Looks like Volodymyr Zelensky got the message. Did Vladimir Putin?
Ukrainian and American negotiating teams in Saudi Arabia have come together on a position for a cease-fire. They have also agreed to sign the mineral-rights compact that Donald Trump thought Zelensky would sign two weeks ago, before an angry public argument in the Oval Office derailed it.
Now all is forgotten — apparently. Marco Rubio made it official, via Yashar Ali:
BREAKING A joint statement from the United States and Ukraine says that Ukraine has accepted a ceasefire deal proposed by the United States. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the United States is now taking that ceasefire deal to Russia. “Today in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia — under the gracious hospitality of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman — the United States and Ukraine took important steps toward restoring durable peace…
