Carney, European leaders push for bigger say on Ukraine's future

As European nations agree to their 22nd round of sanctions against Russia, Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky arrived in Dublin for talks with his European partners and with the one non-European among the 50-odd national leaders here, Canada's Mark Carney. There will be a discussion with President Zelensky. Carney said the leaders meeting in Dublin want to hear from Zelensky about the American-mediated peace talks in Abu Dhabi that ended on Wednesday. Those talks produced a deal on a new prisoner of war exchange, but apparently little movement towards peace. The Europeans are also planning to help Ukraine deal with crippling attacks on its energy infrastructure. Europeans and Canada are doing a lot, but also here, collectively, we need to do more to make sure that Ukraine can get through winter. The US isn't part of this summit, but American negotiators Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff headed to Dublin for talks with Zelensky after meeting Russia's Vladimir Putin in Moscow. The Europeans are adamant that they and the Ukrainians have to be part of any and all peace talks. President Zelensky asked for it. He asked that the Europeans support him in these negotiations, and we will support Ukraine. From Dublin, Prime Minister Carney moves on to the Philippines, where he says he hopes to sign a new free trade deal, and then on to Cambodia for the Francophonie, where he'll meet for the first time with Quebec's new premier. But the most important stop is the last, in China, where Carney will meet with President Xi Jinping, and the two will discuss the future of economic ties between the two countries. Evan Dyer, CBC News. It's all good.