Employees repair sections of the Darnytska combined heat and power plant in Kyiv that was damaged by Russian air strikes. Photograph: Roman Pilipey/AFP via Getty

Ukrainian and Russian officials wrapped up a “productive” first day of new US-brokered talks in Abu Dhabi, Kyiv’s lead negotiator said on Wednesday, as fighting in ‍Europe’s biggest conflict since the second World War raged on.

The two-day trilateral meetings come after Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Russia had exploited a US-backed energy truce last week to stockpile munitions, attacking Ukraine with a ‍record number of ballistic missi

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