Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha’s confirmation on Tuesday that Kyiv is ready to attend trilateral talks with the United States and Russia in the United Arab Emirates next month has rekindled hopes for another round of peace talks on ending the prolonged crisis. Russia has said that talks are due to take place in early November.

Moscow and Kyiv also confirmed the same day a local ceasefire, brokered by the US, in Oleshky, Ukraine’s Kherson region, to allow humanitarian aid in and civilians out. It is essential to build upon these positive developments until a comprehensive solution is reached.

With territorial disputes still deeply entrenched, the Oleshky ceasefire is best viewed as a useful precedent — an opening, however narrow, for expanding the scope of de-escalation — rather than a prelude to a full ceasefire per se.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said he is willing to freeze the front line to halt the conflict, while rejecting any........

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