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The Kremlin on Saturday announced the Russian delegation for a new round of US-mediated trilateral Ukraine peace talks scheduled to begin in Abu Dhabi next week, Anadolu Agency reported.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Interfax that officials who attended a meeting hosted by Russian President Vladimir Putin with members of the country’s Security Council on Friday would represent Moscow at the negotiations.
The delegation includes presidential aide Vladimir Medinsky, who was named its head earlier this week; Deputy Foreign Ministers Sergey Ryabkov and Mikhail Galuzin; Igor Kostyukov, head of Russia’s military intelligence agency, the GRU; and Yury Zhigarlovsky, deputy head of the Russian General Staff’s Main Operational Directorate.
Peskov said Yury Ushakov, a Russian presidential aide for foreign policy, would be “overseeing the upcoming negotiations”.
Putin’s Friday meeting in Moscow covered the upcoming Abu Dhabi talks and measures to ensure and enhance Russia’s food security. A Kremlin statement quoted Putin as thanking the UAE’s leadership for supporting efforts to reach a settlement to the Russia-Ukraine war and for helping address humanitarian issues.
The latest trilateral peace talks, mediated by the US, are due to begin in the Emirati capital on Tuesday.
Moscow and Kyiv previously held three rounds of Washington-mediated peace talks this year: on Jan. 23-24, Feb. 4-5 and Feb. 17-18. The first two rounds took place in Abu Dhabi and the third in Geneva.
Also on Friday, David Arakhamia, parliamentary leader of Ukraine’s ruling Servant of the People faction, told The Kyiv Independent that Rustem Umerov, head of Ukraine’s Foreign Intelligence Service, would lead Kyiv’s negotiating team in Abu Dhabi.
Arakhamia said the delegation would also include himself, Kyrylo Budanov, head of Ukraine’s Presidential Office; Serhii Kyslytsia, first deputy head of the office; and Dmytro Lytvyn, communications adviser to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
