U.S. Urges Russia to Include Europe in Broader Ukraine Talks
A round of negotiations on Ukraine has ended in Abu Dhabi without resolving the wider dispute over how future talks should be structured. After the meetings, President Trump’s envoys said they would travel to Moscow, signaling that Washington intends to keep engaging directly with the Kremlin as it seeks a broader diplomatic process.
The United States is urging Russia to include Europe in those discussions, rather than treating the war and its aftermath as an issue to be settled only between Washington and Moscow. European governments would therefore have a place in talks addressing the conflict and the security arrangements surrounding it. The Kremlin, however, is demanding that the negotiations also address European security structures, making clear that Moscow wants the agenda to extend beyond the immediate fighting in Ukraine.
The competing positions point to a difficult next stage: Washington is pressing for a wider group of participants, while Russia is seeking discussion of the European security order itself. The planned visit to Moscow suggests that those differences will be taken up in further diplomacy, following the Abu Dhabi round.
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