রাশিয়া, ইউক্রেন

xwhatsapp-strokecopylinkgoogleAdd Al Jazeera on GoogleinfoUkrainian রাষ্ট্রপতি Volodymyr Zelenskyy with US special envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner in Kyiv, ইউক্রেন, on September 6, 2026 [File: Valentyn Ogirenko/Reuters]By Al Jazeera Staff, AP and ReutersPublished On 10 Nov 202610 Nov 2026Negotiators from রাশিয়া and ইউক্রেন are set to meet for peace talks brokered by the যুক্তরাষ্ট্র in Abu Dhabi, with Ukrainian রাষ্ট্রপতি Volodymyr Zelenskyy saying that recent gains on the battlefield had strengthened his country’s hand.। 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. The US side is led by US রাষ্ট্রপতি Donald Trump’s envoys, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, who have spearheaded Washington’s mediation.। The three delegations last met in Geneva on February 18.।

“Ukrainian forces are currently genuinely strengthening ইউক্রেন’s negotiating position,” Zelenskyy said in his nightly video address on Monday. He said রাশিয়া was “suffering record losses”, a claim Moscow disputes, and urged Washington to persuade the Kremlin to end the war.। Zelenskyy said General Mykhailo Drapatyi had presented a report on ইউক্রেন’s military positions that pointed to heavy recent Russian losses, and that ইউক্রেন’s long-range strikes on targets inside রাশিয়া, including oil facilities, were having an effect.। “We are responding to রাশিয়া’s war in a fully justified manner and demonstrating that this war must end,” he said. “রাশিয়া can do this. It can end its war. It is important that the যুক্তরাষ্ট্র convince রাশিয়া of precisely this.”।

In Washington, DC, Trump told reporters that he saw a “very strong inclination” towards ending the war and that both sides were “tired of fighting”.। “We’re having a very good conversation about that in Abu Dhabi,” he said.। Trump had promised to end the war quickly when he took office in January 2025, but a settlement has remained elusive nearly five years after রাশিয়া launched its full-scale invasion in February 2022.।

A US official, briefing reporters on the condition of anonymity, said on Monday that both রাশিয়া and ইউক্রেন had privately shown some flexibility on a possible exchange of territory. Security guarantees for ইউক্রেন would be a central topic, the official said, including the possibility of a defence commitment modelled on Article 5 of NATO’s founding treaty.। Both ইউক্রেন and রাশিয়া have been adamant about territory.। ইউক্রেন wants রাশিয়া pushed back to the original border between the two countries, while Russian রাষ্ট্রপতি Vladimir Putin wants to obtain all of the Donbas region.।

রাশিয়া occupies roughly 20 percent of ইউক্রেন, 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.। The US official said any territorial চুক্তি would most likely come at the end of the negotiations, once other issues, including a post-war security framework, had been settled.। US Secretary of State Marco Rubio meanwhile struck a cautious note, saying that the process to end the war still has “a ways to go”.।

“We’ll keep trying. And that’s what we’ve 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,” Rubio said.। Rustem Umerov, the head of ইউক্রেন’s Foreign Intelligence Service, will again lead the country’s delegation, according to The Kyiv Independent. রাশিয়া’s team will be headed by Vladimir Medinsky, a Kremlin aide, and will include Sergei Ryabkov, a deputy পররাষ্ট্রমন্ত্রী, as well as Yuri Zhigarlovsky, a senior military officer.। European powers, including France, Germany and the European Commission, will send কর্মকর্তারা to the talks in Abu Dhabi, but রাশিয়া has made it clear it doesn’t want the Europeans to take part in negotiations.।

Dmitry Peskov, the Kremlin spokesman, said the talks would focus on security guarantees. European কর্মকর্তারা would not take part, he added, because the negotiations had been agreed to as a three-way format.। “What will take place in Abu Dhabi in the coming days is trilateral negotiations between রাশিয়া and ইউক্রেন with US mediation,” Peskov said. “As for the presence of Europeans, you know that the Americans have their own channels of communication with Europeans, and Ukrainians with Europeans.”।