- February 1, 2026
UAE To Host Ukraine-Russia-US Peace Talks On Feb 4-5: Zelenskyy
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President Zelenskyy announced US, Russian and Ukrainian envoys will hold Ukraine war talks in Abu Dhabi on February 4 and 5, aiming for a dignified resolution.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced the dates for the next trilateral meetings.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Sunday that new two-day talks between US, Russian and Ukrainian envoys on halting the Ukraine war would start in Abu Dhabi on Wednesday.
“The dates for the next trilateral meetings have been set – February 4 and 5 in Abu Dhabi,” Zelenskyy said in a post on X. “Ukraine is ready for a substantive discussion, and we are interested in ensuring that the outcome brings us closer to a real and dignified end to the war.”
According to AFP, two people were killed and seven injured in Russian attacks on Ukraine overnight and early Sunday.
One of the attacks was a drone strike on a maternity hospital in the southern city of Zaporizhzhia that injured two women undergoing a medical examination.
“Russians have struck a maternity hospital in Zaporizhzhia,” regional governor Ivan Fedorov said in a post on Telegram earlier Sunday. “The number of victims has already increased to six people,” he added later.
Hours before this, two “died due to an enemy UAV strike” in the central city of Dnipro, head of the regional military administration, Oleksandr Ganzha, said on Telegram.
The first round of negotiations took place in late January, but led to no new movement on the vital question of territory, with Moscow still demanding Kyiv cede more land in its war-torn east, which it refuses to do, Reuters reported.
Russia on Friday said it had agreed to US President Donald Trump’s request to halt strikes on Kyiv for a week, till February 1.
Trump said he made the appeal because of the “extreme cold” in Ukraine, while Kremlin officials framed it as a move to support negotiations between the two nations. Neither the US leader nor Russia clarified exactly when the request was made.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, “I can say that President Trump did indeed make a personal request to President Putin to refrain from striking Kyiv for a week until February 1 in order to create favourable conditions for negotiations.”
The Russian attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure have left thousands in Kyiv without heating during an exceptionally harsh winter. Ukrainian authorities have warned that temperatures could drop to as low as minus 30C in the coming days, with the coldest spell expected after February 1.
February 01, 2026, 17:20 IST
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