The three-way talks between Russia, Ukraine and the United States start on Tuesday (November 10, 2026) in the United Arab Emirates, renewing a push for peace after several rounds of negotiations earlier this year.
The two-day session in Abu Dhabi, the first such meeting since February, will focus on security guarantees. U.S. He also demands that Ukraine abandon its bid to join NATO, accept strict limits on its military and drop restrictions on the Russian language and the Moscow-affiliated Orthodox Church in Ukraine. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy rejects Mr. Putin’s demands to voluntarily cede territory that Russia has not been able to take on the battlefield. Mr. Zelenskyy also rejects any limits on Ukraine’s military or its arrangements with Western partners, which Kyiv sees as essential security guarantees to stop Moscow from invading again.
Russian President Vladimir Putin wants Ukraine to pull its troops back from Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson — the four regions that Moscow illegally annexed in September 2022 but never fully captured.
President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner said on X that he and fellow envoy Steve Witkoff were working on a “negotiated solution that can deliver lasting peace and create the conditions for a sovereign, secure, and prosperous Ukraine within a more stable European security environment.
It also reportedly includes Mr. Zelenskyy’s chief of staff Kyrylo Budanov, his deputy Sergiy Kyslytsya and Davyd Arakhamia, the parliamentary faction leader of Mr. Zelenskyy’s Servant of the People party.
Ukraine’s delegation is led by Rustem Umerov, head of the country’s Foreign Intelligence Service, who also attended earlier talks.
