“US urge Russia to accept the thirty -day ceasefire offered”, – WRITE: www.radiosvoboda.org
She noted that the US is urging Russia to accept the thirty -day ceasefire proposed.
“Steve Vitcoff, a special representative of the President, this week goes to Moscow again to call the Russians to sign for these negotiations, and we hope that they will do it,” she said.
Levitt also said that on March 12, the US Presidential Advisor Mike Volz was talking with his Russian counterpart on the end of the war in Ukraine.
Earlier on Wednesday, US President Donald Trump said that the United States was heading to Russia to negotiate a possible ceasefire with Ukraine. Trump did not specify who is in the negotiation group.
In February 2025, Steve Witkoff made a visit to Moscow, where he held a long meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
On March 11, a meeting of delegations of Ukraine and the United States took place in Saudi Arabia.
During the negotiations, Ukraine agreed with the proposal of the US side to introduce a ceasefire regime in the war with Russia for 30 days. The delegations also discussed the importance of humanitarian efforts as part of the peace process, in particular during the ceasefire regime, including the exchange of prisoners of war, the dismissal of retained civilians and the return of forced Ukrainian children.
US President Donald Trump has said that US and Russia representatives would meet for a truce discussion.
Also, US Presidential Advisor Mike Volt said that Donald Trump decided to immediately restore military and intelligence assistance to Ukraine as a result of US-Ukrainian negotiations.
The Kremlin said they were studying statements made by the meeting of Ukrainian and American delegations in Jedda.