US and Ukrainian Officials to Meet in Saudi Arabia for Cease-Fire Talks

The United States and Ukraine are coordinating a meeting in Saudi Arabia to discuss the initial terms of a cease-fire framework to halt the fighting between Moscow and Kyiv. Steve Witkoff, the U.S. special envoy for the Middle East, told reporters at the White House on March 6 that President Donald Trump had received a letter from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy expressing a willingness to lay out the initial terms of a cease-fire with Russia. “I think the president thought that it was a really good, positive first step, and from that … we’re now in discussions to coordinate a meeting with the Ukrainians … and I think the idea is to get down a framework for a peace agreement and an initial cease-fire as well,” Witkoff said....