Ukraine Peace Plan Talks End in Saudi With Few Concrete Steps
- Beyond forming working groups, few tangible developments
- Kyiv keen to push peace plan with nations less ready to engage
Rescuers carry a fragment of missile outside a residential building partially destroyed by Russian missile strikes in Kryvyi Rig on July 31.
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A peace plan pitched by Ukraine and its allies to more than 40 countries this weekend in Saudi Arabia brought little in the way of concrete steps to stop the war or reverse Russia’s territorial gains.
The most tangible outcome from the Jeddah meetings was a plan to form working groups under various points of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s 10-point “peace formula” — on areas including food supply and nuclear security — according to people familiar with the matter, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they’re not authorized to discuss the matter publicly.