Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy meets Saudi Crown Prince, Mohammed bin Salman, throughout his go to to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, March 10, 2025.

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Ukraine agreed Tuesday to a direct 30-day ceasefire negotiated by america if Russia accepts the plan, officers mentioned.

As a part of the plan, america instantly lifted its pause on sharing intelligence with Ukraine, and can resume safety help to that nation, which was invaded by Russia greater than three years in the past.

“Ukraine is able to begin speaking and cease taking pictures,” mentioned Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Jedda, Saudi Arabia, after greater than seven hours of negotiations in that metropolis between high-level American and Ukrainian delegations.

Each U.S. President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy agreed to conclude “as quickly as potential a complete settlement for creating Ukraine’s crucial mineral sources,” in line with a joint assertion by the 2 nations’ governments.

Zelenskyy in an announcement mentioned the deliberate ceasefire would halt all hostilities, “not only for missiles, drones and bombs, not simply within the Black Sea, however alongside your complete entrance line.”

“Ukraine welcomes this proposal. We see it as a optimistic step, and we’re able to take it,” Zelenskyy mentioned. “The US should now persuade Russia to do the identical. If Russia agrees, silence will take impact instantly.”

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio (R) attends the assembly between the Ukrainian and US delegations in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, to debate points associated to ending the Russian-Ukrainian struggle, on March 11, 2025.

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Rubio mentioned, “At this time, we made a suggestion that the Ukrainians have accepted, which is to enter right into a ceasefire and into fast negotiations to finish this battle in a method that is enduring and sustainable and accounts for his or her pursuits, their safety, their capacity to prosper as a nation,” Rubio mentioned.

“And hopefully we’ll take this provide now to the Russians, and we hope that they’re going to say sure, that they’re going to say sure to peace,” Rubio mentioned. “The ball is now of their courtroom.” 

In a joint assertion, the U.S. and Ukrainian delegations mentioned the interim, month-long ceasefire “will be prolonged by mutual settlement of the events.

“The US will talk to Russia that Russian reciprocity is the important thing to reaching peace,” the assertion mentioned.

Zelenskyy in his nightly televised handle to Ukraine mentioned, “Our place is totally clear: Ukraine has sought peace from the very first second of this struggle, and we wish to do every thing to attain peace as shortly and reliably as potential — in order that struggle by no means returns.”

Based on the joint assertion issued by Ukraine and the U.S., the 2 delegations “additionally mentioned the significance of humanitarian aid efforts as a part of the peace course of, notably in the course of the above-mentioned ceasefire, together with the trade of prisoners of struggle, the discharge of civilian detainees, and the return of forcibly transferred Ukrainian youngsters,” the assertion mentioned.

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