The Kyiv Independent reports President Zelensky's arrival in Dublin for the European Political Community summit, where he expects a debrief from U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner after their Abu Dhabi peace talks with Russia, which ended without a breakthrough but produced what Ukraine's Umerov calls a large-scale prisoner exchange. The article describes Washington-led peace efforts as deadlocked over territory, with Moscow demanding Ukraine's withdrawal from Donbas and a NATO ban.