Russia and Ukraine have agreed their biggest ever release of prisoners after two days of U.S.-mediated talks in Abu Dhabi, U.S. envoy Jared Kushner told reporters on Wednesday (November 11, 2026).
Russian envoy Vladimir Medinsky and Ukrainian negotiator Rustem Umerov also said a large scale prisoner exchange had been agreed, adding the numbers would be announced later. Mr. 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.
Kushner and fellow U.S. mediator Steve Witkoff will travel to Moscow on Thursday (November 12, 2026) to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin, and then to Dublin to debrief Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. 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).
“One of the positives is that we agreed that we’re going to have the biggest humanitarian release of prisoners, and we’re going to finalise the numbers tomorrow,” he said. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Tuesday’s (November 10) session was “constructive and quite substantive”. Petersburg, according to the regional Gov.
