Ukraine and Russia agree to stop fighting in the Black Sea, says the White House, says

The White House said on Tuesday that Ukraine and Russia had agreed to stop fighting in the Black Sea and to eliminate the details to stop strikes at energy facilities. It would be the first important step in the direction of the full ceasefires that the Trump administration had pushed, but it would still fail to do that goal and it remains unclear how and if this limited ceasefire would be implemented.

Both Ukraine and Russia confirmed the agreement, although it seemed to come up with some serious Moscow comments. In one rack About the conversations, the Kremlin said that it would only honor the agreement after the Agricultural Bank was re -linked to the international payment system and restrictions on ‘trade financing activities’, which are some of the fines imposed after Russia had invaded Ukraine in 2022.

In a statement about the discussions about the US Russia, the White House seemed to agree with at least some of the conditions, saying that it will “help Russia access to the world market for the export of agricultural and fertilizer, to restore lower maritime insurance costs and to increase access to the maritime insurance and improve access to ports and payment system systems.”

The similarities came afterwards Three days of intense negotiations in RiyadhThe capital of Saudi Arabia, in which delegations from Ukraine and Russia meet separately with American mediators.

The White House has released two different pronouncement Saying that it had individual deals had concluded with Ukraine and Russia on the maritime and energy attacks. The statements added that Washington, Kyiv and Moscow welcomed the involvement of third countries in “supporting the implementation of the energy and maritime agreements.”

Although the similarities were a breakthrough in the efforts of the White House to reach a cease-fire, even limited, in Ukraine after three years of full war, they did not seem to extract large concessions from Russia, the aggressors country.

KYIV and Moscow have an interest in stopping strikes on their respective energy facilities, that caused pain for both parties. In particular, Russia is to win a ceasefire in the Black Sea, where repeated Ukrainian attacks have forced his navy to withdraw.

Although President Vladimir V. Putin from Russia has depicted himself as being open to demands of President Trump, such as stopping strikes on energy facilities or safety in the Black Sea, they are goals that the Kremlin has pursued and seen as useful for himself.

Mr Putin rejected an earlier proposal from the United States, with which Ukraine corresponded to a total of 30 days of ceasefires. He said that a broader ceasefire should stop Western military aid to Ukraine and the mobilization efforts of the country -two conditions that are not -starters for Ukraine.

Van Ukraine and Russia are now expected to insist on details for the implementation of the maritime and energy-strike-fire. Rustem Umerov, who led the delegation of his country in Riyadh, said that “extra technical consultation” should be held as soon as possible for “implementation, monitoring and control over the schemes.”

Both countries had already agreed last week to stop strikes on energy facilities, but they still had to implement the agreement and quickly accused each other of continuous attacks on energy sites.

Strikes on energy facilities are central to each party’s efforts to weaken the others during the war. Russia has bonded the power schedule of Ukraine, aimed at hindering life for citizens and his war efforts. Ukraine has repeatedly hit Russian oil facilities to try to suffocate income that feeds Moscow’s military activities.

Both Russia and Ukraine also rely on the Black Sea for exporting raw materials. Mid -2022, she a deal held through which Ukraine can send grain through the seaBut Russia withdrew from the agreement a year laterclaim that Western sanctions seriously limited agricultural products to export agricultural products.

Russia then threatened all the commercial ships on their way to and from Ukraine, with the aim of strangling the export of the sea. In response, the army of Ukraine started one Campaign that pushed the Russian navy from the western parts of the Black SeaDestroying many of his warships and his headquarters in the Russian occupied De Krim. The operation was able to set up a new shipping corridor in the Black Sea and Return the Seaborne grain export to near-for-trawar levels.

Mr Umerov, the Minister of Defense of Ukraine, said that, according to the deal, all movement by Russia of his military ships from the eastern part of the Black Sea will be violation of the spirit of this agreement, “and that Ukraine” would be entirely entitled to exercise the right to self -defense. “

The statements of the White House said that both Russia and Ukraine had agreed to “eliminate the use of violence in the Black Sea.” It was not immediately clear whether this would lead to strikes on the port infrastructure, the Ukrainians said that it was discussed during the conversations. KYIV is also interested in restarting operations in front line Ukrainian port cities such as Mykolaiv and Kherson, where the fighting in the neighborhood forced them to close.