Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani backed US-mediated Ukraine peace talks in Abu Dhabi while insisting Europe must help negotiate any settlement and warning against rewarding Russian aggression.

Ukraine has shared the identities of more than half a million Russian soldiers with its European partners. After almost a year, fewer than 1% of those names have been entered into the Schengen Information System,

Volodymyr Zelenskyy expressed cautious optimism about increased U.S. support under a Democrat-controlled Congress but warned that a U.S.-brokered security agreement between Russia and Europe should not come before an end to the war and security guarantees for Ukraine were negotiated.

Russia prisoner exchange and diplomacy will continue, but there's no sign of a breakthrough on a wider peace deal.

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Ukraine accuses the US of withholding missile warnings and restricting Starlink as Russia strikes Kyiv twice in 48 hours without advance alert.