Ukraine says ‘major differences remain’ after UAE talks with US, Russia

The prisoner-exchange agreement is a concrete, verifiable deliverable that gives all three delegations a public result to point to, which matters for sustaining the talks themselves. But the stated persistence of "major differences" signals that the trilateral format has, so far, produced humanitarian cooperation rather than movement on the core political questions. With no details on scale, timing, or which parties are releasing whom, the exchange's durability is untested. The open question is whether this narrow channel becomes a foundation for further rounds or remains the ceiling of what the UAE format can deliver.