US calls for new Europe security at Russia-Ukraine talks in UAE

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A first day of US-led talks between Ukraine and Russia in Abu Dhabi ended Tuesday, with Washington calling for a “new” security framework, as ...

ABU DHABI: A first day of US-led talks between Ukraine and Russia in Abu Dhabi ended Tuesday, 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. Negotiations to end more than four years of war - the first since February - lasted for several hours in the Gulf city and are set to continue Wednesday.

Russian and Ukrainian negotiators sat facing each other, with Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner and business partner Steve Witkoff at the head of the table. Kushner told delegates the US had “narrowed the gaps” between the warring sides - without providing details - and hoped to move towards a “solution that hopefully ends the war”.

Moscow, which unleashed Europe’s worst war since World War II in 2022 and has occupied swathes of its smaller neighbor, pummelled Ukraine with more attacks overnight, cutting power to thousands as temperatures plummet.

Trump has also floated a deal with Russia on rewriting Europe’s post-war security, alarming Europeans. As the talks opened, Kushner said the US hoped to “create the right security relationships between Ukraine and Russia and Europe so that not only we end this war, we create a new framework and a new understanding” that will secure “decades, if not centuries, of peace”.

Moscow has also suggested that this was its priority. Russia’s Vladimir Putin has for years logged a series of grievances towards the West.

Ukraine has warned against a “Yalta 2.0” - referring to Western leaders dividing Europe with the Soviet Union after World War II - and the EU has said security arrangements can only be discussed after a ceasefire. “Putin wants the USSR back,” Zelensky said in an interview published in Danish media Tuesday, as he landed in Copenhagen for a meeting with Nordic leaders.

Putin has repeatedly turned down broader ceasefire offers and vowed his troops will press on in Ukraine.

Before launching its 2022 invasion, Moscow had issued an ultimatum…

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