{"id":12597,"date":"2026-02-19T07:33:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T07:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/12597\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T07:33:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T07:33:23","slug":"ukraine-russia-talks-in-geneva-wrap-up-in-2-hours-with-no-sign-of-breakthrough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/12597\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine-Russia talks in Geneva wrap up in 2 hours with no sign of breakthrough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/ukraine?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ukrainian<\/a> and Russian negotiators concluded a second day of US-mediated talks in Geneva on Wednesday, though neither side signalled they were any closer to ending Europe\u2019s deadliest conflict since World War II.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The talks wrapped up after just two hours, much shorter than the six hours of meetings on Tuesday, according to the head of Russia\u2019s delegation.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Neither side elaborated on what they discussed or whether they had agreed on anything, but both signalled the discussions had been tricky.<\/p>\n<p>The <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/united-states?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">United States<\/a> has been pushing for an end to the nearly four-year war, but has so far failed to broker a compromise between Moscow and Kyiv on the key issue of territory.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The latest talks on Wednesday were \u201cdifficult, but businesslike\u201d, the head of Russia\u2019s delegation, Vladimir Medinsky, told Russian state media.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A woman looks at a makeshift memorial to fallen Ukrainian and foreign soldiers at Independence Square, central Kyiv, on Tuesday. Photo: AFP\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/17e73cab-e314-4b0b-a716-af58814e5545_a15c5fd1.jpg\" title=\"A woman looks at a makeshift memorial to fallen Ukrainian and foreign soldiers at Independence Square, central Kyiv, on Tuesday. Photo: AFP\"\/>A woman looks at a makeshift memorial to fallen Ukrainian and foreign soldiers at Independence Square, central Kyiv, on Tuesday. Photo: AFPUkraine\u2019s lead negotiator <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/rustem-umerov?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Rustem Umerov<\/a> said there had been progress following the conclusion of the meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ukrainian and Russian negotiators concluded a second day of US-mediated talks in Geneva on Wednesday, though neither side&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12598,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[9214,197,1001,65,1344,309,4071,4205,136,17,135,74,4073,4680,9215],"class_list":{"0":"post-12597","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-geneva","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-france","11":"tag-geneva","12":"tag-germany","13":"tag-italy","14":"tag-kyiv","15":"tag-moscow","16":"tag-russia","17":"tag-switzerland","18":"tag-ukraine","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-vladimir-medinsky","21":"tag-volodymyr-zelensky","22":"tag-zaporizhzhia"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}