Theme: Ukraine

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky awarded US First Lady Melania Trump the Order of Princess Olga, First Class. The decree cited her “significant personal contribution to humanitarian support for Ukraine” and active human rights and charitable work. Melania last month announced a localized truce between Ukrainian and Russian forces to allow residents of Oleshky, on the southern front, to leave, and said nearly 800 people were evacuated. Ukraine this week accused Russia of taking advantage of the truce to strengthen its military position there, while the Kremlin called adjusting positions during a ceasefire “standard practice” — according to the White House, Melania independently initiated engagement between the two warring nations and secured the ceasefire.

Ukraine’s national police released on Wednesday bodycam footage that, it says, shows the moments between two Russian bomb strikes that killed at least 40 people at an aid center and a shelter, in the Zaporizhzhia region in southern Ukraine. According to Ukraine, nine gliding bombs, some weighing 3,000 kg, hit the village as people had gathered to get humanitarian aid, and more than 30 people may still be under the rubble on the third day of searches; the Russian military has not publicly commented on the attack.

The NABU has dismantled a criminal network running fraudulent call centers and drug sales with the support of senior SBU, police and Prosecutor General's Office officials, according to TASS, citing Ukrainska Pravda — dozens of raids were carried out on Wednesday in Operation Carthage. Vladimir Tsenov, first deputy chief of the national police's strategic investigations department, known by the codename “Price”, was detained. SBU chief Oleksandr Poklad dismissed two senior officials targeted by the investigation, according to Le Monde.

The toll of the Russian attack on Komyshuvakha has risen to 40 dead, with the search in its third day, Zelensky announced, according to Le Monde. Zelensky arrived in Madrid on his fifth visit to Spain and meets Pedro Sánchez and other leaders on Thursday on the sidelines of an Ibero-American summit, with strengthening air defense as the top priority. He lamented “very few reactions around the world” and urged allies to bolster the country's air defense “right now”. The European Commission praised Ukraine's progress toward membership but urged faster rule-of-law reforms to conclude negotiations by the end of 2028.

In an interview with German television ZDF, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he hoped Democratic gains in the midterm elections would generate more help for Kyiv in its 4-1/2-year-long war with Russia, according to Reuters, in a text published by the Jerusalem Post. Zelensky said he was grateful to Republicans but that Democrats speak “very clearly” about supporting Ukraine and renewing the connection between the United States and Europe. “I am also grateful to the Republicans, but the Democrats speak very clearly about supporting Ukraine and providing assistance to Ukraine,” he said in comments provided in German by ZDF before the interview was broadcast. “They speak about renewing the connection between the United States and Europe... Therefore, there is hope that a balance of power will emerge and that we will receive more support.” He also said that a Congress approving strong financial support or military assistance would have an impact on Putin.

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukraine, the United States and Russia are preparing a trilateral format at the team level to take place in less than a week, after a detailed, hour-and-a-half-long conversation with US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner. Witkoff said the United States would mediate the working-level talks, scheduled for November 10-11 in Abu Dhabi. Kremlin aide Yury Ushakov said the talks may be held in Abu Dhabi around November 10. Zelensky said air defense remains a key priority and that Ukraine needs interceptors for Patriot systems.

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky awarded US first lady Melania Trump the Order of Princess Olga, first class, an honor for women who have made exceptional contributions in science, education, culture and charitable work, according to Reuters, in a text republished by Investing.com. The presidential decree, dated November 2, cited her “significant personal contribution” to humanitarian support for Ukraine and her work to help Ukrainian children, including those deported or forcibly moved from Russian-occupied territory. Ukrainian officials have said she played a pivotal role in organizing the six-day ceasefire to evacuate civilians from Oleshky, which concluded on Sunday, the longest local pause in fighting since Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022. Nearly 800 people were evacuated, Melania Trump said. Russian and Ukrainian delegations — made up of ombudsmen involved in the evacuation mission and senior officials — are due to meet at the White House on Thursday at her invitation. The White House said Melania Trump had “independently initiated engagement between the two warring nations and successfully secured a ceasefire.”

According to Sputnik, Ukraine's National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) said that officials from the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), the police and the Prosecutor General's Office were involved in providing protection to fraudulent call centers, and that during searches authorized by the High Anti-Corruption Court an SBU official threatened the agents with a weapon and obstructed the work. Ukraine's National Police said it had suspended the officers targeted by the searches pending an internal investigation. According to Le Monde, SBU chief Oleksandr Poklad dismissed two senior officials targeted by the investigation, which involves members of the secret services, the Prosecutor General's Office and the police.

