Kremlin confirms the first US-brokered Ukraine peace talks since February will be held in Abu Dhabi next week
Vice President JD Vance, Donald Trump and Xi Jinping. Beijing has so far acknowledged only bilateral contacts ahead of a proposed three-way summit in China this month.
US special envoy Steve Witkoff announced that working-level delegations from Ukraine and Russia will meet in Abu Dhabi on November 10 and 11, with American negotiators focused on post-war security arrangements, de-escalation and humanitarian efforts. The Kremlin's Dmitry Peskov confirmed Moscow's participation, calling the talks "appropriate and highly useful." Zelenskyy flew to Berlin on Tuesday for a show of solidarity with Chancellor Friedrich Merz ahead of the negotiations.
A brief localised ceasefire in the Kherson region ended on Sunday after allowing humanitarian supplies into Russian-occupied Oleshky.
Trump, Xi and Putin are separately preparing for a possible first-ever three-way summit at the APEC gathering in Shenzhen on November 18 and 19.
Putin has pushed to use any trilateral meeting to negotiate a Ukraine settlement on terms favouring Moscow, alarming Kyiv and European allies.
