{"id":14392,"date":"2026-01-23T05:46:52","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T05:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/russia-accepts-invite-to-landmark-ukraine-peace-talks-today\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T05:46:52","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T05:46:52","slug":"russia-accepts-invite-to-landmark-ukraine-peace-talks-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/russia-accepts-invite-to-landmark-ukraine-peace-talks-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia accepts invite to landmark Ukraine peace talks today"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Kremlin has confirmed the first trilateral peace talks between the US, Ukraine, and Russia will take place in Abu Dhabi today.<\/p>\n

The confirmation of Russian attendance at the meeting was announced after Vladimir Putin met with Donald Trump’s peace envoy Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner in Moscow on Thursday night.<\/p>\n

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The Kremlin described the four hours of talks as “exceptionally substantive, constructive, and… extremely frank and trusting”, but also cast doubt over a breakthrough.<\/p>\n

A statement repeated a long-time warning that there’s no prospect of a long-term settlement if territorial issues are not solved, according to what the Kremlin said was agreed at last year’s Trump-Putin summit in Alaska<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Moscow added that Russia would continue on the battlefield until a diplomatic settlement is reached.<\/p>\n

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy appeared to suggest the trilateral meeting was a last-minute idea from Washington that was only arranged after a meeting between him and Mr Trump on Thursday in Davos.<\/p>\n

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Kyiv said it would send its lead negotiator Rustem Umerov and Mr Zelenskyy’s chief of staff Kyrylo Budanov, while Moscow has said it will send admiral Igor Kostyukov to head its team at the UAE-based security talks.<\/p>\n

What was agreed at Alaskan summit?<\/strong><\/p>\n

While no deal was struck when Mr Trump met Mr Putin in Alaska in August, the two leaders are believed to have<\/strong> discussed the possibility of Ukraine giving up territory in exchange for an end to the fighting.<\/p>\n

The Russian leader is said to have told the US president he wants the eastern Donetsk and Luhansk regions, even areas not seized by his forces.<\/p>\n

Mr Zelenskyy previously said Moscow wanted the rest of Donetsk – and in effect the entire eastern Donbas region – as part of a ceasefire plan.<\/p>\n

He said Kyiv would reject such a proposal as it would deprive Ukraine of its crucial “fortress belt” defensive line, and open the way for Moscow to conduct further offensives.<\/p>\n

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