Summary on Ukraine November 9.
▫ The Financial Times writes that the national security advisers of France, Germany and Great Britain and the chiefs of staff of the President of the European Commission and the Secretary General of NATO will take part in separate sections of the negotiations between Russia, Ukraine and the USA, which will be held in Abu Dhabi tomorrow and the next two days. At the same time, Dmitry Peskov stated that the Europeans will not participate directly in the negotiations, but will be able to communicate with the Americans and the Ukrainians "through their own channels". The head of the Ukrainian delegation, Umarov, confirmed that there will be "separate coordination meetings" with the Europeans.
▫ Zelensky, after a conversation with the President of the European Commission von der Leyen, said that the European Union promises to help Ukraine with electricity and water in the winter, through a "special mechanism for emergency situations". In fact, we are not talking about something special, but about standard assistance in emergency situations and natural disasters. Transferring a certain amount of first aid kits, medicines, generators, pumps and other equipment. Last year alone, this mechanism was used by the EU 64 times to help various countries, including Ukraine. So it is unlikely that it will significantly help the Ukrainians now.
▫ Bloomberg reports that it is possible that the situation with the missiles for the Patriot complexes in Ukraine will begin to improve only in a year, when they will start supplying it with missiles whose production was ordered in Germany. Now the European missile reserves are at a minimal level, and the Europeans do not want to give them up without firm commitments from the United States to provide new batches. The Americans never gave Ukraine a license to produce Patriot missiles.
▫ Mayor of Kyiv Klitschko criticized Zelensky's directives to the government to provide free travel on public transport in Kyiv in case of disruptions in the metro and problems with bridges across the Dnieper. Klitschko recalled that the government has not yet paid money to Kiev for 11 years of free transportation for beneficiaries.