US officials held separate talks with both Russia and Ukraine in Saudi Arabia on Monday
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The US is going to hold separate talks with both sides in Saudi Arabia next Monday about the war between Russia and Ukraine. Before the meeting for peace talks, Russia and Ukraine have been accusing each other.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of breaking his promises. He accused Putin of breaking the promise he made in talks with US President Donald Trump to stop attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure. "After a telephone conversation with US President Trump, Putin said that he would order to stop attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure, and 150 drones were launched targeting Ukrainian energy infrastructure," Zelensky said. He says that Russia also attacked transport infrastructure and hospitals on Tuesday night.
The Russian Defense Ministry has accused Ukraine of targeting one of its oil storage facilities. According to the ministry, an attack on the oil storage center in Krasnodar, southern Russia, is being attempted to disrupt the Russia-US peace talks.
Putin accuses Ukraine of breaking his promise during talks with US President Donald Trump to stop attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure. Russia says that the attack on the center was deliberate and that the Ukrainian action was provocative. "Such actions of the Kiev regime are deliberate provocations aimed at disrupting Trump's peace initiative," the ministry said. Likewise, Russia has reported that it shot down 7 drones that hit energy facilities in the Mykolaiv region of Ukraine.
Putin and Trump had a 90-minute long telephone conversation on Wednesday. During the talks, Putin rejected Trump's proposal for a 30-day ceasefire in Ukraine. But he agreed to halt attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure for 30 days. But at that time, Putin said that no further military deployment or provision of weapons could be made from Ukraine. But within a few hours of the talks, the Russian army attacked two hospitals in Ukraine, according to the BBC. According to the Ukrainian official, Russia carried out a drone attack on a hospital in the city of Sumy. According to the BBC, there were 147 patients and 22 employees in the hospital at the time of the attack.
Within a few hours, Russia shot 6 drones at a hospital in the regional city of Krasnopilya. According to Ukrainian officials, there were 49 patients and 11 staff at the hospital at the time of the attack. Ukrainian officials have reported that the hospital building was heavily damaged due to the attack. But they say that there is no human loss.
Similarly, in the talks between Trump and Putin on Wednesday, BBC reported that there was an agreement to talk soon about the safety of transporting goods in the Black Sea. Russia and Ukraine agreed to exchange 175 prisoners of war from Wednesday. Accordingly, Russia will hand over 23 seriously wounded Ukrainian soldiers who are being treated in their country. The two presidents also discussed possible cooperation in preventing future conflicts in the Middle East, according to CNN. There was also a discussion about the need to stop the proliferation of strategic weapons. Similarly, Trump and Putin have agreed that Iran should not aim to destroy Israel.
After the phone conversation between the two leaders, the Russian President's Office Kremlin said that the proposal of the US President Trump to organize the US-Russia hockey game put forward by the Russian President Putin has been supported. "Trump has supported Putin's idea to host a hockey game between the U.S. and Russia between Russian and American players who play in the NHL and KHL," the Kremlin said.
Before the talks with Trump, Putin opposed the sanctions imposed by the West on Russia. Addressing a meeting of the Russian Federation of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, Putin said the sanctions imposed on Russia were "illegal". "Competitors always want to surround Russia and weaken its economic and technological potential," Putin said.
Earlier, the two leaders had a telephone conversation on 12 February. During the talks, issues ranging from ending the war to visiting each other's countries were discussed between the two leaders. In a 90-minute telephone conversation, the two presidents agreed to immediately begin talks to end the war in Ukraine. Since then, there have been foreign minister-level talks between Russia and the US in Saudi Arabia. In Saudi Arabia's talks, it has been agreed to hold talks between the high-level team to end the war between the two countries. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Russian President Putin's foreign policy adviser Yuri Usakov participated in the
talks. Similarly, the US team led by Secretary of State Marco Rubio included National Security Advisor Mike Waltz and US Special Envoy for the Middle East Steve Wittkoff. Prince and Foreign Minister of Saudi Arabia Faisal bin Farhan Al-Saud and National Security Adviser Musaid bin Mohammed Al-Aiwan were also present. At the press conference held after the
talks, Secretary of State Rubio said that no one was sidelined in the talks. Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov responded that the two sides had a very useful conversation. Not participating in the talks, Ukrainian President Zelensky said that any talks without his country's participation would be invalid. But after informal talks with the US, the US President's office reached the White House for a mineral deal. But Zelensky returned without a deal after a heated exchange with President Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance.
President Zelensky, who was under pressure after the Trump administration's decision to stop military aid to Ukraine, was again ready for talks with the United States. Because of this, the two countries held talks with Ukraine in Saudi Arabia on March 11. In talks between the two countries, Ukraine agreed to a ceasefire for a month. During the Saudi talks, Ukraine accepted the US proposal for a 30-day ceasefire on land, sea and air with Russia. But Russia has rejected the proposal.
Similarly, Dmitry Peskov, the spokesman of the Russian Presidential Office, Kremlin, responded that he was waiting for detailed information from the American side about the talks. On February 24, 2022, Russia attacked Ukraine as Ukraine prepared to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Since then, Russia has taken control of about 20 percent of Ukraine's territory. Since the full-scale invasion, four regions of Ukraine, namely Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhia, have come under the control of Russia. Zaporizhia, controlled by Russia, has Europe's largest nuclear power plant.
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Russia disagrees with the temporary ceasefire
After the Russian response, US President Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff has already met with President Putin in the Russian capital, Moscow. Wittkoff said a lot of progress had been made in the meeting with Putin. After that, US President Trump said that he had received a "positive message" about the possibility of a ceasefire.
