

In the Saudi capital, at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel at 8 a.m. another circular of American-Russian talks began on the truce in Russia's war against Ukraine. On Sunday, the US and Ukraine delegations spoke.
According to earlier announcements on the Russian side, Grigorij Karasin, Head of the abroad Commission of the Federation Council and Sergei Biesied, Head of the 5th Department of the national safety Service (FSB), will sit for talks.
Russian independent media remind that, according to Western sources, FSB's 5th department was liable for planning the invasion of Ukraine in 2022. "At that time, a associate of the Russian delegation was at the head of this service in negotiations with the United States, Sergei Biesied. As of 2014, after the annexation of Crimea and the outbreak of the Donbasa armed conflict, it was sanctioned by the US," reported the tv portal Nastojaszczcee Wiremia. The US and European sanctions are besides covered by Grigorij Karasin.
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The talks between the US and Ukraine are over. "We have raised key issues"
"We finished our gathering with the American team. The discussion was productive and concrete — we raised key issues, including energy” — wrote on Sunday evening on platform X Rustem Umierov, Minister of Defence of Ukraine.
"The intent of president Volodymyr Zelenski is to guarantee a fair and lasting peace for our country and our people, and so for Europe as a whole. We are working to make this nonsubjective a reality," he added in the entry after the interview.
Earlier, the president of Ukraine Zelenski informed after talking to Udenov that negotiations with the US delegation in the Saudi Arabia capital were very fruitful, but it is crucial to force Russia's leader Vladimir Putin to actually order the halting of attacks.
The topics of Ukrainian talks and the US delegation were safety issues, protection of energy facilities and critical infrastructure.