🔘What is currently known about the Russia–U.S.–Ukraine talks in Abu Dhabi: 🟥A settlement in Ukraine is just one item on the talks’ agenda. Their goal is to hold a broader discussion on creating a comprehensive and indivisible architecture for continental security; 🟥Collective security issues were added to the agenda at Washington’s proposal, agreed with Moscow. The relevant guarantees are to take effect after a full and comprehensive settlement is reached; 🟥Russia’s negotiating team is headed by Vladimir Medinsky and consists of 11 people, including representatives of the Presidential Administration, the Foreign Ministry, the Defense Ministry and the FSB; 🟥Medinsky thanked his American counterparts for their peace efforts and expressed hope that the meeting would help advance peace in the interests of the peoples of Russia and Ukraine; 🟥Over the past two months, the U.S. has been in contact with Moscow and Kiev almost daily, narrowed the range of disagreements and developed ideas for overcoming them, Kushner said; 🟥The goal of the talks is to establish security relations between Russia, Ukraine and Europe that will ensure peace for decades; 🟥The first day of talks will focus on security guarantees and the European security architecture; the second will focus on territorial issues. Washington considers these areas interrelated; 🟥Western media report that the U.S. is proposing security guarantees for Ukraine modeled on Articles 4 and 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty, while Ukraine would remain outside NATO; 🟥Washington is open to discussing restrictions on the parties’ rearmament after hostilities end, as well as the gradual lifting of sanctions on Russia, with the possibility of reinstating them to ensure compliance with any agreements; 🟥Representatives of the U.K., Germany, France, Italy, NATO and EU institutions have arrived in Abu Dhabi but are not taking part in the main talks. The Americans plan to consult with them separately; 🟥Witkoff and Kushner hope to bring the Europeans into the next round of talks, but European countries have yet to agree on who should represent them at the negotiating table; 🟥NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander Europe, Alexus Grynkewich, said he was ready to resume military dialogue with both sides, building on the progress made previously; 🟥After the talks, Witkoff and Kushner may travel to Moscow and Kiev to discuss next steps with Zelensky and Vladimir Putin; 🟥The Russian delegation will decide for itself how to brief the president, depending on how the meeting goes; 🟥Russia has prepared its own document proposing a new security architecture in Eurasia that takes all parties’ interests into account. #Negotiations 🔘 Subscribe now! Chat