Ukraine, negotiations in Abu Dhabi. Kremlin: «Kiev forces depart Donbass». More Russian assaults in the course of the night time | EUROtoday

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The most tough impediment standing in the best way of peace in Ukraine stays the territorial query. This is confirmed by the assertion from the Kremlin as the 2 days of negotiations between Kiev, Moscow and Washington start in Abu Dhabi. “The Ukrainian Armed Forces must leave the territory of Donbass,” stated spokesman Dmitry Peskov. A situation that Volodymyr Zelensky has already stated a number of occasions – and really clearly – that he can’t settle for. While the Ukrainian president assures that with Donald Trump, in Davos, he agreed on the availability of ammunition for the Patriot air protection system: “I won’t say how many missiles”.

Ukrainian and Russian delegates have returned to fulfill straight within the United Arab Emirates for the primary time since final summer season, after three rounds held in Istanbul and mediated by Turkey. However, it’s “a step forward”, Zelensky stated. And this time the information is given by the dedication made in latest days by the American mediators, who’re current in Abu Dhabi with a big delegation led by particular envoy Steve Witkoff, flanked by Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner. On Thursday the US president himself met Zelensky in Davos, whereas Witkoff and Kushner had a four-hour night-time dialog within the Kremlin with Vladimir Putin. A “frank and trust-based” assembly, which was “useful in all respects, for us and for the United States”, outlined it as Yuri Ushakov, the overseas coverage advisor to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Meanwhile, “Russia has again bombed Kiev. One person dead and three seriously injured is the toll, at the moment, of the attack launched during the night on the Ukrainian capital. This is what Ukrainska Pravda reports, citing multiple sources. The attack was carried out with drones and ballistic missiles, on three areas. A series of powerful explosions were heard in the city. In the Desnyanskyi and Holosiivskyi districts, non-residential buildings were reported hit. In the Solomyanskyi district a 6-storey office building was hit. In the Dnipro district, a fuel truck caught fire in the parking lot due to falling debris. During the night, doctors hospitalized two victims in serious condition in the Holosiivskyi district. In the Darnytsia district, a Russian attack damaged a private medical facility. The windows were damaged and one person is known to be injured,” said Tkachenko, head of the city’s military administration, and one person was reported dead and three injured.