NEW talks on ending Russia’s war with Ukraine will take place this week, a senior Kremlin official said today, amid continued fighting and deadly long-range attacks.

The trilateral negotiations with the US will be held tomorrow and Thursday in Abu Dhabi, where a previous round took place last month, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Sunday that he would send a delegation to the talks.

The meeting had originally been scheduled for the weekend but was postponed due to what Mr Peskov described as scheduling conflicts.

Mr Peskov characterised the negotiations as “very complex.”

“On some issues, we have certainly come closer because there have been discussions, conversations, and on some issues it is easier to find common ground,” he told reporters.

“There are issues where it’s more difficult to find common ground.”

Russian presidential envoy Kirill Dmitriev travelled to Miami, Florida, over the weekend for talks with US officials, though Mr Peskov declined to provide details.

Meanwhile, Russian drones and missiles have continued to strike civilian areas across Ukraine.

On Sunday, a bus carrying miners home from a shift in the eastern Dnipropetrovsk region was hit, killing 12 people, Ukraine’s largest private energy firm DTEK said.

State emergency services reported at least 15 others were injured.

The sustained attacks have further damaged Ukraine’s power grid, leaving many people without heating, electricity and running water during freezing winter temperatures.

Defence Minister Mykhailo Fedorov said today that authorities were taking steps to prevent Russia from using Starlink satellite services to guide its drones.

Senior Kremlin security official Dmitry Medvedev said earlier that the global situation was becoming increasingly dangerous, but stressed that Russia did not want a wider conflict.

Mr Medvedev, former president and deputy chairman of Russia’s security council, praised US President Donald Trump and said it was encouraging that contacts with Washington had resumed.

However, he warned that Western governments had repeatedly ignored Russian interests.

“The situation is very dangerous,” Mr Medvedev said. “The pain threshold seems to be decreasing.

“We are not interested in a global conflict. We’re not crazy. [But] a global conflict cannot be ruled out.”