04/02/2026 - 07:00 Russian drone strike kills 2 in Ukraine's Dnipropetrovsk region, official says 04/02/2026 - 06:46 Ukraine, Russia, US negotiators gather in Abu Dhabi for war talks Negotiators from Ukraine, Russia and the United States were set to gather in Abu Dhabi on Wednesday, seeking to advance fraught talks on how to end the four-year war. Several rounds of diplomacy between the sides have failed to strike a deal on ending Europe's deadliest conflict since World War II, which began when Russia invaded in February 2022. The main sticking point is the long-term fate of territory in eastern Ukraine. Moscow is demanding that Kyiv pull its troops out of swathes of the Donbas, including heavily fortified cities atop vast natural resources, as a precondition of any deal. It also wants international recognition that land seized in the invasion belongs to Russia. Kyiv has said the conflict should be frozen along the current front line and has rejected a unilateral pull-back of forces

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