- US president Donald Trump’s envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner met Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow following direct peace talks between Russian and Ukrainian delegations in Abu Dhabi.
- The Abu Dhabi negotiations, which were the first direct discussions between Moscow and Kyiv in nine months, yielded no major breakthrough apart from an agreement on a large prisoner exchange.
- Kushner said that the US aims to secure Putin’s approval for European representatives to join future negotiations regarding broader European security arrangements.
- Putin warned the US envoys that any deployment of European troops to Ukraine following a ceasefire would be completely unacceptable and result in an immediate resumption of war.
- The Russian leader also maintained that any prospective peace deal must recognise Russia's border as encompassing the four Ukrainian regions annexed by Moscow in 2022.
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