Olusegun Ariyo
The United States and Ukraine on Tuesday held brief talks in Saudi Arabia, a day after hours of US-Russia negotiations on halting the fighting in Ukraine ended without any breakthroughs announced.
US President Donald Trump is pushing for a rapid end to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine launched more than three years ago and hopes the latest round of talks in the Saudi capital will pave the way for a ceasefire.
Earlier this month, Kyiv agreed to a US-proposed unconditional ceasefire but Moscow turned it down, with Ukraine and its European allies accusing it of not wanting peace.
The negotiations between Ukrainian and American officials come after hours of Russian-US meetings that yielded no announcement on any truce.
In Moscow, Russia said the content of its talks with the US a day earlier will not be made public, saying it was still analyzing the results of negotiations with the Americans.
“They are being analyzed. The content of these talks will not be publicized,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.
According to the Kremlin, contacts with Washington would continue, but there was no specific date for another meeting.
Recall that Russia and the US planned to release a joint statement on the results of the talks.
It was gathered that there was no sign from Moscow that it would agree to any truce.
