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Ukraine and Russia<\/a> held joint peace talks Friday with the United States, the first trilateral meeting since the Kremlin’s full-scale invasion<\/a> nearly four years ago.
The talks in Abu Dhabi follow marathon overnight discussions <\/strong>at the Kremlin between President Donald Trump\u2019s envoys and Vladimir Putin. Trump met earlier Thursday with Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy<\/a>.
The two-day meeting in the United Arab Emirates signals a renewed effort to strike a deal after months of stop-start diplomacy.<\/a>
A White House official told NBC News: \u201cToday\u2019s trilateral meeting in Abu Dhabi between the United States, Ukraine, and Russia was productive. Conversations will continue tomorrow.\u201d
Zelenskyy said Friday that the talks were “important, as there have been no such trilateral formats for a long time,” but warned, “it is still too early to draw conclusions.”
But the key sticking point remains the future of territory in Ukraine’s east<\/a>, with Moscow showing little sign of budging on its hardline demands.
The Kremlin said Friday that Kyiv’s military would have to pull out of the area for any deal to end the war.
Zelenskyy announced the trilateral talks in Abu Dhabi after meeting with Trump on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland<\/a>. Trump said Thursday a deal might be \u201cgetting close.\u201d
Hours later, Putin met with Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner.
Putin\u2019s foreign policy adviser, Yuri Ushakov, told reporters the meeting was an \u201cexceptionally substantive, constructive, and, I would say, extremely frank and trusting\u201d conversation, one that was \u201cbeneficial in every way for both our and the American sides.\u201d
Witkoff said in Davos on Thursday that the negotiations were \u201cdown to one issue.\u201d While he did not elaborate, many took it to mean territorial concessions by Ukraine.
Russia has been clear that it wants the entire eastern Donbas region, which Ukraine still partially controls. Kyiv has refused to cede any territory that it still holds there, leading to an impasse that appears to have stalled negotiations.
Speaking with reporters via WhatsApp on Friday morning, Zelenskyy called the Donbas issue \u201ckey,\u201d adding that it will be discussed by the trilateral group in Abu Dhabi in the days to follow.
The trilateral meeting was \u201ca step\u201d toward ending the war, Zelenskyy said, adding: \u201cWe are not standing still.\u201d
But Ushakov reiterated after the meeting at the Kremlin that Putin\u2019s territorial demands remain the same, and that without resolving the territorial issue, \u201cthere is no hope of achieving a long-term settlement.\u201d
Asked if Russia wants full control over the Donbas, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that \u201cRussia\u2019s position is well known \u2014 Ukraine and the Ukrainian Armed Forces must leave the territory of Donbas and withdraw from there. This is a very important condition. There are also other nuances that remain on the negotiating agenda.\u201d
Trump has previously pushed of the idea of a free economic zone <\/a>in the Donbas.
Asked if the trilateral talks in Abu Dhabi could lead to a trilateral meeting between Putin, Zelenskyy and himself, Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One late Thursday: “Anytime we meet is good. If you don\u2019t meet, nothing is going to happen.”
He said he expects Putin to make concessions, because “everybody\u2019s making concessions to get it done.” Both the Russian and Ukrainian leaders want a deal, Trump added.
Zelenskyy said the Ukrainian delegation will feature his top negotiator, Rustem Umerov, and his new Chief of Staff Kyrylo Budanov.
They head into the meeting with many residents of their country’s capital still in the grip of power and heat blackouts in freezing temperatures<\/a> weeks after a massive Russian attack.
While Zelenskyy sent his top officials to Abu Dhabi, Russia’s delegation didn’t seem to carry quite so much heft.
Ushakov said Friday’s three-way talks will focus on \u201csecurity issues,\u201d and said the Russian delegation there will thus be led by by the chief of military intelligence, Adm. Igor Kostyukov. Putin\u2019s economic envoy Kirill Dmitriev will separately meet with Witkoff, he said.
Peskov told NBC News in his daily news briefing Friday that unnamed \u201cmilitary personnel\u201d will also be part of the Russian delegation.
Yuliya Talmazan is a reporter for NBC News Digital, based in London.
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