Russia and Ukraine announced today in Abu Dhabi an agreement for a wide exchange of prisoners, according to Russian delegation chief Vladimir Medinsky.
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11/11/2026
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Lusa
A Russia and Ukraine reached an agreement for a wide exchange of prisoners, announced today in Abu Dhabi the head of the Russian delegation, Vladimir Medinsky.
President Putin's adviser said that the parties also agreed to continue the negotiation process they held on Tuesday and today in the capital of the United Arab Emirates, according to the French agency AFP.
Medinsky also said that the tripartite negotiations in Abu Dhabi, with the mediation of the United States, focused on the need for a new security architecture for Europe.
“The world needs a new security system”, since the current “work very badly”, Medinsky justified in statements to journalists at the end of the talks, quoted by the Spanish agency EFE.
“ We believe that the very formulation of the question about what will happen after the inevitable end of the conflict in Ukraine is the correct formulation,” TASS said.
“ The issue of European security architecture and the need to create a new, comprehensive and fair security system in Europe has been raised by Russia more than once,” he added.

