One dead and at least 15 injured in Russian strikes, as talks continue between Ukraine, Russia and the US in Abu Dhabi. What we know on day 1,431Russia sent a delegation led by GRU military intelligence chief, Adm Igor Kostyukov, to day one of the peace talks between Ukraine, Russia and the US, in Abu Dhabi on Friday, indicating a focus on military rather than political negotiations. It has also repeated its demand that Ukraine leave Donbas before the talks start. The talks will resume on Saturday. The talks are the highest-level known summit between the three countries since the beginning of the war, and come as Ukraine faces a harsh winter with much of its civilian energy infrastructure damaged by Russia.The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said the three sides were meeting at “negotiator level” – in a format for the first time “in a long time”. The talks come after a seventh meeting between Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, and Vladimir Putin in Moscow, where the main topics of discussion were Russia’s demands for territory and Ukraine’s security guarantees. Witkoff was accompanied in Moscow by Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, and Josh Gruenbaum, the commissioner of the Federal Acquisition Service.Russian strikes killed one and injured at least 15 people in Kyiv and the north-eastern city of Kharkiv overnight . Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko said one person was killed in the capital and four injured, including three being treated in hospital. Klitschko said the strikes had triggered fires in districts on either side o
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