Putin agrees to UAE peace talks with the US and Ukraine but rules out a 'short' truce
Steve Witkoff (right), the top Trump aide, with Vladimir Putin, as a Kremlin aide said a new round of three-way peace talks could be held around 10 November in Abu Dhabi.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed on Friday that the meeting is to be held around November 10. Talks have been frozen since the start of the year. The shift follows US envoy Steve Witkoff's sit-down with Vladimir Putin in Saint Petersburg on Wednesday. Putin insists the talks will cover security arrangements for a final deal, while Volodymyr Zelensky wants them held 'as soon as possible'.
Witkoff told Putin 'you are a humanitarian also' after he freed American teacher Stephen Hubbard, 74.
A Ukrainian official says Kyiv has only 'a couple' of Patriot interceptors left.
Ukraine launched 630 drones at the Moscow region on Thursday.
