Russia-Ukraine Peace Talks Stretch Into a Second Day

Nytimes reports that negotiators from Russia, Ukraine and the United States pressed on with a second round of trilateral peace talks in the United Arab Emirates, with little made public beyond an announced planned exchange of prisoners of war. Russia launched another attack on Kyiv early Thursday, though it was smaller than the devastating strikes on Ukraine’s power grid earlier in the week; in that attack Russia fired five ballistic missiles at one thermal power plant in Kyiv, almost destroying it.

The trilateral negotiations lasted about five and a half hours on Wednesday, and officials did not say what was discussed. Delegations had been expected to focus on the fate of Ukrainian-controlled territory in the east and how Ukraine’s security would be guaranteed.

Photographs released by the Emirati government showed Rustem Umerov and Kyrylo Budanov seated with other Ukrainian officials facing a Russian delegation, with an American delegation between them that included Steve Witkoff, Jared Kushner and Daniel P. Driscoll.

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