Negotiators from Russia, Ukraine and the U.S. are to meet Tuesday and Wednesday in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, in the latest bid to end the war.
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Negotiators → meet → war
Ukrainian and Russian delegations meet in neighboring Belarus for the first time after the invasion.
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delegations → meet → invasion
Talks continue for two weeks, deciding only on humanitarian corridors for evacuating civilians.
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Talks → continue → civilians
Russian and Ukrainian Foreign Ministers Sergey Lavrov and Dmytro Kuleba meet in Antalya, Turkey.
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Lavrov → meet → Antalya
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy calls for direct talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, an idea rebuffed by Lavrov.
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Zelenskyy → call → Lavrov
Delegations meet in Istanbul to work on a draft peace agreement.
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Delegations → meet → agreement
Moscow says it’s willing to “fundamentally cut back” military activity near Kyiv and the northern city of Chernihiv; Ukraine says it’s open to discussing neutral status for Ukraine if its security is backed by other nations.
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security → say → nations
Lavrov rejects a Ukrainian proposal as “unacceptable,” saying Kyiv has walked back on an agreement to exempt the Crimean Peninsula from wider Ukrainian security guarantees.
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Kyiv → reject → guarantees
Russia illegally annexed Crimea in 2014.
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Russia → annex → 2014
U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres visits Russia to discuss ending the war.
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Guterres → visit → war
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin calls his Russian counterpart, their first contact since war began.
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war → call → contact
Russia and Ukraine, with mediation by Turkey and the U.N., agree to unblock grain supplies stuck in Ukraine’s Black Sea ports.
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Russia → agree → ports
Russia withdraws from the deal a year later.
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Russia → withdraw → deal
Russia illegally annexes the Ukrainian regions of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson, even though it doesn’t fully control any of them.
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it → annex → them
Ukraine responds by applying to join NATO and by enacting a decree that declares negotiations with Putin “impossible.”
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negotiations → respond → Putin
Zelenskyy unveils a 10-point peace plan at the G20 summit in Indonesia.
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Zelenskyy → unveil → Indonesia
African leaders travel to Kyiv and St. Petersburg on a peace mission, without success.
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leaders → travel → success
Officials from 15 countries, including the U.S., India, Brazil, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and several representatives from the European Union, meet in Copenhagen, Denmark, to discuss Zelenskyy’s peace plan.
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Officials → include → plan
Two days of discussions on the war begin in Saudi Arabia with delegates from 40 countries, including China, India, South Africa and Brazil, but not Russia.
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days → begin → China
No joint statements are issued.
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statements → issue → ?
Delegates from 65 countries meet in Malta to continue talks on Zelenskyy’s peace plan.
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Delegates → meet → plan
Russia, which dismissed the talks, was not invited.
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which → dismiss → talks
China, though invited, did not participate.
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China → invite → ?
Representatives of 92 nations meet in Nidwalden, Switzerland, to discuss Ukraine’s peace plan, but a consensus remains elusive.
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consensus → meet → plan
The summit’s final statement is backed by most — but not all — participants.
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statement → back → participants
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump travels to Paris and meets Zelenskyy and other European leaders.
Feb. 12, 2025:
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Trump → travel → Zelenskyy
Trump and Putin speak directly via telephone and agree to begin negotiations on ending the war.
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Trump → speak → war
The conversation ends a three-year U.S.-led effort to isolate Putin.
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conversation → end → Putin
Russian and U.S. officials, including Lavrov and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, meet in Saudi Arabia and agree to work toward ending the war, as well as restoring bilateral ties.
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officials → include → ties
Ukrainian officials are not invited.
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officials → invite → ?
Zelenskyy holds a contentious meeting with Trump, Rubio and Vice President JD Vance in the White House.
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Zelenskyy → hold → House
A proposed minerals deal between the countries is left unsigned.
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deal → propose → countries
U.S. and Ukrainian officials meet in Saudi Arabia, with Americans proposing a plan for a 30-day ceasefire.
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Americans → meet → ceasefire
Kyiv agrees to the proposed truce.
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Kyiv → agree → truce
Putin effectively rejects the ceasefire plan, stating certain issues still must be resolved.
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issues → reject → plan
He also meets with U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff in Moscow.
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He → meet → Moscow
Witkoff travels to Russia twice more in April to meet Putin.
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Witkoff → travel → Putin
The U.S. holds separate talks with each side in Saudi Arabia.
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U.S. → hold → Arabia
The White House says they agreed to a Black Sea truce.
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they → say → truce
Russia and Ukraine meet directly in Istanbul, under Turkish mediation, for the first time in three years and agree to swap 1,000 prisoners from each side.
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Russia → meet → side
…and 30 more, not listed.
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