The United States on Tuesday said it would “immediately lift the pause on intelligence sharing and resume security assistance to Ukraine” after Kyiv agreed to a 30-day ceasefire proposed by Washington.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Ukraine had accepted the proposal following critical peace talks between US and Ukrainian officials in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
The ceasefire proposal accepted by Ukraine covers the entire front line of the fighting with Russia, not just the air and sea, Zelensky said after the more than eight-hour long meeting.
“Ukraine accepts this proposal, we consider it positive, we are ready to take such a step, and the United States of America must convince Russia to do so,” Zelensky said.
The ceasefire will start the moment Moscow agrees to it, he said.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that Russia now must take steps to end the war. “We hope that they’ll say yes, that they’ll say yes to peace. The ball is now in their court,” he said.
The joint statement emphasized that Kyiv had “expressed readiness to accept the US proposal to enact an immediate, interim 30-day ceasefire, which can be extended by mutual agreement of the parties, and which is subject to acceptance and concurrent implementation by the Russian Federation.”
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