US seeking to revive Russia-Ukraine ceasefire talks

The United States is working to arrange a new round of talks in a bid to end the four-and-a-half-year Russia-Ukraine war .

Kyiv and Moscow both confirmed the plan to relaunch trilateral talks on Friday. The move follows negotiations that started earlier this year before the US efforts to broker an end to hostilities petered out amid Washington’s war on Iran.

The United Arab Emirates is mooted as the host of the new talks.

“The American side has proposed meeting at a technical level in a three-way ⁠⁠format,” Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told reporters. “We are awaiting a ⁠⁠proposal from the United States ⁠⁠regarding the date ⁠⁠and the US has suggested the Emirates as ‌‌a possible location.”

Later, the Kremlin confirmed that a trilateral meeting could be soon, although spokesman Dmitry Peskov said there were no details to ⁠⁠add currently.

President Donald Trump’s envoys, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner visited Russia and Ukraine earlier this month in a bid to jump-start the bid to secure a ceasefire.

The US stance has previously been criticised for favouring Russia’s narrative, with Moscow insisting that Ukraine cede territory that Russia has illegally occupied, demilitarise and drop ambitions to join NATO.

Russia’s presidential envoy Kirill Dmitriev reportedly met with Witkoff ‌‌and ‌‌Kushner in the US on September 24. Peskov said those talks were about potential economic cooperation.