In the annual enlargement report presented on November 4, Ukraine remains in the leading group of ten candidates alongside Montenegro, Albania and Moldova, and the European Commission (EC) avoided giving a timeline. Under pressure from member states, which did not want to tie their hands with an accession calendar, the European executive scaled back its ambitions and presented only “indicative” roadmaps for the four countries closest to the European Union (EU). Enlargement Commissioner Marta Kos had announced in September that new dates would accompany the report, and resistance from capitals meant that did not happen. Ireland, which leads the negotiations on behalf of the EU, aims to close all chapters with Montenegro by December 15.

Volodymyr Zelensky arrived in Madrid on his fifth visit to Spain, with air defense as his absolute priority, and is due to meet Pedro Sánchez and other leaders on Thursday on the sidelines of an Ibero-American summit. He announced that the death toll from the Russian attack on Komyshuvakha had risen to 40, with searches on the third day, and lamented that there are “very few reactions in the world”. The trip comes ahead of new talks on the war between Ukraine and Russia.

A meeting of technical delegations from the European Commission, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, the United States, Ukraine and the World Bank in Brussels ended without practical results on a possible settlement of the Ukrainian conflict, according to a diplomatic source who spoke to TASS. In its final statement, the European Commission said participants had discussed “Ukraine’s postwar reconstruction and development.” EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said the meeting was expected to extend into Thursday and that previous talks had focused only on what Ukraine should give away. The Brussels talks come ahead of a new round of US-brokered peace negotiations next week.

Russia attacked overnight with 310 drones, including 81 jet-powered drones, according to Ukraine’s air force, which said it downed or suppressed 272 drones of various types. The attacks triggered power and water outages for hours across Kyiv and surrounding regions, and residents in the capital were urged to use public drinking water fountains before supplies were restored. Russia’s Ministry of Defense said it shot down 709 Ukrainian drones the previous night. Retailer Ozon said a drone attack caused a fire at its logistics center in Adygeysk, in Russia’s Adygea region, but that there were no casualties.

Ukrainian drone strikes have killed three people in Russia’s Belgorod region, while attacks cut power to multiple cities in Ukraine and parts of Russian-occupied Crimea, according to officials. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia’s overnight attacks damaged power generation facilities and substations in nine regions, leaving emergency outages in many cities. Russia’s Defense Ministry confirmed on Telegram that it hit two power stations in Ukraine’s Kyiv and Zhytomyr regions and said it downed 709 Ukrainian drones across 14 regions, Crimea and the Black and Azov seas. In southern Russia, a Ukrainian drone attack started a fire at a distribution facility of Ozon, in the town of Adygeysk in the Republic of Adygea, regional head Murat Kumpilov said. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said he hoped Trump would continue his peacemaking efforts after the Democratic victory and treated any changes in Congress as a domestic US matter: “President Trump continues to exercise his powers. We sincerely hope that he will also continue his peacemaking efforts.”

The death toll from the Russian strike on Komyshuvakha, in Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia region, rose to 40 from 37 on Wednesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Telegram, adding that some bodies had not yet been identified. The previous figure came from local authorities.

The European Commission said in its annual enlargement report that Ukraine remains committed to EU membership despite the challenges caused by Russia’s war of aggression and that Kyiv has opened four of the six negotiation clusters.

First Lady Melania Trump will bring representatives of Russia and Ukraine together at the White House, an event the White House described as an extraordinary moment in American history. Melania was praised for helping broker a localized ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia that lasted from 3 a.m. on October 27 until late on November 1, local time, in Oleshky, in the Kherson region. The first lady called the ceasefire a “success” and said “nearly 800 people” had been evacuated, but neither Ukraine nor Russia publicly confirmed exactly how many people left or where they relocated. Yana Lantratova, Russia’s human rights commissioner, who is expected at the meeting, was sanctioned by the United States in 2022, making her ineligible to enter the country without a special waiver from the State Department. Separately, the Kremlin confirmed three-way talks with Ukraine and the United States in Abu Dhabi from November 10 to 11, with Vladimir Medinsky, an aide to President Vladimir Putin, as Moscow’s chief negotiator. Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the Kremlin hopes to finalize plans in the coming days for a meeting between the leaders of Russia, the United States and China.

