{"id":4146,"date":"2026-11-10T18:04:01","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T13:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=4146"},"modified":"2026-11-10T18:04:01","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T13:04:01","slug":"trump-envoys-bring-russia-and-ukraine-together-for-first-peace-talks-in-9-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=4146","title":{"rendered":"Trump envoys bring Russia and Ukraine together for first peace talks in 9 months"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Russian and Ukrainian officials met in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday for their first US-brokered talks since February, after President Donald Trump suggested last week that a \u200bbroad deal was possible on ending the war in Ukraine and guaranteeing security in Europe.<\/strong><\/p>\n

US envoy Jared Kushner told delegates that recent contacts with both sides had \u201creally \u200cidentified, narrowed the gaps\u201d, and the US side had \u201csome good ideas\u201d on how to bridge their differences. Trump, he said, was committed to achieving peace.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe really has asked us to put extra effort into trying to find a solution that hopefully ends the war but also leaves both sides in a much stronger position\u201d to realise their full potential, Kushner said.<\/p>\n

But more than 4-1\/2 years after Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and with Russian forces holding \u200babout a fifth of the country, Moscow and Kyiv remain far apart \u2014 despite Trump\u2019s optimism \u2014 on terms for a possible settlement.<\/p>\n

Ukraine\u2019s chief delegate, Rustem Umerov, said in his opening \u200bremarks that Kyiv was focused on achieving security guarantees and a lasting peace.<\/p>\n

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov underlined Moscow\u2019s preference for negotiating a broad \u2060European security framework before tackling the specifics of the war.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe idea of defining clear parameters for a future security architecture, and only then moving on to resolving the actual Russia-Ukraine conflict, is \u200babsolutely reasonable,\u201d he told reporters in Moscow.<\/p>\n

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Monday voiced the opposite view, saying wider security talks should come only after a ceasefire in Ukraine. Lavrov \u200bagain rejected the notion of a truce, saying the Europeans were trying to buy breathing space for Ukraine.<\/p>\n

EUROPEANS SEEK A ROLE IN THE PROCESS<\/strong><\/p>\n

The new American drive for a deal has galvanised European officials into pushing for a place at the table to seek an end to the continent\u2019s deadliest conflict since World War Two.<\/p>\n

Before the start of the main meeting, the Ukrainians met separately with European, NATO and EU representatives and the two American \u200benvoys, Kushner and Steve Witkoff.<\/p>\n

France said there could be no lasting peace in Ukraine without addressing European security, and that this required the involvement of the Europeans.<\/p>\n

Russia had made clear it did \u200bnot see a place for Europeans at the meeting with the Ukrainians and Americans.<\/p>\n

On the eve of the talks, Trump said Washington was seeing a \u201cvery strong inclination\u201d towards ending the war, and that both sides were \u201ctired \u200cof fighting\u201d. \u2060After meeting privately with Russian President Vladimir Putin\u2019s envoy last week at the White House, Trump predicted that a peace deal could emerge soon.<\/p>\n

Trump has frequently said an agreement was close, without a deal emerging. However, negotiations 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 that Putin is willing to drop his insistence that Ukraine surrender the entire eastern region of Donbas before a peace deal can be struck.<\/p>\n

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has refused to hand over land that his forces have died defending.<\/p>\n

Russian \u200bfront-line advances have slowed to a virtual halt \u200bthis year, but Moscow has been pounding \u2060Ukrainian cities and energy facilities, while Ukraine has stepped up attacks on oil refineries and other infrastructure deep inside Russia.<\/p>\n

A source in the Russian delegation said Russia believed the main thrust of the talks would be trying to hammer out the key elements of a new post-war security framework \u200bfor Europe.<\/p>\n

On the eve of the negotiations, Zelenskiy said Ukraine\u2019s leverage in the talks was increasing as a result of its recent battlefield \u200bperformance, which has included retaking \u2060some territory in Donetsk, a coal-mining area of the Donbas.<\/p>\n

\u201cUkrainian forces are currently genuinely strengthening Ukraine\u2019s negotiating position,\u201d Zelenskiy said in his nightly video address on Monday. He said Russia was suffering \u201crecord losses\u201d \u2014 an assertion disputed by Moscow \u2014 and urged Washington to convince the Kremlin to end the war.<\/p>\n

US negotiators believe that Zelenskiy and Putin may be willing to strike a compromise on the vital question of territory, each \u2060ceding a \u200blittle, a US official told Reuters.<\/em><\/p>\n

Under the proposed deal, Ukraine would get an end to the war, security guarantees \u200band 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 the leaders\u2019 level and only in the context of appropriate \u200bsecurity guarantees for Ukraine, the official said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Russian and Ukrainian officials met in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday for their first US-brokered talks since February, after President Donald Trump suggested last week that a \u200bbroad deal was possible on ending the war in Ukraine and guaranteeing security in Europe. US envoy Jared Kushner told delegates that recent contacts with both sides had \u201creally \u200cidentified, narrowed the gaps\u201d, and the US side had \u201csome good ideas\u201d on how to bridge their differences. Trump, he said, was committed to achieving peace. \u201cHe really has asked us to put extra effort…<\/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-4146","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\/4146","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=4146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}