{"id":1264,"date":"2025-03-25T14:32:16","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T15:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/?p=1264"},"modified":"2025-03-27T11:27:38","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T11:27:38","slug":"ukraine-and-russia-agree-to-black-sea-ceasefire-deal-after-saudi-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/25\/ukraine-and-russia-agree-to-black-sea-ceasefire-deal-after-saudi-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine and Russia agree to Black Sea ceasefire deal after Saudi talks"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The vital shipping route will no longer be a conflict zone if the deal is kept (Picture: AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The White House has seemingly brokered a deal between Russia and Ukraine<\/a> for a ceasefire in the Black Sea.<\/p>\n

Peace talks have been ongoing in Saudi Arabia<\/a> today, and the White House just announced that Russia agreed to \u2018ensure safe navigation, eliminate the use of force, and prevent the use of commercial vessels for military purposes in the Black Sea.\u2019<\/p>\n

Ukraine\u2019s defence minister Rustem Umerov said Ukraine has also agreed to the ceasefire.<\/p>\n

He added that if Russian military vessels move outside the eastern part of the Black Sea, it would violate the agreement, and allow Ukraine to \u2018exercise right to self-defence.\u2019<\/p>\n

The Black Sea has been a focal point of the war between Russia and Ukraine, a major shipping corridor on which both Russia and Ukraine have ports and coastlines.<\/p>\n

Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov said earlier today that Moscow was up for resuming \u2013 \u2018in some form, acceptable to everyone\u2019 \u2013 a 2022 deal that allowed Ukraine to ship grain through the\u00a0Black\u00a0Sea\u00a0to countries in Africa, the Middle East and Asia where hunger was a growing threat and high food prices had pushed more people into poverty.<\/p>\n

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Sevastopol is a major port in occupied Crimea which has been at the centre of fierce battle (Picture: AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The ceasefire in the Black Sea appears to be going forward (Picture: AFP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The landmark\u00a0Black\u00a0Sea\u00a0grain initiative was brokered by the UN and Turkey in the summer of 2022. <\/p>\n

Moscow halted it in July 2023 until its demands to get Russian food and fertiliser to the world were met.<\/p>\n

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky praised the talks as the early \u2018right steps\u2019 toward a peaceful settlement.<\/p>\n

\u2018These are the first steps \u2013 not the very first but initial ones \u2013 with this presidential administration toward completely ending the war and the possibility of a full ceasefire, as well as steps toward a sustainable and fair peace agreement,\u2019 he said at a news conference.<\/p>\n

In a statement today, the White House said: \u2018The United States will help restore Russia\u2019s access to the world market for agricultural and fertiliser exports, lower maritime insurance costs, and enhance access to ports and payment systems for such transactions.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018The United States and Russia agreed to develop measures for implementing President Trump\u2019s and President Putin\u2019s agreement to ban strikes against energy facilities of Russia and Ukraine.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018The United States and Russia welcome the good offices of third countries with a view toward supporting the implementation of the energy and maritime agreements.\u2019<\/p>\n

The agreement is a sharp turn from earlier this week when Vladimir Putin<\/a>\u00a0tried to sink a container ship reportedly carrying a cargo of weapons destined for Ukraine.<\/a><\/p>\n

Two Iskander-M ballistic missiles were unleashed on a\u00a0Black Sea<\/a>\u00a0port in the southern city of Odesa where the vessel had arrived after making a stop in Turkey.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Facilities at the three Black Sea ports around the city have been frequent Russian targets in the three-year-long war.<\/p>\n

Get in touch with our news team by emailing us at webnews@metro.co.uk<\/a>.<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

For more stories like this, <\/strong>check our news page<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The vital shipping route will no longer be a conflict zone if the deal is kept (Picture: AP) The White House has seemingly brokered a deal between Russia and Ukraine for a ceasefire in the Black Sea. Peace talks have been ongoing in Saudi Arabia today, and the White House just announced that Russia agreed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":300,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-russia-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1264"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1269,"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264\/revisions\/1269"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}