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Russia-Ukraine-US talks started in Abu Dhabi: UAE
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This combination of pictures created on May 12, 2025, shows Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky. (Gavriil Grigorov and Nhac Nguyen/Various Sources/AFP)
Talks between Russia, Ukraine and the United States open in Abu Dhabi, the UAE foreign minister says, the first time the sides are known to have met face-to-face to discuss a US plan to end the nearly four-year war.
“The talks commenced today in Abu Dhabi and are scheduled to continue over two days,” Emirati Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed says in a statement.
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