Kyiv negotiators to hold new talks with US – DW – 03/25/2025

Talks are expected to take place between Ukrainian and US delegates after US President Donald Trump’s administration held talks with Russian representatives.

In his nightly video address, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he did expect his officials to meet the US negotiators again after they spoke on Sunday — before the talks with Moscow.

While Zelenskyy did not specify when this would happen, Ukraine’s national broadcaster Suspilne cited a source in the Ukrainian delegation saying it would be on Tuesday.

A member of Ukraine’s delegation told AFP news agency on condition of anonymity that Ukrainian and US officials were holding a round of talks Tuesday in Riyadh. 

At a previous round of talks this month in Jeddah, Kyiv agreed to a US-proposed 30-day truce that Russian President Vladimir Putin subsequently rejected.

Officials are now studying a possible resumption of the Black Sea Initiative, an agreement that allowed millions of metric tons of grain and other food exports to be shipped from Ukraine’s ports.

Russian officials and media say a targeted Ukrainian artillery strike killed six people on Monday including two journalists and their driver who were on assignment in Moscow-controlled parts of eastern Ukraine’s Luhansk region.

The Russian Foreign Ministry said Alexander Fedorchak, a war correspondent from Russia’s Izvestia media outlet, was killed in the attack as well as camera operator Andrei Panov and driver Alexander Sirkeli who worked for the Zvezda television channel.

Leonid Pasechnik, the Russian-appointed governor of the Luhansk region, said that the shelling killed six people although he did not say who the other people reportedly killed were.

One of the lead negotiators from Russia negotiator on Tuesday said talks between Russian and US officials over a partial ceasefire in Ukraine had been helpful and that they would go on.

“We talked about everything, it was an intense dialogue, not easy, but very useful for us and the Americans,” Grigory Karasin, told the state TASS news agency.

“We will continue it,” he added and Moscow and Washington’s teams held 12 hours of negotiations in a luxury hotel in Saudi Arabia.

Karasin also said Russia would like other countries and the United Nations to participate in the talks.

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“We will continue” the talks, he said, “adding in the international community, above all the United Nations and certain countries.”

United States and Russian negotiators on Monday worked on a proposed partial ceasefire in the 3-year-old war in Ukraine, a day after holding separate talks with a team from Kyiv.

It has been a struggle to work out even a limited, 30-day ceasefire.

Although Moscow and Kyiv agreed to a truce in principle last week, both sides have continued to attack each other with drones and missiles.

After US President Donald Trump spoke with the countries’ leaders, a key sticking point is what targets would be off-limits to strike.

While the White House said “energy and infrastructure” would be covered, the Kremlin declared that the agreement referred more narrowly to “energy infrastructure.”

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said he wants other infrastructure like railways and ports to be protected.

While the talks took place at a luxury hotel in Riyadh, lasting 12 hours, nearly 90 people including 17 children were wounded in a Russian missile attack Monday on Sumy in northeastern Ukraine.

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Amid talks on a limited ceasefire in the Black Sea, the Ukrainian negotiating team is staying in for another day to meet US representatives who spoke to Russia on Monday.