Second day of talks in Abu Dhabi begins – Umerov

Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) Rustem Umerov has announced the start of the second day of trilateral Ukrainian-American-Russian talks in Abu Dhabi (UAE) on ending the war in Ukraine.

"The second day of talks in Abu Dhabi has begun. We are working in the same formats as yesterday: trilateral consultations, work in groups and further synchronization of positions. Results later," Umerov wrote in Telegram on Thursday.

As reported, bilateral (Ukraine-US) and trilateral (Ukraine-US-Russia) talks are taking place on February 4-5 in Abu Dhabi.

After the conclusion of the trilateral talks on Wednesday, work was carried out in groups. President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy noted that after the trilateral talks, there were contacts between the Ukrainian negotiating team and the American side. Based on the results of the report of the Ukrainian delegation, the president announced the exchange of prisoners of war in the near future.

At the end of January, Zelenskyy renewed the Ukrainian delegation to participate in the negotiation process with the United States and representatives of the Russian Federation on achieving a just and sustainable peace. The Ukrainian delegation included the head of the Presidential Office Kyrylo Budanov and his first deputy Serhiy Kyslytsia, People’s Deputy David Arakhamia, Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Andriy Hnatov, and Advisor to the Office of the President of Ukraine Oleksandr Bevz.

On the American side, the consultations were attended by US President Donald Trump’s special envoys Stephen Witkoff, Jared Kushner, and Joshua Gruenbaum, as well as US Secretary of the Land Forces Daniel Driscoll and NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR) Alex Hrynkevich. The Russian side was represented at the level of military leadership.