Reporters learn how "indirect negotiations" between Ukraine and russia, mediated by US, will take place

On Monday, negotiators from Ukraine and russia will arrive in Saudi Arabia to participate in ceasefire talks. However, the parties will not meet face to face.

The portal of the Washington Post has reported this.

According to Yuri Ushakov, the chief aide to russian dictator vladimir putin on foreign policy, the negotiations, mediated by the US, will focus on a ceasefire in the Black Sea. In addition, it is expected that the russian federation will abandon strikes on energy. That is, we are talking about a partial ceasefire.

Moscow also made it clear that the negotiations in Saudi Arabia will concern grain supplies via the Black Sea, which was part of a previous agreement concluded in the summer of 2022.

WP explains that the negotiators from the two countries will be in separate rooms, and the mediators will pass information back and forth.

"They are going to be proximity discussions … sort of like shuttle diplomacy in a hotel," Trump's Special Envoy for Ukraine and russia, Keith Kellogg, told ABC News.

The russian delegation in Riyadh will be led by Senator Grigory Karasin, who oversees foreign affairs, and Sergey Beseda, a senior adviser to the FSB director.

Ukraine will be represented by Defense Minister Rustem Umerov and Deputy Head of the Office of the President Pavlo Palisa, a senior Ukrainian official said on condition of anonymity. Earlier, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the delegation would also include energy experts and "people who are deeply familiar with port infrastructure."

The American mediators will include Michael Anton, the policy planning director under Secretary of State Marco Rubio, as well as aides to Kellogg and representatives of the office of National Security Adviser Michael Waltz.