Russia names its delegation for Abu Dhabi talks

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The delegation led by a presidential aide to include two deputy foreign ministers and senior military officials.

The Kremlin has announced the composition of the Russian delegation that will attend the new round of US-mediated trilateral Ukraine peace talks in Abu Dhabi next week.

In remarks to the Interfax news agency, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov confirmed on Saturday that officials who participated in an ​​operational meeting hosted by Russian President Vladimir Putin with members of the country's Security Council a day earlier would be taking part in the negotiations on behalf of Moscow.

According to the report, the delegation includes presidential aide Vladimir Medinsky, who was confirmed as the head of Moscow’s delegation earlier this week; Russian deputy foreign ministers Sergey Ryabkov and Mikhail Galuzin; Igor Kostyukov, head of Russia’s military intelligence agency, the GRU; and Yury Zhigarlovsky, deputy head of the Russian General Staff’s Main Operational Directorate.

Peskov added…

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