The first round of conversations between USA y Ukraine To try to find a solution to the conflict that bleeds the Slavic country for three years has concluded on Tuesday in Saudi Arabia with a remarkable result for kyiv’s interests. In a statement from the State Department, Washington has announced that it will “immediately” the Military aid and intelligence cooperation With Ukraine, both suspended last week following the sound disagreement they maintained Donald Trump y Volodímir Zelenski At the end of February in the Oval Office. The statement adds that kyiv has accepted a High fire offer United States. “Now the ball is on the Russian roof,” said the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio.
The Ukrainian delegation reached the appointment with the desire to demonstrate its predisposition to an agreement, after Trump has accused kyiv otherwise, only a few hours after his army launched the largest air attack on Russian territory since the beginning of the invasion. “The encounter with the American team began very constructively. We are worked by a just and lasting peace”, Assured the chief of staff of the Ukrainian President, Andriy Yermakafter the start of the meeting. In his country no one ignores the extreme complexity of the moment, after the relations between the former allies played in the end of February in the Oval Office, where Trump and his lieutenants publicly rebuked the Ukrainian President Volodímir Zelenski.
“Las Meeting expectations They are very low, given the strange conception that the Trump administration has to end the war, ”says Oleksiy Melnick, co -director of Razumkov Center, a laboratory of ideas based in kyiv. “We would settle for a normalization of relationships. Or in other words, that rhetoric and hostile actions against Ukraine cease. ” But in the mood of his government there was more than the intention to redirect relations. His delegation traveled to Yeda with a specific offer for a high naval and aerial fire with Russia, the class of initiative that Washington has been demanding of its leaders in recent weeks. Moscow has not spoken about it. At the moment, all American pressure has focused on kyiv, for rejection of the Kremlin.
In exchange for that offer, kyiv expects the US to resume military and intelligence aid, interrupted last week following the anger in the White House. “All this happened because we felt that they were not committed to any peace process or even interested in negotiating,” said the Secretary of State, Marco Rubioreferring to the Ukrainian authorities shortly before the start of the appointment in Yeda. Before landing in the Saudi city to preside over the US delegation, Rubio reiterated that Ukraine will have to do Territorial concessions To end the war. “The most important thing is that we leave there with the conviction that Ukraine is prepared to do things, the same ones that the Russians will have to do, to end this conflict or at least pause it in one way or another,” said the American chancellor.
Without truce for the moment on the front, Ukraine wanted to demonstrate that he is very capable of hitting in the heart of the Russia of Vladimir Putin. During the early morning he threw a rain of drones about Moscow and nine other Russian provinces that killed three people and wounded at least twenty. According to the Russian authorities, 343 unmanned aircraft were intercepted, almost a hundred of them on the heavens of the capital.
Different images show, however, that some of those drones hit civil facilities such as apartments or parking. To which we must add other “strategic facilities involved in armed aggression against Ukraine”, according to a statement from its Ukrainian armed forces. From a oil refinery on the outskirts of Moscow to a control center of the Druzhba pipeline In the Oryol region. This last attack affected the supply in Hungarythat was interrupted. The Viktor Orban government described the incident as “unacceptable,” while the Russian Foreign Ministry said the attack shows that “the Zelenski regime has no will to peace.”
“In political terms, the attack wanted to demonstrate that Ukraine can launch this kind of offensives on Russian territory, so The high fire should interest both parties. We are not talking about a truce in the front, but of the attacks inside the two countries, ”says Melnick. kyiv’s air salvings met with the routine ballistic missiles and Russian drones, who killed one person and wounded another 18, according to the Ukrainian authorities.
The meeting to two bands in Saudi Arabia comes after US diplomats, headed by Foreign Minister Rubio, held two previous meetings with their Russian counterpart. The first in Riad And the second in Istanbul. That fluid communication between the old archienemigos, which has given way to an indispeculated alignment of the White House with the Kremlin, is called to continue in the next few days. According to several US media, Trump’s headquarters, Steve Witkoff, He will travel this week to Russia to continue with contacts about Ukraine. Witkoff was already in the Russian capital last month, then to facilitate an exchange of prisoners between Washington and Moscow.
