The Kremlin said on Wednesday it was studying a proposal for a 30-day ceasefire in Ukraine, after American and Ukrainian officials said the ball was in Moscow’s court.
The United States agreed on Tuesday to resume weapons supplies and intelligence sharing after Kyiv said at talks in Saudi Arabia that it was ready to support a ceasefire proposal.
The Kremlin said it was carefully studying the results of the meeting and would await details from US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and White House National Security Adviser Mike Waltz.
“We are carefully studying the statements,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters, adding that officials in Moscow were familiarizing themselves with the joint statement issued after breakthrough talks between Ukrainian and Russian officials.
Peskov did not rule out a conversation between Trump and Putin later, which the US president said Tuesday was in the cards.
The Kremlin does not exclude that the issue of a telephone conversation between Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart Donald Trump may come up in the wake of the US-Ukrainian negotiations and could be organized quickly, Dmitry Peskov said:https://t.co/xxD11hxsRp pic.twitter.com/AUXy9kst1s
— TASS (@tassagency_en) March 12, 2025
The Russian spokesman suggested a reporter was getting “a little ahead” of himself by asking if Russia intended to tie a ceasefire proposal to the lifting of international sanctions imposed over the war in Ukraine.
“Rubio and Waltz said that they would pass on detailed information to us through various channels about the essence of the conversation that took place in Jeddah. First, we must receive this information,” Peskov said.
Ukraine demonstrated that their government is ready to take steps toward restoring durable peace and expressed readiness to accept the U.S. proposal to enact an immediate 30-day ceasefire. As a result, we will immediately lift the pause on intelligence sharing and resume security… pic.twitter.com/Eom2zhtkqI
— Secretary Marco Rubio (@SecRubio) March 12, 2025
Meanwhile, Reuters news agency reported that senior Moscow sources said a deal would have to take account of Russia’s advances and address its concerns.
After Russian forces made gains in 2024, US President Donald Trump reversed US policy on the war, launching bilateral talks with Moscow and suspending military assistance to Ukraine, demanding that it take steps to end the conflict, according to Reuters.
Source: Agencies
