Back to square one?: After Wednesday’s meeting between Vladimir Putin and US envoy Steve Witkoff in St Petersburg, the Kremlin says Russia is "in principle" ready to resume trilateral negotiations with Ukraine and the US in mid-November, with Abu Dhabi emerging as a possible venue, my colleague Sasha Vakulina reports.
But we have been here before. Moscow has repeatedly entertained negotiations without softening its maximalist demands, Sasha writes. This time appears no different: Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov has suggested that proposals Witkoff brought from his talks with Zelenskyy and European leaders in Oslo offered little Russia considered useful.
