EC Midday press briefing of 10/11/2026
10 November 2026
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European Commission
Follow its sittings00:02 - 00:32
Speaker 7
It's a follow-up for my yesterday's question about civil protection mechanism for Ukraine. Yesterday, Presidents Zelenskyy and von der Leyen decided to give Ukraine more help to for Ukrainian citizens who suffer without electricity, water and central heating. What is already done during these days because yesterday were announced some talks? So, please elaborate on that. Thank you.
00:32 - 01:07
Speaker 8
Indeed, and just to put it into context, this aid, this humanitarian aid was asked by President Zelenskyy in his call with President von der Leyen on Sunday and President von der Leyen offered to look into it immediately, on top of the aid that we have been providing to Ukraine since the very beginning of the war in terms of winterisation, and, as you say, a follow-up meeting took place yesterday, and we can indeed share more details with you today, Eva.
01:07 - 02:40
Speaker 5
Absolutely. Good afternoon, everybody. Thank you, Tetiana, for the question. I would say it's a work in progress, but what is clear is that we will keep the lights on in Ukraine, we will keep the hospitals running, and we will keep the essential services functioning. This is already given by the plan that we have for this winter, and that the President von der Leyen has announced in February.
If I may speak about the humanitarian needs, we have already since the beginning of the war allocated nearly one and half billion of euros in humanitarian assistance. This year, we have announced the top up in September, it was 52 million, and it makes the whole envelope for this year reaching around 200 million of euros. Then we have the Civil Protection Mechanism on the other side. You asked me yesterday whether there is any activation needed for the Civil Protection Mechanism, absolutely not, because with Ukraine, it's an open channel of solidarity, it's a channel through which we deliver to Ukraine generators, transformers, equipment for energy infrastructure. We have dismantled the whole energy power plant to deliver it to Ukraine, and to use it for assembling of the energy infrastructure that is needed there.
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