March 25, 2025
Brief talks between Kyiv, Washington end
“The talks are over. All details will be announced later,” a Ukrainian source told media, not long after stating the meeting had begun.
The talks between Russia and the US yielded no announcement on any truce.
In Moscow, the Kremlin on Tuesday said the “content” of its talks with the US a day earlier would not be made public and that it was still “analyzing” the results of negotiations with the US team.
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March 25, 2025
Fresh US-Ukraine talks expected
In his nightly video address, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated that he expected his officials to meet the US negotiators again after they spoke on Sunday — before the talks with Moscow.
Ukrainian national broadcaster Suspilne cited a source in the Ukrainian delegation saying the meeting would occur on Tuesday.
A member of Ukraine’s delegation told AFP news agency on condition of anonymity that Ukrainian and US officials were holding a round of talks Tuesday in Riyadh.
At a previous round of talks this month in Jeddah, Kyiv agreed to a U.S.-proposed 30-day truce that Russian President Vladimir Putin subsequently rejected.
Officials are now studying a possible resumption of the Black Sea Initiative, an agreement that allowed millions of metric tons of grain and other food exports to be shipped from Ukraine’s ports.
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March 25, 2025
Russia says 2 journalists, driver, killed in Ukraine strike
The Russian Foreign Ministry stated that Alexander Fedorchak, a war correspondent from Russia’s Izvestia media outlet, was killed in the attack, as well as camera operator Andrei Panov and driver Alexander Sirkeli, both working for the Zvezda television channel.
Leonid Pasechnik, the Russian-appointed governor of the Luhansk region, said the shelling killed six people, although he didn’t specify who the other casualties were.
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March 25, 2025
US-Russia talks on Ukraine ‘useful,’ says Russian negotiator
“We talked about everything, it was an intense dialogue, not easy, but very useful for us and the Americans,” Grigory Karasin told the state TASS news agency.
“We will continue it,” he said, and Moscow and Washington’s teams held 12 hours of negotiations in a luxury hotel in Saudi Arabia.
Karasin also stated that Russia would like other countries and the United Nations to participate in the talks.
He added that “We will continue” the talks, adding that they would include the international community, above all the United Nations and certain countries.
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March 25, 2025
What do we know about the US-Russia talks?
It has been a struggle to work out even a limited, 30-day ceasefire.
Although Moscow and Kyiv agreed to a truce in principle last week, both sides have continued to attack each other with drones and missiles.
After US President Donald Trump spoke with the countries’ leaders, a key sticking point is what targets would be off-limits to strike.
While the White House said “energy and infrastructure” would be covered, the Kremlin declared that the agreement referred more narrowly to “energy infrastructure.”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said he wants other infrastructure like railways and ports to be protected.
While the talks took place at a luxury hotel in Riyadh, lasting 12 hours, nearly 90 people including 17 children were wounded in a Russian missile attack Monday on Sumy in northeastern Ukraine.
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March 25, 2025
Welcome to our coverage
Amid talks on a limited ceasefire in the Black Sea, the Ukrainian negotiating team is staying in for another day to meet US representatives who spoke to Russia on Monday.
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