Senior officials from Russia, Ukraine and the US will convene in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday as part of Washington’s bid to broker peace talks to end the ongoing conflict. Ahead of the trilateral, US President Donald Trump expressed optimism regarding the talks, as military attacks continue between Moscow and Kyiv.
Simultaneously, Russia’s defence ministry said its forces had struck a cargo vessel and a tanker in the Black Sea, Interfax reported. A key area of disagreement between Russia and Ukraine is territorial control. However, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky y has rejected demands to cede occupied territories or restrict the Ukrainian military. Ukraine insists that a ceasefire is the first step towards wider peace settlements. US President Donald Trump has expressed optimism over the trilateral talks, saying both countries are ‘tired of fighting’.
Russian President Vladimir Putin demands that Ukraine surrender 4 annexed regions – Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson – the four regions that Moscow illegally annexed in September 2022 but never fully captured. 25,000 people a month are being killed,” Trump said while addressing a press conference. Because it doesn’t affect us as a country, but it affects me, “The meetings are going okay, but we are trying to get it settled only.
It says that a direct meeting between Putin and Zelenskyy is the only way to settle territorial issues. Another cargo vessel was also hit east of the port of Odesa, according to the report. The discussions in Abu Dhabi will set the stage for “that engagement to begin in the near future, as part of a broader multilateral process,” he added.
Trump’s son-in-law and member of the US delegation, Jared Kushner, said on X on Monday that a “comprehensive and lasting settlement will also require direct engagement between Russia and our European partners on the broader security arrangements that affect them.
