Putin met with participants in tripartite negotiations on Ukraine. The president gathered in the Kremlin his aides Vladimir Medinsky and Yuri Ushkov, Deputy Foreign Ministers Mikhail Glozin and Sergey Ryabkov, as well as the head of the GRU Igor Kostyukov. "Considering the fact that the negotiations are supposed to take place on Tuesday, I invited colleagues to take part in these negotiations," he explained. Putin confirmed that the meeting will take place on November 10-11 in Abu Dhabi. Along the way he thanked the United Arab Emirates for helping to resolve the conflict.