Negotiations on Ukraine held in Abu Dhabi

The talks involving the delegations of Russia, the United States, and Ukraine were held yesterday in the UAE capital city of Abu Dhabi.

Emirati Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan announced the beginning of negotiations. The talks are expected to last for two days. 

According to Russian presidential aide Yury Ushakov, the Russian delegations is led by Igor Kostyukov, chief of the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian army.

Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin met with visiting U.S. special presidential envoy Steve Witkoff and entrepreneur Jared Kushner. The nearly four-hour meeting focused on issues of the Ukrainian settlement.

Ushakov said after the meeting that it was a very meaningful, constructive, sincere, and trust-based conversation. Moscow and Washington agreed that the trilateral Russian-U.S.-Ukrainian working group on security issues will have its first meeting in Abu Dhabi on January 23.