Ukraine must propose its own cease-fire contract in talks with the United States in Saudi Arabia, aimed at signing the “mineral of rare minerals” agreement with Washington to resume interrupted military aid after the tensions of Zelenskyy-Trump.
A Ukrainian delegation should meet the best American diplomat in Saudi Arabia to end the 3 -year war with Russia.
The delegation will offer a cease-fire covering the Black Sea and long-range missile strikes, as well as the release of prisoners, two senior Ukrainian officials announced on Monday.
The officials, who spoke under the cover of anonymity, also told the Associated Press that the Ukrainian delegation was ready during talks to sign an agreement with the United States on access to minerals in the rare land of Ukraine – an agreement that US President Donald Trump wishes to obtain.
kyiv tries to repair the damage caused when the visit of the president of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy on February 28 in Washington fell into a live argument in the Oval office with Trump and the vice-president JD Vance.
The stake is military aid and intelligence offered by the United States which had helped Ukraine in the war, but which is now interrupted while Washington is pressure for a peace agreement.
Rubio and Zelenskyy landed a few hours by half of Jeddah, although they are not supposed to meet. The two had to meet the powerful crown prince of the kingdom separately on Monday evening.
Addressing journalists in his plane, Rubio said that he and the national security advisor Mike Waltz would assess Ukraine's responses in Saudi Arabia.
If Ukraine and the United States reach an acceptable understanding for Trump, this could speed up the thrust of its administration for peace talks.
Rubio: We will see how far we are really
“What we want to know is that they are interested in entering a kind of conversation for peace and general contours of the kind of thing they could consider, recognizing that it was an expensive and bloody war for the Ukrainians. They suffered a lot and their people have suffered a lot, “said Rubio. “And it is difficult in the aftermath of something like that to speak even of concessions, but it is the only way to end and prevent more suffering.”
He added: “I'm not going to define conditions on what they have to do or do. I think we want to listen to to see how ready they are going and compare this to what the Russians want and to see how far we are really. »»
Zelenskyy said his team meeting with Rubio would understand his chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, the Minister of Foreign Affairs Andriy Sybiha and the Minister of Defense Rustem Umerov. Rubio will lead the American team.
Europe is skeptical about talks
The rest of Europe remains skeptical about talks while Washington has sidelined them.
Last week, the European Union agreed to strengthen the continent's defenses and release hundreds of billions of euros for security in response to the change in the Trump administration on Ukraine.
The White House special envoy Steve Witkoff told Fox News on Monday that the break in the sharing of American intelligence with Ukraine had not limited the sharing of “defense intelligence”.
“We have never closed the information for … anything from the defensive that the Ukrainians need,” said Witkoff.
ADVERTISEMENTA break on the sharing of American information that can be used for offensive purposes by Ukrainian forces remain in force, according to an American official familiar with the question that was not authorized to comment and to speak of the state of anonymity.
The manager suggested that progress could be made towards the reinstatement of intelligence sharing with Ukraine during Saudi talks.
