Kushner said the numbers come tomorrow.

ABU DHABI — The talks ended Wednesday with a prisoner exchange and no peace. Jared Kushner, son-in-law of President Trump, put the one result this way: “One of the positives is we agreed that we’re going to have the biggest humanitarian release of prisoners, which we’re going to finalize the numbers tomorrow.” Vladimir Medinsky, head of the Russian delegation, and Rustem Umerov, who led Kyiv’s side, confirmed the exchange. Medinsky called it an agreement “in principle.” The Associated Press gave no figure. This paper does not invent one.

It was the first meeting of the delegations in nine months. Neither side has moved off its demands. Kushner and Steve Witkoff, U.S. envoy, go to Moscow on Thursday to see President Vladimir Putin, then to Dublin to see President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Zelenskyy called Tuesday’s session “constructive and quite substantive.” The work, Zelenskyy said, stayed on prisoners, Ukrainian civilians still held, children taken out of the country, and security guarantees. Secretary of State Marco Rubio called the meeting “very productive” and said stopping the war will take time.

We're going to finalize the numbers tomorrow.

The war did not stop for the table. Overnight, Russia hit the Zaporizhzhia region and Kharkiv. Seven civilians were wounded. Russia’s Defense Ministry said air defenses shot down 627 Ukrainian drones, 150 of them over the region around St. Petersburg, Governor Alexander Drozdenko said. Drozdenko said the drones started a fire at the port of Ust-Luga, an outlet for Russian oil, and wounded three workers. The 627 and the seven are separate counts. They are not added.