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00:00It appears, Matthew, there's been some progress during the talks in Saudi Arabia.
00:05Ukraine has agreed to a Black Sea ceasefire and also agreed to halt energy infrastructure strikes.
00:12Is this more helpful to Russia than to Ukraine?
00:16Yeah, Beth, I think it very much is more helpful to Russia than for Ukraine because
00:20in the past couple of years, Ukraine has very effectively been able to push Russia's Black Sea fleet
00:26away from Ukraine's coastline and back into Russian ports.
00:30And that's even without Ukraine even having a navy, but using unmanned maritime drones, basically.
00:38So Ukraine, because it did that, has been able to get its exports, especially grain, out through the Black Sea
00:45by hugging the west coast of the Black Sea through NATO territory, through the waters of Romania and Bulgaria.
00:52And Russia has been unable to export its fertilizers and other products it wants to export to the Black Sea.
00:59So this is more in favor of Russia, but I think it's a testimony to President Zelensky of Ukraine
01:07that he realized after that disastrous meeting he had in the Oval Office a couple of weeks ago,
01:13he has to look at least like he's willing to play along and trying to be collaborative.