The United States plans to bring Russian and Ukrainian delegations together in Abu Dhabi on 10 and 11 November 2026, envoy Steve Witkoff said in a social-media announcement reported by Reuters on 2 November. His stated agenda includes ending the war, postwar security arrangements, de-escalation and humanitarian measures (Reuters).
Russia's participation gained a separate official statement on 3 November, when Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said presidential aide Vladimir Medinsky would lead Moscow's delegation, according to Reuters. These announcements concern a meeting scheduled for the following week, not talks already held or a settlement accepted by the parties.
Expected representatives and the proposed agenda
Witkoff and Jared Kushner are expected to represent Washington, a senior US official told Reuters, while the Kremlin's statement identifies Medinsky as Russia's chief negotiator. Neither of those reports establishes the composition or leadership of Ukraine's November delegation, and announced or expected participation cannot confirm who will actually attend (Reuters).
The agenda comes from Witkoff's announcement as reported by Reuters, rather than a jointly published negotiating text agreed by all three parties. Reuters also reported that Vladimir Putin accepted another round after meeting Witkoff in St Petersburg two weeks earlier, without publishing agreed terms for security guarantees or a sequence for de-escalation. The Reuters reports name envoys and presidential aides, rather than announcing a summit of heads of state. They provide no text explaining how a future security guarantee would be enforced, which governments would underwrite it, or whether the announced security questions would be settled in one agreement or through separate negotiations; those details cannot be inferred from the proposed agenda (Reuters).
Preparatory meetings and earlier results
US negotiators also planned working-level meetings in Brussels with France, Germany, Britain, the European Union and NATO that week, a senior official told Reuters. The official identified Ukrainian security guarantees, Europe's future security arrangements and reconstruction support as subjects, but the report did not say those participants would all join the Abu Dhabi table (Reuters).
Ukraine's presidential office records earlier trilateral rounds in Abu Dhabi on 4 and 5 February and in Geneva on 17 and 18 February 2026. Its retrospective identified the return of 157 Ukrainians from captivity as the main result of February's negotiating efforts, a humanitarian outcome rather than evidence that the parties had settled the war's political terms.
What remains open before November's meeting
Ukraine's National Security and Defence Council described an earlier Abu Dhabi process involving a plenary meeting followed by working groups, with Rustem Umerov and other senior officials participating. That historical roster does not establish November's delegation, and the earlier description of substantive work should not be treated as proof that a security agreement was reached.
The latest Reuters account says Moscow and Kyiv remain far apart on settlement terms and reports no agreed peace text or completed ceasefire. The reported dates, agenda and named negotiators therefore describe preparations; actual attendance, the issues ultimately discussed and any resulting commitments will only be established by subsequent events and attributable statements.