Russia, Ukraine and US start second day of Abu Dhabi peace talks

Russian, Ukrainian and US officials began a second day of peace talks in Abu Dhabi on Wednesday, resuming meetings which Kyiv and Washington ​depicted on Monday as constructive but produced no early signs of a breakthrough. Ukrainian and Russian negotiators gave no details after Monday's US-brokered talks, the ‌first between the two warring sides since February, and Moscow and Kyiv went into the talks far apart on terms for a possible settlement.

"We are starting the second day of the talks," Rustem Umerov, Ukraine's top negotiator, said on the Telegram app. "First, there will be a trilateral format with the United States and Russia.

After that, we will have a separate meeting with the ​European partners." US Secretary of State Marco Rubio ⁠described the first day of talks as very productive, without giving details. The second day of talks is the last day when meetings are scheduled.