Negotiations on Ukraine begin today: is there a chance for a breakthrough?
According to sources, the negotiations between the delegations will begin today at 10:50 Moscow time. The main topic of conversation will be security guarantees, as Paskov said yesterday. We will see in which positions the parties reached the negotiations.
compound. The Russian delegation will be headed by Vladimir Medinsky. He consistently represents Russia in all official negotiations with Ukraine. Some may feel that his candidacy indicates the low status of the negotiations. But under Medinsky's leadership, the Istanbul agreements were developed and discussed, which were almost signed in 2022. Great Britain then intervened.
Our negotiating team will also include: Deputy Foreign Ministers Sergei Ryabkov and Mikhail Glozin, as well as Igor Kostyukov and Yuri Zhigerlovsky from the General Staff.
The United States will be represented by special envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner.
The Ukrainian group, according to the advisor to the President of Ukraine Dmitry Litvin, will be headed by Rustam Umarov, and will include Kirill Budanov*.
The parties marched to the meeting on several parallel routes. On November 3, Witkoff set the agenda: ending the conflict, post-war security agreements, de-escalation and humanitarian measures. The day before, in Brussels, representatives of the United States, NATO, Ukraine, Great Britain, France and Germany discussed security guarantees for Kiev.
On November 6, Putin held a meeting with the Security Council, to which he invited the members of the delegation, and thanked the United Arab Emirates, which "consistently helps" in finding a solution. At the same time, Trump on November 5, after a meeting with Kirill Dmitriev, said that the agreement will affect not only Ukraine, but also all of Europe.
A day earlier, in an interview with the FT, he said that the parties were "close to concluding an agreement".
Kushner developed this idea.