{"id":128776,"date":"2026-11-11T12:58:21","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T10:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/disinfo.md\/abu-dhabi-talks-how-kyiv-responded-to-the-us-proposal-to-divide-territory-with-russia\/"},"modified":"2026-11-12T20:40:04","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T18:40:04","slug":"abu-dhabi-talks-how-kyiv-responded-to-the-us-proposal-to-divide-territory-with-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disinfo.md\/en\/abu-dhabi-talks-how-kyiv-responded-to-the-us-proposal-to-divide-territory-with-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Abu Dhabi Talks: How Kyiv Responded to the US Proposal to Divide Territory with Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Ukraine has rejected a US proposal to redraw the boundaries of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions so that Russia could claim to have captured them in full. The Telegraph reported this, citing government sources in Kyiv<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">People familiar with the negotiations say that the Ukrainian delegation <em>\u201cnever discussed concessions regarding the territories occupied by Russia.\u201d<\/em> According to them, <em>\u201cUkraine will never recognize this\u2014either de facto or de jure. And this has always been our position at the negotiating table\u201d<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Economist previously reported that American negotiators had floated the idea of redrawing the boundaries of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions as part of a territorial agreement between Russia and Ukraine, <a href=\"https:\/\/meduza.io\/news\/2026\/11\/11\/the-telegraph-ukraina-otvergla-predlozhenie-ssha-izmenit-granitsy-donetskoy-i-luganskoy-oblastey\">Meduza<\/a> writes. According to the publication, this would allow Russia to claim it had captured both regions in full without Ukraine having to cede any territory.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The two-day talks in Abu Dhabi have concluded. On Monday, November 10, the parties discussed post-war security guarantees for Ukraine and Russia, as well as prisoner exchanges. The second day focused on territorial issues, but at the time of publication, no official announcements had been made about the matters discussed.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukraine has rejected a US proposal to redraw the boundaries of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions so that Russia could claim to have captured them in full. The Telegraph reported this, citing government sources in Kyiv. People familiar with the negotiations say that the Ukrainian delegation \u201cnever discussed concessions regarding the territories occupied by Russia.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":100865,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1135],"tags":[21204,15397,14963,1203,15008],"class_list":["post-128776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-foreign-affairs-en","tag-abu-dhabi-2","tag-negotiations-2","tag-russia-2","tag-ucraina-en","tag-usa"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Abu Dhabi Talks: How Kyiv Responded to the US Proposal to Divide Territory with Russia - DISINFO.MD<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Abu Dhabi Talks: How Kyiv Responded to the US Proposal to Divide Territory with Russia\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/disinfo.md\/en\/abu-dhabi-talks-how-kyiv-responded-to-the-us-proposal-to-divide-territory-with-russia\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Abu Dhabi Talks: How Kyiv Responded to the US Proposal to Divide Territory with Russia - 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