US envoys to meet Putin, Zelenskyy after war talks in Abu Dhabi

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US envoys will separately meet Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy this week as they seek to seize “openings” from two days of talks in Abu Dhabi on ending…

US-mediated talks between Russia and Ukraine on ending more than four years of war opened in Abu Dhabi on November 10, with Washington calling for a "new" security framework, as Europe fears US President Donald Trump plans a deal with Moscow on the continent's future. Photo / Altaf Qadri, Pool. AFP

US envoys will separately meet Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy this week as they seek to seize “openings” from two days of talks in Abu Dhabi on ending the Ukraine war.

Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner will travel first to Moscow to meet the Russian President, before flying to Dublin – where Zelenskyy will attend European meetings – to debrief the Ukrainian leader.

The countries agreed in Abu Dhabi to a major prisoner exchange – the “biggest” ever, according to Kushner – though no side gave any figures.

But the talks – the first since February, when the US war in Iran halted diplomacy – also revealed deep splits over the role Europe should play in future talks.

All sides talked up progress and said talks would continue, though Ukraine’s top negotiator Rustem Umerov said “significant differences remain”.

Kushner said the meeting with Putin would “go over what was discussed today and try to make more progress on some of the issues that we discussed because we see some openings and some opportunities”.

With Zelensky, the pair will “further explore some of the ideas that we came up with here today”.

Umerov said that there was “still a lot of difficult work ahead, but there are opportunities to continue the negotiation process”.

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