Russian and Ukrainian negotiators reported some progress in two days of peace talks in Abu Dhabi that ended yesterday, but US mediators said there was a lack of trust between the warring sides and differences remained on major issues, including territory.
In their first peace talks for nine months, Russia and Ukraine agreed to a major release of prisoners of war, but there was little else in the way of concrete announcements after the US-brokered meetings.
US envoy Jared Kushner, US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, said mediators were appealing to each side’s interests to end Europe’s biggest conflict since the Second World War and he expressed confidence they would find a pathway to peace.
Despite public optimism from Trump, there has been no sign of major compromises on the main issues after more than 4-1/2 years of war since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
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