London – The US has picked up its freeze on intelligence sharing with Ukraine, President Donald Trump said on Sunday, as American and Ukrainian negotiaters prepare for bilateral talks in Saudi Arabia, aimed at moving towards a peace deal to end Russia’s three -year attack.
“Okay, we are just about,” Trump told reporters on one of the Air Force when asked if he would consider restoring intelligence sharing. “We want to do anything that we could be serious about Ukraine doing something,” he said.
Trump’s administration has climbed a dramatic axis away from the “Ironclad” of Ukraine practiced by the administration of former President Joe Biden.
Trump has wrongly convicted Ukraine for launching the war, tried to reduce the legitimacy of President Voludmi Zelanceci, demanded a strong-handed kiev to share a controversial minerals and stopped the concession assistance and intelligence assistance in a bid to make Russia a concession.
The Ukrainian soldiers pass through a forest in Sumi region, Ukraine on 9 March 2025.
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Tuesday’s talks in Riyadh aims to revive bilateral ties after weeks of stressful exchange between Washington, DC and Kiev, which ended in an explosive oval office confrontation between Trump, Zelanski and Vice President JD Vance.
The US delegation in Saudi Arabia will include State Secretary Marco Rubio and National Security Advisor Mike Waltz. The Ukrainian team will be led by Zelansky’s President’s President Andrey Yarmak. The US side is expecting Ukraine to show the desire to make peace, Trump suggested on Sunday.
“We will see a lot of things,” he said. “We are having big meetings. As you know, it is Saudi Arabia that includes Russia. It will be Ukraine. We will see if we can do something.”
“I think everyone wants to see it,” said the President. “We are going to make a lot of progress.”
“I think they would sign the mineral deal,” Trump said when asked about progress on the controversial agreement. “I want them to want peace.” Trump claimed that Ukraine has not yet shown that wish.
President Donald Trump talks to reporters as the White House press secretary Karolin Lewet is on the Air Force one, who is on his return to Washington on Washington, March 9, 2025.
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Trump refrained from replying if he would impose restrictions or tariffs on Russia and would pointing to the upcoming meetings of the White House officials in Saudi Arabia. The President also refrained from giving a certain answer on asking whether the US would resume assistance to Ukraine if the mineral deal has been signed.
The Crown Prince and Da Facto ruler of the Zelansky Kingdom will visit Saudi Arabia on Monday to meet Mohammed bin Salman.
The President of Ukrainian wrote on social media on Sunday, “Yesterday, we will continue working to bring peace closer to peace – my journey will be in Saudi Arabia.” “In addition, today, our teams in Saudi Arabia – Ukraine and the United States meeting have been further prepared. We hope for the results – both in bringing close and constant support of peace.”
The Public US-Ukraine break has inspired anxiety among European leaders, the two leaders ralled around Zelancesi and urged to fix their horrific relations with Trump. Officers in Russia appeared jubilant, openly suggest that the Trump administration had aligned its views with Kremlin.
Trump and his top officials have stated that both Ukraine and Russia would be expected to give concessions in search of a peace deal to end the Moscow invasion, which is the latest chapter in more than a decade of cross aggression over a decade.
Ukraine President Volodmi Zelanski Brussels visit the European Council of European Union on 6 March, 2025 for the European Union Summit.
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Trump suggested in a post to Truth Social last week that he was “considering large -scale sanctions” and until Tariff on Russia is a deal, saying that Moscow “is’ faster” on the battlefield “on the battlefield.” Trump also told a joint session of the Congress that he had “strong signals” that Russia was ready to make peace.
Kremlin spokesman Dimitri Peskov said last week that the US-Ukraine talks in Saudi Arabia are a “positive” development, although insisting that there are unresolved “nuances”.
“The question is to whom to interact with?” Peskov told reporters. Russia has repeatedly implicated Zelansky as an illegitimate president, which is necessary by imposing martial law, citing delay in planning 2024 presidential elections in Ukraine.
Kremlin has also cited the September 2022 Ukrainian decree in which Zelansky announced a conversation with Putin, “Impossible”, when Moscow claimed to have partially obtained Ukrainian regions.
Meanwhile, both Russia and Ukraine are continuing their long -range missiles and drone strikes. The deadly weekend attacks by Russia condemned many European countries.
For example, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk wrote on X, “This happens when someone pleases barbarity. More bombs, more aggression, more suffering.”
According to the Ukrainian Air Force on Sunday night, Russia launched 176 attack drones in Ukraine, 130 of which were shot and 42 were lost in flight without loss. The Air Force reported effects in Kharkiv, Poultwa and Kyiv areas.
Russia’s Ministry of Defense said that it shot Ukrainian drone overnight.
Kiev on March 10, 2025, during a Russian strike in Ukraine, is seen in the night sky in the form of Ukrainian anti-air units in drones.
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ABC News’ Kelsi Walsh contributed to this report.
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