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Ukraine has agreed to a 30-day ceasefire proposal and the US says it will restart military aid and intelligence-sharing with Kyiv after a day of peace talks in Saudi Arabia. Follow the latest here – and ask Michael Clarke a question for our Q&A tomorrow below.
Tuesday 11 March 2025 22:23, UK
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After a busy evening of developments on the war in Ukraine, our security and defence analyst Michael Clarke<\/a> will be back to answer all your questions live tomorrow.
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You’ll be able to watch along tomorrow afternoon – but before then you can catch up on last week’s edition here:
We’re now receiving more reaction from the officials that were in the room for the US-Ukraine talks in Saudi Arabia.
Ukraine’s defence minister has taken to social media site X to highlight the key outcomes of the meeting- from the resumption of US assistance to Europe’s role in peace negotiations.
Rustem Umerov said he was “grateful to all participants of today’s meeting for a very productive and results-oriented conversation”.
He went on to thank his “American colleagues” and “Saudi friends and partners” for their support.
Rubio: Today was a good day for peace<\/b>
Leading the US delegation was secretary of state Marco Rubio, who described today as being a “good day for peace”.
Rubio thanked Donald Trump for his leadership and said “we are one step closer to restoring durable peace for Ukraine”.
“The ball is now in Russia’s court,” he added.
Earlier, we brought you comments from Donald Trump as he said he believes he will talk to Vladimir Putin this week (see 7.26pm post).
But the US president warned “it takes two to tango” after Ukraine said it is ready to accept the US proposal of a 30-day ceasefire.
You can watch his reaction to the US-Ukraine talks below…
The biggest win for Ukraine at the moment is the resumption of US military support, the chair of the Ukrainian parliament’s foreign affairs committee has said.
Speaking on The World with Yalda Hakim<\/a>, Oleksandr Merezhko said: “For us, it’s crucial for our defensive capabilities and survival.”
But as for the ceasefire proposal, he warned “we should remember history”.
“We had dozens of such ceasefires before under the Minsk Accords, and each time these ceasefires had been violated in the most flagrant way by Putin,” Merezhko said.
“But now we have one psychological and interesting difference, because this time, if Putin assumed that he agrees to such a ceasefire, the guarantor of such a ceasefire will be Trump himself.”
“I would like to see whether Putin respects or doesn’t respect Trump.”
Merezhko adds that he is “very sceptical” over whether Russia would stick to any potential ceasefire if it was agreed.
“This is why we continue to need reliable security guarantees, and the best and cheapest security guarantee for us is NATO membership,” he said.
By Alex Rossi<\/a>, international correspondent<\/b>
It was a long day of negotiations but at the end it appeared that the Ukrainian and American delegations had found common ground. 
When they entered the talks they looked focused – there is a lot riding on the talks.
When they emerged after sundown it was clear that they had achieved something – small steps on what will be a long and difficult road to achieve any sort of peace.
The initial agreement saw progress on a readiness by the Ukrainians to accept an immediate interim 30-day ceasefire in theory.
Whilst there are still many outstanding issues there is now movement to end a war that has been grinding on for more than three years.
For the Ukrainians, they wanted and needed to mend the relationship with the US after that now infamous diplomatic spat in the Oval Office.
They were seeking a restoration of military aid and intelligence-sharing. The US has now announced it will immediately restart its assistance. 
What the Americans wanted to see was a Ukraine that was prepared to be flexible and make difficult decisions to reach a peace agreement. 
The Ukrainians were clearly persuasive on that count and the US delegation sounded convinced.
But the war cannot stop without Russian agreement and buy in to the negotiating process, and whether Moscow bites and also agrees to an interim ceasefire is far from clear. They have given mixed signals.
On the one hand, officials have said the Kremlin’s war objectives remain the same and there will be no concessions but they’ve also said they are waiting to hear the details of the talks.
Clearly the ball is now in Moscow’s court. US President Donald Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff is heading to Moscow later in the week. It’s reported he will discuss the diplomatic proposals with  Russian President Vladimir Putin.
But getting a lasting and sustainable peace will not be easy – Russia’s leader is unlikely to accept anything that does not allow him to present his “special military operation” as anything other than a total victory.
And until an agreement is reached, the violence and the killing will continue.
A Ukrainian presidential official has confirmed the US has resumed its military assistance to Ukraine after talks in Saudi Arabia.
It comes after the US said it would immediately lift the pause on intelligence-sharing and military aid to Ukraine (see 6.03pm post).
