Foreign press: The United States will pressure Ukraine to make a ceasefire commitment at the Saudi meeting

U.S. and Ukrainian officials will meet in Saudi Arabia this week to discuss the timing and scope of an initial ceasefire with Russia, and there are still a number of tense issues to be resolved. In the previous days, the Trump administration exerted intense pressure on Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy, including suspending military aid and intelligence assistance. The aim of these moves was to persuade him to agree to a partial ceasefire, which would allow negotiations to end the three-year Russia-Ukraine conflict. But Trump recently said on Air Force One that he had largely lifted the freeze on intelligence sharing with Ukraine, and that he wanted to push both Kyiv and Moscow to the negotiating table. “We want to do everything we can to get Ukraine to take this seriously,” he told reporters. ”