Overview
- U.S. special envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff will mediate working-level talks with Russia and Ukraine on November 10–11 in Abu Dhabi, with Ukraine’s senior negotiating team already en route.
- Kushner has publicly set four priorities for the sessions: end the fighting, craft postwar security guarantees, prepare a reconstruction and economic plan, and advance humanitarian measures.
- European Union, NATO and national security advisers from Britain, France, Germany and Italy are in Abu Dhabi for consultations but are not expected to sit inside the main three-way negotiation room.
- Ukrainian officials say they aim for practical steps such as prisoner exchanges, protections for energy infrastructure ahead of winter, and unblocking Black Sea grain and fertilizer shipments.
- G7 foreign ministers meeting in Paris are weighing how recent U.S. politics and disagreements over institutions like the ICC affect allied unity and the prospects for a negotiated settlement.