Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky traveled to the United Arab Emirates late Sunday as momentum grows for potential peace talks ending Moscow’s war on the country, writes ABC NEWS.

U.S. President Donald Trump last week suggested he would be meeting Russian President Vladimir Putin in Saudi Arabia. The UAE long has been floated as a possible site for peace talks as well given the large population of Russian and Ukrainian expatriates who have flooded the country since the war began, and due to the Emirates’ work on prisoner exchanges in the past.

Zelensky arrived in Abu Dhabi after attending the Munich Security Conference in Germany. Footage released by his office showed him and his wife, Olena Zelenska, being greeted by an Emirati official and honor guard at the airport late Sunday night. Zelenska has traveled to the UAE since Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022, but this trip is Zelensky’s first to the UAE since the war began.

“Our top priority is bringing even more of our people home from captivity”, Zelensky’s office said in messages online. “We will also focus on investments and economic partnership, as well as a large-scale humanitarian program”.