{"id":4135,"date":"2026-11-10T15:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T10:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=4135"},"modified":"2026-11-10T15:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T10:04:08","slug":"us-brokered-russia-ukraine-talks-resume-in-abu-dhabi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=4135","title":{"rendered":"US-brokered Russia-Ukraine talks resume in Abu Dhabi"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Russian and Ukrainian officials planned to meet on Tuesday for two days of US-brokered talks \u2014 their first \u200bsince February \u2014 after President Donald Trump suggested last week that a broad peace deal was possible in their 4-1\/2-year-old war and could incorporate Europe\u2019s security.<\/strong><\/p>\n

European powers, including France, \u200cGermany and the European Commission, will send officials to the talks in Abu Dhabi, but Russia has made it clear it doesn\u2019t want the Europeans to take part in negotiations.<\/p>\n

Instead, Ukrainian delegates will meet separately to brief their European allies on the progress of the discussions, which are scheduled to begin at around 0630 GMT on Tuesday, officials in Kyiv said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are doing everything to ensure that Europe is a participant in the diplomatic \u200bprocess,\u201d Rustem Umerov, the head of the Ukrainian delegation, said on Monday.<\/p>\n

Headed again by Kremlin aide Vladimir Medinsky as chief negotiator, Russia\u2019s delegation<\/u><\/a> will include Deputy Foreign Minister \u200bSergei Ryabkov for the first time and senior military officer Yuri Zhigarlovsky.<\/p>\n

After meeting privately with Russian President Vladimir Putin\u2019s envoy last week at the \u2060White House, Trump predicted that a peace deal could emerge soon<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Trump has frequently said an agreement to end Europe\u2019s deadliest conflict since World War Two was close without a deal emerging.<\/p>\n

However, \u200bnegotiations have picked up again in recent weeks after months in which Washington\u2019s attention was focused on the war in Iran.<\/p>\n

Publicly, there has been no sign<\/u><\/a> that Putin is willing to drop his \u200binsistence that Ukraine surrender the entire eastern region of Donbas before a peace deal can be struck.<\/p>\n

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has staunchly refused to hand over land that his forces have died defending. Russian front-line advances have slowed to a virtual halt this year.<\/p>\n

On the eve of the negotiations, Zelensky said Ukraine\u2019s leverage in the talks was increasing as a result of its recent battlefield performance, which has included retaking some territory \u200bin Donetsk, a coal-mining area of the Donbas.<\/p>\n

\u201cUkrainian forces are currently genuinely strengthening Ukraine\u2019s negotiating position,\u201d Zelensky said in his nightly video address on Monday.<\/p>\n

He said Russia was suffering \u201crecord \u200blosses\u201d \u2014 a claim disputed by Moscow \u2014 and urged Washington to convince the Kremlin to end the war.<\/p>\n

US negotiators believe that Zelensky and Putin may be willing to strike a compromise on the vital question \u200cof territory, \u2060each ceding a little, a US official told Reuters.<\/p>\n

Under the proposed deal, Ukraine would get an end to the war, security guarantees and a roadmap to accession to the EU.<\/p>\n

A senior Ukrainian official strongly denied that the government would consider any such concessions. The issue of territory could be discussed only at a leaders\u2019 level and only in the context of appropriate security guarantees for Ukraine, the official said.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Security deal<\/strong><\/h3>\n

A truce on striking energy targets announced by Trump last month quickly fell apart. Ukraine has escalated its strikes on Russian oil refineries<\/u><\/a> in recent weeks, and Moscow has pounded Ukraine\u2019s \u200belectricity infrastructure and cities.<\/p>\n

Trump said last week that envoys had \u200bbeen discussing a broader security deal \u2060that could involve all of Europe, without providing details.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s going to be a big agreement, and it\u2019s going to involve more than Ukraine \u2026 I could even say it might involve all of Europe,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n

His comments prompted a backlash from some European officials, who said that \u200bany negotiations on European security needed direct involvement by relevant governments, and that Russia should not be involved in setting European security policy.<\/p>\n

Before \u200blaunching its full-scale invasion \u2060of Ukraine in February 2022, Russia demanded the withdrawal of NATO forces from countries that joined the alliance after 1997, which the alliance rejected.<\/p>\n

American officials, including Trump\u2019s son-in-law and Ukraine special envoy Jared Kushner, held talks in Brussels last week with NATO, the European Union and major European powers, and they discussed security guarantees.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Russian and Ukrainian officials planned to meet on Tuesday for two days of US-brokered talks \u2014 their first \u200bsince February \u2014 after President Donald Trump suggested last week that a broad peace deal was possible in their 4-1\/2-year-old war and could incorporate Europe\u2019s security. European powers, including France, \u200cGermany and the European Commission, will send officials to the talks in Abu Dhabi, but Russia has made it clear it doesn\u2019t want the Europeans to take part in negotiations. Instead, Ukrainian delegates will meet separately to brief their European allies on…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4135","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=4135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}