أبوظبي تستضيف محادثات ثلاثية بين أوكرانيا والولايات المتحدة وروسيا في نوفمبر

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The talks mark the resumption of the trilateral negotiating format after a prolonged pause. However, the first meeting is being treated as a test rather than an occasion likely to produce an immediate breakthrough. Russia may use the negotiations to seek European and NATO concessions, linking Ukraine's war to the alliance's presence in Europe, while Ukraine and European officials want discussions to include a broader post-Donbas European security framework. The talks may create conditions for a ceasefire, although Ukrainian and Russian expectations for the first session differ.

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Ukraine, the United States and Russia agreed to hold technical trilateral talks in Abu Dhabi in November following a long pause in the Washington-mediated negotiations. Russia proposed November 10, a week after the US midterm elections to Congress. Kyiv and Washington sought to persuade Moscow to agree to a meeting at least a week earlier, but by the evening of October 25 Moscow had not confirmed the date change.

The breakthrough followed contacts by US envoy Steve Witkoff. On October 20, Volodymyr Zelensky held talks in Oslo with Witkoff, Jared Kushner and European representatives. On October 21, Witkoff met Vladimir Putin in Saint Petersburg, where he proposed discussing broader European security issues after the war. Washington said it was working to organize the trilateral talks and that the process remained complex.

Ukrainian officials do not expect a breakthrough at the first session. Yuri Ushakov described it as a trial period or test run. Zelensky said Ukraine is ready to freeze hostilities along the current front line as soon as possible, and listed the preparation of a leaders' meeting to discuss ending the war among the expected outcomes.

كيف تصفه المصادر الأوكرانية

Ukrainian coverage emphasizes that Russia's return to negotiations is the minimum result of contacts with Putin and that an immediate breakthrough is not expected. Ukrainian officials seek to shift the discussion away from Moscow's territorial claims toward a future security system for Ukraine and Europe after Donbas. Ukraine's readiness to freeze hostilities along the current front line is presented as a basis for ending the war quickly.

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International coverage emphasizes Russia's possible attempt to use the Ukraine negotiations to secure NATO troop withdrawals from Eastern Europe and broader European involvement in the talks. US officials characterize the negotiations as close but complex while warning that Putin cannot be trusted. The first Abu Dhabi meeting is framed as a trial run, with Ukrainian and European officials declining to accept Moscow's NATO demands.

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Ukraine and Washington sought a meeting at least a week earlier than Russia's proposal, while Moscow had not confirmed the proposed change as of the evening of October 25. Moscow's stated willingness to consider European participation is paired with reported efforts to use the talks to obtain concessions on NATO's presence and a possible withdrawal from several eastern European NATO countries.

الخلفية

A previous round in the first half of 2026 discussed a demilitarized zone in Donbas called the Donbasland. Earlier talks did not produce a ceasefire because Moscow demanded that Ukraine surrender territory not yet occupied by Russian forces. NATO agreed in January 2022 to discuss Moscow's concerns but rejected demands to withdraw troops and nuclear weapons from former Soviet-bloc countries. Western intelligence confirms that Russia has significantly intensified hybrid attacks and provocations against European countries that support Ukraine.