US envoys meet Putin in Moscow after Abu Dhabi talks

U.S. President Donald Trump's envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner arrived in Moscow on Thursday for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin following U.S.-mediated negotiations in Abu Dhabi. The Abu Dhabi talks, which concluded Wednesday, produced an agreement on a large prisoner-of-war exchange but no breakthrough on ending the nearly five-year conflict. After meeting Putin, Kushner said he and Witkoff would travel to Dublin to meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Zelenskyy welcomed the prisoner exchange as positive but insisted Ukraine will not cede Russian-occupied territory for peace. Key hurdles remain, including postwar security guarantees, the fate of occupied land, and European involvement in negotiations, which Moscow opposes but Kushner said he aims to address.