Ukraine and Russia agree to stop fighting in the Black Sea, says the White House
The White House said Tuesday that Ukrainian and Russia had agreed to stop fighting in the Black Sea and he developed the details to stop the strikes on the energy structures. It would be the first significant step towards the whole ceased the fire that the Trump administration was pushing, but it would not still be up to that goal and it is not clear how and when this limited respite would have been implemented.
Both Ukraine and Russia have confirmed the agreement, although some serious warnings from Moscow seemed to derive. In a declaration Information on the interviews, the Kremlin said he honored the agreement only after his State Agricultural Bank was linked to the international payment system and the restrictions have been revoked on “commercial finance operations”, which are some of the sanctions imposed after Russia has invaded Ukraine in 2022.
In a declaration on the United States talks, the White House seems to agree with at least some of the conditions, stating that “will help to restore Russia access to the world market for agricultural and fertilizer exports, lower maritime insurance costs and improve access to ports and payment systems for such transactions”.
The agreements arrived after Three days of intense negotiations in RiyadhThe capital of Saudi Arabia, during which delegations from Ukraine and Russia met separately with US mediators.
The White House has freed two different declarations To say that he had squeezed agreements with Ukraine and Russia separately for maritime and energy attacks. The statements added that Washington, Kiev and Moscow welcomed the involvement of third countries in “supporting the implementation of energy and maritime agreements”.
Although the agreements have scored a turning point in the efforts of the White House to reach a ceased the fire, even limited, in Ukraine after three years of war on a large scale, did not seem to extract important concessions from Russia, the aggressive country.
Kyiv and Moscow have an interest in stopping strikes on their respective energy structures, who have caused pain for both sides. Russia, in particular, is about to gain the fire from a ceased in the Black Sea, where repeated Ukrainian attacks forced her navy to retire.
While President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia portrayed himself as open to the requests of President Trump, how to stop the strikes on energy structures or on the safety in the Black Sea, are objectives that the Kremlin has pursued and seen as a beneficial for himself.
Putin has rejected a previous proposal from the United States, which Ukraine has accepted, for a ceased to cease the total fire of 30 days. He said that a wider truce should include an arrest for western military aid in Ukraine and for the country’s mobilization efforts – two conditions that are not started for Ukraine.
Ukraine and Russia should now hammer the details for the implementation of the ceased the ceased and the maritime and the energy. Rustem Umerov, who guided the delegation of his country in Riyadh, said that “further technical consultations” should be held as soon as possible for “implementation, monitoring and control of agreements”.
Both countries had already agreed last week to stop the strikes on the energy structures, but they did not yet implement the agreement and quickly accused each other with continuous attacks on energy sites.
The strikes on energy systems were central to the efforts of each part to weaken the other during the war. Russia has hammered the Ukraine electricity network, with the aim of making life unbearable for civilians and hindering its war effort. Ukraine repeatedly hit the Russian oil structures to try to suffocate revenues by feeding Moscow military operations.
Both Russia and Ukraine also rely on the Black Sea for exports of raw materials. In the middle of 2022, they has mediated an agreement that allows Ukraine to send the wheat through the seaBut Russia retired from the agreement a year laterarguing that western sanctions were seriously limiting its ability to export agricultural products.
Russia then threatened all the commercial ships that were headed by and to Ukraine, with the aim of strangling its sea exports. In response, Ukraine soldiers started a Campaign that pushed the Russian Navy outside the western parts of the Black SeaDestroying many of his war ships and hitting his headquarters in Crimea occupied by Russia. The operation allowed Ukraine to establish a new shipping corridor in the Black Sea e Returns marine wheat exports to the pre-report level almost.
Ukrainian Minister Ukrainian Minister said that, based on the agreement, “all the movement by Russia of his military ships outside the eastern part of the Black Sea will constitute violation of the spirit of this agreement”, and that Ukraine would have “full right to exercise the right to self -defense”.
The statements of the White House said that both Russia and Ukraine have agreed to “eliminate the use of force in the Black Sea”. It was not immediately clear if this would have led to a stop on the strikes of the port infrastructures, that the Ukrainians said they had been discussed during the interviews. Kiev was also interested in restarting operations at the forefront of Ukrainian port cities such as Mykolaiv and Kerson, where the nearby fighting forced them to close.
