Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Moscow welcomes Washington's approach to discussing security guarantees at the upcoming trilateral talks with Kyiv.
"I heard Marco Rubio's statement that at the talks in Abu Dhabi and in general in the situation around the Ukrainian conflict, security issues are becoming of key importance. Moreover, the very agenda of the talks in Abu Dhabi has security issues for Russia, Ukraine and security in the region in general as its first item. We only welcome such an approach," he told journalists.
The next round of trilateral talks between Russia, the US and Ukraine will be held in Abu Dhabi on November 10-11. The meeting will take place behind closed doors. As US presidential special envoy Steve Witkoff noted, the United States hopes to build on the progress achieved at the meetings in Kyiv, Oslo and St. Petersburg.
Last week a meeting was held in Oslo involving Vladimir Zelensky, Finnish President Alexander Stubb, Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store and Witkoff.
The next day the American negotiator went to St. Petersburg, where he presented Vladimir Putin with documents containing options for settling the Ukrainian conflict. The president, for his part, informed him of Moscow's readiness to resume consultations in the trilateral format.