.

While President Vladimir F. Putin from Russia, he portrayed himself as open to President Trump’s demands, such as stopping strikes in energy or security facilities in the Black Sea, as they are the goals that the Kremlin made in the past and considered them useful for herself.

Mr. Putin refused a former proposal from the United States, which Ukraine agreed to, for a total of 30 days. He said that a broader truce would have to stop Western military aid to Ukraine and for the country’s package – non -continuing two conditions for Ukraine.

It is now expected that Ukraine and Russia are now details of the implementation of the ceasefire and energy. Mr. Umerov, who led his country’s delegation in Riyadh, said that “additional technical consultations” must be held as soon as possible for “implementation, monitoring and monitoring arrangements.”

Both countries already agreed last week to stop strikes in energy facilities, but they were not implemented after the agreement and accused each other quickly of continuous attacks on energy sites.

The strikes on energy facilities were essential to the efforts of each team to weaken the other throughout the war. Russia bombed the power network in Ukraine, aimed at making life unbearable for civilians and hindering its war efforts. Ukraine has repeatedly hit Russian oil facilities to try to strangle the revenues that feed the military operations in Moscow.

Both Russia and Ukraine also depend on the Black Sea to obtain goods exports. In the middle of 2022, they are It mediated in a deal that allows Ukraine to charge the pills across the seabut Russia withdrew from the agreement after a yearOn the pretext that Western sanctions were severely limited to their ability to export agricultural products.

Then Russia threatened all commercial ships heading to and from Ukraine, with the aim of strangling its exports transported in the sea. In response, the Ukraine Army started The campaign that prompted the Russian navy from the western parts of the Black SeaThe destruction of many of its warships and hitting its headquarters in the Crimean Peninsula occupied by the Russian. The operation allowed Ukraine to create a new shipping corridor in the Black Sea Return the exports of the cereal that the sea transports to levels close to the war.

“In light of the deal,” every Russia movement of its military ships outside the eastern part of the Black Sea will be a violation of the spirit of this agreement, “said Mr. Umeerov, the Minister of Defense of Ukraine, and that Ukraine will have a” complete right to exercise the right to self -defense. “

White House data said that both Russia and Ukraine agreed to “eliminate the use of power in the Black Sea.” It was not immediately clear whether this would stop the strikes on the ports infrastructure, which the Ukrainians said had been discussed during the talks. KYIV was also interested in restarting operations in Ukrainian ports such as Mykolaiv and Kheson, as they were forced to fight close to the closure.