US Seeks Ukraine Concessions in Bid for Truce With Russia
- Talks between top officials take place Tuesday in Jeddah
- Ukraine’s Yermak said meeting started ‘constructively’
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Top US and Ukrainian officials began talks in Saudi Arabia about the path to a possible peace deal with Moscow amid pressure from Washington on Kyiv to give ground.
“The meeting started very constructively,” the Ukrainian president’s top aide, Andriy Yermak, said Tuesday on the X platform. Walking into the talks in the Saudi city of Jeddah, he had told reporters that the Ukrainian side wants to achieve “a just and lasting peace in Ukraine” and “is ready to go for this goal.”