{"id":12056,"date":"2025-03-11T09:08:58","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T09:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/as-ukraine-and-u-s-cease-fire-talks-near-gulfs-remain\/"},"modified":"2025-03-11T09:08:58","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T09:08:58","slug":"as-ukraine-and-u-s-cease-fire-talks-near-gulfs-remain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/as-ukraine-and-u-s-cease-fire-talks-near-gulfs-remain\/","title":{"rendered":"As Ukraine and U.S. Cease-Fire Talks Near, Gulfs Remain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">When Ukrainian and American officials sit down in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday for their first high-level meeting since an Oval Office shouting match between their presidents last month, the goal will be finding a way to halt the bloodiest European war in generations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But the United States, Ukraine and Russia appear to have very different ideas about what a cease-fire should look like. <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ukraine has proposed an immediate cessation of air and sea strikes, but wants security guarantees before its infantry lays down its arms. The United States is pressing for an immediate, comprehensive cease-fire. And Russia, which will not be at the talks, has signaled that it wants concessions of its own before halting the war it started.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">If the Ukrainian proposal to halt the air and sea strikes is agreed to, it would bring about the first negotiated reduction in the fighting in three years of war, but the Trump administration has made clear it is looking for more. Ukraine has offered the unconditional truce on long-range strikes as a confidence building measure while continuing talks on a more comprehensive cease-fire.<\/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<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Secretary of State Marco Rubio, en route to the meetings in the seaside city of Jeddah, said Monday that Ukraine would have to make concessions over land that Russia has taken since 2014 as part of any peace agreement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe most important thing that we have to leave here with is a strong sense that Ukraine is prepared to do difficult things, like the Russians are going to have to do difficult things, to end this conflict or at last pause it in some way shape or form,\u201d Mr. Rubio told reporters.<\/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\">These will be the first high-level, in-person talks for the United States and Ukraine since a Feb. 28 White House meeting between President Trump and President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine unraveled into an argument and insults. \u201cYou\u2019ve talked enough,\u201d Mr. Trump told Mr. Zelensky at one point. \u201cYou won\u2019t win.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Since then, Mr. Zelensky has sought to smooth relations with Mr. Trump, calling their contentious meeting \u201cregrettable,\u201d and Ukrainian officials have been careful in framing their cease-fire proposal. 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. The delegation is also expected to meet with the American national security adviser, Michael Waltz.<\/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\">Ukraine favors a truce at sea and in the air, said the official, who was not authorized to speak publicly of the delegation\u2019s plans, but may pose the idea tentatively. \u201cWe don\u2019t know if the Russians are ready for any steps to peace\u201d the official said. The official said the Ukrainians would ask if the Americans, who have been talking to the Russians separately, had insight into Moscow\u2019s position on the Ukrainian proposal. <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Zelensky proposed the partial cease-fire last week, with support from President Emmanuel Macron of France. Russia has not directly responded. Ukraine\u2019s president has also called for an all-for-all exchange of prisoners of war, a traditional confidence-building measure in peace talks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The proposals that Ukraine is bringing to Jeddah are its most detailed to date. In return, it is seeking one immediate action from the United States: a resumption of military aid and intelligence sharing that was suspended by Mr. Trump after the Oval Office debacle.<\/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 intelligence cutoff has already impaired soldiers in combat, particularly in the Kursk region of Russia, where Russian soldiers, aided by fighter from North Korea, have been <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/08\/world\/europe\/ukraine-russia-north-korea-kursk.html\" title=\"\">rapidly advancing<\/a>, 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-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The picture appears somewhat different of late in eastern Ukraine, where a slow reversal for the Russians on the battlefield has come into sharper focus. Ukrainian troops there have <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/10\/world\/europe\/ukraine-russia-eastern-front-line.html\" title=\"\">stalled a Russian offensive<\/a>, and won back small patches of land. Since the beginning of the month, Russia has captured only five square miles of Ukrainian territory. <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Rubio declined to outline a potential agreement but made clear that concessions will be critical. He said it would be important to learn what Russia is willing to concede. \u201cWe don\u2019t know how far apart they truly are,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI think both sides need to come to an understanding that there\u2019s no military solution to this situation,\u201d Mr. Rubio said. \u201cThe Russians can\u2019t conquer all of Ukraine, and obviously it\u2019ll be very difficult for Ukraine in any reasonable time period to sort of force the Russians back all the way to where they were in 2014.