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

Peace talks between Russia, Ukraine and the US are set to get underway in the United Arab Emirates. The two day talks are the first such meeting since February. DW has the latest updates.

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky outlined some of the critical points in the talk in Abu Dhabi, saying they are working on a "large-scale exchange of prisoners," adding that US officials would travel to Russia to discuss the matter further. Russia appeared to be looking ahead at the bigger security picture. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov underlined Moscow's goal of negotiating a broad European security framework before tackling the specifics of the war.

"The idea of defining clear parameters for a future security architecture, and only then moving on to resolving the actual Russia-Ukraine conflict, is absolutely reasonable," he said in Moscow.