Zelensky ‘Welcome’ To US As Ukraine Backs 30-Day Ceasefire With Russia, Trump To Talk To Putin

Ukraine endorsed an American proposal for a 30-day ceasefire and agreed to immediate negotiations with Russia in crunch talks in Jeddah on Tuesday after three years of grinding war.The positive response from Ukraine prompted President Donald Trump’s administration to lift a freeze on military aid and to predict the beginning to an end of the conflict.”Today we made an offer that the Ukrainians have accepted, which is to enter into a ceasefire and into immediate negotiations,” US Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters after around nine hours of talks in an ornate hotel in Jeddah.”We’ll take this offer now to the Russians and we hope they’ll say yes to peace. The ball is now in their court.”If they say no then we’ll unfortunately know what the impediment is to peace here,” Rubio said of Russia, which launched a full-scale invasion of its smaller neighbour in February 2022. n18oc_world n18oc_crux0:00 INTRODUCTION3:47 “BALL IS NOW IN RUSSIA’S COURT”