Ukraine launches nearly 1,200 drones at Russia as US-led talks will consider wider European security

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A team of European diplomats will be sent to the next peace negotiations, as many of the continent's leaders remain wary of Russian maneuvering and Trump’s praise for Putin.

KYIV — Ukraine fired almost 1,200 drones at Russian targets overnight in one of its biggest aerial attacks since Moscow’s full-scale invasion nearly five years ago.

Meanwhile, US and Russian negotiators raised the stakes in talks to stop the fighting by including for discussion wider European security arrangements that have been in place since the end of the Cold War. That change, long sought by Moscow, has alarmed European leaders and placed a question mark on NATO’s future role.

“Russia wants to talk about questions of European security architecture. We don’t need to talk about that. There is one,” German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said, referring to NATO.

After two days of talks with Russian and Ukrainian delegations in Abu Dhabi this week, US envoys briefed Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who was in Dublin, Ireland, to meet European leaders.

More talks are planned as negotiators seek a breakthrough in peace efforts, according to US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner.

A team of diplomats from the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, and the European Union will be sent to the talks, said European Council President Antonio Costa after a meeting in Dublin. The session was dominated by European efforts to avoid being sidelined in the US-led negotiations.

Kushner, who is also President Trump’s son-in-law, said Russia had agreed to include Europe in upcoming talks, after Moscow’s long insistence that the continent’s governments should be excluded because they supported Ukraine.

Europe’s presence at the table will allow negotiators “to address the broader postwar European security arrangements alongside the territorial issues between Ukraine and Russia,” Kushner said on X.

European leaders are wary of Russian maneuvering, as well as Trump’s praise for Putin and his administration’s sharp criticism of Europe.

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