The key facts

  • The Russia-US-Ukraine talks in Abu Dhabi lasted 4.5 hours with a break of about 40 minutes and will continue on November 11
  • Marco Rubio called the course of the talks productive but said a settlement

Rubio's assessment and the course of the talks

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who is in Paris for a meeting of the foreign ministers of the G7 countries, gave a positive assessment of the course of the trilateral talks between Russia, the US and Ukraine in Abu Dhabi. Life.ru quotes his words:.

Format and composition of the delegations

According to Life.ru, the talks in Abu Dhabi concluded after four and a half hours of discussions and will continue on November 11; the meeting was held with a break of about 40 minutes. One of the topics discussed was a prisoner exchange. The Russian delegation is led by presidential aide Vladimir Medinsky, the Ukrainian delegation by Rustem Umerov, while the American side is represented by Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner.

What is known and what remains unclear

The publication does not report on the content of any agreements or specific results of the first day — only Rubio's assessment and the organizational details of the meeting are known. The Secretary of State's statement was made before the talks resumed on November 11, so the outcomes of the second day remained unknown at the time of publication.

A prisoner exchange was one of the topics of the five-hour talks in Abu Dhabi