The death toll from a Russian bombing of an aid distribution point in Ukraine’s southeastern Zaporizhzhia region on Monday has risen to 37, with dozens missing, in one of the deadliest strikes on civilians this year, officials said in a Reuters report republished by The Straits Times. Ivan Fedorov, the co-head of the Zaporizhzhia Regional Defense Council, wrote on Telegram that 59 people were missing. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said Russian forces first dropped aerial bombs on the school building in Komyshuvakha as people arrived to collect aid, then struck the shelter with more bombs. Two members of a rescue crew and four police officers were among the dead, emergency services said. Russia’s Defense Ministry said the attack targeted Ukrainian military units in Komyshuvakha and two other settlements, and that up to 25 Ukrainian servicemen were killed.

Russia’s Defense Ministry says, in a Reuters text republished by Investing.com, that two power stations in Ukraine’s regions of Kyiv and Zhytomyr were hit, in strikes that also targeted a cargo vessel at sea near Odesa and follow Tuesday’s missile and drone bombardments that knocked out power to swaths of Ukraine. US envoy Steve Witkoff announced that the US will bring together delegations from Ukraine and Russia in Abu Dhabi on November 10–11 to discuss post-war security agreements, de-escalation and ending the war.

At least 31 people were killed after Russian bombs hit an aid distribution center in Zaporizhzhia, with at least nine 3,000 kg aerial bombs falling on the village of Komyshuvakha on Monday and the center collapsing after a direct hit, regional administration head Mykhailo Semikin said. At least 26 people were killed in two separate strikes, the second against a building, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said. The target was a military unit, Russia’s Defense Ministry maintains.

In an interview with the Financial Times, Donald Trump said he was optimistic that Ukraine-Russia peace talks were making ground, according to TASS, which carried the interview. According to the quote published by the agency, Trump said: “I think they’re both at the point of saying, ‘Let’s make a deal.’”

The United States-mediated peace talks are scheduled for November 10–11 in Abu Dhabi. According to Zelenskiy, Russia launched 289 drones, 17 ballistic missiles and 59 cruise missiles overnight against power plants and substations from Odesa to Rivne. Friedrich Merz said in Berlin that the talks are the right step and that Europe must take part in the process, urging Russia to engage in serious ceasefire negotiations and saying he has seen no sign of that so far. Moscow said it hit Ukrainian military units around Komyshuvakha and in two other settlements in the Zaporizhzhia region, with up to 25 Ukrainian servicemen killed.

Armed men held about 40 people in the basement of a house in the village of Petropavlivska Borshchahivka, in the Kyiv region, and four were taken out and brought to a hospital after the crowd demanded that a doctor be let in — at the scene, the head of Ukraine’s National Guard, Oleksandr Pivnenko, said military personnel of his department, including those who had left their units without permission, were in the basement, and there was a confrontation with the police. According to Ukrainian media reports, the alleged prison was said to be a building of the Azov Battalion, a National Guard unit created in 2014. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the lack of public reaction from Western human rights organizations did not surprise Moscow and that European bodies try to shield the Ukrainian leadership — and said Ukrainians who do not want to fight for Kyiv may surrender to Russian troops.

Russia bombarded Ukraine’s energy infrastructure in waves on Tuesday, with dozens of missiles and hundreds of drones, knocking out power across swaths of the country. Volodymyr Zelenskyy said at least 33 people were killed on Monday when Russia twice bombed a school used for aid distribution in Komyshuvakha, in the Zaporizhzhia region, and that about 50 people were still believed buried under the rubble. The Kyivvodokanal utility said that the capital’s water supply was suspended because the main water facilities were left without power after the attacks. Operator DTEK said the attacks knocked three of its thermal power plants completely offline. The U.S.-mediated tripartite talks in Abu Dhabi are set for November 10 and 11. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said it was important that Russia seriously and effectively engage in ceasefire negotiations.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he hopes the upcoming US-mediated talks with Russia in Abu Dhabi will lead to a three-way meeting of leaders that includes Russian President Vladimir Putin. The talks are scheduled for November 10-11, and, according to the Northeast Times, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz says Russia has yet to engage seriously.

