Overview
- The trilateral meetings began in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2026, with U.S. envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, Ukraine’s Rustem Umerov, and Russia’s Vladimir Medinsky leading their sides.
- Talks are centered on crafting security guarantees and a postwar architecture, with the U.S. proposing NATO-style consultation and staged sanctions relief as possible tools.
- Moscow and Kyiv remain far apart on core issues, including control of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson, limits on Ukraine’s military, and Ukraine’s NATO ambitions.
- European Union members and NATO officials held separate coordination meetings in Abu Dhabi to press for a role in broader European security discussions, a position Moscow objects to.
- Fighting continues while negotiators meet, with recent long-range strikes on energy and civilian infrastructure raising urgency for winter humanitarian steps and complicating trust between parties.