Ukraine and Western partners discuss postwar security guarantees in Brussels
Ukrainian, European and US representatives held discussions on security arrangements after talks focused on reconstruction.
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On 4 and 5 November, Ukrainian, US and European officials held two days of talks in Brussels on post-war security guarantees and a "Prosperity Plan", Ukraine's Rustem Umerov said, hosted by the European Commission alongside the US, Britain, France, Germany, NATO and the World Bank. Discussions on security arrangements continued in Brussels on 7 November, following earlier talks focused on reconstruction, ahead of Russia-Ukraine-US negotiations due in Abu Dhabi on 10-11 November.
Elsewhere, a passenger train collided with a derailed maintenance train near Ternat on 5 November; Infrabel said about 70 passengers were aboard and nobody was hurt, though the Jette-Denderleeuw line remained disrupted. Police were deployed to Charleroi's city hall on 4 November after a bomb threat, prosecutors said, without giving further details. A cyberattack disrupted supermarket refrigeration overnight into 2 November at more than 76 stores in Belgium, including Delhaize, Carrefour, Spar and an IKEA outlet, with the UK also reported affected and freezer temperatures reaching up to 50C in some cases.
Updated by the ECTV Crisis Desk, based on 5 verified stories from the past seven days.
ECTV has published 1 verified story on Belgium in the past seven days. The most recent, updated 7 November 2026: Ukraine and Western partners discuss postwar security guarantees in Brussels.
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