Russia confirmed that a meeting between Ukrainian, American and Russian authorities will take place in the United Arab Emirates this Friday (23).
Kremlin foreign policy adviser Yury Ushakov told reporters the meeting would take place in Abu Dhabi.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Thursday at the World Economic Forum in Davos that a two-day meeting would take place, in a sign that negotiations to end Russia’s war in Ukraine could be progressing.
The Russian negotiating team in Abu Dhabi will be led by the head of the (GRU) Main Intelligence Directorate, Admiral Igor Olegovich Kostyukov, according to Ushakov.
“I can add that our delegation has just received specific instructions from the Russian president, taking into account all the details of today’s conversation with the Americans,” Ushakov said, referring to a recently concluded meeting in Moscow between Vladimir Putin and Trump’s special envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner.
In addition to the trilateral meeting, Kremlin special envoy Kirill Dmitriev and US envoy Witkoff will lead a separate US-Russian meeting, Ushakov added.
