Ukraine has accepted Donald Trump’s proposal for a 30-day ceasefire with Russia during crunch talks in Saudi Arabia in which the US agreed to lift its pause on intelligence sharing and “security assistance”.
After more than eight hours of talks in the coastal city of Jeddah between US and Ukrainian officials, there was fresh optimism that peace talks were back on track after last month’s calamitous meeting between the US president and Volodymyr Zelensky.