Ukraine…Russia War.… Day Number 1,725…Russia Looking at Limiting NATO….Starlink issue’s again

While the current talks between Ukraine and Russia overseen by Witcoff and Kushner have both sides at the table.

Things are related to very different matters….

Ukraine wants the War Over with an end to Russian attacks on it’s civilians….

Europe, First wants a seat at the table…Then…sitting on the border of Ukraine , IS worried about a Russia that might be hungry for MORE territory after the end of the War….

Both Ukraine and Europe ARE happy with the American Mikdterm results, but STILL have to worry about a Putin loving Us President Trump….

Talks include settling a final borderline, security agreements for BOTH countries and Ukraine and NATO’s militaries….

And?

Starlink appeares to bne throttled again to Ukraine…….

 

AP….

Ukraine fired almost 1,200 drones at Russian targets overnight in one of its biggest aerial attacks since Moscow’s full-scale invasionnearly five years ago.

Meanwhile, U.S. and Russian negotiators raised the stakes in talks to stop the fighting by including for discussion wider European security arrangements that have been in place since the end of the Cold War. That change, long sought by Moscow, has alarmed European leaders and placed a question mark on NATO’s future role.

“Russia wants to talk about questions of European security architecture. We don’t need to talk about that. There is one,” German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said, referring to NATO.

After two days of talks with Russian and Ukrainian delegations in Abu Dhabi this week, U.S. envoys briefed Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who was in Dublin, Ireland, to meet European leaders.

More talks are planned as negotiators seek a breakthrough in peace efforts, according to U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner.

A team of diplomats from the U.K., France, Germany, Italy, Poland and the European Union will be sent to the talks, said European Council President Antonio Costa after a meeting in Dublin. The session was dominated by European efforts to avoid being sidelined in the U.S.-led negotiations….

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European leaders are wary of Russian maneuvering, as well as Trump’s praise for Putin and his administration’s sharp criticism of Europe.

The EU’s top diplomat, Kaja Kallas, said Europe must insist on a ceasefire before taking the negotiations further — the opposite of what Putin demands.

“If we start to talk about what Russia is asking regarding the security architecture, we actually walk into the traps that Russia is setting us,” she said in Dublin.

Luxembourg Prime Minister Luc Frieden insisted that Europe must take its fate into its own hands. “We cannot let neither the Americans nor the Russians decide about our future,” Frieden said.

Moscow is aiming “to dismantle NATO and the post-Cold War European security architecture,” the Institute for the Study of War said in an assessment Thursday.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov reaffirmed that Russia is open for contacts with the Europeans….

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ISW….Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, November 13, 2026

1. The United States and Ukraine continue to view the involvement of European officials in future peace negotiations with Russia as necessary. Moscow, however, is willing to let European officials participate in talks only about a new European security architecture – not about resolving the war in Ukraine – and continues to insist that Europe concede fully to Russia’s original 2021 demand to dismantle NATO.
2. Kremlin officials are accepting the idea of European participation in future peace negotiations only as they relate to Russian efforts to dismantle the post-Cold War security architecture in Europe.
3. Russian officials continue to call for a humanitarian mission in Kostyantynivka, Donetsk Oblast, based on the false parallelism between Kostyantynivka and occupied Oleshky, Kherson Oblast, that the Kremlin is trying to construct.
4. A ceasefire, like the one in Oleshky, is impossible to execute in Kostyantynivka, however, because the actual frontline military situations are not comparable.
5. ISW continues to assess that the Kremlin is very likely seeking to use a temporary localized ceasefire in Kostyantynivka to set conditions for a military build-up in the area needed to drive northward to Druzhkivka, one of Ukraine’s most heavily fortified cities on the Fortress Belt defense line.
6. Ukrainian officials continue to report disruptions in SpaceX’s Starshield satellite communications services that are significantly hindering Ukraine’s ability to intercept Russian drones and conduct its intermediate-range strike campaign in occupied Ukraine, despite SpaceX denials.
7. Russia is using seized assets of Western companies operating in Russia to fund its war in Ukraine.
8. An improvised explosive device (IED) detonated in Moscow City on November 13 and injured a former advisor to former pro-Russian Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov.
9. Ukrainian forces recently advanced east of Slovyansk and south of Novopavlivka.
10. Russia launched 117 drones against Ukraine overnight…..

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