Ukraine partial ceasefire plan ‘has promise’, Rubio says ahead of talks in Saudi Arabia happymamay

The best diplomat in America said that he sees a promise in the suggestion of Ukraine to partially stop the war with Russia, before talks in Saudi Arabia between us and Ukrainian officials.

“I do not say that alone is enough, but this type of concession that you will need to see to end the conflict,” said US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Monday.

Kiev is expected to propose a sea and sea truce with Russia during the negotiations on Tuesday, a Ukrainian official told AFP.

Russia has previously rejected the idea of ​​a temporary ceasefire, saying it was an attempt to buy time and prevent Ukraine’s military collapse.

Ukrainian President Folodimir Zellinski fell in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on Monday to meet Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, although he is not expected to play any official role in the talks between his country and the United States.

The Ukrainian team will represent the head of the Zelinski Andre Yermak office, the country’s national security adviser and many foreign and defense ministers.

Rubio will represent the American delegation, along with National Security Adviser Mike Walz and US Middle East envoy Steve Witkeov.

Before his arrival in Jeddah on Monday, Rubio said it is important to “clearly create the intentions of Ukraine” for a peace agreement and that the country “must be ready to do difficult things like the Russians who will have to do difficult things to end this.”

“I will not put any conditions on what they have to do or need to do,” he added. “We want to listen to see any extent ready to go, and compare it with what the Russians want, then we see to what extent we are really.”

He said that both sides need to realize that “there is no military solution” to the conflict and can only be solved through “diplomatic means”.

This comes at a time when Donald Trump presses Zelinski to agree to a ceasefire with Moscow, without any promises from US security guarantees.

The talks were the first official meeting since Zelinski’s visit to the White House, which came to the severity of last month.

After the meeting, the United States suspended military suspension and intelligence participation in KYIV in a clear attempt to get Zelensky to the negotiating table.

Rubio said he hoped to “solve” the help of help, but the negotiations on Tuesday “will be the key to that.”

The comment came, “Because we felt they were [Ukraine] He said he was not committed to any kind of peace operations, “and” if these changes are, it is clear that our position could change. “

“The president will use any tools at his disposal to try to obtain both sides to this schedule until this war ends,” he added.

Earlier on Monday, Steve Wittakov’s Trump envoy said he expected “great progress” during the negotiations.

When asked if he believed that Zelinski would return to the United States to sign the metal deal later in the week, he told Fox News: “I really hope. All signs are very positive.”

Zelinski previously said he was ready to sign a metal deal with the United States, which will create a joint box of the sale of Ukrainian minerals.

Among the issues that will be discussed in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia were the security protocols of the Ukrainians and regional issues.

He said that the American administration has never closed the participation of intelligence in anything defensive that Ukraine needs, while Trump on Sunday told Fox News that he was “raising” only “lifting the intelligence that is shared on Ukraine.

The UK Prime Minister Sir Kerr Starmer said with Trump before the talks.

The spokeswoman said: “The Prime Minister said that he hopes that there will be a positive result of the talks that would enable us to restart aid and exchange intelligence.”

Russia launched a widespread invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, and is currently carrying about five Ukraine lands, including the Crimea Peninsula, which was included in 2014.