U.S., Russia conform to re-establish military-to-military dialogue following Ukraine talks

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The U.S. and Russia agreed on Thursday to re-establish high-level military-to-military dialogue following a gathering between senior Russian and American navy officers in Abu Dhabi, the USA European Command mentioned in an announcement.

The settlement was reached following conferences between Gen. Alexus Grynkewich, the commander of U.S. European Command — who can also be NATO's supreme allied commander, Europe — and senior Russian and Ukrainian navy officers, the assertion mentioned.

The channel "will present a constant military-to-military contact because the events proceed to work in direction of an enduring peace," the assertion mentioned. Excessive-level navy communication was suspended in 2021, simply earlier than Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Grynkewich was within the capital of the United Arab Emirates the place talks between U.S., Russian and Ukrainian officers on ending the battle in Ukraine entered a second day and as Moscow escalated its assaults on Ukraine's energy grid.

Russia continues to focus on Ukraine's electrical energy community, aiming to disclaim civilians energy and weaken their urge for food for the battle, whereas preventing continues alongside the roughly 1,000-kilometre entrance line snaking alongside japanese and southern elements of Ukraine.

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U.S. President Donald Trump says he satisfied Russian President Vladimir Putin to pause assaults on Ukraine’s energy grid throughout one of many coldest winters in years. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy recommended Russia has merely shifted to different targets. Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy revealed that 55,000 Ukrainian troops have died since Russia's invasion nearly 4 years in the past. "And there's a lot of individuals whom Ukraine considers lacking," he mentioned in an interview broadcast by French TV channel France 2 late Wednesday.

The final time Zelenskyy gave a determine for battlefield deaths, in early 2025, he mentioned 46,000 Ukrainian troops had been killed.

The delegations from Moscow and Kyiv had been joined Thursday within the capital of the United Arab Emirates by U.S. particular envoy Steve Witkoff and U.S. President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, based on Rustem Umerov, Ukraine's nationwide safety and defence council chief, who was current on the assembly.

They had been additionally ultimately month's talks in the identical place because the Trump administration tries to steer the 2 nations towards a settlement. On the time, Zelenskyy described the difficulty of who would management the Donbas industrial heartland of japanese Ukraine as "key."

Officers have supplied no details about any progress within the discussions.

Zelenskyy has repeatedly mentioned his nation wants safety ensures from the U.S. and Europe to discourage any postwar Russian assaults.

Ukrainians should really feel that there's real progress towards peace and "not towards a situation through which the Russians exploit every thing to their benefit and proceed their strikes," Zelenskyy mentioned on social media late Wednesday.

Final yr noticed a 31 per cent enhance in Ukrainian civilian casualties in contrast with 2024, the advocacy group Human Rights Watch mentioned in a report printed Wednesday.

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Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk arrived in Kyiv on an official go to Thursday.

Two individuals had been injured within the Ukrainian capital because of in a single day Russian drone strikes, Mayor Vitali Klitschko mentioned. Within the wider Kyiv area, a person suffered a shrapnel chest wound, authorities mentioned.

Russia fired 183 drones and two ballistic missiles at Ukraine in a single day, based on the Ukrainian air drive.

Russian air defences downed 95 Ukrainian drones in a single day over a number of areas, the Azov Sea and Crimea, which Russia illegally annexed in 2016, Russia's Defence Ministry mentioned.