{"id":28937,"date":"2025-11-26T03:04:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T03:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=28937"},"modified":"2025-11-26T03:04:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T03:04:07","slug":"us-optimistic-on-ukraine-peace-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=28937","title":{"rendered":"US optimistic on Ukraine peace talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>US officials expressed optimism on Tuesday over attempts to negotiate an end to the Ukraine war but acknowledged that \u201cdelicate\u201d issues remain &#8212; a point underlined by Russia\u2019s bombardment of civilian apartment buildings in Kyiv.<\/p>\n<p>Negotiators from the United States, Ukraine and Russia were meeting behind closed doors in Abu Dhabi, US and British media reported.<\/p>\n<p>The White House cited \u201ctremendous progress,\u201d while cautioning \u201cthere are a few delicate but not insurmountable details that must be sorted out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This \u201cwill require further talks between Ukraine, Russia, and the United States,\u201d White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt posted on X.<\/p>\n<p>US negotiator Dan Driscoll emerged upbeat from meeting with Russian counterparts, his spokesman saying: \u201cThe talks are going well and we remain optimistic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Frantic discussions have been underway since the weekend when Ukrainian and US representatives huddled in Geneva on a controversial 28-point plan from President Donald Trump that heavily favored Russian war demands.<\/p>\n<p>The war, which began with Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, continued unabated.<\/p>\n<p>Powerful explosions rocked Kyiv beginning around 1:00 am (2300 GMT), as Russian drones and missiles rained down, setting fires in apartment buildings. City officials said seven people were killed.<\/p>\n<p>Thick smoke, turning red and orange in the blizzard of Ukrainian air defense fire, rose over the capital as residents fled underground into metro stations, AFP reporters said.<\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiga called the barrage Russian President Vladimir Putin\u2019s \u201cterrorist response\u201d to the negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>Russia fired 464 drones and 22 missiles overnight, Ukraine\u2019s air force said, while Ukraine fired almost 250 of its own drones at Russia, according to Russian authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Three people were killed in the southern Russian border region of Rostov, authorities said, with the governor of nearby Krasnodar calling it one of the \u201cmost sustained and massive attacks\u201d of the war.<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US officials expressed optimism on Tuesday over attempts to negotiate an end to the Ukraine war but acknowledged that \u201cdelicate\u201d issues remain &#8212; a point underlined by Russia\u2019s bombardment of civilian apartment buildings in Kyiv. Negotiators from the United States, Ukraine and Russia were meeting behind closed doors in Abu Dhabi, US and British media [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}