First statements after the peace negotiations in Abu Dhabi. Rubio: Talks between Russia and Ukraine “very productive”

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said following the trilateral talks held on Tuesday in the United Arab Emirates between Russia, Ukraine, and the US that the negotiations had been “very productive,” but that much remained to be done, reports The Guardian. At the same time, Ukrainska Pravda writes that on the first day of the negotiations, an exchange of prisoners between Kyiv and Moscow was also agreed.

Reuters reports that Rubio also mentioned that one objective, at some point, is to expand the trilateral talks to include other European voices as well.

A source told Ukrainska Pravda that Ukraine, the US, and Russia agreed, during the first round of talks held in Abu Dhabi on November 10, to carry out a “large-scale prisoner exchange in the near future.”

“Following the first day of the trilateral talks, an important result of our delegation’s work was achieved: an agreement was reached on a large-scale prisoner exchange in the near future,” the source quoted by Ukrainska Pravda said.

The day began with a coordination meeting between the Ukrainian delegation, US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, and representatives of the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and Italy, alongside NATO and the European Commission. Only then did the trilateral talks begin.

In fact, Politico wrote that US President Donald Trump’s envoys would ask Russia, at the trilateral meeting in Abu Dhabi on November 10 and 11, to accept the direct participation of Europeans in the next round of negotiations on the war in Ukraine.