The management of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, under Russian control, said on Tuesday that a Ukrainian drone had killed two people in a car, including a female employee at the station, according to Reuters, in a text republished by Street Insider. The statement gave no indication where the attack occurred and said the employee was the third killed in the past two weeks and the 13th since April. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said last week that an employee at the plant had been killed, but gave no details. Ukraine did not comment on the accusation. Russian forces seized the plant, Europe's largest, with six reactors, in the first weeks of the invasion that began in February 2022. The facility is offline, and IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi has repeatedly called for military restraint around it.

The confirmed death toll from the Russian attack on a school used to distribute humanitarian aid in Komyshuvakha, in the Zaporizhzhia region, has risen to 33, according to the latest figures cited by Ukrainian media. Two waves of aerial bombs hit the town on Monday, during the weekly food distribution, and killed 29 people in the toll released that day. Latvia has called an extraordinary meeting of the United Nations (UN) Security Council after the Russian attacks on civilians in Ukraine, including the aid distribution center in Komyshuvakha.

Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) and the Office of the Prosecutor General charged Yuliya Mendel in absentia, Zelensky’s former spokesperson, with high treason under martial law and with justifying Russia’s actions against Ukraine. According to the SBU, investigators argue that Mendel used public statements and social media posts to discredit Ukraine on the international stage. She is currently outside the country, and the agency said comprehensive measures are being taken to bring her to justice.

A Russian delegation will travel to Abu Dhabi on November 10-11 for trilateral talks with Ukraine and the United States (US), Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov confirmed: “Yes, I can confirm that date.” Negotiator Vladimir Medinsky will again lead the delegation, as in the previous round, interrupted after the conflict between Iran, on one side, and the US and Israel, on the other. It will be the first trilateral meeting since February. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said he had seen no sign that Russia wanted to negotiate seriously: “I have not seen any sign of that so far.” Merz also promised more aid and help with energy supplies for Ukraine going into winter and said Russia risked further escalation and a global food crisis through attacks in the Black Sea, according to Reuters, in a text republished by StreetInsider. Zelensky defended a ceasefire in the Black Sea, where attacks have intensified in recent months.

A Russian missile destroyed Dnipro’s hospice on Monday night, and nearly 50 terminally ill patients were transferred to other facilities; the oldest was 90 years old. In Kharkiv, a hospital was hit and 73 people were wounded, most of them elderly patients, according to Volodymyr Zelensky. Russian strikes on an aid center, a hospice and a hospital killed at least 38 civilians and injured scores of others in 24 hours. Kyiv’s water supply was entirely cut off “due to enemy attacks and damage to the capital’s energy infrastructure,” the supplier Kyivvodokanal said, and the entire metro network was suspended on Tuesday. Russia also struck energy infrastructure in nine regions, affecting water and heating. Zelensky said Russia launched 289 drones, 17 ballistic missiles and 59 cruise missiles overnight across the country, and three thermal power plants of Ukraine’s largest private energy company were out of operation, according to the company. The UN human rights monitoring mission said the aid distribution at the school in Komyshuvakha had been highly publicized and that the attack “seems to have violated the most fundamental principles of international humanitarian law.”

Russia’s Defense Ministry said the attack on Komyshuvakha targeted Ukrainian military units near the village and in two other settlements in the Zaporizhzhia region, according to Reuters, in a text republished by UOL. In a statement released on Tuesday, the ministry said up to 25 Ukrainian soldiers were killed and that 15 vehicles and an electronic warfare station were destroyed. Both Russia and Ukraine deny deliberately targeting civilians in the conflict. Ukrainian authorities say the school that was hit was being used as an aid distribution point and shelter; President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russian forces first dropped aerial bombs on the school, used for aid distribution every Monday, and that no classes were being held. The acting head of the Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration, Mykhailo Semikin, said five people were wounded and nearly 50 were still missing.

Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, ruled out telephone talks with Russia, saying Moscow would use the conversation as a pretext to avoid further meetings; he spoke at a press conference alongside German Chancellor Friedrich Merz in Berlin. In the German capital, Zelensky ruled out inviting Vladimir Putin to Kyiv and said no Ukrainian intends to go to Moscow. The president confirmed that Ukrainian, Russian and US officials will meet in Abu Dhabi on November 10 and 11, and that Kyiv wants a halt to attacks on energy infrastructure, safe passage for grain shipments through the Black Sea and further prisoner exchanges. Merz said he does not see Russia seriously engaging in ceasefire negotiations and that Europe needs a voice on sanctions and post-war security.

