{"id":912003,"date":"2026-11-10T04:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T04:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/912003\/"},"modified":"2026-11-10T04:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T04:30:09","slug":"russia-ukraine-and-us-to-meet-as-zelenskyy-claims-battlefield-successes-vladimir-putin-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/912003\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia, Ukraine and US to meet as Zelenskyy claims battlefield successes | Vladimir Putin News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Negotiators from Russia and Ukraine are set to meet for peace talks brokered by the United States<\/a> in Abu Dhabi, with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy saying that recent gains on the battlefield had strengthened his country\u2019s hand.<\/p>\n

The meeting in the capital of the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday will be the third round of talks there this year, following security consultations in January and February<\/a>. The US side is led by US President Donald Trump\u2019s envoys, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, who have spearheaded Washington\u2019s mediation.<\/p>\n

The three delegations last met in Geneva<\/a> on February 18.<\/p>\n

\u201cUkrainian forces are currently genuinely strengthening Ukraine\u2019s negotiating position,\u201d Zelenskyy said in his nightly video address on Monday. He said Russia was \u201csuffering record losses\u201d, a claim Moscow disputes, and urged Washington to persuade the Kremlin to end the war.<\/p>\n

Zelenskyy said General Mykhailo Drapatyi had presented a report on Ukraine\u2019s military positions that pointed to heavy recent Russian losses, and that Ukraine\u2019s long-range strikes on targets inside Russia, including oil facilities, were having an effect.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are responding to Russia\u2019s war in a fully justified manner and demonstrating that this war must end,\u201d he said. \u201cRussia can do this. It can end its war. It is important that the United States convince Russia of precisely this.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2018Strong inclination\u2019<\/p>\n

In Washington, DC, Trump told reporters that he saw a \u201cvery strong inclination\u201d towards ending the war and that both sides were \u201ctired of fighting\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re having a very good conversation about that in Abu Dhabi,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Trump had promised to end the war quickly when he took office in January 2025, but a settlement has remained elusive<\/a> nearly five years after Russia launched its full-scale invasion in February 2022.<\/p>\n

A US official, briefing reporters on the condition of anonymity, said on Monday that both Russia and Ukraine had privately shown some flexibility on a possible exchange of territory. Security guarantees for Ukraine would be a central topic, the official said, including the possibility of a defence commitment modelled on Article 5 of NATO\u2019s founding treaty.<\/p>\n

Both Ukraine and Russia have been adamant about territory<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ukraine wants Russia pushed back to the original border between the two countries, while Russian President Vladimir Putin wants to obtain all of the Donbas region.<\/p>\n

Russia occupies roughly 20 percent of Ukraine<\/a>, including Crimea and parts of the eastern Donbas region. The Russian move has not been recognised by the international community, but Trump has previously urged Kyiv to cede territory for a deal to end the war.<\/p>\n

The US official said any territorial agreement would most likely come at the end of the negotiations, once other issues, including a post-war security framework, had been settled.<\/p>\n

\u2018Ways to go\u2019<\/p>\n

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio meanwhile struck a cautious note, saying that the process to end the war still has \u201ca ways to go\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll keep trying. And that\u2019s what we\u2019ve been trying to do the whole time is try to be creative and find ways that we can help bring that conflict and that war to an end,\u201d Rubio said.<\/p>\n

Rustem Umerov, the head of Ukraine\u2019s Foreign Intelligence Service, will again lead the country\u2019s delegation, according to The Kyiv Independent. Russia\u2019s team will be headed by Vladimir Medinsky, a Kremlin aide, and will include Sergei Ryabkov, a deputy foreign minister, as well as Yuri Zhigarlovsky, a senior military officer.<\/p>\n

European powers, including France, Germany and the European Commission, will send officials to the talks in Abu Dhabi, but Russia has made it clear it doesn\u2019t want the Europeans to take part in negotiations.<\/p>\n

Dmitry Peskov, the Kremlin spokesman, said the talks would focus on security guarantees. European officials would not take part, he added, because the negotiations had been agreed to as a three-way format.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat will take place in Abu Dhabi in the coming days is trilateral negotiations between Russia and Ukraine with US mediation,\u201d Peskov said. \u201cAs for the presence of Europeans, you know that the Americans have their own channels of communication with Europeans, and Ukrainians with Europeans.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Negotiators from Russia and Ukraine are set to meet for peace talks brokered by the United States in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":912004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,1076,129,3,1206,963,1208,11636,21,19,22,20,25,24,6508],"class_list":["post-912003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-europe","tag-middle-east","tag-news","tag-russia","tag-russia-ukraine-war","tag-ukraine","tag-united-arab-emirates","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-vladimir-putin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=912003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/912004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=912003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=912003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=912003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}