
Another round of negotiations aimed at ending Russian aggression against Ukraine has begun in the United Arab Emirates.
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The previous round of peace talks took place in February. Rustem Umerov served as Minister of Defense in 2023-2025.
44-year-old Rustem Umerov will chair the Ukrainian delegation during trilateral talks - the next round of peace negotiations regarding the war in Ukraine attacked by Putin. Ukrainian envoys to Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates will also include: the head of Zelensky's office, General Kyrylo Budanov, 40, who previously headed military intelligence, or HUR.
These conversations are not the last and they are not final. Everything we will talk about is about readiness to stop the ongoing war. What will we achieve? I persist in answering this question. We'll see in a few days, Budanow said in an interview with CBS News.
Rustem Umerov is a Crimean Tatar, a former associate of the leader of this nation, Mustafa Dzhemilev. He speaks Ukrainian, Calamus, Russian, Turkish and English fluently. Politico emphasizes that, among others: Therefore, Umerov became Kiev's chief negotiator, conducting key talks with top US officials on Zelensky's authority.
From September 2023 to July 2025, he was Minister of Defense. Then he became secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, and in August 2026 he headed the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine.
When President Zelensky nominated him for the position of defense minister in September 2023, the BBC emphasized that he was a civilian completely free from connections with the Ministry of Defense and corruption scandals that had previously plagued the ministry. CNN, in turn, indicated that as an efficient manager with a background in business and telecommunications, he was to bring financial transparency to the ministry and reform the military purchase system, which was later confirmed, among others, during a deep reconstruction of staff in the ministry.
Today, Russia presented the composition of the delegation to the talks in Abu Dhabi. In all previous talks, the Russian delegation was also headed by Vladimir Medinsky, who is considered one of the Kremlin's leading ideologists.
The meeting scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday in Abu Dhabi to determine the conditions for ending Russian aggression against Ukraine will be the first of its kind since February this year. Yesterday, US President Donald Trump stated - once again - that the war in Ukraine may end soon because both sides want to end the war for the first time. He also suggested that the agreement could apply to the whole of Europe.
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The Abu Dhabi round of talks will conclude in the coming days.
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