Negotiators From Russia and Ukraine Report some Advancements in Peace Negotiations

Russian and Ukrainian negotiators said some progress was achieved in two days of peace negotiations in Abu Dhabi that ended Wednesday. They agreed to a huge prisoner swap but there was no substantial breakthrough on ending the conflict that began with Moscow’s full-scale invasion nearly five years ago.

Expectations were low for any major breakthrough at the first meeting in nine months between the delegations. Russia and Ukraine have periodically swapped POWs but have been worlds apart in their expectations for adopting a peace accord.

The post-long-pause negotiations were “very substantive” with “some pretty tough discussions”, United States ambassador, Jared Kushner, said. But there are obviously a lot of very serious issues that are being discussed, but the conversations were very thorough,” he added.

They had covered all the relevant issues and could ‘have a good exchange of ideas’”, he said. Some sectors we see locations where we can find compromises, others we need to have additional discussions. “I think this was a good start, but,” Kushner continued.

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