Overview
- Reporter accounts say Russian delegates circulated a paper in Abu Dhabi on 10–11 November proposing limits on NATO expansion, withdrawal of NATO forces to 1997 positions, and curbs on Western military support to Ukraine.
- Senior EU leaders including Donald Tusk and Germany’s chancellor Friedrich Merz have publicly rejected revising Europe’s NATO-based security architecture and are organising a united E5 representation for future negotiations.
- Russian forces stepped up strikes on 14 November that hit energy and gas facilities and caused civilian casualties in Zaporizhzhia, leaving almost 50,000 households in Odesa without power and triggering large fires at a Naftogaz site in Poltava.
- Ukraine’s General Staff published updated Russian loss estimates on the morning of 15 November, and Kyiv says it will intensify defence coordination with partners to secure air-defence systems, long-range strike capabilities and expedited F-16 20mm ammunition.
- Defence Minister Yevhenii Khmara has held bilateral talks with allies, discussed urgent PVO and deep-strike needs with Canada, and will attend EU defence ministers’ meetings and the Ramstein Contact Group in Brussels on 17 November to press for more support.