Russia and Ukraine hold nearly 4 hours of US-mediated talks in Abu Dhabi

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Russia and Ukraine on Tuesday held their first U.S.-mediated talks in nine months on ending the 4 1/2-year-old war, with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio calling the meeting “very productive” and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy saying the session was “constructive and quite substantive.”Hopes of ending Europe’s biggest conflict since World War II are tempered, however, by the absence of any significant breakthroughs in three previous rounds of talks earlier this year.kAm%96C6VD ?@E9:?8 E@ DF886DE 2 ?6H A@DEFC6 E92E H@F=5 =625 E@ 2 3C62DE2?46D DFCC@F?5:?8 E96 E2=6 @7 E96 k2 9C67lQ9EEADi^^2A?6HD]4@>^2CE:4=6^>:5E6C>\6=64E:@?D\4@?8C6DD\?6H\=2H>2<6CD\ab`5`g5dbe`c`5h4`h24f6g4742ee664Qm&]$] >:5E6C> 6=64E:@?Dk^2m 2D H6== 2D :?4C62D65 AC6DDFC6 @?

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