Feb 04, 2026
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Zelensky's representative says of the talks in Abu Dhabi, which include Washington, and which will continue on Thursday: "The work was rich and productive."
Ukraine and Russia are making progress in peace talks, which Trump encouraged a day after the Kremlin's major offensive
“The work has been extensive and productive,” says Zelensky’s delegate about the talks in Abu Dhabi, where Washington is also taking part and which will continue on Thursday.
Four years after the start of Russia's large-scale invasion of Ukraine, the conflicting parties have made progress in talks to end the war in a second round of contacts in Abu Dhabi, backed by the United States.As the head of the Ukrainian delegation, Rustem Umerov, explained this Wednesday, this Wednesday will be "precise and effective, focusing on concrete steps and practical solutions."The tripartite talks will continue on Wednesday.year
The meeting took place a day after a major Russian attack on Ukraine's energy infrastructure, when in theory, according to dates announced by US President Donald Trump, they were in a temporary truce.However, it is not very clear what Trump and his Russian counterpart agreed on.The Republican Party leader said on Thursday, January 29, that he had received a commitment from Russian President Vladimir Putin not to bomb Ukraine's energy infrastructure for a week, but the Kremlin said it would stop bombing by Sunday, February 1.On the night of Monday to Tuesday, it launched a ballistic missile attack higher than ever.A few hours later, Trump said that Putin had surrendered, because the week he mentioned was from Sunday to Sunday.
Ukraine has learned to adapt to this instability and Trump's unpredictability and is trying to show as much will as possible to end the war.However, a survey released this week by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS) showed that only 20% of citizens believe the conflict will end in the coming weeks or the first half of 2026. Russia has shown no sign of wanting to end the conflict.In contrast, Kremlin spokesman Dmytro Peskov said today that his forces would continue to fight until Kiev makes a "decision" that could end the war.
The significance of this winter is the population of Ukraine, soaks, electricity, electricity and the main materials.Found to be seen from that time.
That Wednesday, shortly after the meeting began, Russia attacked Donetsk's Druzhkov market with cluster munitions, killing at least seven people and wounding 15, according to regional governor Vadim Filashkin.
After the tripartite meeting, the parties were divided into working groups.At the beginning of this first day, which lasted about five hours, Umerov, the secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, explained that separate meetings were also arranged between all parties, before the three met again to harmonize their positions.
Trilateral meetings that continued this Wednesday and Thursday in the United Arab Emirates serve to take steps on the military-technical issues that began to be resolved on January 23 and 24.The territorial issue, as already expressed by the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, should be resolved by political leaders.Putin challenged him to go to Moscow, and Zelensky replied that he should go to Kiev.For now, it is highly unlikely that either of these two things will happen.
After the change of negotiating teams, now more military than political, the work will be on planning an exit strategy, defining withdrawal mechanisms, monitoring and technical procedures.They are essential steps before reaching the political stage and signing a possible agreement, which Trump aims to do before the fourth anniversary, on the 24th.
The basis of the negotiations is a pro-Moscow peace plan agreed to in October between Trump's special envoy to Russia, Steve Witkov, and Putin's close ally Kirill Dmitriev (who met again this weekend in Miami).On this basis, a new text consisting of 20 articles was prepared with the participation of the Ukrainian side and is currently being worked on by negotiators.In Kherson province.The Russians were scheduled to withdraw from the territories they occupied in the Sumy, Kharkiv and Dnipropetrovsk regions.The Ukrainian army cannot have more than 800,000 soldiers and Kiev will refuse to join NATO.
The currently unresolved issue is the handover of the Donbas region, which Russia demands and Ukraine refuses.Moscow already owns Lugansk and 75-80 percent of Donetsk, the provinces in this eastern region.and it wants Kiev to give it what's left.Ukraine refuses.and the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, which is currently in Russian-occupied territories, is also something that has not yet been agreed upon, but has an easy solution.
Washington has shown signs of confronting Moscow on the issue of Donbass, and signing promises to protect Ukraine is based on this idea.As an alternative solution, it proposed a demilitarized zone in the area still controlled by Kiev.Ukraine is very dependent on the Kremlin, and in any case, if the country rejects the country, it wants Russia to deal with only one place in the occupied territory.
Security guarantee
Although Europe is not at the negotiating table to define its post-conflict security architecture, its participation in Ukraine's security guarantees is important, although the United States remains an important factor.According to the Financial Times on Monday, the allies are considering a three-level response to ensure that there is no repetition of the fiasco of the Minsk agreements, which were terminated after the illegal annexation of Crimea and the start of the Donbass war in 2014.a year, after which Russia resumed the war.
If Russian troops violate the agreement, a diplomatic warning and any action deemed necessary by the Ukrainian military will be triggered within the first 24 hours, the newspaper said.If Moscow does not stop, forces from the so-called Coalition of the Willing, promoted by France and the United Kingdom, will enter the scene, in which some 30 countries participate.After 72 hours, the US military, with its largest deterrence force, will be deployed.
Washington, which initially opposed participation in the evidence, has also offered high-tech surveillance capabilities to monitor compliance with the ban 1,400 kilometers from the front line.
The start of a new round of talks coincides with a new video call between Putin and his main ally, Chinese leader Xi Jinping.The Telegraph recently revealed that Beijing has sent billions of dollars worth of machinery to Moscow, which Russia uses to build the Oreshnik ballistic missile, which has been used against Ukraine on at least two occasions.Putin said that relations between the two countries are currently at a sweet moment."Spring is in every season," the Russian leader said.To Chinese leaders.
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