Russian and Ukrainian officials have met in Abu Dhabi for their first peace talks since February, as United States President Donald Trump’s envoys renewed efforts to end the war.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio described the US-brokered meeting as “very productive”.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has called the talks “constructive and quite substantive” and said they had included humanitarian and security issues.
A second day of negotiations was scheduled for Wednesday, following weeks of US contacts with both sides aimed at narrowing differences.
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US President Donald Trump’s representative, Jared Kushner, said the discussions had helped bridge gaps between the positions of Moscow and Kyiv.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov underlined Moscow’s preference for negotiating a broad European security framework before tackling the specifics of the war.
“The idea of defining clear parameters for a future security architecture and only then moving on to resolving the actual Russia-Ukraine conflict is absolutely reasonable,” Lavrov said.
Reuters
