The first day of the tripartite talks in Abu Dhabi is over. What we know:
The parties began their meeting around 11:15. Moscow time (8:15 am GMT). The Russian and Ukrainian delegations used the Russian language to communicate, a TASS source said.
The talks lasted 4.5 hours with a 40 minute break. A source told TASS that the talks will definitely continue on November 11.
Russia's presidential aide Vladimir Medinsky leads the Russian delegation, while the head of Ukraine's foreign intelligence service Rostam Umerov leads the Ukrainian delegation.
U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, NATO Europe's Supreme Allied Commander General Aleksos Grinkich, and UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed Al-Nahyan were also present at the negotiating table when the talks began.
Despite statements by French officials, there were no European representatives in the negotiations.
European representatives who decided to come to Abu Dhabi can sit in their hotel, said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, referring to Europe's desire to participate in the Russia-Ukraine-USA talks.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said earlier that the talks in Abu Dhabi will address security guarantees.
According to a TASs source, the settlement in Ukraine, although very important, is only one of the items on the agenda of this broad discussion, which aims to establish a complex and indivisible security architecture for the entire continent.
Witkoff and Kushner want to use the Abu Dhabi talks to determine solutions to resolve the conflict in Ukraine, Axios reported, citing a senior US administration official.
The report noted that after the meeting in Abu Dhabi, Witkoff and Kushner may travel to Moscow and then to Kiev.