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The US and Ukraine have agreed to present a 30-day ceasefire agreement to Moscow – but the Express is asking do you think will accept it? After the US and agreed to propose a 30-day ceasefire to the Kremlin, Sir said “ball is now in the Russian court”.
Despite reports that US Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff will soon meet with Russian President , US Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters he was “not going to make any announcements about specific dates, times, or even confirm such a trip”. However, he added: “Suffice it to say there’s going to be multiple points of contact with the Russians to gauge, are they willing to do this or not.”
Following the agreement, Sir Keir praised US President and Ukrainian President for the “remarkable breakthrough”.
He added: “As both American and Ukrainian delegations have said, the ball is now in the Russian court. must now agree to a ceasefire and an end to the fighting too.”
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Despite Mr Rubio yesterday saying he would not comment on specific times or dates the US and would meet to discuss the agreement. Mr Trump said earlier that American and Russian officials would meet “later on today and tomorrow” to discuss the deal, adding: “If we can get to do it, that’ll be great. If we can’t, we just keep going on and people are going to get killed, lots of people.”
Ukrainian leader Mr Zelensky said “it is up to the United States” to convince to also agree to the plan, and said the ceasefire would “take effect immediately” if the Kremlin did.
At a press conference in Kyiv on Wednesday, the Ukrainian president said: “Frankly speaking, I do support the meeting and the results we had yesterday with our teams… I think this is the first big, constructive discussion between our teams.
“I’d like to thank the American side, the Ukrainian team, for this to happen. This multi-hour meeting, it was a rather detailed one.
“It is very important for us to be heard so that everyone has the right to express, to share some very important priority matters, and I think that yesterday we had a… very positive meeting.”
He added: “All the important, sensitive topics were discussed.”