\u201d <\/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\">It is unclear whether the offer of an aerial and maritime truce, perhaps accompanied by an agreement to share revenues from Ukraine\u2019s mineral mining with the United States, would be sufficient for Mr. Trump to resume intelligence sharing and lift his halt on weapons shipments.<\/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\">Mr. Trump has pushed for the warring sides to stop fighting as soon as possible, without first negotiating terms that might include mechanisms to safeguard the peace. At the Oval Office meeting, he argued that a cease-fire could be achieved more swiftly than a peace agreement, and that Russia\u2019s president, Vladimir V. Putin, would keep his word.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Russia violated two previous cease-fires, reached in 2014 and 2015, and denied an intention to invade just days before invading in 2022. <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In an interview on Fox News\u2019s \u201cSunday Morning Futures,\u201d Mr. Trump once again said he thought that Mr. Zelensky, on whom he has heaped vitriol, was not grateful for American military aid. When the Biden administration was in power, he said, the Ukrainian leader \u201ctook candy from a baby.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Trump also said that he also saw \u201csome weakness\u201d with Russia that would facilitate talks. \u201cYou know, it takes two,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Russia has publicly called for conditions to be imposed before a cease-fire takes effect, and Mr. Putin has signaled that he wants to secure a raft of concessions from Ukraine and the West.<\/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\">Analysts believe that beyond seeking to keep the territory Russia has captured so far and claiming additional land, Mr. Putin will demand a guarantee that Ukraine not join NATO, a retreat by the Western alliance from Central and Eastern Europe and limits to the size and firepower of Ukraine\u2019s military.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe must choose for ourselves a version of peace that would suit us and that would ensure calm for our country in the long-term historical perspective,\u201d Mr. Putin said on Thursday.<\/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\">Russia is also pressing for Ukraine to hold presidential elections, arguing that Mr. Zelensky\u2019s rule is illegitimate. Ukrainian elections scheduled for the spring of 2024 were suspended because of the war.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">For Ukraine, the talks pose the dispiriting challenge of adapting to an ally that is now adopting positions of its enemy. Both Russia and the Trump administration have questioned Mr. Zelensky\u2019s legitimacy and accused Ukraine of 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\">\u201cI am finding it more difficult frankly to deal with Ukraine, and they don\u2019t have the cards,\u201d Mr. Trump said last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The United States has also offered no support for a role for European peacekeepers in Ukraine under a cease-fire, but as Ukrainian and American officials meet in Jeddah on Tuesday, top military officials are expected to gather in Paris to discuss such a force. Asked how many troops might be required, France\u2019s defense minister, S\u00e9bastien Lecornu, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latribune.fr\/la-tribune-dimanche\/politique\/sebastien-lecornu-ministre-des-armees-nous-ne-sommes-pas-en-guerre-nous-voulons-garantir-la-paix-1020145.html\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">told La Tribune du Dimanche<\/a> that \u201ceverything depends on their mission and positioning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ukraine\u2019s broader goals in the talks with the United States are to slow, so far as possible, the fallout on its war effort from America\u2019s geopolitical pivot to Russia under Mr. Trump. That might buy time for European states to ramp up aid, analysts and former Ukrainian officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIt\u2019s the alignment between Putin and Trump that is the problem,\u201d said Orysia Lutsevych, a Ukraine analyst at the London-based research institute Chatham House. \u201cThere\u2019s nothing that Zelensky can do. Ukraine is ready to compromise but not capitulate. I don\u2019t see a leader of Ukraine wanting to be friendly to Trump and Putin.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ukraine is not likely to bend on its insistence that there be an enforcement mechanism for any cease-fire, said Andriy Zagorodnyuk, a former Ukrainian defense minister. Russia has greater potential to rebuild its army over any pause in the fighting, he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIf we have nothing, and Russia is pumping up their forces, in one year they will be ready to strike again,\u201d Mr. Zagorodnyuk said in a telephone interview.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-798hid etfikam0\">Marc Santora<!-- --> contributed reporting from Kyiv, Ukraine, <!-- -->Anton Troianovski<!-- --> from Berlin, and <!-- -->Aurelien Breeden<!-- --> from Paris.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     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