Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy took a trip to the United Arab Emirates late Sunday as momentum grows for possible peace talks ending Moscow’s war on the nation.
U.S. President Donald Trump recently recommended he would be fulfilling Russian President Vladimir Putin in Saudi Arabia. The UAE, home to Abu Dhabi and Dubai, long has actually been drifted as a possible website for peace talks also offered the big population of Russian and Ukrainian migrants who have actually flooded the nation given that the war started, and due to the Emirates’ deal with detainee exchanges in the past.
Zelenskyy showed up in Abu Dhabi after going to the Munich Security Conference in Germany. Video launched by his workplace revealed him and his spouse, Olena Zelenska, being welcomed by an Emirati authorities and honor guard at the airport late Sunday night.
Zelenska has actually taken a trip to the UAE given that Russia’s full-blown intrusion in 2022, however this journey is Zelenskyy’s very first to the UAE given that the war started.
” Our leading concern is bringing much more of our individuals home from captivity,” Zelenskyy’s workplace stated in messages online. “We will likewise concentrate on financial investments and financial collaboration, along with a massive humanitarian program.”
The United Arab Emirates’ state-run WAM news company did not instantly report on Zelenskyy’s arrival, which was uncommon.
It wasn’t instantly clear what his program would be while he remained in the nation, though Abu Dhabi is hosting its biennial International Defense Exhibit and Conference arms reveal today, where both Ukraine and Russia have actually shown arms– even as Moscow deals with Western sanctions over the war.
Russian cash continues to flood into Dubai’s red-hot realty market. Daily flights in between the Emirates and Moscow offer a lifeline for both those running away conscription and the Russian elite. The U.S. Treasury under previous President Joe Biden likewise revealed issues about the quantity of Russian money streaming into the Arabian Peninsula nation.
Zelenskyy’s see comes as Denis Manturov, Russia’s very first deputy prime minister, went to earlier Sunday with UAE leader Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the nation’s president and ruler of Abu Dhabi. A readout from WAM explained the talks as concentrating on “growing UAE-Russia ties and methods to advance shared interests, benefiting both countries and their individuals.”