Russian and American officials will meet on Monday, March 24 in Ryad, in Saudi Arabia, to discuss the conflict in Ukraine, he said on Thursday, March 20, Vladimir Putin’s diplomatic advisor.
The president of the United States, Donald Trump, determined to obtain a high fire in Ukraine, spoke this week to his Russian counterparts Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky Ukrainian.
But Moscow has established its requirements for any truce, accepting only a 30 -day moratorium limited to energy objectives that have not slowed air attacks.
The Black Sea program in the discussion program
Russian advisor Iuri Ochakov and Donald Trump’s national security advisor Mike Waltz organized a “group of groups of experts” from their countries, according to a statement published by the Kremlin.
“These consultations will take place on Monday, March 24 in Ryad,” said Iuri Ochakov, cited in this document.
The two countries want to evoke the “Black Sea navigation security,” according to him. The White House is looking to obtain a seafood high there.
Russia says that it sends “experienced negotiators”
Russia will be represented by Grigori Karassine, president of the International Affairs Committee of the Upper Chamber of the Russian Parliament, and Sergei Besceda, senior security of Russian security services (FSB), according to Iuri Ochakov.
“These are really experienced and very aware of international questions,” he greeted.
However, its profile is very different from that of the Russian emissaries sent to negotiate with American officials last February. The Chief of Diplomacy Sergei Lavrov and advisor Iuri Ochakov then went to Saudi Arabia.
Sergei Besceda, one of the expected emissaries this time, has been under Western sanctions since 2014. That year, Russia had admitted its presence to kyiv during the bloody repression of the insurrection against the old power of the Viktor ianoukovitch in Ukraine.
Zelensky ready to know American representatives
Ukrainian military intelligence chief Kyrylo Boudanov said in 2023 that Sergei Besceda was “a very problematic person.” “He has done much badly in Ukraine,” he said, cited in the Ukrainian press.
Sergei Bonesda seems to have experienced a period of misfortune at the beginning of the Russian assault against Ukraine in 2022. According to the media, the manager was at that time responsible for informing Russia about the political climate in Ukraine. The journalists had even announced their arrest in 2022, that the authorities had not confirmed.
“For a while, he was suspended from his duties (…) now he has returned to work,” said Kyrylo Boudanov in 2023.
Grigori Karassine is a career diplomat and former Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Volodymyr Zelensky said Wednesday that his country’s officials were ready to meet an American team in Saudi Arabia “in the coming days,” without giving more concrete details.
Source: BFM TV
