Negotiators from Ukraine, Russia and the US wrapped up two days of trilateral talks in Abu Dhabi on Wednesday, concluding their first direct three-way sessions since February as Russian media reported the meetings will produce a prisoner exchange. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said after Tuesday’s opening round that the delegations were discussing a swap of 1,000 for 1,000 or 1,500 for 1,500 prisoners.
Ukrainian chief negotiator Rustem Umerov said Kyiv’s delegation would hold a separate meeting with European partners following the final trilateral session with US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner and the Russian team led by presidential aide Vladimir Medinsky. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said President Vladimir Putin was regularly briefed by Russia’s negotiators and that Moscow held no meetings with European Union representatives in the United Arab Emirates and planned none.