Talks between Russia and the US on Ukraine in Saudi Arabia on Monday have ended after around a dozen hours of negotiations, with a joint statement expected Tuesday, Russian news agencies reported. The TASS news agency reported its source saying that the meeting had ended after "more than 12 hours of consultations" and that a "joint statement" on results will be published Tuesday. As US and Russian officials met in Saudi Arabia to discuss a partial ceasefire in Ukraine, dozens of people were wounded in a missile strike on a Ukrainian city.
With Ukrainian negotiators waiting nearby, a day after they sat down with the US team, the Americans and Russians met in Riyadh with a Black Sea ceasefire top of the agenda. President Donald Trump is pushing for a rapid end to the three-year war and hopes the latest round of talks will pave the way for a breakthrough. While the talks took place at a luxury hotel in the Saudi capital, 65 people were wounded in a missile attack on Sumy in northeastern Ukraine, officials said.
The attack on a "densely populated residential area" damaged apartments and an educational facility, the regional prosecutor's office said. The city's acting mayor earlier said a hospital had been affected. The Ukrainian negotiating team was expecting a second meeting with the US delegation, a source in Kyiv said, a sign that progress may have been made.
This month in Jeddah -- days after President Volodymyr Zelensky's White House dressing-down by Trump -- Ukraine agreed .
