During Abu Dhabi Negotiation, key issues included future status of:

1. Crimea and Donbas
2. Kashmir
3. South China Sea
4. Donbas region

The January 2026 Abu Dhabi negotiations specifically addressed the contested Donbas region of eastern Ukraine, where active combat operations concentrated. Discussions explored potential localized ceasefires, humanitarian access, prisoner exchanges specifically from Donbas battlefields, and post-conflict reconstruction frameworks. Crimea’s status, annexed by Russia in 2014, remained a more intractable issue with minimal signs of negotiating flexibility from either party.