{"id":257719,"date":"2025-03-12T19:18:11","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T19:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/12\/u-s-and-ukraine-discuss-a-30-day-cease-fire-what-to-know\/"},"modified":"2025-03-12T19:18:11","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T19:18:11","slug":"u-s-and-ukraine-discuss-a-30-day-cease-fire-what-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/12\/u-s-and-ukraine-discuss-a-30-day-cease-fire-what-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. and Ukraine Discuss a 30-Day Cease-Fire: 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 Discuss a 30-Day Cease-Fire: What to Know\" title=\"U.S. and Ukraine Discuss a 30-Day Cease-Fire: 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\">Ukraine said it would support a Trump administration <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/11\/world\/europe\/ukraine-us-saudi-cease-fire-talks.html\" title=\"\">proposal for a 30-day cease-fire<\/a> with Russia after talks in Saudi Arabia, as the United States agreed to immediately lift its pause on intelligence sharing and military assistance to Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The announcement on Tuesday gave new momentum to efforts to halt the fighting. The United States and its allies said the onus was now on Russia to end the war.<\/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-70682b5\">What happened in Saudi Arabia?<\/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\">After more than eight hours of talks, the United States and Ukraine issued <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/joint-statement-on-the-united-states-ukraine-meeting-in-jeddah\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">a joint statement<\/a> saying that Kyiv would support the Trump administration\u2019s proposal for a 30-day cease-fire with Russia, subject to Russia\u2019s approval. The United States said it would resume providing military aid and intelligence to Ukraine, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/03\/us\/politics\/trump-ukraine-military-aid.html\" title=\"\">which it had suspended<\/a> after <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/01\/us\/politics\/zelensky-showdown-trump.html\" title=\"\">an explosive U.S.-Ukraine meeting<\/a> at the White House.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The United States and Ukraine also agreed to conclude \u201cas soon as possible\u201d a deal to develop Ukraine\u2019s critical mineral resources.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe\u2019ll take this offer now to the Russians, and we hope that they\u2019ll say yes, that they\u2019ll say yes to peace,\u201d Mr. Rubio said at the end of the meetings. \u201cThe ball is now in their court.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The United States has been pursuing talks separately with Russia and with Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A spokesman for President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia told reporters on Wednesday that the Kremlin was \u201c<a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/12\/world\/europe\/putin-russia-ukraine-cease-fire.html\" title=\"\">carefully studying<\/a>\u201d the outcome of the talks between the United States and Ukraine, and their call for a monthlong cease-fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The spokesman, Dmitri S. Peskov, said he expected the United States to inform Russia in the coming days of \u201cthe details of the negotiations that took place and the understandings that were reached.\u201d He raised the possibility of another phone call between Mr. Putin and President Trump, signaling that the Kremlin saw the cease-fire proposal as just a part of a broader flurry of diplomacy.<\/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\">While Mr. Trump says he wants to end the war as soon as possible, Mr. Putin has signaled that he will not stop fighting until he extracts major concessions from the West and from Kyiv, including a pledge that Ukraine will not join NATO and that the alliance will reduce its presence in Central and Eastern Europe.<\/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<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-4065a317\">Ukraine and Russia trade strikes<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ahead of the talks, Ukraine and Russia launched deadly strikes 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<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Russian Ministry of Defense said it shot down at least 91 drones before dawn on Tuesday 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<\/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\">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<\/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\">Russian forces have long held the initiative on the battlefield in Ukraine. They also have managed to retake about two-thirds of the territory Ukraine seized last summer in the Kursk region of Russia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Kyiv has kept its hold on territory in Kursk despite heavy casualties in the hope of using it as a bargaining chip in <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/11\/world\/europe\/ukraine-us-saudi-cease-fire-talks.html\" title=\"\">peace talks<\/a>.<\/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\">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-8\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\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<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Now drones \u2014 not the big, heavy artillery that the war was once known for \u2014 <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2025\/03\/03\/world\/europe\/ukraine-russia-war-drones-deaths.html\" title=\"\">inflict about 70 percent of all Russian and Ukrainian casualties,<\/a> according to the Ukrainian military. <\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-299e8909\">U.S.-Ukraine tensions<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">These were the first high-level, in-person talks for the United States and Ukraine since a Feb. 28 meeting at the White House in which Mr. 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-9\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ukraine has been 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-10\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Since the Oval Office debacle, Ukraine has sought to smooth over relations with the Trump administration. French and British officials coached the Ukrainian delegation before the talks in Jeddah about how to speak with the Americans, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/10\/us\/politics\/zelensky-saudi-arabia-prince-ukraine-meeting.html?searchResultPosition=23\" title=\"\">a Ukrainian official with the delegation said<\/a>.<\/p>\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<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-11\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\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<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Before Tuesday\u2019s talks, Ukraine had insisted that any cease-fire include security guarantees, but there was no indication from the statement issued on Tuesday that any such guarantees would be provided before any interim cease-fire would take effect.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Waltz told reporters, however, that security guarantees had been part of the conversations in Jeddah.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe also got into substantive details on how this war is going to permanently end, what type of guarantees they\u2019re going to have for their long-term security and prosperity,\u201d Mr. Waltz said.<\/p>\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\/article\/us-ukraine-talks-rubio-saudi-arabia.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukraine said it would support a Trump administration proposal for a 30-day cease-fire with Russia after talks in Saudi Arabia, as the United States agreed to immediately lift its pause on intelligence sharing and military assistance to Ukraine. 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