Yet there are signs that what comes out of this week’s face-to-face negotiations may finally answer a key question: Is Russian President Vladimir Putin serious?Drew Angerer/AFP via Getty Images

Is Putin ready for peace? Abu Dhabi talks will tell. – POLITICO

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Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor and a foreign affairs columnist at POLITICO Europe.

Another round of U.S.-brokered Ukraine talks commence today in Abu Dhabi.

The overall outlook remains no less bleak for Ukraine, as it inches toward the fourth anniversary of Russia’s war. Yet there are signs that what comes out of this week’s face-to-face negotiations may finally answer a key question: Is Russian President Vladimir Putin serious?