This is an incomprehensible time for American diplomacy. After yesterday's meeting in Saudi Arabia, the United States appeared on Tuesday to return to the corner of Ukraine – and calling on Russia to agree to a 30-day ceasefire In the war it began more than three years ago. However, on Wednesday it is quite unclear whether Vladimir Putin could agree with the temporary ceasefire. His currently his strength is Impetus on the battlefield But allegedly Russia has suffered hundreds of thousands of military victims.
“We are going to say (Russians) that it is on the table. Ukraine is ready to stop the shooting and start talking, and now they will say” yes “or”, “said US Secretary of State Mark Rubio after meeting in Jedde. “If they say” no “, then, unfortunately, we will find out what an obstacle for peace … The ball is in their court now.”
Russia hedge but notes on the battlefield “dynamics is good” for Putin
The Kremlin said on Wednesday that he needed more about the proposal and time to consider it. Press Socialist Dmitry Peskov said Moscow believed that Rubio, who headed the US delegation at the negotiations with Ukraine on Tuesday, would be a briefing of Russian colleagues “in detail in Saudi Arabia”, but before such information was shared “.
“Contacts are scheduled in the coming days,” Pesko said.
Mr. Trump's special messenger for Russia and Ukraine is expected to go to Russia for talks at the end of this week. Pesko noted that these negotiations could lead to another telephone conversation between Putin and Mr. Trump. He said there were no specific plans for such a conversation, but “if necessary, (this) can be arranged very quickly.”
The Kremlin's press secretary hinted that the Russian position in any ceasefire negotiations only increased every day. Putin's forces continued slow but steady progress in recent weeks, Rearrange the land in RussiaThe Western Border Region of Kursk, where the Ukrainian forces arranged a striking invasion last year.
“The Kremlin closely monitors information from the military in the Kursk region,” Peskov said. “The data shows that the Russian forces are successfully moving, the dynamics are good.”
Russian military said on Wednesday that forces had transferred five other small villages in Kursk from Ukrainian troops. Russia also unleashed a fresh missile attack on Ukraine in one night when the State Emergency Service reporting on the strike in the hometown of Zelensky Blood. The service stated that apartment buildings, administrative buildings, shop, educational institution, buses and other vehicles were damaged by strikes, and this accused Russia of the then rescuers who responded. Local media reports say at least nine people were injured and one woman, a passer -by, was killed.
Changing Ukraine's White House policy
The transition of the White House after a meeting in Saudi Arabia – it is clear that he returned to Moscow to end the war that Putin launched more than three years ago – was The second dramatic turn Trump administration in less than a month when it investes America's policy on Ukraine. He stood in a sharp contrast to Zelensky's meeting in Washington, when Mr. Trump called his elected Ukrainian president “dictator”, he had no “map to agree on the terms of the truce, and then publicly traveled it in the oval office.
Then Mr. Trump ordered the US security assistance and exploration with Ukraine – both are crucial for the country that are in any chance to make Russian forces in fear.
The pause was lifted on Tuesday after news of the agreement between Washington and Kiev as part of the 30-day ceasefire, immediately unlocking a party of weapons already promised by Kiev-approximately $ 3.8 billion of air defense systems, Himars rockets, artillery and support for F-16 Ukraine fighters.
In Poland, an ally of the US, which shares a long border with Western Ukraine and strongly supported Zelensky throughout the war, Prime Minister Donald Tusk praised a “important step to peace” when the country's defense ministry confirmed the transfer of US weapons over the Polish border.
French President Emmanuel Macron and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, both of whom were shown to send peacekeeping forces to Ukraine as part of any possible truce transaction, both welcomed progress in Jedde, and Starmer called it a “great breakthrough” to what is within the framework of Russia.
Rubio, speaking with journalists on Wednesday, it turned out that he added a further nuance of the White House position to Ukraine's position and its neighbors, saying that the European nations “should be involved in the ceasefire, as well as the creation of current discussions as” about the restoration of Ukraine against future aggression. “
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Mr. Trump and other high -ranking US officials have reduced the importance of security guarantees for Ukraine over the weeks – and completely excluded any proposals for US boots on Earth. They insisted that a new economic deal between Kiev and Washington aimed at providing us with Ukraine's stock Highly asked after mineral resourcesIt would bring US investments that would effectively hold back Russia without a clear US military commitment.
According to Reuters, Rubio said he would not make transactions with US-Ukraine minerals as a restraining means for Russia.
“There are different ways of building restraint on the basis that prevents the next war start in the future,” Rubio said, emphasizing that Trump administration does not approach the concept of safety “with some provided concept.”
“The bottom line,” he said, “it must be what makes Ukraine feel as if they could restrain and prevent the future invasion.”
During the first three years of the war, the US government has made more than $ 100 billion to support Ukraine, helping to protect young democracy from Russia's aggression.
This reason has forced many volunteers from all over the world to help train and fight together with the forces of Ukraine, including Americans who came as private citizens, risking their own personal security. CBS News met Americans who help train Ukrainian soldiers and evacuate civilians from front areas.
Hundreds of US volunteers are believed to have subscribed to the Ukrainian army. For some of them, the recent actions and rhetoric of the US administration – in particular, the remarks of Mr. Trump, who repeated the Kremlin conversations, believing that the war is Kiev's fault, and that Zelensky is an illegitimate leader – did not sit well.
One of the US fighting for the survival of Ukraine posted a video on social media after this explosive meeting in the White House, describing it not uncertain expression as “mostly Russian propaganda from the US president.”
“It's shameful,” said the man who called himself in the video as “unpleasant”, an American volunteer struggle against the Ukrainian National Guard unit in the Kharkiv region. “I voted for this man twice. I was always a Trump supporter to lose friends for stagnant for this man and what he says on TV. But last night he crossed the line.”
He contributed to this report.
