American negotiators worked to eliminate the details of a partial ceasefire proposed in Ukraine on Monday, meeting representatives of Russia one day after having separate interviews with the Ukrainian team. Each party has accused the other of undermining the efforts to reach a break in the 3 -year war.
kyiv and Moscow agreed on Wednesday in principle a limited ceasefire after US President Donald Trump spoke with the leaders of the countries, but the parties offered different opinions on the objectives that would be prohibited to attack.
While the White House said that “energy and infrastructure” would be covered, the Kremlin said that the agreement made more closely to “energy infrastructure”. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he would also like to see railways and protected ports.
Discussions on Monday should discuss some of these differences, as well as potential break in attacks in the Black Sea to ensure the safety of commercial shipping.
The American and Russian representatives began to meet in the morning in the Saudi capital, reported the agencies of news from the Russian state and Ria-Novosti. The American and Ukrainian teams met on Sunday in Riyadh, and other contacts were expected, although it is not clear when.
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said on Friday that the Russian army made President Vladimir Putin’s order to stop attacks on energy facilities for 30 days.
Peskov accused Ukraine of derailing the partial ceasefire with a attack on a gas meter station in Sudzha in the Kursk region in Russia. The military staff of Ukraine rejected the accusations of Moscow and blamed the Russian army to bomb the station, an affirmation Peskov called “absurd”.
Meanwhile, Russian troops launched a new drone dam, including lures, Ukraine during the night of Monday, according to Ukraine Air Force, causing damage and injuries.
Before the last attack, Zelenskyy said in a television statement on Sunday evening that “since March 11, an unconditional cease-fire proposal was on the table, and these attacks could have already stopped. But it is Russia that continues it all. ”
He added that Ukraine partners – “the United States, Europe and others in the world” – should intensify the pressure on Russia “to stop this terror”.
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Zelenskyy stressed that Ukraine is open to a full 30-day ceasefire that Trump has offered. But Putin made a complete conditional ceasefire on an end of weapons supplies in Kyiv and a suspension of the military mobilization of Ukraine-requests rejected by kyiv and his Western allies.
Speaking on “Fox News Sunday”, Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, said that he expected “some real progress” during talks in Saudi Arabia, and a break in hostilities between the two countries of the Black Sea “would naturally revolve in a full cease-fire”.
Serhii Leshchenko, adviser to the Ukrainian presidency, said the delegation stayed in Riyadh on Monday and expected to end up with the Americans.
China excludes the supply of peacekeeping forces
Asked about speculating reports that China could send peacekeepers to Ukraine to enforce a future peace agreement, the spokesman for the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs Guo Jiakun responded on Monday with an unequivocal.
“Let me emphasize that the report is completely false. China’s position on the Ukraine crisis is clear and consistent,” Guo said in a daily briefing.
China has provided Russia for commercial benefits of oil and other natural resources, as well as diplomatic support, but has given no weapons or sent to personnel. However, China is in overtime with North Korea, which has sent troops to fight alongside the Russian army.
Ukrainian railways struck by cyber attack
On Sunday, a “massive targeted cyber attack” hit the Ukrzaliznytsia Ukrzaliznytsia Ukrainian railway operator on Sunday, wrote the company on Telegram, adding that the restoration of its systems was underway on Monday morning.
The company said that the attack did not affect trains’ movements or timetables, but that the online booking system was currently not available.
“The railway continues to operate despite the physical attacks against infrastructure, and even the most vile cyber attacks cannot stop it,” wrote the company.
Meanwhile, Ukraine’s special forces said they had destroyed four military helicopters in the Belgorod region in Russia with the use of Himars Rocket Systems provided in the United States.
The special forces published on Monday images of drones what they said was the attack on their telegram page.
The group wrote that strikes had occurred at a “starting point” hidden for the Russian planes used in the surprise attacks against the Ukrainian forces.
The Russian troops, on the other hand, drew 99 attacks and lure drones in Ukraine on Sunday during the night, according to Ukraine’s Air Force, 57 of which were slaughtered and 36 were lost in radar.
In the Kyiv region, a man suffered injuries overnight while a Russian drone hit a residential area.
“The man has injuries with shatters of superficial shells at his abdomen, chest, thighs and heads,” the actor chief of the kyiv region, Mykola Kalashnyk wrote on Monday.
In the Kharkiv region, a Russian drone struck a residential building in the village of Velyka Babka, injuring a 25 -year -old man and a pregnant woman. The two were hospitalized, the regional chief Oleh Syniehubov said on Monday morning on Telegram.
In Zaporizhzhia, Russian drones damaged several houses of local residents overnight with an elderly woman suffering from slight injuries, wrote the regional chief Ivan Fedorov on Telegram.
Novikov reported Kyiv, Ukraine. The writer Associated Press Christopher Bodeen in Beijing contributed to this report.
