At recent discussions in Jeddah, Ukraine backed a U.S. proposal for a 30-day ceasefire and committed to immediate negotiations with Russia. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio expressed hope for a quick positive response from Russia to advance to further negotiations, while noting that Ukraine showed a willingness to compromise under pressure from Trump's administration. Additionally, the U.S. announced the resumption of military aid and intelligence sharing that had been suspended, underlining its continued support for Ukraine amidst ongoing hostilities that began with Russia's invasion in February 2022.
Our hope is that the Russians will answer 'yes' as quickly as possible, so we can get to the second phase of this, which is real negotiations.
Today we made an offer that the Ukrainians have accepted, which is to enter into a ceasefire and into immediate negotiations.
If they say no then we'll unfortunately know what the impediment is to peace here, and that would be on them.
The United States would immediately resume military aid and intelligence sharing it had halted after a fractious meeting between Trump and Ukrainian President Zelenskyy.
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