The European Commission said representatives from Ukraine, the United States (US), France, Germany, Britain, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the World Bank will meet in Brussels on Wednesday, on the eve of the resumption of US-mediated talks, according to spokesperson Paula Pinho. US special envoy Steve Witkoff said Washington will also mediate working-level talks between Ukraine and Russia in Abu Dhabi on November 10 and 11. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov confirmed that a Russian delegation will travel to the United Arab Emirates and that presidential aide Vladimir Medinsky will lead the team. Peskov ruled out the European Union joining the Abu Dhabi talks because the agreed format is trilateral, between Russia and Ukraine with US mediation.

The death toll from a Russian attack on a site where people had gathered to receive humanitarian aid in Komyshuvakha, in the Zaporizhzhia region, rose to 31 on Tuesday, with dozens still missing under the rubble. The dead included four police officers and two rescue workers, according to the acting head of the regional military administration, Mykhailo Semikin, and at least five people were hurt. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia launched 289 attack drones, 17 ballistic missiles and 59 cruise missiles across nine regions, triggering emergency power cuts. In Kharkiv, a combined Russian missile and drone attack wounded at least 62 people, according to local authorities. Russia’s Ministry of Defense said it shot down 856 Ukrainian drones overnight, and Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin said 493 drones were fired toward the capital.

The office of US first lady Melania Trump announced that she will convene Russian and Ukrainian representatives at the White House on Thursday and deliver remarks about the temporary ceasefire in Oleshky, a Russian-occupied city in Ukraine’s Kherson region, which she helped negotiate. The White House credited Melania Trump with independently initiating discussions between the two countries and securing the localized truce, which allowed humanitarian aid to reach civilians and residents to evacuate. The announcement did not specify who will attend the meeting or provide details about the agenda.

Ukraine’s State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) opened criminal proceedings over the events of November 2, 2026 in Petropavlivska Borshchahivka, in the Kyiv region, under Part 5 of Article 426-1 of the Ukrainian Criminal Code, which covers exceeding authority or official powers by a military official. The events unfolded near a private house used to temporarily accommodate National Guard service members who had returned after leaving their unit without authorization. According to the SBI, investigators will establish the circumstances and conditions of the service members’ stay in the house and verify reports of possible coercion against them. The conflict near the house escalated into clashes, during which shots were fired and official police vehicles were damaged. National Guard Commander Oleksandr Pivnenko confirmed that National Guard service members were in the house after leaving their unit without authorization and that four of them required medical attention and were taken to a hospital. The National Guard said it will no longer use the building and that the people who had been staying there have already left.

The death toll from a Russian attack on a site where people had gathered to receive humanitarian aid in Komyshuvakha, in southern Ukraine, rose to 29 on Tuesday, with 48 people still missing; in the same wave of overnight strikes, hospitals were damaged and scores of people wounded. The head of the Zaporizhzhia regional military administration, Mykhailo Semikin, said the attack left 29 dead, 5 injured and 48 people whose whereabouts are unknown. President Volodymyr Zelensky said that after the first strike on the local school “used for humanitarian needs”, there was a second attack on the place where people were sheltering.

The United States will mediate technical-level talks between Ukraine and Russia in Abu Dhabi on November 10 and 11, special envoy Steve Witkoff announced. According to Witkoff, discussions will focus on post-war security arrangements, de-escalation, humanitarian efforts and next steps toward peace. The US delegation is expected to include Witkoff and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, according to Reuters. The Kremlin said presidential aide Vladimir Medinsky will remain Russia’s chief negotiator in the new round, according to Sputnik.

Russia’s Defense Ministry said it had downed 856 Ukrainian drones over Russia’s regions overnight, with two employees injured at the Yaroslavl refinery and emergency services fighting a fire at the site, according to Evrayev — Russia’s Battlegroup South said it had shot down 87 Ukrainian copter drones over the past day.

Russia's Defense Ministry said on Tuesday that its forces struck facilities of Ukraine's energy complex in the Vinnytsia, Dnipropetrovsk and Kharkiv regions that supply military enterprises. The ministry said the strikes also hit port infrastructure in the Odesa region and naval vessels used for military purposes.

