European officials will attend US-brokered Ukraine talks in Abu Dhabi despite Kremlin objections
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European officials will attend U.S.-mediated Russia-Ukraine peace talks in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday and Wednesday, French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot announced on Sunday.
The session was previously scheduled as a trilateral meeting between Washington, Moscow, and Kyiv. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov had previously rejected European involvement, citing the agreed trilateral format.
President Trump said an upcoming agreement might involve all of Europe. However, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned that the undisclosed deal could be dangerous, invoking the 1945 Yalta Conference.
The meeting is the fourth round of talks brokered by the Trump administration, and the first since discussions held in Geneva in February.
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How the story developed
- EDelegations concluded the first day of trilateral peace talks in Abu Dhabi.
- EThis storyEuropean officials joined the peace talks despite initial Kremlin objections to the trilateral format.
- ERussian and Ukrainian officials held their first US-brokered peace talks in nine months in Abu Dhabi.
- தRussia negotiated with the Trump administration to lift sanctions on its primary investment fund.
