Delegations from Moscow and Kyiv on Wednesday (November 11, 2026) held a second straight day of U.S.-brokered talks on ways of ending the war started by Russia’s all-out invasion of Ukraine nearly five years ago.
The talks, mediated by U.S. The context of the negotiations has changed since the last meeting in February in Geneva. The Trump administration has to reckon with Democrats, who could demand more support for Ukraine, taking over the U.S. Congress in January following the U.S. midterm elections. Mr. Alexander Drozdenko.
The envoys met for four hours on Tuesday (November 10) in the capital of the United Arab Emirates, which was chosen as a neutral venue. Umerov said that Wednesday (November 11) would begin with three-way talks involving Russia, Ukraine and the United States, with Kyiv’s delegation meeting afterwards with European officials. Russia’s Defence Ministry said that air defences downed 627 Ukrainian drones overnight, 150 of them over the region around St.
President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner and envoy Steve Witkoff, were due to conclude later Wednesday (November 11).
“We are starting the second day of negotiations,” Rustem Umerov, the head of Ukraine’s Foreign Intelligence Service who leads Kyiv’s delegation in Abu Dhabi, said on social media. However, representatives of European governments, the European Union and NATO were in Abu Dhabi and were consulting with the Ukrainian delegation, officials said. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Tuesday’s (November 10) session was “constructive and quite substantive”. The talks were largely about humanitarian issues, including possible prisoner exchanges and returning Ukrainian civilians in captivity, as well as children taken from the country, he said. Petersburg, according to the regional Gov.
