American negotiators’ call for “a broader European security architecture” echoes Kremlin talking points, European officials and experts worry.
November 9, 2026 at 9:24 a.m. EST2 minutes ago
Jared Kushner, center, U.S. President Donald Trump's son-in-law, and U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff, right, wait with Russian envoy Kirill Dmitriev before a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow in September. (Gavriil Grigorov/Reuters)
Russia is already celebrating a strategic win — even before new talks on ending its war in Ukraine open Tuesday in Abu Dhabi — after Moscow succeeded in drawing the Trump administration into calling for a new framework for “a broader European security architecture” as part of any peace deal, Western and Russian officials and analysts said.
