Ukraine wants to show a gesture of goodwill for the United States to resume the supply of military weapons and, recently retired by the US president, Donald Trump, with the intention of pressing the European country to negotiate a peace with Russia in the conditions that the White House intends to impose. For Ukraine it is crucial to recover that support that has helped its troops so much to fight the Russian invasion in recent years, and that is why kyiv plans to propose a high partial fire during Ukrainian and American delegations to seek an exit to the conflict, as the British newspaper and the French news agency have advanced. This meeting between representatives of the two countries will be the first since February 28 Trump and his vice president JD Vance, Volodimir Zelenski, in the Oval Office.
Zelenski had already opened to accept a partial truce, but without specifying it. If the meeting with the US delegation would constitute the first occasion to formally raise it. Beyond negotiations in the offices, on the battlefield the war is well present. , Russian territory partially occupied by Ukraine that constituted a milestone in the conflict, threaten to fence thousands of Ukrainian soldiers. This Monday, the Russian army continued its progress for the territory controlled by kyiv’s troops since last August and is about to conclude a fence that will force thousands of troops to flee or surrender.
According to him Financial Timesthe truce offered by Ukraine would apply to the attacks of drones and long -range missiles, as well as to combat operations in the black Sea and attacks on energy infrastructure. In a second step, the exchange of prisoners and the return of Ukrainian children would be exchanged. “We have a high fire proposal in the sky and high the fire in the sea,” said an AFP official, speaking under condition of anonymity, because, he said, they are “easy to establish and supervise” options. “
The proposal of Alto El Fuego by air and sea was originally thrown by the French president Emmanuel Macron after. Then it was when he wrote in an X message that Ukraine was ready for peace negotiations. “The early stages could be the release of prisoners and a truce in the sky (missile prohibition, long -range drones, energy bombs and other civil infrastructure) and a truce in the sea immediately, if Russia does the same,” he shared on his social networks.
For its part, Zelenski has disseminated a message in which – without directly mentioning the relationships with Trump, nor the imminent bilateral conversations, nor the pressure to the Ukraine troops in Kursk – alludes to all these issues: “Ukraine has been looking for peace since the first second of the war, and we have always said that the only reason why the war continues is Russia,” he said in his telegram channel. With this declaration of intentions, President Ukraine has attended Yeda’s coastal city on Monday to meet with the heir prince and Saudi prime minister, Mohamed Bin Salmán, whose government is acting as a mediator between Russia and Ukraine.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov, has stated that Ukraine must decide if he wants peace. “What we expect is not important (…) The important thing is what the United States expects. And on several levels, you and I have repeatedly heard statements that the United States awaits a demonstration of the desire for Ukraine’s peace, ”Peskov said before the press on Monday.
With or without stopping fire, Ukraine intends that the meeting in Yeda will serve for Washington to resume his military and intelligence supply. Last week, Fedir Venislavskiy, Ukrainian deputy of the town’s server party, – the same of Zelenski – and a member of the National Security Commission of Parliament, declared that the objective of any negotiation between the Ukrainian and American authorities in Saudi Arabia would be “to agree on the resumption of aid”.
In this regard, Trump declared Sunday night in an interview in the American Fox News chain that “almost” has finished the suspension of that support. He was also optimistic about the conversations during a meeting with journalists who were traveling with him aboard Air Force One This weekend. “I think we are going to make many progress this week,” he said.
Zelenski will only be interviewed with Bin Salmán and will not attend the bilateral meeting with Washington, to which the head of the presidential office, Andrii Yermak, the Ministers of Foreign and Defense Affairs, Andrii Sybiha and Rustem Umerov, as well as the deputy chief of the presidential office, Pavlo Palisa. The Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, the National Security Minister of the White House, Mike Waltz, and the next East of President Trump, Steve Witkoff, will be present by the State.
Moscow, meanwhile, will not participate in the conversations, has reported the Russian state news agency Tass, citing the exterior spokeswoman, María Zajárova.
Throughout Monday afternoon they have landed in Saudi Arabia Zelenski and Rubio, although they have not found or plan to do so. In statements to journalists who have accompanied him during the flight, Rubio has affirmed that if Ukraine and the United States reach an acceptable understanding for Trump, that could accelerate the impulse of his administration to peace conversations, AFP reports. “What we want to know is whether they are interested in establishing some kind of peace conversation or an outline of the type of things they could consider, recognizing that it has been a expensive and bloody war for Ukrainians. They have suffered a lot. It is difficult after something like that even to talk about concessions, but it is the only way for this to end and avoid more suffering, “said Rubio, then adds:” I will not put any condition about what they have or need to do. I think we want to hear to see how far they are willing to arrive and then compare it with what the Russians want and see how far we are really. ”
Another issue to address this week in Yeda will be between kyiv and Washington, which had to have been signed during Zelenski’s visit to the White House, but which was frustrated after the precipitous departure of President Ukraine after the anger in Trump public. In his statements to Fox News, the US president said he is confident that he is soon signed “a valuable” with kyiv, but did not directly refer to Yeda’s conversations. Rubio has been optimistic, during his talk with journalists while traveling to Saudi Arabia, although he has insisted that there are many details to resolve on that agreement.
The fence is narrowed in Kursk
On the battlefield, Russia steps on the accelerator in Kursk, where Ukraine wants to definitely expel so that her government cannot use this territory as a currency in future peace conversations. The last report of the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), American Conflict Analysis Center, accounts for the taking of several locations near Sudzha, the largest city in the occupied area, as well as the withdrawal of Ukrainian troops. The study uses geolocalized images and information disseminated by Russian military bloggers. Hours later, the commander in chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Oleksander Syrskyi, has denied during a visit to Kursk that his army is surrounded and, on the contrary, he has assured that his troops have control.
The Ukrainian army, but has lost more than 800 since last February, when Moscow troops launched a fierce operation that is maintained these days and that is surrounding around 10,000 troops deployed.
The United Kingdom’s intelligence agency has also confirmed Russian advances. “The Russian forces are exerting increasing pressure on the Ukraine in the outgoing of Kursk, from the west, the north and the east,” he says in his daily report. The Ukraine Army “probably maintains control of approximately 300 square kilometers of territory in Kursk,” he adds.
Moscow, however, has declared that it has no intention of rushing into recovering its territory. “The Russian army does not have a deadline to free the region, but the Kremlin has no doubt that it will be free,” Peskov said Monday.
Outside Kursk, the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense has reported that the anti -aircraft defense systems demolished at least 130 drones in different Ukraine provinces during Sunday night to Monday, while another 42 failed to achieve their objectives. This weekend, in addition, in the province of Donetsk, it caused 11 dead, including five children, and several dozens of injured.
