U.S. and Ukraine Hold Talks After Drone Attack on Moscow: What to Know
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The United States, Ukraine and Russia have very different ideas about what a potential agreement to end, or at least pause, the war should look like.
Ukrainian and American officials are meeting in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday in hopes of finding a way to halt the Russia-Ukraine war. But the United States, Ukraine and Russia each have very different ideas about what a potential agreement should look like.
Ahead of the talks, Ukraine and Russia launched deadly strikes on each other’s territory, including a large-scale drone attack on Moscow.
What’s happening today?
Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Michael Waltz, the U.S. national security adviser, sat down in the city of Jeddah with a delegation led by Andriy Yermak, the Ukrainian president’s chief of staff, Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha and Defense Minister Rustem Umerov.
U.S. officials have said that they hope to determine in the meetings whether Ukraine is committed to pursuing peace with Russia.
Emerging for a break after more than two hours of talks, Mr. Waltz said, “We’re getting there.”
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Ukraine holds
territory in Russia’s
Kursk region.
BELARUS
RUSSIA
Kyiv
Russia claims
four regions it
does not fully
control.
UKRAINE
MOLD.
Area controlled
by Russia
ROMANIA
Russia seized
Crimea in 2014.
RUSSIA
BELARUS
Ukraine holds
territory in Russia’s
Kursk region.
Russia claims
four regions it
does not fully
control.
POLAND
Lviv
Kyiv
Kharkiv
LUHANSK
UKRAINE
Dnipro
MOLDOVA
DONETSK
ZAPORIZHZHIA
Odesa
Area controlled
by Russia
KHERSON
ROMANIA
CRIMEA
Russia seized
Crimea in 2014.