The new talks are to be held on Sunday in Saudi Jidda, where previous exploratory meetings with Russia were recently held. Witkoff provides no information about which parties the USA will now meet, but says that the country's delegation will be led by Foreign Minister Marco Rubio and National Security Adviser Mike Waltz.
The announcement comes after Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin agreed in a telephone conversation on Tuesday to "immediately" initiate new negotiations on a ceasefire in the Russian war of aggression.
However, Kallas says that Russia's current demands that the Western world must stop supporting Ukraine with weapons are unacceptable. She also doubts Putin's good intentions in general.
When you read the written conversations, it becomes clear that Russia does not actually want to make any concessions, she says.
The same doubts have been expressed by Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyj. His country has already accepted Trump's proposal for a complete ceasefire – but Putin has not. After the conversation with Trump, Moscow announced that Russia had agreed to a 30-day pause in attacks on energy infrastructure.
