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Ukraine-Russia agreement/ Military attacks in the Black Sea banned

2025-03-25 18:55:00, Kosova & Bota CNA

Ukraine-Russia agreement/ Military attacks in the Black Sea banned

The United States said an agreement has been reached to guarantee safe navigation in the Black Sea, as it wrapped up three days of talks with Ukrainian and Russian delegations in Saudi Arabia on next steps toward peace on Tuesday.

US experts met separately with Ukrainian and Russian representatives in Riyadh, and the White House issued separate joint statements about the talks with Ukraine and Russia. It said the sides agreed to ensure safe navigation, eliminate the use of force and prevent the use of merchant ships for military purposes in the Black Sea.

Details of the upcoming deal have not yet been released, but it appears to mark a revival of a 2022 agreement to ensure safe transit through Ukraine's Black Sea ports, which was brokered by the United Nations and Turkey and blocked by Russia the following year. Russia had said the deal failed to guarantee the safety of its exports to the Black Sea.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in televised comments on Tuesday that Moscow is open to reviving the agreement, but warned that Russian interests must be protected.

In an apparent reference to Russian demands, the White House statement on the talks with Russia noted that the US would help restore Russia's access to the world market for agricultural exports, lower maritime insurance costs, and increase access to ports and payment systems for such transactions.

The White House statement also mentions that the parties agreed to develop measures to implement an agreement reached in President Donald Trump's calls with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to stop attacks against energy facilities in Russia and Ukraine.

After the Trump-Putin phone call last week, the White House said the partial ceasefire would include an end to attacks on energy and infrastructure, while the Kremlin stated that the agreement referred more narrowly to energy infrastructure./CNA

 

 

 

 

 





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