Ukraine, Russia Agree to Energy Infrastructure, Black Sea Ceasefire Deal
White House: “The United States reiterated to both sides President Donald J. Trump’s imperative that the killing on both sides of the Russia-Ukraine conflict must stop, as the necessary step toward achieving an enduring peace settlement.”
The White House announced that Ukraine and Russia agreed to a limited ceasefire within the Black Sea.
The agreement came after three days of talks in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. American officials acted as mediators between Ukraine and Russia.
The Black Sea is a significant trade route.
The outline is pretty vague but the press release says the same thing for both countries (just switch out the names):
- The United States and Ukraine have agreed to ensure safe navigation, eliminate the use of force, and prevent the use of commercial vessels for military purposes in the Black Sea.
- The United States and Ukraine agreed that the United States remains committed to helping achieve the exchange of prisoners of war, the release of civilian detainees, and the return of forcibly transferred Ukrainian children.
- The United States and Ukraine agreed to develop measures for implementing President Trump’s and President Zelenskyy’s agreement to ban strikes against energy facilities of Russia and Ukraine.
- The United States and Ukraine welcome the good offices of third countries with a view toward supporting the implementation of the energy and maritime agreements.
- The United States and Ukraine will continue working toward achieving a durable and lasting peace.
“The United States reiterated to both sides President Donald J. Trump’s imperative that the killing on both sides of the Russia-Ukraine conflict must stop, as the necessary step toward achieving an enduring peace settlement,” stated the White House. “To that end, the United States will continue facilitating negotiations between both sides to achieve a peaceful resolution, in line with the agreements made in Riyadh.”
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov tried to play victim on TV, acting as if Ukraine started the war:
“We will need clear guarantees,” Lavrov said in televised comments. “And given the sad experience of agreements with just Kyiv, the guarantees can only be the result of an order from Washington to Zelensky and his team to do one thing and not the other.
“And it seems to me that our American partners have received this signal,” he said. “They understand that only Washington can achieve positive results in stopping terrorist attacks, stopping shelling of civilian infrastructure, energy infrastructure not related to the military-industrial complex.”
Um, you’re the ones who invaded Ukraine in 2014 and snatched Crimea. How about you stop?
Ukraine is one of the top wheat exporters in the world. Opening the Black Sea allows the country “to safely export nearly 33 million metric tons of grain.”
Russia can export its grain and fertilizers.
However, Ukraine would consider Russia moving its warships beyond the “eastern part of the Black Sea” a violation.
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There is a lot of bad blood, both historically and from their current war, I will be surprised if the peace lasts.
Ughhhhh…… Why are we in the middle of this mess!!!!!!
I’ll point out we don’t get anything from this deal, We don’t get energy or grain from it and we don’t need them. In fact it could hurt us economically since we are or could be net exporters of those commodities. Yes we night get some rare metals but I’m not sure that is worth us being entangled in what is essentially a European problem and a inter-family squabble at that.
I would be immediately suspect of any pecuniary interest. We’ve had enough of that already.
Welcome to Trump world.
your 1000% correct because before Trump no president every inserted the United States into a conflict it had no business being part of.
Yep, Trump’s got his hands full cleaning up Biden’s messes.
That’s weak sauce even for you, Junior.
He’s just been phoning it in lately. It’s disappointing actually. Maybe Jr caught bird flu or something?
Obama, Hillary and the State Dept cabal.
It makes sense to try to stop it. It is not that big of an investment to do so.
so many of those peaceful protesting leftists are gonna hate this
Mary,
Russia isn’t going to ‘stop it’ unilaterally b/c they are largely achieving their objectives and have pushed Ukraine to the breaking point/point of imminent military collapse. If this goes on another year I suspect Ukraine won’t exist unless the EU kicks off WWW III. Nor is Russia likely to give back much of the territory it has gained via conquest, perhaps only slightly more likely than the USA is to give Texas back to the Comanche and/or to Mexico. IOW very, very unlikely.
Never believed the Ukraine could win. This is a major step. A partial peace can surely lead to a total one. Sadly, the Ukraine s almost destroyed with no assets to build back. That, I imagine, will be up to us. What a cesspool.
Let Europe rebuild Europe. We have our own problems.
Let Europe rebuild Europe. We already did it once.
If history is any guide, Europe will try to force massive reparations bills onto Russia. We all know how that ended last time.
Zelenski will screw this up.
Bet on it.
x2
(((Z))) does not appear to want peace, making demands far in excess of the cards he holds. But he’s not irrational — so long as the foreign Gigadollars keep rolling in, he has little incentive to end the war. Maybe once the checkbook closes, he might rethink his position. If USA closes it, but Europe keeps it open, it kinda cease to be our problem.
someone please delineate the “eastern part of the Black Sea”
Russia is slowly advancing with truly phenomenal loss of its own men and equipment for every yard gained.
North Korean cannon fodder has helped.
Plucky Ukrainian defenders performing well, but losing the war of attrition.
The peace is obviously going to be that Russia keeps what it has conquered, Ukraine gives back Russian territory it gained in exchange for something.
Peace guaranteed by European troops along the line of contact.
This exact same peace deal could have secured after the disastrous Ukrainian spring offensive last year
Russia has had losses, but they are far from phenomenal. Ukraine’s, OTOH have been catastrophic and are not replaceable, no matter how much funding they get. They have raised and fielded entire brigades that have disintegrated once deployed in the front line. The advantage is with the Russians right now, as they have “improvised, adapted and overcome” compared to the poor showing in 2022 (which was based on faulty intel, IMO). As far as Russian territory, the Kursk bulge has pretty much been destroyed so that gambit failed.
This thing’s staill going on? I thought ‘the moron’ was going to fix this in a day.?
{LAFFRIOT- can you believe how many rubes actually believed that??}
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