US, Ukraine and Russia hold new trilateral meeting this week to negotiate end to war, says Zelensky

Volodymyr Zelensky, President of Ukraine, during a press interview in Lithuania Mindaugas Kulbis/AP A new round of peace negotiations between delegations from Russia and Ukraine will take place on Wednesday and Thursday (4th and 5th), Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced this Sunday (1st). Envoys from Moscow, Kiev and the United States met last week in Abu Dhabi. The round ended without a concrete agreement. “We have just received a report from our negotiating team. The dates of the next trilateral meetings have been set: February 4 and 5, in Abu Dhabi. Ukraine is ready for substantive negotiations and we are interested in a result that brings us closer to a real and dignified end to the war,” Zelensky said in a post on Telegram. Officials from the United States and Russia have not yet commented on the announcement. See the videos that are trending on g1 On Saturday (31), the main Russian envoy, Kirill Dmitriev, stated that he had held a “constructive meeting with the US pacification delegation” in Florida. Officials have so far released few details about the talks in Abu Dhabi, which are part of an effort by Donald Trump’s administration to lead the parties to a peace deal and end nearly four years of full-scale war. While Ukrainian and Russian officials have agreed in principle with Washington’s calls for a compromise, Moscow and Kiev differ sharply over what the deal should look like. A central question is whether Russia should keep or withdraw from the areas of Ukraine occupied by its forces, especially the country’s eastern industrial heartland known as the Donbas, and whether it should gain territories it has not yet conquered. Drones hit maternity hospital in Ukraine On Sunday morning, Russian attack drones hit a maternity hospital in southern Ukraine, the Ukrainian emergency service reported. In a publication on Telegram, the organization said that the attack injured women at the hospital in the city of Zaporizhzhia and caused a fire in the gynecology reception area, which has now been extinguished. The head of the regional administration, Ivan Fedorov, later stated that six people were injured. Days earlier, US President Donald Trump said Russian President Vladimir Putin had agreed to temporarily halt attacks on the Ukrainian capital and other cities as the region faces freezing temperatures that impose widespread hardship on the population. Rescue worker inspects hospital in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, after Russian drone attack this Sunday (1st) Stringer/Reuters The Kremlin confirmed on Friday that it had agreed to suspend attacks on Kiev until Sunday, but refused to disclose details, making it difficult to make an independent assessment of whether the conciliatory gesture actually took place. Last week, Russia attacked energy facilities in the city of Odessa, in southern Ukraine, and Kharkiv, in the northeast. It also struck the Kiev region on Wednesday, killing two people and injuring four others.

Source link