Negotiations from Russia and Ukraine came together for a second day of U.S.-mediated talks in Abu Dhabi on Saturday after an overnight wave of Russian attacks that knocked out power for millions of people in subzero winter cold.
The strikes by hundreds of Russian drones and missiles on Kyiv and Ukraine's second largest city Kharkiv prompted Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha, who was not present at the talks, to accuse Russian President Vladimir Putin of acting "cynically".
"This barbaric attack once again proves that Putin's place is not at (U.S. President Donald Trump's) Board of Peace, but in the dock of the special tribunal," Sybiha wrote on X.
A source familiar with the situation told Reuters that the talks - which Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said were the first trilateral meetings under the U.S.-mediated peace process - had resumed on Saturday morning.
Kyiv is under mounting Trump administration pressure to make concessions to reach a peace deal in the war triggered by Russia's full-scale invasion in February 2022.
