Ukraine, Zelensky and peace talks
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On Saturday afternoon, top Russian envoy Kirill Dmitriev said he had held a "constructive meeting with the U.S. peacemaking delegation" in Florida.
Russia continuously upgrades its Geran (Shahed) drones to beat Ukrainian defenses, but rising costs now exceed cheap interceptor drones, flipping the cost balance.
A proposal by European leaders for NATO-member troops to be stationed in Ukraine as part of a peace deal is unacceptable for Moscow, former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev has said. Follow the latest.
Negotiators will meet in the UAE this week, the Ukrainian president said,
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio recently called Donetsk the “one remaining item” in the talks. Moscow pushed back, saying other issues still need sorting out, including security guarantees for Ukraine. Even so, Donetsk is clearly where things are stuck, the New York Times reported.
The civilian death toll has been edging upward as the war grinds on. The United Nations' Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine said in January that 2025 was the deadliest for civilians in Ukraine since 2022. "A massive increase in the use of long-range weapons by the Russian armed forces" helped drive the trend, the mission said.
Five men have been arrested in Lübeck for allegedly exporting goods to Russian defense companies. Meanwhile, the Kremlin has said talks with Ukraine will continue in Abu Dhabi on Wednesday. DW has more.
It was unclear why the latest round of negotiations, which had been expected on Sunday, were postponed for several days.
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The terms of a Russian commitment to U.S. President Donald Trump to temporarily halt its bombardment of Ukraine during one of the country’s bleakest winters in years remained unclear Friday, as Ukrainians braced for even worse conditions to come next week.
Zelenskyy says Ukraine will "take corresponding steps" as Trump says Putin agreed to stop bombing Ukrainian cities for a week.
Ukrainian officials, including Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko and Energy Minister Denys Shmyhal, said widespread power outages hit parts of the country because of technical malfunctions, amid frigid winter weather conditions and a battered electric grid from a nearly four-year-long war with Russia.