Moscow’s Energy Attacks Threaten Russia-Ukraine Peace Talks

Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at a new round of Russia-Ukraine peace talks, significant democratic backsliding in the United States, and deadly Israeli strikes in Gaza. Sub-Zero Temperatures Ukrainian and Russian negotiators kicked off a second round of U.S.-brokered peace talks in Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates, on Wednesday. Both sides described initial conversations as productive, without elaborating on any specific progress made. But with the two-day meeting beginning just hours after Russia launched a massive attack on Ukraine’s energy grid, European officials are accusing Moscow of lacking sincerity in its efforts to end the war….