{"id":256947,"date":"2025-03-11T20:45:09","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T20:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/11\/u-s-and-ukraine-hold-talks-after-drone-attack-on-moscow-what-to-know\/"},"modified":"2025-03-11T20:45:09","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T20:45:09","slug":"u-s-and-ukraine-hold-talks-after-drone-attack-on-moscow-what-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/11\/u-s-and-ukraine-hold-talks-after-drone-attack-on-moscow-what-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. and Ukraine Hold Talks After Drone Attack on Moscow: What to Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/03\/11\/multimedia\/11int-ukraine-talks-wwk-01-hgqv\/11int-ukraine-talks-wwk-01-hgqv-facebookJumbo.jpg?ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"U.S. and Ukraine Hold Talks After Drone Attack on Moscow: What to Know\" title=\"U.S. and Ukraine Hold Talks After Drone Attack on Moscow: What to Know\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ukrainian and American officials are <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/11\/world\/europe\/ukraine-us-saudi-cease-fire-talks.html\" title=\"\">meeting in Saudi Arabia<\/a> on Tuesday in hopes of finding a way to halt the Russia-Ukraine war. But the United States, Ukraine and Russia each have very different ideas about what a potential agreement should look like.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ahead of the talks, Ukraine and Russia launched <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/11\/world\/europe\/ukraine-russia-moscow-war-drones.html\" title=\"\">deadly strikes<\/a> on each other\u2019s territory, including a large-scale <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/11\/world\/europe\/ukraine-russia-moscow-war-drones.html\" title=\"\">drone attack on Moscow<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-3a2bdb07\">What\u2019s happening today?<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Michael Waltz, the U.S. national security adviser, sat down in the city of Jeddah with a delegation led by Andriy Yermak, the Ukrainian president\u2019s chief of staff, Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha and Defense Minister Rustem Umerov.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">U.S. officials have said that they hope to determine in the meetings whether Ukraine is committed to pursuing peace with Russia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Emerging for a break after more than two hours of talks, Mr. Waltz said, \u201cWe\u2019re getting there.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Russia was not present for the talks. The Kremlin\u2019s spokesman, Dmitri S. Peskov, said on Tuesday that Russia expected the American side to inform Moscow about the results of talks with Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Steve Witkoff, President Trump\u2019s special envoy to the Middle East, plans to visit Russia in the coming days, according to two people familiar with the matter, who requested anonymity to discuss internal plans.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-4065a317\">Ukraine and Russia trade strikes<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Hours before the talks began, Russian officials said Ukraine had attacked Moscow with its <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/11\/world\/europe\/ukraine-russia-moscow-war-drones.html\" title=\"\">largest long-range drone bombardment<\/a> of the war.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Russian Ministry of Defense said it shot down at least 91 drones before dawn in the Moscow region, along with over 240 drones targeting other parts of the country. At least three people were killed and 18 others were injured in the Moscow region, the Russian authorities said. Ukraine\u2019s military said it had targeted Moscow\u2019s oil refinery, along with an oil production station in the Orel region. Neither claim could be independently verified.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Kyiv has long maintained that the only way to force Russia to accept an enduring peace deal is through force and by raising the cost of the war for the Kremlin. The timing of the overnight attack on Moscow was meant to drive home that message, Andriy Kovalenko, a senior Ukrainian official focused on Russian disinformation operations, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Russia has also continued its relentless bombardment of Ukrainian civilian and military institutions, regularly launching more than 100 drones each night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On Tuesday morning, Ukraine\u2019s Air Force said that Russia had launched 126 drones and one ballistic missile overnight. At least one person was killed when a Russian drone struck a warehouse in Kharkiv and at least 17 others were injured in attacks elsewhere in the country, the Ukrainian authorities said.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-1a7310c\">State of the war<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Russian forces have long held the initiative on the battlefield in Ukraine. In recent weeks, they also have managed to retake about two-thirds of the territory Ukraine seized last summer in the Kursk region of Russia.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/10\/world\/europe\/ukraine-russia-eastern-front-line.html\" title=\"\">Ukrainian forces have stalled the Russian offensive<\/a> in the eastern Donetsk region in recent months and have started to win back small patches of land, according to <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.understandingwar.org\/backgrounder\/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-march-7-2025\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">military analysts<\/a> and Ukrainian soldiers. However, military analysts have been debating whether, after more than 15 months on the offensive, Russian brigades are depleted or are regrouping for a renewed push.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Drones, not the big, heavy artillery that the war was once known for, inflict about 70 percent of all Russian and Ukrainian casualties, according to the Ukrainian military.<span class=\"css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0\">  <\/span>They kill more soldiers and destroy more armored vehicles than all traditional weapons of war combined, including sniper rifles, tanks, howitzers and mortars, Ukrainian commanders and officials say.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The war has killed and wounded more than a million soldiers in all, according to Ukrainian and Western estimates.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-299e8909\">U.S.-Ukraine tensions<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">These are the first high-level, in-person talks for the United States and Ukraine since a Feb. 28 meeting at the White House in which President Trump and Vice President JD Vance castigated and berated President Volodymyr Zelensky, saying he was not grateful enough for U.S. support.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-7\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ukraine is facing the dispiriting challenge of adapting to its main ally adopting the positions of its enemy. Russia and the Trump administration question Mr. Zelensky\u2019s legitimacy and have blamed Ukraine for starting the war.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-8\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ukrainian officials are seeking to smooth over relations with the Trump administration. Over the weekend, French and British officials coached the Ukrainian delegation on how to talk with the Americans, a Ukrainian official with the delegation said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ukraine has proposed a truce in the air, saying it would immediately stop long-range strikes into Russia if Moscow agreed to an equivalent halt. That plan, supported by European nations, including France, is envisioned as a first step in building trust ahead of talks about the overall conflict \u2014 and the Ukrainian delegation is expected to raise the proposal again in the Jeddah meetings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ukraine is also more broadly seeking a resumption of American military aid and intelligence sharing that was suspended after the Oval Office debacle. The intelligence cutoff has already impaired soldiers in combat, according to Ukrainian commanders in the field.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-9\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-405b9c1\">Potential concessions<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">While European allies have pledged further support to Kyiv, Ukraine is seen as having few options for reversing Russia\u2019s recent gains on the battlefield.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On the flight to Jeddah, Mr. Rubio <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/10\/us\/politics\/rubio-ukraine-russia.html\" title=\"\">said Ukraine would have to make concessions over land<\/a> that Russia had taken since 2014 as part of any agreement to end the war. But he also said that it would be imperative in future talks with Moscow to determine what Russia was willing to concede.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe don\u2019t know how far apart they truly are,\u201d he said, referring to Ukraine and Russia.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-10\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-798hid etfikam0\">Anton Troianovski<!-- --> and <!-- -->Alan Rappeport<!-- --> contributed reporting.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/11\/world\/europe\/us-ukraine-talks-rubio-saudi-arabia.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian and American officials are meeting in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday in hopes of finding a way to halt the Russia-Ukraine war. But the United States, Ukraine and Russia each have very different ideas about what a potential agreement should look like. 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