{"id":8106,"date":"2026-03-16T08:53:30","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T08:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/?p=8106"},"modified":"2026-03-16T08:53:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T08:53:30","slug":"first-day-of-ukraine-russia-peace-talks-in-geneva-ends-with-no-breakthroughs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/2026\/03\/16\/first-day-of-ukraine-russia-peace-talks-in-geneva-ends-with-no-breakthroughs\/","title":{"rendered":"First day of Ukraine-Russia peace talks in Geneva ends with no breakthroughs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In US-mediated peace talks in Geneva, Ukrainian and Russian negotiators concluded a tense first of two days without signaling a breakthrough on the central issue of territorial sovereignty. While President Zelenskyy expressed a readiness for a &#8220;worthy agreement,&#8221; he criticized Russia for prioritizing missile strikes over genuine diplomacy, citing recent attacks that killed several civilians. The Trump administration has increased pressure on Kyiv to &#8220;come to the table fast,&#8221; even as Russia demands full control of the eastern Donetsk region as a precondition for any deal. Conversely, Ukraine continues to reject such concessions, bolstered by recent tactical gains on the battlefield and mounting economic strain within Russia due to stagnating oil revenues. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> February 17, 2026. <strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/europe\/20260217-first-day-of-ukraine-russia-peace-talks-in-geneva-ends-with-no-breakthroughs\">france24.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In US-mediated peace talks in Geneva, Ukrainian and Russian negotiators concluded a tense first of two days without signaling a breakthrough on the central issue of territorial sovereignty. While President Zelenskyy expressed a readiness for a &#8220;worthy agreement,&#8221; he criticized Russia for prioritizing missile strikes over genuine diplomacy, citing recent attacks that killed several civilians. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":8108,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-war-conflict"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8106"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8200,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8106\/revisions\/8200"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}