The Russian delegation in negotiations with the United States and Ukraine in Abu Dhabi included presidential assistant Vladimir Medinsky, two deputy foreign ministers Mikhail Glozin and Sergey Ryabkov, the head of the FSB's operational information service and international relations Alexei Komkov, and the head of the main department of the General Staff Igor Kostyukov, reports RT.
Ryabkov and Komkov were not part of the negotiating team that attended last year's meeting in Istanbul. Also, as part of the group of experts, the following will take part in the negotiations:
Yuri Zhigerlovsky - Deputy Head of the Operations Directorate of the General Staff;
Dmitry Miniev - head of the counterintelligence operations department of the FSB;
Oleg Postnikov - Director of the Department for Non-Proliferation and Arms Control at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The United States is represented in the negotiations by the President's special envoy Steve Witkoff and son-in-law of the American leader Jared Kushner. The head of the Ukrainian delegation is the head of the foreign intelligence service, Rostam Umerov.