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  "id": "s-438f317a",
  "edition_date": "2026-11-11",
  "section": "Escalation",
  "kicker": "Ukraine diplomacy",
  "headline": "Russia, Ukraine and U.S. End First Day of Abu Dhabi Talks",
  "deck": "The four-hour session covered humanitarian and security issues; Rubio said no resolution was close within 24 hours.",
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  "timestamp": "12:45 UTC",
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    "Russian, Ukrainian and U.S. delegations held their first U.S.-mediated talks in nine months on Tuesday in Abu Dhabi to discuss ending the four-and-a-half-year-old war. The session lasted four hours, and a second day was scheduled for Wednesday; the Guardian also reported that the first day ended after four hours. [E1][E2][E8]",
    "Delegations from Moscow and Kyiv met with Washington represented by Jared Kushner and envoy Steve Witkoff, as the United States renewed its push to stop the fighting. [E7]",
    "Neither U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio nor Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy attended the meeting in Abu Dhabi. [E6]",
    "Zelenskyy said the talks were largely about humanitarian issues, including prisoner exchanges and the return of Ukrainian civilians in captivity and children taken from Ukraine. [E5]",
    "Zelenskyy called the four-hour session “constructive and quite substantive” and said it included humanitarian and security issues. [E9]",
    "Rubio called the talks “very productive” while urging patience, saying substantial work remained and a solution was not close within the next 24 hours. [E3][E4]"
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