MOSCOW: The Kremlin stated on Thursday (Mar 20) that the subsequent US-Russia talks might happen on Sunday or early subsequent week, as Washington can also be as a result of maintain talks with Kyiv in Saudi Arabia within the coming days.
US President Donald Trump spoke to each Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy earlier this week.
“It will not be Sunday itself, the nuances are being agreed. It might be the beginning, the very begin, of subsequent week,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov stated.
Zelenskyy stated a day earlier that Kyiv and the US have been making ready to fulfill within the “coming days” in Saudi Arabia.
It was unclear if US officers would meet each the Ukrainian and Russian groups on the identical day, or if there was a chance of three-way talks that may contain Kyiv and Moscow speaking face-to-face.
US Nationwide Safety Advisor Mike Waltz stated on Wednesday that “technical groups” from Russia and the US would meet in Riyadh “to give attention to implementing and increasing the partial ceasefire President Trump secured from Russia”.
Putin turned down a US-proposed unconditional ceasefire in Ukraine, agreeing solely to a 30-day halt in strikes on energy infrastructure.