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The United States will seek a commitment from Ukraine to a ceasefire process when top officials meet in Saudi Arabia this week to discuss possible pathways to end the war.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will be meeting U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and other senior U.S. officials in Saudi Arabia after days of intense negotiations following the public shouting match between the U.S. and Ukrainian Presidents at the White House meeting at the end of February.
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Since the very public spat, the U.S. has suspended all military aid to the Ukrainian government, with the move aimed to prompt a demonstration of good faith from the Ukrainian side.
The suspension of military aid and the suspended sharing of intelligence by the U.S. were tools to persuade Ukrainian President Zelenskyy to agree to a form of ceasefire that would lead to negotiations to end the Russian invasion, according to Bloomberg.
U.S. President Donald Trump has sought to link a U.S.-Ukraine deal on the Ukrainian mineral resources to Ukraine committing to a quick truce, sources with knowledge of the matter told Bloomberg last week.
Zelenskyy, for his part, asked EU leaders last week to support his idea for a ceasefire in air and sea strikes.
“This can be proved by two forms of silence that are easy to establish and monitor, namely, no attacks on energy and other civilian infrastructure – truce for missiles, bombs, and long-range drones, and the second is truce on the water, meaning no military operations in the Black Sea,” the Ukrainian president said in Brussels last week.
Such a partial truce would be a chance to see whether Russia is prepared to end the invasion, the Ukrainian president said.
Trump administration officials are traveling to the summit in Saudi Arabia with the feeling that Ukraine is “ready to move forward” with the U.S. demand for a ceasefire process with Russia, a senior U.S. state department official told the BBC on Monday.
“The fact that they’re coming here at senior levels is a good indication to us that they want to sit down and they’re ready to move forward,” the official said.
By Charles Kennedy for Oilprice.com
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