ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy traveled to the United Arab Emirates late Sunday as momentum grows for potential peace talks ending Moscow’s conflict on the nation.
U.S. President Donald Trump final week urged he could be assembly Russian President Vladimir Putin in Saudi Arabia. The UAE, residence to Abu Dhabi and Dubai, lengthy has been floated as a potential web site for peace talks as effectively given the big inhabitants of Russian and Ukrainian expatriates who’ve flooded the nation because the conflict started, and as a consequence of the Emirates’ work on prisoner exchanges previously.
Zelenskyy arrived in Abu Dhabi after attending the Munich Safety Convention in Germany. Footage launched by his workplace confirmed him and his spouse, Olena Zelenska, being greeted by an Emirati official and honor guard on the airport late Sunday night time.
Zelenska has traveled to the UAE since Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022, however this journey is Zelenskyy’s first to the UAE because the conflict started.
“Our high precedence is bringing much more of our folks residence from captivity,” Zelenskyy’s workplace mentioned in messages on-line. “We can even concentrate on investments and financial partnership, in addition to a large-scale humanitarian program.”
The United Arab Emirates’ state-run WAM information company didn’t instantly report on Zelenskyy’s arrival, which was uncommon.
It wasn’t instantly clear what his agenda could be whereas he was within the nation, although Abu Dhabi is internet hosting its biennial Worldwide Protection Exhibition and Convention arms present this week, the place each Ukraine and Russia have displayed arms — at the same time as Moscow faces Western sanctions over the conflict.
Russian cash continues to flood into Dubai’s red-hot actual property market. Every day flights between the Emirates and Moscow present a lifeline for each these fleeing conscription and the Russian elite. The U.S. Treasury beneath former President Joe Biden additionally expressed considerations in regards to the quantity of Russian money flowing into the Arabian Peninsula nation.
Zelenskyy’s go to comes as Denis Manturov, Russia’s first deputy prime minister, visited earlier Sunday with UAE chief Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the nation’s president and ruler of Abu Dhabi. A readout from WAM described the talks as specializing in “rising UAE-Russia ties and methods to advance shared pursuits, benefiting each nations and their peoples.”
In the meantime, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio will lead a delegation to Saudi Arabia this week for direct talks with Russian officers over the conflict. The outreach and Trump’s direct name with Putin have upended years of U.S. coverage beneath Biden that remoted Moscow over its Feb. 24, 2022, full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
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