Last Updated on November 13, 2026 4:05 pm by INDIAN AWAAZ
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has agreed to let European representatives join the next round of Ukraine peace talks. US envoy Steve Witkoff informed reporters of this after the talks.
Witkoff told Russian state TV after meeting Putin in the Kremlin that the move to give Europe a seat at the negotiating table at the next round of talks is a breakthrough.
But Putin’s comments that Washington must work with its European allies to understand if they want peace or war in Ukraine underlined how difficult the negotiations could become, given sharp differences between Moscow and European capitals.
Kyiv and Moscow said after two days of trilateral talks in Abu Dhabi this week that there had been some progress but that major differences remained, including on territorial issues.
The main outcome of the Abu Dhabi talks, the first direct U.S.-mediated negotiations between Russia and Ukraine in nine months, was agreement on a major exchange of prisoners of war likely to take place in the coming weeks.