Tripartite negotiations with the participation of Russia, Ukraine and the United States ended in Abu Dhabi. Little is known about their contents; The main topic was to be the territorial question. Ukrainian sources called them “positive” and “constructive,” the BBC reports.
Negotiations in Abu Dhabi began on the afternoon of Friday, January 23, and ended on Saturday afternoon.
Ukraine was represented there by a delegation led by Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Rustem Umerov, the United States by Special Presidential Envoy Steve Witkoff, Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner and Secretary of the Army Dan Driscoll.
The Russian delegation was headed by the head of the Main Directorate of the General Staff, Igor Kostyukov, and included exclusively representatives of the Ministry of Defense.
The names of the delegation members were not officially disclosed, but the Agency identified two participants in photographs from the event. One of them is the first deputy chief of information of the GRU department, Alexander Zorin, and the other is translator Ilya Kurepov.
The negotiations consisted of different formats, including conversations between individual groups. “Now the partners have such an approach to negotiations that lunch is more important than an official meeting,” they explained to reporters.
A representative of the UAE government said that during the negotiations, participants in the Russian and Ukrainian delegations “interacted directly.”