Russia and Ukraine agree to a large exchange of prisoners of war, officials at Abu Dhabi talks say
- On Thursday, U.S. presidential envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff announced that Russia and Ukraine agreed to expand upcoming peace talks to include European nations as Washington works toward the war's largest prisoner exchange.
- Before this announcement, Kushner and Witkoff held meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Dublin, following an initial round of peace negotiations in Abu Dhabi.
- Expansion of talks to include European partners would allow tackling "broader postwar European security arrangements alongside the territorial issues between Ukraine and Russia," Kushner said, with a lasting end to fighting requiring "reciprocal" de-escalation commitments.
- Speaking in Dublin after the meeting, Zelensky called the upcoming exchange a "real result" of the talks and added that it gave Kyiv "hope that we will end this war," despite major differences on territorial issues.
- Putin agreed to let European representatives join the next round of talks but urged Washington to clarify if European allies truly want peace, with the schedule remaining unannounced.
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Jared Kushner, US President Donald Trump's son-in-law attends a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, on Nov. 12, 2026. (Sputnik/Vyacheslav Prokofiev/Pool via Reuters)
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Officials at US-mediated talks between Russia and Ukraine announced on Wednesday that both sides have agreed to a large exchange of prisoners of war, following peace talks in Abu Dhabi this week. US Special Envoy Jared Kushner and Ukrainian Head of the Foreign Intelligence Service Rustem Umerov in a press conference announced that the talks were productive and would lead to a prisoner exchange. Kushner said that it would be the “biggest humanita…
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