Trump envoy reports "productive" meetings with Russian envoy on Ukraine peace deal, days after touting progress made toward peace after years of war.

Jan 31 (Reuters) - President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Saturday that Ukraine was waiting for more information from the United States about further peace talks and expected new meetings to take place next week.

Ukrainian, Russian and U.S. envoys are meeting in the United Arab Emirates, the first known instance that officials from the Trump administration have sat down with both countries as part of Washington’s push to end Moscow’s nearly 4-year-old invasion.

Kremlin negotiator Kirill Dmitriev has returned to the United States ahead of another round of Ukraine-Russia peace talks scheduled for Sunday in Abu Dhabi. "Back in Miami," Dmitriev wrote on Instagram on Saturday,

KYIV, Ukraine -- A Russian drone attack killed three people in Ukraine’s southern Zaporizhzhia region overnight, authorities said Thursday, as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned that Moscow is planning another large-scale barrage despite plans for further U.S.-brokered peace talks at the weekend.

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US says both sides are close to a deal, but they have so far been unable to find a compromise on the key issue of territory in a post-war settlement

Ukraine said Russia had launched 375 drones and 21 missiles, which once again targeted energy infrastructure, knocking out power and heat for large parts of Kyiv.

The Russian delegation in ongoing peace talks with Ukraine has seen a "qualitative change," Ukraine's Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said in an interview with European Pravda published on Jan. 27.