Ukraine, Russia Wrap First Day of US brokered Peace Talks in Abu Dhabi
Ukrainian and Russian negotiators wrapped up the first day of new U.S.-brokered talks in Abu Dhabi on Wednesday, seeking to advance efforts to end Europe's biggest conflict since World War II as fighting raged on.
Special envoy Steve Witkoff and U.S. President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner were joined by U.S. military experts for trilateral talks with Russian and Ukrainian officials. The Ukrainian side praised the progress, while adding that the talks should lead to real peace.
The two-day trilateral meetings come after Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia had exploited a U.S.-backed energy truce last week to stockpile munitions, attacking Ukraine with a record number of ballistic missiles on Tuesday.
Trump's administration has pushed both Kyiv and Moscow to find a compromise to end the four-year war, but the two sides remain far apart on key points despite several rounds of talks with U.S. officials.
The most sensitive issues are Moscow's demands that Kyiv give up land it still controls and the fate of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, Europe's largest, which sits in a Russian-occupied area.
Moscow wants Kyiv to pull its troops out of all of the Donetsk region, including a belt of heavily fortified cities regarded as one of Ukraine's strongest defences, as a precondition for any deal.
Ukraine said the conflict should be frozen along the current front line and has rejected any unilateral pullback of its forces.
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