US Army Secretary Dan Driscoll is leading negotiations with a Russian delegation in Abu Dhabi. Kiev confirms: “Trump-Zelensky meeting by the end of November”. During the night, dozens of missiles and hundreds of drones hit Ukraine
In the tragic Ukrainian conflict, war and diplomacy now continue hand in hand. While people continue to die on the battlefield, the diplomatic front it’s getting hotter and hotter; as reported by ReutersAlready since yesterday Russian and American delegations have been negotiating the peace plan in the United Arab Emirates.
Talks underway between the US and Russia in Abu Dhabi
Leading the American negotiating team is Dan DriscollU.S. Army secretary who last week went to Kiev to explain the 28-point American peace plan to Zelensky in detail and listen to input from the Ukrainian side.
However, the composition of the Russian negotiating team is not known, as is the content of the ongoing negotiations, which will continue today. Again according to Reuters, at the end of the talks, a meeting between the American negotiating team and a Ukrainian delegation is scheduled for today.
Yesterday the Ukrainian side announced the results of the meeting held in Geneva over the weekend between the US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the Ukrainian presidential assistant Andriy Yermak. Talks that led to a review of the American peace plan, reduced to 19 points with the elimination of the most controversial provisions
Trump-Zelensky meeting by the end of November
The latter, which incidentally are also the most important ones, will be discussed in a bilateral between Trump and Zelenskyas expressly declared on Monday by the Ukrainian President and confirmed today by the Secretary of the Security Council Rustem Umerov.
“We plan to organize a visit by the President (Zelensky, ed.) to the United States as soon as possible in November to complete the final stages of the plan and reach an agreement with Trump,” Umerov said.
Missiles on Kiev
While diplomacy takes its course, the war continues unabated. In the night between Monday and Tuesday Russian Aerospace Forces attacked Kiev again with more than 20 missiles and several dozen drones.
The targets hit were all the electrical, thermal and hydroelectric plants in the capitalwhich in many areas saw the interruption of electricity and heating.
Also yesterday, dozens of drones hit the port city of Odessa and the eastern city of Kharkiv. In both cases, as in Kiev, energy infrastructure was affected. The provisional balance of the night of attacks speaks of at least 6 civilians dead.
Ukrainian drones in southern Russia
The night also saw an attack of Ukrainian long-range drones against targets in southern Russiaespecially in the Krasnodar region. Ukrainian drones attacked the base of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in Novorossiysk and the city’s port infrastructure.
The city of also hit Taganrogin the Rostov border region, where it is the Beriev aircraft plant was attacked. The attacks caused the death of 3 civilians.
Moscow pushes for original 28-point plan
The original planopposed by the EU and Ukraine, he predicted the impossibility for Kiev to join NATOa limit on the armed forces of 600 thousand men, the impossibility of stationing troops belonging to NATO countries in Ukraine and the cession of the entire Donbass to Russia.
Precisely regarding these provisions, the Russian Foreign Minister spoke in the morning Sergei Lavrov he declared to the Interfax agency that Moscow received only the original plan, and not the version amended in Geneva.
The head of Russian diplomacy then declared that Russia will not accept the “cancellation” of the peace plan of President Trump, who respected “the spirit of Anchorage.”
Translated, The plan’s tougher provisions, which will be discussed by Trump and Zelensky, must be part of the final deal, or Moscow will not accept it.
