Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said European governments could coordinate their positions with Washington and Kyiv through separate channels.
French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot, however, had said on Sunday that France and the EU would attend the talks, due on Tuesday and Wednesday, alongside the US delegation.
He did not say who would represent France or which other countries would take part.
He added that Europeans had told the US mediators that no discussion about the continent’s future could ignore their expectations and demands.
Rustem Umerov, who heads Ukraine’s negotiating team, said representatives of the UK, France, Germany and Italy, as well as NATO and the European Commission, would also be in Abu Dhabi.
Ukraine would hold separate coordination meetings with them, he noted.
"As instructed by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, we are doing everything possible to ensure that Europe is part of the diplomatic process," Umerov wrote on Telegram.
US negotiator Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, said he and fellow envoy Steve Witkoff would meet representatives of Ukraine, the EU, NATO, Germany, France, the UK and Italy before the talks begin on Tuesday.
They would discuss European security and Ukraine’s post-war future.
Kushner also said the talks will cover a new "security architecture" for Europe.
The idea, long promoted by Russia, has been criticised by some politicians and commentators, who note that Moscow broke commitments under earlier arrangements.
A Ukrainian official involved in the negotiations told Poland’s PAP news agency that governments in Europe, especially on NATO’s eastern flank, were worried the new US approach could lead to allied troops being withdrawn from their countries.
The official said that was unlikely.
He added that he did not expect a breakthrough at the first meeting, as the talks were only resuming after a long pause.
Meanwhile, Trump has said he believes a deal to end the war is close.
In a CBS News interview broadcast on Sunday, he said Ukraine would have a a "little bit different shape" as a result of a settlement.
On Thursday, after meeting Russian envoy Kirill Dmitriev, he said he expected a very big agreement that could affect not only Ukraine but the whole of Europe.
The Abu Dhabi meeting will be the first round of talks of this kind since February.
Russia’s delegation will be led by Vladimir Medinsky, a Putin aide and former culture minister regarded as one of the Kremlin’s leading ideologues, who also headed Moscow’s team in earlier rounds.
A Ukrainian official said he did not expect a breakthrough at the initial meeting, as negotiations were only resuming after a lengthy pause.
Source: PAP, interfax.com