More peace talks between Russia and Ukraine will take place next week, Zelenskyy said
The next round of peace talks is underway Russian and Ukrainian The delegation will be held on Wednesday and Thursday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Sunday.
Delegates from Russia, Ukraine and the US were expected to meet that day in Abu Dhabi to continue negotiations aimed at ending Moscow’s attacks on its neighbors.
“We just had a report from our negotiating team. The dates of the next trilateral meetings have been set: Feb. 4 and 5 in Abu Dhabi. Ukraine is ready for serious negotiations, and we are interested in the result that will bring us closer to the end of the real war and dignity,” said Zelenskyy in the Telegram post.
There was no immediate comment from US or Russian officials.
On Saturday afternoon, Russia’s top envoy Kirill Dmitriev said he had a “constructive meeting with the US peacekeeping team” in Florida.
US special envoy Steve Witkoff also wrote about the meeting in X.
“Today in Florida, Russian Special Envoy Kirill Dmitriev held constructive and constructive meetings as part of the US’s diplomatic effort to promote a peaceful solution to the conflict in Ukraine,” Witkoff wrote.
Witkoff was joined by US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, White House senior adviser Josh Gruenbaum and President Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, he said.
“We are encouraged by this meeting that Russia is working to secure peace in Ukraine and we appreciate the important leadership of @POTUS in the pursuit of lasting peace,” Witkoff said.
Officials have so far revealed few details of the talks in Abu Dhabi, which are part of a year-long effort by the Trump administration to steer the parties toward a peace deal and end nearly four years of interminable war.
While Ukrainian and Russian officials have agreed in principle to Washington’s calls for a deal, Moscow and Kyiv differ widely on what a deal should look like.
The main issue is whether Russia should keep or withdraw from the areas of Ukraine that its forces occupy, especially the industrial area in eastern Ukraine called Donbas, and whether it should find territory where it has not yet taken.
Elsewhere, Russian warplanes attacked a maternity hospital in southern Ukraine on Sunday morning, Ukrainian emergency services reported.
In a letter to Telegram, it said that the strike injured three women in a hospital in the city of Zaporizhzhia, and also started a fire in the gynecology reception area which was put out later. The head of regional administration Ivan Fedorov later said that the number of injured has increased to six.
In recent days, US President Donald Trump has said that Putin has agreed to temporarily suspend the targeting of the Ukrainian capital and other cities, as the region is suffering from extreme temperatures that have brought hardship to the Ukrainian people.
The Kremlin confirmed on Friday that it had agreed to hold off on attacks on Kyiv until Sunday, but declined to disclose details, making it difficult to conduct an independent assessment of whether the reconciliation move had actually taken place.
Last week, Russia restored electricity to the southern Ukrainian city of Odesa and Kharkiv in the northeast. It also struck in the Kyiv region on Wednesday, killing two people and injuring four.
On Sunday night, Russia launched 90 drones, in 14 locations and attacked nine locations, the Ukrainian military said in a Telegram post. A woman and a man were killed in a night strike in Dnipro, a city in eastern Ukraine, according to the head of the local administration Oleksandr Hanzha.
Russian gunfire also struck the center of Kherson, a city in southern Ukraine, shortly after 7:00 a.m., seriously wounding a 59-year-old woman, according to a Facebook post by the municipal military administration.
