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The full -screen residents clean up at an apartment after a drone attack against the Ukrainian capital Kiev. Photo: Efrem Lukatsky/AP/TT
The Russian power center Kremlin fading expectations of a quick solution to Russia’s attack war in Ukraine at Monday’s announced conversation about a ceasefire.
Ukrainian and American representatives meet already on Sunday, says a source for AFP.
According to Kremlin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov, “difficult negotiations” await on Monday when the US envoy has parallel conversations with representatives of Russia and Ukraine in Saudi Arabia.
– We are only at the beginning of this road, Peskov tells state Russian television.
Real progress?
But US President Donald Trump has pressed for a quick end to the war that began with Russia’s full -scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff sounds positive in an interview with Fox News.
– I think we will see real progress in Saudi Arabia, he says.
Witkoff adds that the conversations will initially be about a ceasefire “across the Black Sea” on vessels from both countries. From there, it is natural to continue towards a full -scale ceasefire, the envoy claims.
According to a Ukrainian source, Ukraine and the United States meet already on Sunday in the Saudi capital Riyad.
Dmitry Peskov says that the Kremlin’s main focus in the talks will be to resume the grain agreement relating to Ukrainian exports of cereals across the Black Sea despite the war.
He also believes that there are many remaining “questions” and “nuances” about how a ceasefire can be implemented.
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Earlier on Sunday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyj called on the country’s allies to put pressure on Russia after a night of drone attacks against, among others, the capital Kiev.
“New decisions and new pressure against Moscow are needed to end these attacks and this war,” he writes in social media.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has previously rejected a joint proposal from the US and Ukraine about a 30 -day ceasefire. Instead, he has suggested that the attacks on energy plants be stopped.