US says it brokered safe shipping in the Black Sea in talks with Ukraine and Russia
The United States said an agreement has been reached to ensure safe navigation in the Black Sea as it wrapped up three days of talks Tuesday with Ukrainian and Russian delegations in Saudi Arabia on prospective steps toward peace.
U.S. experts met separately with Ukrainian and Russian representatives in Riyadh, and the White House issued separate joint statements about the talks with Ukraine and Russia. It said the sides have 바카라 게임 웹사이트agreed to ensure safe navigation, eliminate the use of force, and prevent the use of commercial vessels for military purposes in the Black Sea.바카라 게임 웹사이트
Details of the prospective deal are yet to be released, but it appears to mark a revival of a 2022 agreement to ensure safe transit via Ukraine's Black Sea ports that was brokered by the United Nations and Turkey and was halted by Russia the following year. Russia had said the agreement failed to ensure safety of its Black Sea exports.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in televised comments Tuesday that Moscow is open to the revival of the agreement but warned that Russian interests must be protected.
In an apparent reference to the Russian demands, the White House statement on the talks with Russia noted that the U.S. 바카라 게임 웹사이트will help restore Russia바카라 게임 웹사이트s access to the world market for agricultural and fertilizer exports, lower maritime insurance costs, and enhance access to ports and payment systems for such transactions.바카라 게임 웹사이트
The White House statement also mentioned that the parties agreed to develop measures for implementing an agreement reached in President Donald Trump바카라 게임 웹사이트s calls with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to ban strikes against energy facilities in Russia and Ukraine.
After the Trump-Putin call last week, the White House said the partial ceasefire would include ending attacks on 바카라 게임 웹사이트energy and infrastructure,바카라 게임 웹사이트 while the Kremlin declared that the agreement referred more narrowly to 바카라 게임 웹사이트energy infrastructure."
Meanwhile, a Kremlin official said Tuesday that the talks between U.S. and Russian officials in Riyadh the previous day would likely lead to further contacts between Washington and Moscow, but that no concrete plans have yet been made.
The three days of meetings 바카라 게임 웹사이트 which did not include direct Russian-Ukrainian negotiations 바카라 게임 웹사이트 are part of an attempt to hammer out details on a partial pause in the 3-year-old war in Ukraine. It has been a struggle to reach even a limited, 30-day ceasefire 바카라 게임 웹사이트 which Moscow and Kyiv agreed to in principle last week -- with both sides continuing to attack each other with drones and missiles.
Future U.S.-Russia contacts expected
On Tuesday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that the outcome of the U.S-Russia talks in Riyadh 바카라 게임 웹사이트has been reported in the capitals바카라 게임 웹사이트 and was currently being 바카라 게임 웹사이트analyzed바카라 게임 웹사이트 by Moscow and Washington, but that the Kremlin has no plans to release further details of what was discussed to the public.
바카라 게임 웹사이트We바카라 게임 웹사이트re talking about technical negotiations, negotiations with immersion in details," Peskov said, adding that while there are currently no plans for Trump and Putin to speak, such a conversation could be quickly organized if the need arises.
바카라 게임 웹사이트There is an understanding that the contacts will continue, but there is nothing concrete at the moment,바카라 게임 웹사이트 Peskov said. He added that there are no plans to hold a three-way meeting between Russia, the U.S. and Ukraine.
Senior Russian lawmaker Grigory Karasin, who took part in the Russia-U.S. talks in Riyadh on Monday, told Russian state news agency RIA Novosti that the conversation was 바카라 게임 웹사이트very interesting, difficult, but quite constructive.바카라 게임 웹사이트
바카라 게임 웹사이트We were at it all day from morning until late at night,바카라 게임 웹사이트 Karasin was quoted by the agency as saying on Tuesday.
Cross-border strikes continue
The Russian Defense Ministry said on Tuesday that Ukraine had "continued deliberate drone strikes against Russia바카라 게임 웹사이트s civilian energy facilities.바카라 게임 웹사이트
One Ukrainian drone attack on Monday knocked down a high-voltage power line linking the Rostov nuclear power plant with the city of Tikhoretsk in the southern Krasnodar region, the ministry said, adding that another drone strike had occurred on the Svatovo gas distribution station in the Russia-occupied Ukrainian region of Luhansk.
"Zelenskyy confirms his inability to observe agreements and makes it impossible for outside guarantors of any potential agreements to control him,바카라 게임 웹사이트 the ministry said.
In Ukraine, the number of people injured Monday in a Russian missile strike on the center of the city of Sumy rose to 101 people including 23 children, according to the Sumy regional administration.
The strike on Sumy, across the border from Russia바카라 게임 웹사이트s Kursk region which was partially occupied by Ukraine since August, hit residential buildings and a school, which had to be evacuated due to the attack.
Meanwhile, Russian forces launched one ballistic missile and 139 long-range strike and decoy drones into Ukraine overnight, according to the Ukrainian air force. Those attacks affected seven regions of Ukraine and injured multiple people.