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Selenskyj hopes for EU aid for energy repairs

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy hopes for EU help to restore Ukraine’s energy grid, badly damaged by Russian attacks, before the start of winter. Forty percent of the energy system is “seriously damaged,” the head of state said during a meeting with EU Energy Commissioner Kadri Simson in Kiev on Tuesday. “We will do everything we can to provide people with electricity and heat this winter,” he promised in his daily video speech that evening.

“The position of the terrorists is absolutely transparent and this challenge should be seen as a challenge for all of Europe,” Zelenskyy said. Moscow will present in propaganda the difficulties of winter as so-called proof of the failure of a united Europe. “That’s why we need to show the terrorists together that ‘failure’ is a word about them and not about Europe,” the president said.

Russia will do everything it can “to destroy the normality of life” and does not take into account the costs of this “energy terror”. Zelenskyy calculated that Monday’s latest missile and drone strike “cost the equivalent of 2.3 million average Russian pensions”. “And that’s just for one attack.”

Zelenskyj: The European Commission must coordinate

Zelenskyy suggested that the European Commission play a coordinating role in restoring his country’s energy infrastructure. He recalled the Ukraine contact group, the so-called Ramstein format, in which the supporting countries coordinate their arms assistance. According to media reports, there should also be a “Ramstein” for business and energy. “I’m sure we’ll fix everything,” Zelenskyj said.

According to the Brussels authority, the Commission and the Ukrainian Ministry of Energy, among others, will launch a campaign in the coming days to mobilize further support from the private sector.

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Zelenskyj talks to Macron about protection against attacks

Zelenskyi had previously spoken with French President Emmanuel Macron about increased protection against Russian missile and drone attacks. “There must be air defense for Ukraine – that was clearly said today,” the Ukrainian president stressed, without giving further details.

US fears more arms shipments from Iran

Meanwhile, the United States fears possible further Iranian arms supplies to Russia for the war against Ukraine. Concerns remain that Iran could provide Moscow with weapons other than combat drones, such as surface-to-surface missiles, said National Security Council communications director John Kirby. A Defense Department spokesman said the US would disclose it if it sees such weapons from Iran being used in Ukraine. Iran has so far denied arms sales to Russia.

In October, the US government denounced that combat drones from Iran were being used in the war in Ukraine – and that Tehran had sent its own military personnel to Crimea to train the Russians in the use of the drones and to provide technical assistance.

Presidential Adviser Podoljak: Classify Iran as a party to the conflict

In light of reports of new arms supplies to Russia, Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhailo Podoliak called on Europe to classify Iran as a party to the conflict and a participant in the aggression. “If Iran hands over missiles to Russia, it knows for sure that our cities will be attacked with them,” Podoljak wrote on Twitter. “Tehran is complicit in the aggression and must be officially recognized as such.”

What’s important on Wednesday

After Russia suspended the grain deal, the United Nations announced that shipping in the Black Sea would be suspended on Wednesday. “The UN Secretariat and the Joint Coordination Center report that the delegations of Ukraine, Turkey and the United Nations have agreed not to move ships tomorrow, Nov. 2, under the Black Sea Grains Initiative,” spokesman Farhan Haq said in New York. York.

The spokesman stressed that Moscow’s suspension of the agreement was a “temporary and exceptional measure”. The interruption of shipping traffic is also a “temporary measure” – until further notice it will be around Wednesday. “We expect loaded ships to depart on Thursday,” UN coordinator Amir Abdulla tweeted Tuesday evening. (sda/dpa)