Steve Whitoff and Jared Kouchner are expected to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on November 12th, Kouchner told reporters after two days of talks in Abu Dhabi. He added that they would then travel to Dublin, where Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will report on developments.
The second day of trilateral talks in the capital of the United Arab Emirates ended in about two hours.
Shortly after the end of the talks, which were the first direct between Russian and Ukrainian officials since February, the head of the Russian delegation, Vladimir Medinsky, announced that Moscow and Kiev had reached agreement on a new and large exchange of prisoners.
We have reached an agreement in principle for a new and large exchange of prisoners. The concrete details will become known soon, he told Russian journalists at Abu Dhabi.
Zelensky, speaking at a media conference in Dublin later, said Ukraine hopes concrete results in talks to end the fight with Russia are achieved within this year. However, he stressed that much depends on the United States’ approach to Moscow.
We’re experiencing these massive attacks. Of course, we want to achieve results by the end of this year and, of course, do everything that happens, he said.
He added that much depends on the American side’s will to exercise pressure on Russia, depending on the format of its dialogue with the Russians.
Talks were held within the framework of the White House’s new efforts to find a solution that would end the war in Ukraine — the largest and most bloody land conflict in Europe since World War II.
In Abu Dhabi, consultations were also held with representatives of Germany, France, Great Britain, Italy, NATO, the European Union and Ukraine.
However, these meetings with American representatives were divided by trilateral talks between the US, Ukraine and Russia.
Ukraine announced earlier that its delegation would meet with American and European representatives after the negotiations with Russia ended.
Despite the talks, Russia continued attacks on Ukraine.
A drone attack left partially no electricity and heating in the southeastern part of Ukraine, local authorities reported.
The attack damaged residential buildings, schools and children’s gardens, said Oleksandr Vilku, head of the Krivij Rich Defence Council.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Serhiy Kortskiy announced on November 11th that Russia had attacked six important power supply facilities at night in four regions of Ukraine.
According to him, railway infrastructure was also targeted in the Dnipropetrovsk and Juitomir regions.
Meanwhile, the governor of the Russian region of Leningrad, Aleksandr Drosdenko, announced in Telegram that Russian air defence had crashed 150 Ukrainians over the region overnight.
According to Drosdenkos, several fears hit the port area of Ust-Lug, where the largest Russian power and oil export centre is located in the Baltic Sea.
The attack caused fire and left three workers injured.
In another attack, two people lost their lives after the remains of a drone hit a residential building in the Russian region of Smolensk, bordering Belarus, regional authorities reported.
The Russian Defence Ministry announced on November 11th that its air defence forces had seized and destroyed 627 Ukrainian drones overnight.
The Ukrainian Army did not confirm the attacks on Russian territory.
Source Layer: RTKLive