Moscow is hoping for "some progress" in upcoming talks in Saudi Arabia, a Russian negotiator instructed state media forward of Monday’s conferences between U.S., Ukrainian, and Russian delegations.
The U.S. is participating in what U.S. envoy Keith Kellogg described as "shuttle diplomacy" to hunt a decision to the full-scale invasion, now in its fourth yr, however Russia has already rejected a proposed 30-day unconditional ceasefire, as a substitute providing solely to halt aerial strikes on power amenities.
A Russian strike on Zaporizhzhia late on March 21, mere days earlier than the upcoming talks, killed a household of three, drawing sharp condemnation from Ukrainian officers. The Ukrainian Air Drive reported that Russia fired 179 drones in its newest wave of in a single day assaults.
Russian senator Grigory Karasin, who will lead Moscow’s delegation, instructed native Zvezda TV that he and FSB advisor Sergey Beseda would enter the negotiations with a "combative and constructive" strategy. He didn’t specify what sort of progress Russia hoped to attain.
The collection of negotiators has raised questions, as neither Karasin nor Beseda are from Russia’s key diplomatic establishments such because the Kremlin, overseas ministry, or protection ministry.
Ukraine has accused Russia of insincerity in peace efforts, pointing to continued strikes regardless of President Vladimir Putin’s latest declare that he ordered a halt to assaults on Ukrainian power infrastructure.
In the meantime, White Home envoy Steve Witkoff, a detailed Trump ally, praised Putin in an interview with Tucker Carlson on March 22, calling him a "nice" chief in search of to finish the battle. "I don’t regard Putin as a foul man," Witkoff mentioned. "That may be a difficult state of affairs, together with battle and all of the substances that led as much as it. It's by no means only one individual."
The Kyiv IndependentNatalia Yermak