Delegations from Ukraine, Russia and the United States met in Abu Dhabi on 5 February 2026 for the second day of trilateral talks aimed at finding a way to end the nearly four‑year war.
Kyiv reported a Russian drone strike on Kyiv that injured two people, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said, with debris falling near a shopping centre, windows shattered at a nearby kindergarten, damage to residential buildings and a fire on the roof of an office complex. Ukraine’s military said Russia launched 183 drones and two ballistic missiles overnight, and that 156 of those drones were intercepted.
Ukraine described Wednesday’s opening day in the Emirati capital as “substantive and productive,” but no breakthrough was announced. The core dispute remains control of territory in eastern Ukraine. Moscow has pressed Kyiv to withdraw forces from large parts of the Donbas, including heavily fortified cities atop significant natural resources, as a condition for any deal. Kyiv rejects such pullbacks and says any settlement should effectively freeze the conflict along the current front line.
At the same time, Russian strikes continued to damage Ukraine’s power infrastructure, leaving many people — including residents of Kyiv — without electricity amid temperatures reported as low as −20°C (−4°F). President Volodymyr Zelenskyy cautioned that the talks must produce “real peace” and must not give Russia an opening to continue the war; he also disclosed a rare official figure of 55,000 Ukrainian troop deaths.
Negotiators from all three countries remained in Abu Dhabi for further discussions. Officials said they would continue talks and that developments would be monitored and reported as the process unfolds.