In brief

• EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas says Putin should have no veto over European security.
• Germany's defence minister Boris Pistorius says a US-Russia deal reached without Kyiv would be unacceptable.
• US envoy Jared Kushner has outlined a five-point security framework that keeps NATO central.
• Trilateral talks between the US, Ukraine and Russia are set for November 10 and 11 in Abu Dhabi, with Europe expected to have a voice.

Europe pushes back against a Russian veto

EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said Putin should have no right to a veto over European security. She argued that any future peace agreement must include the European Union and that Ukraine should be fully integrated into the European security architecture, pointing to NATO and the EU as existing structures with defined roles. (Rubio hovorí o pokroku v rokovaniach o budúcnosti Ukrajiny a bezpečnosti Európy – Aktuality.sk)

German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius took a similar line. He told Funke media that any deal between the United States and Russia reached behind Kyiv's back would be unacceptable to both Ukraine and Europe, and asked who would guarantee Ukraine's security if Europe were left out of the talks. (Trump počíta s tým, že Ukrajina bude mať po vojne „trocha iný tvar“. Koniec konfliktu očakáva čoskoro – STVR)

Kushner sets out a framework

US envoy Jared Kushner has published a five-point framework. It proposes guarantees of state sovereignty and a continued central role for NATO. He also said the current trilateral format could widen to include Europe if progress is made. (Ukrajina bude mať po vojne nakoniec trocha iný tvar, vyhlásil Trump – HNonline.sk) Kushner acknowledged that Europe and Russia have failed for more than 30 years to build a lasting security order, and that mutual distrust and the destruction caused by Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine make the task harder.

Trump signals a wider deal

Trump met Kremlin envoy Kirill Dmitriev at the White House and said a big deal was close, one that could reach beyond Ukraine to the whole of Europe. He did not describe the content of the meeting. (Trump naznačil územné straty Ukrajiny. Po dohode má mať podľa neho „trochu iný tvar“ – Aktuality.sk) Trump also spoke by phone with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz before the planned talks, according to a German government spokesman. Berlin has rejected the idea that decisions on European security could be made without Europeans. (Ukrajina bude mať nakoniec „trochu iný tvar“, tvrdí Trump. Hovoril aj o neúcte voči Rusku – Pravda.sk)

In a CBS interview broadcast on Sunday, Trump said Ukraine would end up with a somewhat different shape after a deal, suggesting territorial losses. Russia claims occupied territory in eastern Ukraine and the Crimean peninsula, which Kyiv refuses to cede, citing its constitution. (Európa bude mať zastúpenie na rokovaniach o Ukrajine, Francúzsko chce presadiť európsky hlas – HNonline.sk)

Talks scheduled in Abu Dhabi

The trilateral talks are set for November 10 and 11 in Abu Dhabi. France's foreign minister Jean-Noël Barrot said on Sunday that Europe would have a seat at the table and that Paris would ensure a European voice is heard. (Francúzsko trvá na tom, aby na rokovaniach v Abú Zabí zaznel aj európsky hlas – Aktuality.sk) Russia has named its delegation, and Ukraine's will be led by Rustem Umerov, head of the foreign intelligence service. (Trumpova dohoda s Ruskem? Má přinést mír i nové pořádky, v Evropě budí obavy – Deník.cz) US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said before leaving for a G7 foreign ministers' meeting in Paris that some progress had been made on Ukraine's and Europe's future security architecture, while stressing that no concrete agreement yet exists. The last comparable meeting, in Geneva in mid-February, produced no breakthrough.

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