"Territory remains the key sticking point of negotiations - particularly around the eastern Donbas region - but Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says he has now agreed on security guarantees with the US

Zelensky has described the Abu Dhabi talks, scheduled for two days, as "a step - hopefully towards ending the war - but different things can happen"

After a meet with Zelensky in Davos yesterday, US President Donald Trump is insistent that both the Ukrainian and Russian leaders "want to make a deal" - our correspondent in Kyiv says it's time to see if Moscow is really serious about peace

And last night, Putin met with Trump envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner for talks described as "frank" by the Kremlin

This morning, Ukrainian emergency services reported a five-year-old boy was among four people killed by a drone strike, and Kyiv's mayor has urged residents to evacuate"

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So, Vlad murdered yet another child... perhaps as a sacrifice to the rare earth mineral gods.

"But it would be nave to think that Russia's appetites end at Donbas. It also claims Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions as its own, even without controlling all of their territory.

The Kremlin has ambitions of exercising control over the government in Kyiv and Ukraine's political system as a whole. This means that even if a decision is reached on Donbas, Russia is extremely unlikely to stop there."

Vitaliy Shevchenko
Russia editor, BBC Monitoring

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