Ukraine agrees to 30-day ceasefire in war with Russia
Donald Trump said he now hoped Vladimir Putin would reciprocate. If the Russian president did, it would mark the first ceasefire in the more than three years since he launched his full-scale military operation in Ukraine in 2022.
The agreement, announced in a joint statement following talks between senior US and Ukrainian officials in Jeddah, came nearly two weeks after an Oval Office blowup between Trump and the Ukrainian leader, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, that led the White House to suspend aid to Ukraine over the objections of its European allies.
“That’s a total ceasefire,” Trump told reporters outside the White House on Tuesday after the talks. “Ukraine has agreed to it. And hopefully Russia will agree to it.”
US officials said they hoped the agreement would help lead to talks to end the war. Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, is expected to travel to Moscow in the coming days to propose the ceasefire to Putin.
Trump continued, “We’re going to meet with them [the Russians] later on today and tomorrow and hopefully we’ll be able to [work] out a deal. I think the ceasefire is very important. If we can get Russia to do it, that’ll be great. If we can’t we just keep going on and people are gonna get killed, lots of people.”
Marco Rubio, the US secretary of state, said the ball was “now in Russia’s court” after the negotiations concluded. “If they [Russia] say no then we’ll unfortunately know what the impediment is to peace here,” he said, The Guardian reported.
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Yemen resumes strikes against Israeli ships
The Yemeni Armed Forces Spokesman Yahya Saree issued the announcement on Wednesday, saying the strikes would resume as per a relevant decree issued by Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, leader of the country’s Ansarullah resistance movement.
The Ansarullah leader had given the regime four days before reopening the crossings that Tel Aviv has shut down as a means of trying to force the Gaza-based resistance movement Hamas into releasing the rest of the Zionist captives that it holds in the coastal sliver.
The shutdown is also meant to mount immense pressure on the Palestinians in Gaza, who have already been suffering under a 15-month-plus war of genocide by Tel Aviv.
“With mediators failing to achieve these objectives (having the regime reopen the terminals and let in aid supplies), Yemen has escalated its stance in support of the Palestinian people,” the Armed Forces’ statement noted, PressTV reported.
“Effective immediately, all Israeli ships are prohibited from navigating the designated operational zones, encompassing the Red Sea, the Arabian Sea, the Bab al-Mandab Strait, and the Gulf of Aden,” they noted.
The forces warned that any Israeli vessels attempting to breach the ban would be targeted within the specified areas of operation.
“This prohibition will remain until the crossings into the Gaza Strip are reopened and humanitarian aid, including essential food and medicine, is permitted entry,” the statement read.
The forces finally reiterated solidarity with the resilient Palestinian population in both the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank, which has similarly come under escalated deadly Israeli aggression, reaffirming their “unwavering support for the Palestinian resistance.”
Yemeni officials, including al-Houthi himself, had, upon issuing the deadline, emphasized that the Yemeni troops were fully prepared to reinitiate operations against the regime if humanitarian aid was not allowed into Gaza.
The Yemeni forces began taking Israeli ships and the vessels carrying supplies to the occupied Palestinian territories via the waters off the Arab Peninsula country, under missile and drone strikes after October 7, 2023, when the regime launched the war.
The operations took a serious toll on the Israeli economy, contributing to meaningful price increases across commodities consumed by the regime’s illegal settlers.
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کاخ سفید: ترامپ، زلنسکی را سر جایش نشاند
به گزارش خبرگزاری مهر به نقل از تاس، کارولین لیویت، سخنگوی کاخ سفید با اشاره به مذاکرات واشنگتن و کی‌یف در جده، می‌گوید که دونالد ترامپ، رئیس جمهور آمریکا، ولودیمیر زلنسکی، رئیس جمهور اوکراین را سر جای خود نشاند.
لیویت گفت: ترامپ مذاکره‌کننده ارشد است و زلنسکی را سر جای خود نشاند و به او گفت که آمریکایی‌ها درباره توافق صلح بلندمدت در اوکراین جدی هستند.
سخنگوی کاخ سفید اضافه کرد: ما از نحوه رفتار و همچنین توافقی که امروز حاصل شد، خیلی خرسندیم و امیدواریم که این توافق در قالب صلحی طولانی و پایدار که هدف ترامپ است، ادامه یابد و ما امیدواریم که به آن هدف دست پیدا کنیم.
دیپلمات ارشد آمریکایی در ادامه تاکید کرد که از واکنش روسیه به توافق بین آمریکا و اوکراین در جده اطلاعی ندارد.
وی دراین‌باره افزود: می‌دانم که مارکو روبیو، وزیر خارجه و مایک والتز، مشاور امنیت ملی به سختی در حال کار روی این موضوع هستند. بدیهی است که رئیس جمهور هم بسیار درگیر است.
هیئت اوکراینی و نمایندگان آمریکایی دیروز در جده ملاقات و گفتگو کردند و پس از آن، دفتر زلنسکی بیانیه‌ای را صادر کرد. براساس این بیانیه، طرفین توافق کردند که خیلی زود توافق جامع توسعه منابع طبیعی حیاتی اوکراین را نهایی کنند. کی‌یف آمادگی خود را برای پذیرش پیشنهاد واشنگتن برای آتش‌بس ۳۰ روزه در جنگ با روسیه اعلام کرد. در سوی مقابل، واشنگتن نیز متعهد شد تا تامین کمک و اطلاعات برای کی‌یف را به سرعت از سر بگیرد.
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