Russia-Ukraine Talks Open in Abu Dhabi as Europe Sends Envoys
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MENAFNRussian presidential envoy Vladimir Medinsky heads Moscow’s delegation. Kyiv’s team is led by Rustem Umerov, chief of Ukraine’s Foreign Intelligence Service.
The session is the first since three-way talks in Geneva, Switzerland, on Feb. 17-18. Those followed two earlier rounds in Abu Dhabi, held Jan. 23-24 and Feb. 4-5.
“At the meetings in Abu Dhabi, our team will propose de-escalatory steps,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in an evening video address late Monday.
Zelenskyy also stressed Ukraine’s need for peace, security guarantees and resources to fund its postwar recovery.
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said security guarantees will be the central topic. He said Europeans will be absent because the talks were originally agreed as a three-party format.
“What will take place in Abu Dhabi in the coming days is trilateral negotiations between Russia and Ukraine with US mediation. As for the presence of Europeans, you know that the Americans have their own channels of communication with Europeans, and Ukrainians with Europeans,” he told reporters during a Monday press briefing.
Umerov, however, said the European Commission and NATO, along with the UK, France, Italy and Germany, will send representatives to Abu Dhabi.
Before the negotiations began, Umerov announced in a statement on Telegram that he had met European representatives and US special envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner.
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