The humanitarian breakthrough in Oleshky has not changed Moscow’s calculations. Putin believes he can outlast Western support for Ukraine. Director of the Centre for Democratic Integrity. As the Russian-Ukrainian war, which long ago entered a phase of attrition, grinds on, Russia, Ukraine and the United States began a new round of US-brokered trilateral talks in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, on November 10. The talks are scheduled to continue on November 11.