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Europe to join Russia Ukraine peace talks, Putin warns against European troops

newsNov 13, 202625923

US envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff told President Volodymyr Zelensky in Dublin that delegates from the European Union will be included in the next round of Ukraine Russia peace talks, a step Zelensky welcomed as giving the EU a "voice" in negotiations. Kushner and Witkoff met Vladimir Putin in Moscow earlier, where Putin said Russia's position and territorial demands have not changed; Moscow has not confirmed European participation. The meetings followed talks in Abu Dhabi last week that produced no breakthrough. Ukraine and Russia did agree on another prisoner exchange on Thursday, described by Kushner as returning "thousands of people to their families," although officials gave no numbers or timeline. Vice President of the European Commission Kaja Kallas said a European delegate's presence would show the Kremlin "now realised that Europe is a big player," while she also expressed doubts that Russia was moving toward a peace deal. Kyiv reported fresh disruption to its Starshield satellite communications and rising cross border incursions, and roughly one fifth of Ukraine remains under Russian control, underscoring unresolved territorial and security issues. The immediate concrete outcomes are a pledged EU role in upcoming talks and an announced large prisoner swap, with the details and formal Russian agreement on EU participation still pending.

Dave Keating
@davekeating.substack.com

We're being told by national governments that Kaja Kallas is too anti-Russian to represent the EU in 🇷🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦 peace talks. These same concerns were raised in 2024. So why did they vote to make her the EU's foreign policy chief then? Because they never had any intention of letting her do her job.

1038h ago
Mujtaba Rahman
@mijrahman.bsky.social

Europe is obsessing over who gets a seat at the Ukraine peace talks, and what Trump does next. But it is ignoring a far more consequential threat: what happens if Le Pen wins France? My latest for @theguardian.com on why this could be devastating for Ukraine. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

519h ago
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