Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiga announced today that he has informed many of his European partners about the "crucial" talks with the United States, during which Kiev agreed to a 30-day ceasefire, Reuters reported, quoted by BTA.
After a meeting in Saudi Arabia between representatives of Ukraine and the United States that lasted more than eight hours, Washington resumed military aid and intelligence sharing with Kiev.
Szybiga, who took part in the talks in the Saudi city of Jeddah, said afterwards that he had spoken to several of his European colleagues, including British Foreign Secretary David Lamy and EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Kaia Kallas "about the outcome of the crucial meeting."
The Ukrainian foreign minister said he had insisted to US representatives that Ukraine's European partners must participate in the peace talks.
Szybiga will visit Warsaw today, where he will talk with his Polish counterpart Radoslaw Sikorski, the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement. foreign affairs.
Meanwhile, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni welcomed the outcome of the US-Ukraine talks last night.
"Italy fully supports the efforts of the US, under the leadership of President (Donald) Trump, to achieve a just peace that will guarantee the long-term security of Ukraine. The decision now belongs to Russia," Meloni said in a statement.
However, influential Russian lawmaker Konstantin Kosachev said that any peace agreement must be on Moscow's terms.
"Russia is making progress (in Ukraine)", Kosachev, who heads the international affairs committee of the Federation Council (the upper house of the Russian parliament), said in a post on the "Telegram" app.
"Any agreements - with full understanding of the need for compromise - (must be) on our terms, not on American ones. "And this... is an understanding that the real agreements are still being written there, on the front, which needs to be understood in Washington," he stressed.