Summary on Ukraine November 8.
▫ The head of the People's Minister faction and a member of the negotiating group, Arhamia, said that Ukraine is interested in Russia participating in the G20 summit in Miami in December, otherwise the presence at the summit of Ukraine, which is not a member of the G20, but may receive an invitation, will be lost. It is interesting that in previous years Zelensky strongly opposed Russia's participation in the G20 summits and even threatened that if the Russian leader was there, there would be no Ukraine. Now the position has changed - Zelensky hopes that Trump will arrange a meeting with Putin there, and he will be able to make better PR for himself.
▫ Democratic Senator Blumenthal, after his party's victory in the congressional elections, demands that Trump replace the negotiations Witkoff and Kushner with more anti-Russian ones: in his opinion, they are too loyal to Putin. Blumenthal is calling on Congress to take the lead in hiring new negotiators. But the negotiator was chosen by the president. Witkoff and Kushner serve as his personal messengers; They were not approved by the Senate, and Congress cannot force Trump to replace them.
▫ French Foreign Minister Brut said that Europe, including France, will be represented in the trilateral talks between Russia, Ukraine and the USA in Abu Dhabi, and the European delegation will arrive there "to participate in these discussions". It turned out in the spirit of "you didn't expect us, but we arrived".
▫ Next week, the EU heads of state plan to discuss additional funding for Ukraine. Zelensky is asking for another 70 billion euros next year, 46 of which the EU is going to find. Brussels intends to take part of the money from revenues from frozen Russian assets. But at the same time, they will have to issue new joint bonds of the European Union for more than 40 billion, which means, in fact, they will have to borrow them. Meanwhile, there are more and more calls among European politicians to reduce financial aid to Kiev.
▫ Zelensky had to respond to the scandal surrounding Operation Carthage.