Russia officially confirmed on Tuesday its presence at the talks scheduled for November 10 and 11 in the United Arab Emirates, with Ukrainian and American delegations present. A diplomatic resumption expected after several months of the issue being frozen.
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov confirmed on Tuesday, November 3, that Moscow would indeed send a delegation to Abu Dhabi for trilateral negotiations with Kyiv and Washington. “Yes, I can confirm this date. A Russian delegation will indeed travel to Abu Dhabi on November 10 and 11 and participate in the trilateral negotiations,” he said. Negotiator Vladimir Medinsky, who had already led the Russian delegation during the previous round of talks, will head it again.
These talks were announced the day before by U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff, who specified on the social network X that the discussions would focus on “post-war security arrangements, de-escalation, humanitarian efforts, and next steps toward peace.” Witkoff also indicated that American negotiators would travel to Brussels during the week to meet representatives from France, Germany, the United Kingdom, the European Union, and NATO to discuss security guarantees for Ukraine.
The last meeting between the three parties took place in mid-February in Geneva, without any agreement being reached. The process was then suspended, with the Middle East conflict relegating the Ukrainian issue to a lower priority for the U.S. administration for several months.
Significant obstacles remain. Moscow conditions any diplomatic progress on the complete withdrawal of Ukrainian forces from the Donetsk region, a demand Kyiv categorically refuses, considering that such a concession would expose the country to new Russian offensives. This conflict, triggered by the large-scale Russian invasion in February 2022, remains the deadliest war on European soil since World War II.
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