Three-way talks among Russia, Ukraine and the United States opened Tuesday in the United Arab Emirates, as Washington renews its push to end the war that followed Moscow’s all-out invasion nearly five years ago.
\n\nThe two-day session in the UAE’s capital, Abu Dhabi, is the first such meeting since February. It will focus on security guarantees, the White House said before the discussions. Russia sees NATO as a threat, and Ukraine wants to prevent future Russian invasions.
\n\nThe first day of talks concluded after nearly four hours, Russia’s RIA Novosti news agency said. They are expected to resume Wednesday, according to the press office of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine.
\n\nPresident Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, who, along with U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff, is trying to broker a settlement, said he believed there were “some good ideas how to bridge” the differences between the two sides.
\n\nBut hopes of progress in ending Europe’s biggest conflict since World War II are tempered by the absence of any significant breakthroughs in three previous rounds of talks early this year. The war has already killed hundreds of thousands of soldiers and thousands of civilians, analysts and humanitarian organizations say.
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