Russia's President Vladimir Putin, accompanied by Kremlin foreign policy adviser Yuri Ushakov, meets with U.S. envoys at the Kremlin in Moscow on November 12, 2026.Sputnik pool photo by Vyacheslav Prokofyev/AFP via Getty Images

What Vladimir Putin won in Abu Dhabi Ukraine peace talks – POLITICO

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Jamie Dettmer is associate editor and a foreign affairs columnist for POLITICO.

The Russians surely must be stoked with the outcome of the latest round of U.S.-brokered Ukraine talks in Abu Dhabi. In the United Arab Emirates, Donald Trump’s envoys endorsed the Kremlin’s long-standing demand for everything to be negotiated in one fell swoop.

And the U.S. president subsequently raised the prospect of a “very big” deal involving all of Europe.