Port shelling and war in the Black Sea: what the Russian Federation, the USA and Ukraine will discuss in the negotiations in Riyadh
"We proceed from the fact that today on the agenda of the Black Sea initiative and all related topics with the restoration of this initiative. It was the proposal of US President Donald Trump, and Russian President Vladimir Putin gave this consent. It was with such a mandate that our delegation went to Riyadh. " According to Peskov, the meaning of the Black Sea initiative is the safety of navigation.
All the information about the results of the consultation will immediately report to the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, he added. The Black Sea Initiative is also known as a grain agreement and provides for the development of Ukrainian grain export conditions from the Port of the Black Sea.
On March 24, the adviser to the Presidential Head Sergey Leshchenko stated that at a meeting in Riyadh between representatives of Ukraine and the United States discussed the cessation of firing of Ukrainian ports in Odessa, Kherson and Mykolaiv regions. "It was a mutual ceasefire: we do not attack their objects at sea, including river, they do not attack our objects and our ports," he said.
Technical consultations included discussions of the return of Ukrainian children and civilians stolen by Russians, as well as the continuation of prisoners of war. Leshchenko stressed that such meetings will be quite regular, but their results will not always be opened. We will remind, the British media wrote about the additional round of negotiations of American and Ukrainian teams in Riyadh.