Dmitry Orlov

“Negotiators from Russia, Ukraine and the United States have concluded their two-day meeting in Abu Dhabi on Saturday without announcing any results in their efforts to end the almost-four-year-long war.  In advance of the talks, Ukraine’s chief negotiator Rustem Umerov said the discussions focused “on the parameters for ending Russia’s war and the further logic of the negotiation process”.” By Faisal Ali and Stephen Quillen via Alazeera.

This is by no means certain, but the following piece of paper was supposedly found in the trash after the talks by persons who do not wish to be named. It outlines the regions of Ukraine that would join the Russian Federation (five of them have already done so), a 300-kilometer-wide demilitarized buffer zone (which, we might suppose, is what the Russians are demanding), and the remaining four regions which will remain under the control of the Ukrainian government, which, it would be reasonable to assume, would relocate from Kiev to Lvov.

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