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Following the talks in Saudi Arabia, Washington said he had agreed with Ukraine “that the United States remain committed to helping to create the exchange of prisoners of war, the release of civil prisoners and the return of Ukrainian children transferred forcefully”.

Downing Street said that it is “confident for progress” following the announcement of the White House that Ukraine and Russia agreed to pause hostilities in the Black Sea.

But the government of the United Kingdom was not clear if it would follow American efforts to relieve some penalties on Russia as part of the agreement agreed on Tuesday – after the United States seemed to report its intention to relieve sanctions on Russian fertilizers and agricultural goods and improved Moscow access to maritime insurance, ports and payment systems.

Immediately after the news of the agreement, a spokesman n. 10 refused to say if the United Kingdom would follow any loosening of the sanctions, saying: “Our position at the moment is that obviously we hope for progress.

“We are following the developments closely.”

The western nations, including the United Kingdom, have imposed a series of sanctions to Russia from its invasion on the vast scale of Ukraine, including an increase in rates on Russian fertilizers and agricultural products and which prohibit companies to provide insurance for the shipments of some Russian assets.

The Royal Navy has obscured three Russian ships through the canal.

Minehunter HMS Cattistock and a Wildcat helicopter were lined up for the Survey Survey ship Admiral Vladimerskiy during his journey, said Royal Navy.

This operation was quickly followed by another, since HMS Somerset and Tanker RFA Tidesurge were lined up to escort the Russian landing ship RFN Alexander Otrakovsky and the MV Ascalon merchant ship through the channel and the North Sea while the couple sailed towards the Baltic.

The two Russian ships had recently left the Mediterranean.

The latest operations follow a similar mission last week that saw Royal Navy’s warships and helicopters keep track of a group of Russian activities that returned from Syria.

While Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that the ceased fire agreement will actually be effective, the Kremlin said that the agreement depended on the western sanctions revoked against the Russian companies involved in the exports of food and fertilizers.

The Kremlin said that the United States agreed to help restore Russia access to the world market for agricultural and fertilizer exports, but stated that the implementation of the agreement would require western sanctions on the Rosselkhozbank of Russia, which agricultural services – to be raised – and the revocation of the Swift international messaging system.

Russian food and fertilizers, insurance companies, maintenance of shipments and fertilizers, restrictions on ships and commercial financing operations should be revoked.

The crew of one of the few Ukraine patrol ships, a former class island of the Coast Guard of the United States, is tired. They were awake all night managing the ship’s double rod cannon, shooting in Russian drones Shad who wretched the skies on Odesa.

But, while the merchant ships surfed in the ports along the southern coast of Ukraine, the crew was confident. They haven’t seen a Russian ship for months.

Russian skippers are probably more anxious. Since 2022, Ukraine – with a navy that has about 11,000 people – has sank at least 20 Russian ships; Among these cruisers, the flagship Moskva, several troop landing ships and numerous smaller ships.

These losses have all been in a new form of naval war now introduced by the Ukrainian Navy because, apart from the island class patrol boat and a handful of small boats in what is known as a “mosquito force”, Ukraine does not stand out with ships.

Former Royal Navy mines transferred to the Ukrainian Navy are blocked in the United Kingdom because they cannot travel through the Bosphorus straights. Turkey has forbidden military traffic through the strategic route from the Russian invasion on the vast scale of Ukraine in 2022.

The attention was instead to use long -range missiles, cruise missiles, submarines and surface drones, almost all homemade in Ukraine. They almost tormented the Moscow Black Sea fleet.

Our publisher for world business Sam Kiley Reports from the Black Sea:

The ceased the fire agreed by Moscow and Kyiv in the Black Sea will be immediately effective, said the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

Ukraine will look for more weapons and penalties to Russia from Donald Trump if Moscow has broken business, added Zelensky.

The United States previously declared that they had brought separated agreements with Kyiv and Moscow to guarantee safe navigation in the Black Sea and to implement a ban on strikes against energy structures in the two countries.

“If the Russians violate this, then I have a direct question for President Trump. If they violate, here are the tests: we ask for sanctions, we ask weapons, etc.”, said Zelensky to journalists in a press conference in Kyiv.

Sam Kiley, editor of world business: writes:

Ukraine has agreed on a fire on the Black Sea and in the attacks between Russia and Ukraine on energy resources.

This is a concession of Kyiv. Ukraine won the war against Russia’s energy infrastructures that provide its forces in Ukraine. And Ukraine governs the Black Sea.

The Ministry of Defense of Kiev warned Russia that its ships should not move away from the “Eastern Black Sea” or of a risk attack, because he knows that Russian ships were stuck in the ports that are hidden by Ukrainian missiles and drones for months.

This ceases the fire is an effort to preserve in favor of Donald Trump long enough to continue obtaining intelligence feeds from the United States, until Europe and other allies can intervene. In the same way, European efforts to replace military supplies unreliable from the United States to Ukraine will take time.

So Kiev is playing to play with his naval domain in the hope that in the end he will not have to rely on an administration that so publicly and materially is cheering on a victory of Putin.

Putin, however, is chairing a collapsed economy, a terrestrial war that has left an unspeakable number of bodies abandoned in the “meat grinding” of Donbas and has flattened the Ukrainian provinces he said to save.

If Ukraine can last another year and get the support that once obtained from Washington from elsewhere … this war could win.

Further contacts between us e Russian officials in achieving a ceased the fire proposed in Ukraine It is likely that a tour of talks will follow on Monday, a Kremlin The official said Tuesday, but concrete plans have not yet been made.

American and Russian negotiators held talks during Monday in the capital of Saudi Arabia to hammer the details on a partial break in the 3 -year war in Ukraine, one day after the US officials have kept separate interviews in Riyadh with a team of Kyiv.

It was a struggle to reach even a ceased the limited fire of 30 days, which Fly And Kiev agreed in principle last week – with both sides that continue to attack each other with drones and missiles and disagreements on what types of objectives would have been included in a break on the strikes.

After three days of intense negotiations in Saudi Arabia, the White House confirmed that both sides agreed to stop the strikes in the Black Sea.

Several measures have been agreed, including measures for the implementation of a ceased on energy infrastructure.

In particular, the agreements are agreed between the United States and the respective countries, rather than directly between Moscow and Kyiv.

Here is a look at what has been agreed, according to the White House:

• Eliminate strength and make sure that the safe navigation of ships in the Black Sea (*Ukraine specifies that Russian ships that go beyond the eastern area of ​​the Black Sea will constitute a violation of the agreement).
• Develop measures for the implementation of the agreement to prohibit strikes on energy structures.
• Collaborate with third -party countries to implement energy and maritime agreements.
• He works to achieve lasting and lasting peace.

• The United States will help “restore Russia access to the world market for agricultural and fertilizing exports”.
• The United States will help Russia to reduce maritime insurance costs and improve access to ports and payment systems.

• The United States remain engaged in “helping to reach the exchange of prisoners of war, the release of civil prisoners and the return of Ukrainian children transferred forcefully”.