Europeans to join Ukraine talks in UAE

Europeans will participate in talks on Ukraine in Abu Dhabi next week, French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said on Sunday.
“The Europeans will be well represented; France will be in Abu Dhabi to take part in these discussions,” Barrot told French radio station RTL in an interview. “I can’t tell you yet who will be representing France on this occasion, but France will certainly be there,” he added.
US envoy Steve Witkoff said on Monday Washington would bring delegations from Ukraine and Russia together in Abu Dhabi on 10-11 November to discuss ending Moscow’s war against Ukraine, post-war security agreements and de-escalation.   
The Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southeastern Ukraine has lost its external electricity supply and is again using backup generators for reactor cooling, the plant’s management and the UN’s nuclear watchdog said on Sunday. Zaporizhzhia, which produces no electricity but needs power supplied by two external links to keep nuclear fuel cool, lost its off-site electricity supply after the Ferosplavna power line disconnected, the International Atomic Energy Agency said.
“The cause and location of the latest disconnection are not yet known,” the IAEA said in an X post, adding that the plant currently has sufficient fuel reserves to operate a limited number of emergency diesel generators for about two weeks.
The Russian Defence Ministry said its forces had hit energy infrastructure used by Ukrainian military, as well as a container ship delivering weapons and military equipment to Ukraine south-west of the Black Sea port city of Odesa.
Russia had hit a power substation in Ukraine’s Zhytomyr region, which supplied electricity to Ukraine’s defence industry, the ministry said on Sunday.