A Desert Deal? US and Ukraine meet before negotiations to end the fire of Russia

The US negotiators are in talks in the Saudi capital, Riyadh with their Ukrainian counterparts and separately with the Russians on Monday.

The purpose of Washington is to lead to an immediate partial end of the fire in the war in Ukraine, followed by a complete peaceful deal.

So these Riyadh conversations will lead to a breakthrough that they hope so much?

It depends on who you are listening to.

“I feel that he (Putin) wants peace,” said President Trump’s personal prana Steve Witcof, adding, “I think you will see on Monday in Saudi Arabia on Monday.”

Still, Dmitry Peskov, the Kremlin spokesman, has raised expectations. “We’re only at the beginning of this time,” he told Russian State TV.

Kiev suffered one of his worst attacks on Russian drones on Saturday night, with three people killed, including a five-year-old girl.

“We have to encourage Putin to give a real order to stop strikes,” said Ukraine President Volodimir Zelenski at his evening address on Sunday. “The one who brought this war must take it.”

Meanwhile, the Kremlin seems to be in no hurry to register until the fire is stopped, with Vladimir Putin adding numerous “shades” or prerequisites before agreeing to the 30-day cessation of the fire proposed by Washington and agree by Kiev.

In Riyadh, negotiations in the United States-Ukrana began shortly after Sunday night, behind closed doors in one of the many luxury establishments of Saudi Arabia, as the Ukrainian delegation led by the country’s Minister of Defense Rustem Musrov.

This, he said, were “technically” discussions, focusing on how best to protect energy facilities and critical infrastructure.

Being alleys are also being discussed, and according to reports, Russia wants to revive a deal that allowed Ukraine to export grain from its ports without being attacked, in exchange for sanctions relief.

Both countries, Russia and Ukraine, have made extremely destructive attacks on the other’s infrastructure.

Moscow seeks to immerse the population of Ukraine in cold and darkness, focusing on the production of electricity, while Kiev becomes more successful in its long-distance drones that strike Russian oil facilities critical of its military efforts.

President Trump has demanded a quick end to this war, the oldest Europe since 1945, and one that led to combined casualties on both sides of hundreds of thousands of killed, captured, wounded or missing men.

Ukraine’s management, still bruised by this catastrophic line in the oval office last month, is trying to persuade Washington that it is not an obstacle to peace.

When the Americans offered a complete 30-day termination of the fire on the land, the sea and in the air in Jeddah’s conversations this month, Ukraine quickly agreed to the conditions.

The ball, said US secretary of Marco Rubio at the time, is now in the court of Russia.

But despite US failure to make Moscow agree to this ceasefire, the Trump administration puts little or no pressure, at least in public, to Russia to fall in line. In fact, the opposite.

In an interview this weekend with pro-Trump journalist Tucker Carlson, Steve Vikof, the man who heads the American pursuit of fire ceased, seems to be fully in contradiction with that of Europe.

Ukraine, he suggested, was a “fake state”, Russia was provoked and Putin was a man of his word he could be trusted.

Witkoff, former real estate developer in New York and golf partner of Donald Trump, also rejected Prime Minister’s efforts Sir Kiir Starmer To gather military force to help protect a possible peaceful deal in Ukraine, calling it “pose and pose”.