Putin Lets Europe Join Next Ukraine Talks as Kyiv Reports Fresh Starshield Disruptions
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Updated · Reuters · Nov 12
Putin Lets Europe Join Next Ukraine Talks as Kyiv Reports Fresh Starshield Disruptions
3 articles · Updated · Reuters · Nov 12
Summary
Steve Witkoff said Putin agreed to include European representatives in the next round of Ukraine peace talks after U.S.-Russian talks in Moscow, a potential opening after the first direct U.S.-mediated contacts in nine months.
Putin paired that concession with a warning that Europe must choose "peace or war," and said any postwar deployment of Western troops in Ukraine would trigger renewed conflict.
Volodymyr Zelenskiy, speaking after this week's Abu Dhabi talks, said Starshield disruptions had hit the entire front line again, slowing Ukrainian interceptors against Russian jet-powered drones.
The diplomatic opening remains narrow: Kyiv still rejects ceding the rest of Donbas, while Putin reiterated demands tied to full control of four claimed regions and broader limits on NATO activity in eastern Europe.