Pavlo Palisa, the deputy head of Ukraine’s presidential office, said: “I have confirmation that US military assistance has been resumed.
“The agreements are being implemented. The fight continues!”
By James Matthews<\/a>, US correspondent<\/b>
It looks like progress and it sounds like progress.  How much it is actual progress will be a matter for the Russians.
Moscow will decide if this step forward amounts to two steps back.
The Americans and Ukrainians did the easy bit in Saudi Arabia.
This was a diplomatic healing between both parties, a reset on relations that restores a military alliance.
Clearly, Ukraine will welcome the US lifting its pause on intelligence-sharing and weapons supply.
It will strengthen the ties between Washington and Kyiv, even if trust remains undermined.
There is deep suspicion in Kyiv surrounding the motivations of Donald Trump and his relationship with Vladimir Putin.  
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called the ceasefire proposal a positive step \u2013 he’s content as far as it goes, even if he’ll have questions around the context.
Ukraine was second behind Russia on the guest list for talks with the Americans and, while Trump has courted Putin, he’s cold-shouldered Zelenskyy.
Discussions between Trump and Putin will surely have given the US president a guide on how the Russians will respond to offers made.  
Would Trump have proposed a ceasefire without an assurance that Putin would accept? 
Unlikely, given everything Moscow has to gain.  
The future floated for Ukraine by the Trump administration doesn’t include NATO membership, doesn’t reflect a desire to roll back Russian territorial gains and doesn’t rule out lifting sanctions against Moscow.  
For Ukraine, there are difficult questions about what comes after the guns go silent.  
A ceasefire in the current conditions isn’t the starting point that Zelenskyy would have chosen but, realistically, it\u2019s the only starting point he’s got. 
The meeting between US and Ukrainian officials in Saudi Arabia today was a “serious step forward”, Ukraine’s foreign minister has said.
In a post on social media site X, Andrii Sybiha said the meeting was a step forward “both on the path to peace and in developing the strategic Ukraine-US partnership”.
“I want to thank my counterpart Marco Rubio and Mike Waltz, and our Saudi friends,” he added.
We’ve been receiving reaction from Europe to the 30-day ceasefire proposal
European Council president Antonio Costa<\/b> and European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen<\/b> have said they welcome the news from the US-Ukraine talks.
“This is a positive development that can be a step towards a comprehensive, just and lasting peace for Ukraine. The ball is now in Russia’s court,” they said.
They also added the European Union is ready to play its full part, together with its partners, in upcoming peace negotiations.
Meanwhile, Sir Keir Starmer<\/b> hailed a “remarkable breakthrough” between Kyiv and Washington.
“We now all need to redouble our efforts to get to a lasting and secure peace as soon as possible,” he added.
We’ve also heard from Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk<\/b>, who said: “It seems like the Americans and Ukrainians have taken an important step towards peace.
“And Europe stands ready to help reach a just and lasting peace.”
By Ivor Bennett<\/a>, Moscow correspondent<\/b>
Will Russia accept a ceasefire? Hard to say.
Because throughout the past few weeks and months, Moscow has always said it doesn’t want a temporary truce. Instead, it’s called for a long-term peace deal that tackles what it sees as the “root causes” of the conflict.
In Moscow’s mind, “root causes” means Western aggression and NATO’s historical eastward expansion. By making that a consistent criteria for peace, Russia has been trying to ensure that its own security concerns are met in the event of a final deal being signed.
I think it’s also a way of legitimising its full-scale invasion, which Russia claims was done to protect Russian-speakers in eastern Ukraine as a result of the Minsk agreements not being upheld.
The Minsk agreements were ceasefire deals signed between Kyiv and Russian-backed separatists in the Donbas 2014 and 2015. Moscow’s reasoning is that Kyiv can\u2019t be trusted to stick to a truce.
But this is largely posturing by the Kremlin, to reinforce its own narrative around the conflict – that it is the victim, fighting a defensive war.
A more compelling reason as to why Russia favours a permanent deal over a temporary one is because Ukrainian forces are on the back foot. A pause in the fighting would give them time to regroup, so why would Moscow agree?
It wants to have Kyiv begging for mercy when it comes to the negotiating table, so that a permanent deal would be entirely in Russia’s favour.
The problem for Vladimir Putin, though, is that he now has to put his money where his mouth is.
In order to win Donald Trump’s favour, the Kremlin has been relentless in trying to cast itself as the peacemaker and Ukraine as the warmonger.
It’s worked up until to this point, with America increasingly siding with Russia. But now, all of a sudden, Kyiv is calling Moscow’s bluff.
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