Ukraine, the United States and Russia have outlined the initial results of their two-day negotiations in Abu Dhabi, held on November 10–11, with the sides agreeing on a major prisoner exchange and discussing further diplomatic contacts.

Axar.az reports, citing RBC-Ukraine, that David Arakhamia, head of Ukraine's parliamentary faction and a member of the negotiating delegation, said US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner would travel to Moscow on November 12 to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin before meeting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Dublin.

He said a date for the next round of negotiations could be set following those meetings.

“We have good momentum to find a solution before the New Year,” Arakhamia said, while acknowledging that the talks had been difficult because the Russian delegation had arrived with strict instructions that left little room for bargaining.

Arakhamia identified three main outcomes of the meetings: the possibility of scheduling another round of negotiations after the US envoys' visits, agreement on involving Europeans in the process, and discussions on humanitarian issues.

Ukrainian delegation member and presidential chief of staff Kyrylo Budanov declined to disclose whether Russia had demanded that Ukrainian forces withdraw from Donbas.

“The issues raised during negotiations are matters for the negotiations. Only the result matters. Once we achieve it, it will be publicly announced,” he said.

Kushner confirmed that he and Witkoff would travel to Moscow on November 12 for talks with Putin, before heading to Dublin to meet Zelensky.

He described the participation of European Union and NATO representatives in Abu Dhabi as important and useful, stressing that Europe should be included in the negotiations.

“We must have Europe at the negotiating table,” Kushner said.

Kushner said Washington had told Moscow that Russia could raise its concerns and demands but should also take steps towards de-escalation and put forward proposals of its own.

Russian delegation head Vladimir Medinsky said the sides had exchanged positions and reached an understanding on some issues, while remaining divided on others.

He confirmed that Russia and Ukraine had agreed on a new large-scale exchange of prisoners of war, although further details would be announced later.

Alexander Zorin, first deputy head of the Russian General Staff's Information Department and another member of the delegation, said the exchange could take place within the next two to three weeks and would be among the largest of its kind.

Medinsky also reiterated Moscow's demand that NATO return to its 1997 borders.

“Russia has repeatedly raised the issue of creating a new security system in Europe, both in 2008 and in 2021, when we sent relevant documents to NATO, the United States and European countries,” he said.

Moscow's previous proposals included halting NATO enlargement, reducing the alliance's military presence in countries that joined after 1997 and restricting military cooperation with non-NATO post-Soviet states, including Ukraine.

Sources cited by The Telegraph stressed that such conditions would be unacceptable to the North Atlantic Alliance. A return to the 1997 borders would require NATO to withdraw its troops and weapons from at least 16 of the alliance’s current 32 member states. These include former members of the Warsaw Pact, the Baltic states, four of the six former Yugoslav republics, as well as Albania, Finland and Sweden.

The Ukrainian delegation, led by Rustem Umerov, rejected a US proposal to redraw the borders of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions during the Abu Dhabi talks. The delegation also sought financial support from allies to maintain an army of 800,000 personnel for 10 years after the end of the war.

Representatives of the European Union said they were ready to discuss a return to Cold War-era mechanisms for preventing military conflicts with Russia, as well as a review of the European continent’s security arrangements together with the United States.

The US delegation, meanwhile, proposed that Putin agree to provide Ukraine with security guarantees similar to those envisaged in the relevant articles of the North Atlantic Treaty once hostilities have ended.

It should be noted that the trilateral talks in Abu Dhabi, which began on November 10, concluded today. Details of the meeting have not been disclosed.