US attempts new peace push at first Russia-Ukraine talks in nine months

Russian and Ukrainian officials met in Abu Dhabi ⁠on Tuesday for their first peace talks since February as US President Donald Trump’s envoys launched a new push to end the war in Ukraine. Secretary of State Marco Rubio described the US-brokered meeting as very productive, without giving details. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called the talks “constructive and quite substantive” and said they had included humanitarian and security issues. “The release of prisoners [of war] is a...

Source: South China Morning Post