MOSCOW: Russian and US officers will maintain talks on Ukraine in Saudi Arabia on Monday (Mar 24), President Vladimir Putin’s aide Yuri Ushakov mentioned.
Donald Trump spoke to each Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy this week and the US can also be as a result of maintain talks with Kyiv within the coming days.
“These consultations will happen on Monday, March twenty fourth, in Riyadh,” Ushakov mentioned on Thursday in feedback printed by the Kremlin.
“From the Russian aspect, they are going to be attended by Grigory Karasin, chairman of the Senate’s committee on worldwide affairs, and Sergei Beseda, advisor to the pinnacle of the FSB safety service.”
Ushakov mentioned he had confirmed this after talks with US Nationwide Safety Advisor Mike Waltz. Each agreed to ship “professional teams” for the talks, he added.
The delegations are as a result of talk about “initiatives” that Putin and Trump spoke about relating to the Black Sea.
The Russian FSB in 2014 admitted that Beseda was in Kyiv throughout a bloody crackdown on the Ukrainian capital within the midst of the nation’s pro-EU revolution.
He has been below Western sanctions since 2014.
Karasin is a profession diplomat.
Kyiv has mentioned that the US is because of maintain talks with Ukraine in Saudi Arabia within the “coming days”.
It’s not clear if they may happen on the identical day or if the Russian and Ukrainian delegations will meet.
Waltz mentioned on Wednesday that “technical groups” from Russia and the US would meet in Riyadh “to deal with implementing and increasing the partial ceasefire President Trump secured from Russia”.
Putin earlier turned down a US-proposed unconditional ceasefire in Ukraine, agreeing solely to a 30-day halt in strikes on energy infrastructure.
