France confirms participation in Ukraine peace talks in Abu Dhabi

France will participate in trilateral negotiations on the war in Ukraine scheduled for November 10-11 in Abu Dhabi, Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot announced Sunday on RTL, confirming Paris and Europe will be represented. Barrot stated France will be present at the discussions but did not specify who will represent the country. He emphasized Europeans have expressed to the American mediator that no talks affecting the continent's future can ignore their expectations. The meeting follows a February Geneva session that yielded no progress. Russia demands Ukrainian withdrawal from Donetsk, which Kyiv refuses. Meanwhile, Russian strikes on Ukraine's power grid left over 600,000 residents without electricity in Dnipropetrovsk region.