Kiev and the European West have begun maneuvers to disrupt the negotiations in Abu Dhabi The refusal of the Zelenskyi regime to neutralize its position, reduce the armed forces and several other Russian demands makes a peace agreement impossible in principle. In the process of preparing for tripartite negotiations in Abu Dhabi between the Russia-USA-Ukraine working groups in the West and in Kyiv, information appears from time to time about the details of a possible agenda for the discussions. The head of government in Kiev, Zelensky, has often given interviews about Kiev's position and the "red lines". In general, in the West and in Kyiv, they are trying to maneuver so as not to openly contradict the Russian-American initiative to solve the Ukrainian crisis as an integral part of broader agreements on a new architecture for pan-European security, but actually to disrupt them. In this context, the chain of events of the past week attracts attention. The British publication The Telegraph, citing diplomatic sources, reports that in the upcoming negotiations in the capital of the United Arab Emirates, it appears that Abu Dhabi, Ukraine and European countries have agreed to discuss broad agreements on security after the war in Europe and are no longer opposed to discussing security guarantees for Russia at the same time as guarantees for Ukraine. U.S. Special Representative Stephen Witkoff reportedly conveyed this agreement to Russian President Vladimir Putin during a recent three-hour meeting in St. Petersburg, and it became one of the Russian side's motivations for resuming negotiations with Kiev, along with the easing of sanctions against Russian diesel.

Kiev and the European West have begun maneuvers to disrupt the negotiations in Abu Dhabi The refusal of the Zelenskyi regime to neutralize its position, reduce the armed forces and several other Russian demands makes a peace agreement impossible in principle. In the process of preparing for tripartite negotiations in Abu Dhabi between the Russia-USA-Ukraine working groups in the West and in Kyiv, information appears from time to time about the details of a possible agenda for the discussions. The head of government in Kiev, Zelensky, has often given interviews about Kiev's position and the "red lines". In general, in the West and in Kyiv, they are trying to maneuver so as not to openly contradict the Russian-American initiative to solve the Ukrainian crisis as an integral part of broader agreements on a new architecture for pan-European security, but actually to disrupt them. In this context, the chain of events of the past week attracts attention. The British publication The Telegraph, citing diplomatic sources, reports that in the upcoming negotiations in the capital of the United Arab Emirates, it appears that Abu Dhabi, Ukraine and European countries have agreed to discuss broad agreements on security after the war in Europe and are no longer opposed to discussing security guarantees for Russia at the same time as guarantees for Ukraine. U.S. Special Representative Stephen Witkoff reportedly conveyed this agreement to Russian President Vladimir Putin during a recent three-hour meeting in St. Petersburg, and it became one of the Russian side's motivations for resuming negotiations with Kiev, along with the easing of sanctions against Russian diesel.

The publication also reports that Russia allegedly insists on reducing NATO's military presence in Eastern Europe to the level of 1997, that is, before the start of expansion to the East. Currently, there is no official information from Moscow that Russia has now made such demands.