The United States has resumed military assistance to Ukraine, the Interfax-Ukraine news agency reported on Wednesday.
Referring to Pavlo Palisa, Deputy Head of the office of the Ukrainian President and a participant of the Ukrainian delegation engaged in negotiations with the U.S. in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, the report emphasized that understandings reached at the talks are now being fulfilled.
Further, Ukrainska Pravda informed that Washington also terminated its suspension on sharing intelligence with Kyiv. The media portal quoted U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard as having informed it.
The negotiations between U.S. and Ukrainian officials on Tuesday resulted in a joint statement in the evening asserting that American security assistance and intelligence-sharing with Ukraine would resume.
The U.S. previously suspended its military aid to Ukraine earlier this month after an unusually acrimonious confrontation between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House in late February.
Tuesday's high-level talks, which started with low expectations, witnessed Kyiv committing to a U.S.-suggested 30-day ceasefire, while Washington agreed to resume military aid and intelligence-sharing. As per Xinhua news agency, what was supposed to be a short meeting turned out to be almost eight hours long, after which both parties released a statement detailing their intention to conclude a comprehensive agreement on the development of Ukraine's strategic mineral resources.
In spite of initial skepticism regarding any significant breakthrough, the ultimate joint statement represented a major diplomatic breakthrough between the two countries, merely weeks after a flare-up of tensions between Trump and Zelensky.
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