KYIV/ABU DHABI, Jan. 24 -- Ukrainian and Russian negotiators met in Abu Dhabi on Friday for two days of talks aimed at resolving key territorial disputes, with no immediate sign of compromise over the four-year war sparked by Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

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The territorial status of the Donbas region remains the central issue, with Moscow demanding that Ukraine cede the 20 per cent of Donetsk it still controls, while Kyiv insists it will not surrender land that has resisted Russian capture over the past four years of attritional conflict.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky described the Donbas dispute as the "key question" in the talks, which are be...