Key Takeaways from the ISW: US, Ukrainian, and Russian delegations continued trilateral talks in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE) on February 4. Senior Kremlin officials and mouthpieces reiterated Russia’s commitments to its war goals and explicitly rejected Western-backed security guarantees for Ukraine, likely to set information conditions to reject any peace deal that does not concede to Russian demands. The United States concluded a deal to transport liquified natural gas (LNG) to