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The United States will communicate to Russia that Russian reciprocity is the key to achieving peace. The United States will immediately lift the pause on intelligence sharing and resume security assistance to Ukraine,
the joint statement released following the United States-Ukraine Meeting in Jeddah read I received a report from our delegation on their meeting with the American team in Saudi Arabia. The discussion lasted most of the day and was good and constructive--our teams were able to discuss many important details. Our position remains absolutely clear: Ukraine has been seeking peace from the very first second of this war, and we want to do everything to achieve it as soon as possible and in a reliable way--so that war does not return."
In a post on X, Zelenskyy stated Today was a good day for peace. Thanks to @POTUS's leadership and under the gracious hospitality of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, we are one step closer to restoring durable peace for Ukraine. The ball is now in Russia's court,
Ukraine, ceasefire, just agreed to a little while ago. Now we have to go to Russia and hopefully President Putin will agree to that also and we can get this show on the road. We can get this horrible war...I get the reports and they're not American soldiers. They're Ukrainian and they're Russian. But, people are being killed outside of that. People are being killed in the cities as things explode throughout the cities and we want to get that war over with."
Speaking to reporters on Tuesday (local time), Trump said If they say no then we'll unfortunately know what the impediment is to peace here,
Rubio said of Russia, which launched a full-scale invasion of its smaller neighbour in February 2022 Today we made an offer that the Ukrainians have accepted, which is to enter into a ceasefire and into immediate negotiations,
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters after around nine hours of talks in an ornate hotel in Jeddah The American side understands our arguments, perceives our proposals, and I want to thank President Trump for the constructive conversation between our teams,
Zelensky said in his evening address Russia needs to say, very clearly, they want peace or not, they want to end this war, which they started, or no,
We've gone from if the war is going to end to how the war is going to end,
Waltz told reporters alongside Rubio
