❗️The first day of trilateral talks in Abu Dhabi is over. What we know: ▪️The parties began their meeting around 11:15 a.m. Moscow time (8:15 a.m. GMT). The Russian and Ukrainian delegations used the Russian language to communicate, a TASS source said ▪️The talks lasted 4.5 hours with a 40-minute break. A source told TASS that the contacts would definitely continue on November 11 ▪️Russia’s Presidential Aide Vladimir Medinsky is leading the Russian delegation, while Head of the Ukrainian Foreign Intelligence Service Rustem Umerov is leading the Ukrainian one ▪️US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe General Alexus Grynkewich and UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan were also present at the negotiating table when the talks began ▪️Despite statements made by French officials, there were no European representatives at the negotiations ▪️European representatives who decided to come to Abu Dhabi can sit in their hotel, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said, commenting on Europe's desire to take part in the Russia-Ukraine-US talks ▪️Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said earlier that the Abu Dhabi talks would address security guarantees ▪️According to a TASS source, the Ukraine settlement, while critically important, is only one of the items on the agenda of this wide-ranging discussion, aimed at establishing a complex and indivisible security architecture for the entire continent ▪️Witkoff and Kushner want to use the Abu Dhabi talks to set out solutions for settling the Ukraine conflict, Axios reported, citing a US administration official ▪️The report noted that after the meeting in Abu Dhabi, Witkoff and Kushner may travel to Moscow and then to Kiev