US-facilitated peace talks between Ukraine and Russia have begun in the United Arab Emirates, hours after Russian forces again struck targets across Ukraine. Direct negotiations involving Moscow and Kyiv, along with US representatives, resumed in Abu Dhabi on January 23-24. Meetings between Ukrainian and Russian negotiators have been rare since the Kremlin's full-scale invasion of February 2022. Ukraine's top negotiator, Rustem Umerov, confirmed on X that the negotiations had begun, saying negotiators from Ukraine, Russia, and the United States…