{"id":2412514,"date":"2025-03-11T15:30:02","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T19:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-strikes-deal-with-ukraine-for-ceasefire-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2025-03-11T15:32:11","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T19:32:11","slug":"us-strikes-deal-with-ukraine-for-ceasefire-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-strikes-deal-with-ukraine-for-ceasefire-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"US strikes deal with Ukraine for ceasefire &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fus-strikes-deal-with-ukraine-for-ceasefire-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2412514&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article reports \u2062that\u200c U.S. \u200dSecretary of state Marco Rubio and national <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/miles-anonymous-taylor-accidentally-exposes-the-fraudulence-of-the-mainstream-media\/\" title=\"Miles &#039;Anonymous&#039; Taylor Accidentally Exposes the Fraudulence of the Mainstream Media\">security<\/a> adviser\u2063 Michael Waltz emerged from negotiations in Jeddah, \u200cSaudi Arabia, announcing a proposal for a ceasefire and negotiations to end Russia&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine. Rubio conveyed that &#8220;the ball is now in [Russia\u2019s] court,&#8221; urging them to accept the offer for peace. The discussions \u2063saw Ukrainian officials\u200c engaged in hours of negotiations \u200bamid ongoing clashes at the frontlines,where both nations have been continuously exchanging attacks. <\/p>\n<p>Simultaneously, the situation remains tense in ukraine, with Ukrainian\u2064 forces\u200d carrying out retaliatory \u2064strikes against Russian \u200cpositions, including an assault on Moscow.The backdrop \u2062of these \u2062discussions is intricate by U.S.political dynamics,\u200d with President Trump pivoting to\u2064 a harsher stance against Ukraine following a public disagreement with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. The meeting in Saudi Arabia was viewed as crucial for\u2062 Ukraine as it seeks to stabilize U.S. \u2062support against escalating Russian \u200baggression.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">US strikes deal with Ukraine for ceasefire, says the &lsquo;ball&rsquo; is now in Russia&rsquo;s &lsquo;court&rsquo;<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2031871\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>After weeks of miserable disagreements, U.S. and Ukrainian diplomats exited their private negotiating room in Saudi Arabia with a plan for ending the Russian invasion.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/marco-rubio\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Secretary of State Marco Rubio<\/a> and national security adviser Michael Waltz left the meeting in the coastal city of Jeddah with a clear message: &ldquo;The ball is now in [Russia&rsquo;s] court.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/foreign-policy\/3343961\/trump-administration-refuses-to-reassure-japan-on-tariffs\/\">Trump administration refuses to reassure Japan on tariffs despite investment deals<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/foreign-policy\/3342838\/trump-looms-greenland-election\/\">Trump looms over Greenland election<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/foreign-policy\/3342878\/elon-musk-mark-kelly-traitor-ukraine-visit\/\">Musk calls Mark Kelly a &#8216;traitor&#8217; after visit to Ukraine<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>&ldquo;Today, we made an offer that the Ukrainians have accepted, which is to enter into a ceasefire and into immediate negotiations to end this conflict in a way that&rsquo;s enduring and sustainable and accounts for their interests, their security, their ability to prosper as a nation,&rdquo; Rubio said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">From left, U.S. national security adviser Mike Waltz, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud, Saudi national security adviser Mosaad bin Mohammad al Aiban, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha, Ukrainian Head of Presidential Office Andrii Yermak, and Ukrainian Minister of Defense Rustem Umerov hold a meeting in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on Tuesday, March 11, 2025. (Saul Loeb\/Pool Photo via AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;ll take this offer now to the Russians and hope that they&rsquo;ll say &lsquo;yes,&rsquo; that they&rsquo;ll say &lsquo;yes&rsquo; to peace,&rdquo; the secretary of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nearly-half-of-texas-wind-turbines-frozen-in-winter-storm-limiting-states-power-output\/\" title=\"Nearly Half Of Texas\u2019 Wind Turbines Frozen In Winter Storm Limiting State\u2019s Power Output\">state continued<\/a>. &ldquo;The ball is now in their court.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Rubio and Waltz spent hours in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-proposes-lower-1-7t-infrastructure-in-gop-talks\/\" title=\"White House Proposes Lower .7T Infrastructure in GOP Talks\">private negotiations<\/a> with their Ukrainian counterparts: Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha, Minister of Defense Rustem Umerov, and Head of Presidential Office Andrii Yermak.<\/p>\n<p>Their ornate and secure venue was a far cry from the increasingly desperate situation on the battlefield 3,000 miles away. Ukrainians and Russians reportedly clashed more than 200 times on the front line following dawn on Tuesday, with fighting ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine has done its best to retaliate against Russia&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">mass-scale aerial attacks<\/a>. It launched a surprise assault on Moscow overnight, which killed at least three people and injured at least 18 and was deemed by Russian authorities as the largest attack of its kind on the capital city since the invasion of Ukraine began.<\/p>\n<p>The Ukrainian military boasted via its Telegram feed that it successfully struck the Moscow oil refinery, which provides up to half of the city&rsquo;s gas and diesel.<\/p>\n<p>Russia has been bombarding Ukraine with aerial assaults for days &mdash; at least 22 Ukrainians were killed in such attacks on Saturday in the Donetsk and Kharkiv regions.<\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump made a pivot toward the Kremlin and against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/volodymyr-zelensky\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky<\/a> not long after taking office. He accused the Ukrainian leader of being a dictator, exploiting American generosity, and not genuinely seeking peace.<\/p>\n<p>Zelensky was kicked out of the White House last month following a televised argument with Trump and Vice President JD Vance in the Oval Office.<\/p>\n<p>The White House further complicated Ukraine&rsquo;s battlefield situation by freezing military support and intelligence-sharing with Kyiv in a bid to strong-arm it closer to the United States&rsquo;s vision for peace.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Fuel reservoirs fire following a Russian drone attack near Odesa, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 11, 2025. (AP Photo\/Michael Shtekel)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This recent hostility made the meeting in Saudi Arabia, the first since the Oval Office spat, critical for Ukraine&rsquo;s struggle to gain U.S. support in stopping the Russians from marching further into its territory.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the animosity between Ukraine and the U.S., Russian leaders are not exactly confident they have Trump&rsquo;s support. They warned the public not to delude themselves into seeing the White House as an ally.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/foreign-policy\/3240818\/ukraine-struggling-hold-kursk-bargaining-chip-russia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">UKRAINE STRUGGLING TO HOLD RUSSIAN LAND THAT COULD BECOME BARGAINING CHIP IN PEACE TALKS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Don&rsquo;t rush to put on rose-tinted spectacles,&rdquo; Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in Moscow on Tuesday at the Higher School of Economics, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/kremlin-warns-russians-not-see-trump-actions-through-rose-tinted-spectacles-2025-03-11\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">according to <em>Reuters<\/em><\/a>. &ldquo;We always need to hope for the best but be prepared for the worst. And we must always be ready to defend our interests.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Trump warned on Friday that he is &ldquo;strongly considering large scale Banking Sanctions, Sanctions, and Tariffs on Russia until a Cease Fire and FINAL SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT ON PEACE IS REACHED.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_2031871\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"2031871\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US and Ukraine reach ceasefire deal; now it&#8217;s Russia&#8217;s move<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3468,"featured_media":2412515,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/AP25070356018723.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[13427,3817,6991,50822,32076],"class_list":["post-2412514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-ceasefire","tag-diplomacy","tag-ukraine","tag-us-2","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/AP25070356018723.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2412514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3468"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2412514"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2412514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2412518,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2412514\/revisions\/2412518"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2412515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2412514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2412514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2412514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}