We are restarting our Europe live blog ahead of the US-led trilateral talks in Abu Dhabi that seek an end to the war between Russia and Ukraine.
The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said on the eve of the talks that Ukrainian battlefield successes were strengthening Kyiv’s position in negotiations.
The three-sided talks between Ukrainian, Russian and US negotiators are to open on Tuesday and will be the first substantive talks since February aimed at ending the war, which has raged on for more than four-and-a-half years.
