Riyadh (TDI): Saudi Arabia’s crown prince told Russian President Vladimir Putin that the kingdom supports “all initiatives” to end the Ukraine war, a statement said on Friday, after US-Ukraine negotiation in Jeddah proposed a 30-day ceasefire.
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman reaffirmed Saudi Arabia’s commitment to facilitating talks and backing all initiatives aimed at achieving a political resolution in a phone conversation with Putin, a foreign ministry statement said.
On Thursday, the Russian President said he had “serious questions” about the ceasefire plan, which was announced after negotiations in the western Saudi Arabian city on Tuesday.
Washington also agreed to resume military intelligence and intelligence sharing with Kyiv, which it shut off after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s White House explosive meeting with President Donald Trump.
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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, speaking in Jeddah after the negotiations, said the “ball is now in (Russia’s) court”.
According to a Kremlin statement, Putin told Prince Mohammed that he noted the significance of resolving the Ukrainian crisis and expressed willingness to continue to contribute in every possible way to the normalization of Russian-American ties.
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Saudi Arabia also hosted meeting between Rubio and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in February where they agreed to establish teams to negotiate a path to ending the three-year war.
