Abu DhabiThe US wants a new security framework covering Europe.
Europe fears Washington will settle its security with Russia, without a European seat.
Russia sent Sergei Ryabkov, the diplomat tied to its pre-invasion demand for NATO withdrawal.
A Russian delegation source calls settling the war “merely one item on the agenda.”
Talks resume Wednesday, with a prisoner exchange and an offer from India of Black Sea food corridors pending.
How each outlet framed it
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- Dawn
- foregrounds Europe's exclusion from the table, with Rubio calling for Europeans to be included eventually
- TASS leans favorable
- relays Dmitriev's praise of Witkoff and Kushner as 'peacemakers' against 'warmongers and their bots', and confirms no European delegates were present
- France 24
- reports Zelensky's note that negotiators were working on a possible major prisoner exchange
- Al Jazeera Online
- frames India as a potential broker of Black Sea 'food corridors', tying the talks to grain and sunflower-oil shortages in importing countries
Sources: Dawn, TASS, France 24, Al Jazeera Online