Presidential aide Vladimir Medinsky will head the Russian representatives in Abu Dhabi, the Kremlin has said

Presidential aide Vladimir Medinsky will head the Russian team at the upcoming trilateral talks on the Ukraine conflict, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said. The next round of negotiations between Russian, American and Ukrainian delegations is scheduled to take place in Abu Dhabi on November 10-11.

Medinsky remains “the chief negotiator in this process on the Russian side,” Peskov told journalists on Tuesday. According to the Kremlin spokesman, the delegation would also include “representatives of various departments, including the Foreign Ministry.” The exact composition of the team has yet to be determined by Russian President Vladimir Putin, he added.

Medinsky is a veteran negotiator, who had led the Russian delegations in numerous rounds of talks, both during the initial 2022 negotiations in Türkiye and during the many stages of the American-mediated peace process which US President Donald…