Yaroslavl Governor Mikhail Yevrayev said that two staff members of the Yaroslavl oil refinery suffered shrapnel injuries in a Ukrainian overnight drone attack and were hospitalized, with the refinery’s infrastructure damaged even as defenses and electronic warfare repelled, according to him, 124 drones; Russian defenses further claim that 493 drones flew toward Moscow between the night of November 2 and the morning of November 3, with 187 neutralized approaching the capital.

The death toll from the Russian bombing of an aid distribution center and a neighboring shelter in Komyshuvakha, in the Zaporizhzhia region has risen to at least 26, Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the emergency services said. Five people were injured and 27 reported missing after at least nine 3,000 kg aerial bombs hit the village. Zelenskyy said the first strike hit the local school used for humanitarian needs and the second hit the place where people were sheltering.

Rada member Artyom Dmitruk claimed on Telegram that there were fatalities and serious injuries in clashes during protests near Kyiv, according to TASS, still without independent confirmation. Dmitruk wrote that fighters dispatched by Volodymyr Zelenskyy beat people and opened fire on them.

Emergency alert systems in Russia and Ukraine were hit in cyberattacks overnight, with fake warnings of possible nuclear strikes broadcast to users in both countries, according to France 24, and have since been restored, with attribution still unknown.

Nearly 3,000 military personnel from 12 European nations are taking part this month in Poland in Exercise Koalicja, running November 9–22, 2026, according to the BBC, a rehearsal, led by the UK and France, of how to move, protect and supply a multinational force in Ukraine if there is a peace deal.

US negotiators Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner are expected to represent the US in talks with delegations from Russia and Ukraine in Abu Dhabi on November 10–11, 2026, according to a US official cited by Reuters, while American negotiators meet this week in Brussels with France, Germany, the UK, the EU and NATO to discuss security guarantees for Ukraine, Europe's future security framework and economic support for Ukraine's reconstruction.

The doctor who reported the existence of a basement used to hold servicemen near Kyiv was detained by police during a live broadcast, according to the Russian state news agency TASS. She had insisted that the people held there be hospitalized.

The United States, Russia and Ukraine will hold peace talks in Abu Dhabi on November 10–11, 2026, according to Axios. Discussions will focus on post-war security arrangements, de-escalation, humanitarian efforts and next steps toward peace. Kushner and Witkoff will lead the U.S. delegation. Lower-level U.S. officials will meet this week in Brussels with representatives from France, Germany, the United Kingdom, the European Union (EU) and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to discuss security guarantees for Ukraine.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that after the humanitarian operation in Oleshky there was a moment when the next steps could have shown that progress toward peace was possible, and that the strike on Komyshuvakha, in the Zaporizhzhia region, showed Russia was “sending an entirely opposite signal” and “counting on more killings.” He called for “a strong and tough response” from the world. Zelenskyy wrote on X that after the first aerial strike there was a “double-tap strike” with nine more bombs aimed specifically at the shelter where people were taking cover. The death toll differed between sources: Ukraine's emergency services counted at least 24, and TRT World reported 26.

Ukrainian National Guard Commander Alexander Pivnenko has acknowledged that the basement of a house in Petropavlovskaya Borshchagovka, near Kiev, was being used to hold servicemen who left their units without authorization and newly mobilized men, according to TASS. The house belongs to the Azov group, according to Strana, and Volodymyr Zelensky’s office said there are many buildings like it in Ukraine.

Twenty-four people were killed and five injured in a Russian bombing of an aid distribution center in Komyshuvakha, in the Zaporizhzhia region, according to regional head Mykhailo Semikin, who said at least nine 3,000 kg aerial bombs hit the village. Another 27 people were initially reported missing. President Volodymyr Zelensky said 10 guided bombs targeted an area that included a school building used to distribute aid and a nearby shelter, and Ukraine’s emergency services counted 24 dead.

Russian airstrikes killed at least 18 people and wounded five in Komyshuvakha, in Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia region, according to Volodymyr Zelensky. The Ukrainian president said the strikes had been hitting the settlement since the morning and that a school used as a humanitarian aid distribution center had been struck.

Ukraine's General Staff said on Monday that Russian forces had used last week's humanitarian ceasefire in the Russian-held southern town of Oleshky to strengthen their military positions. The six-day ceasefire, brokered through US first lady Melania Trump, was meant to allow aid deliveries and civilian evacuations from the frontline town. In total, nearly 800 people were evacuated, Melania Trump said on X.

Ukraine and Russia said their emergency alert apps had been hacked overnight, sending citizens false warnings about impending air raids and chemical and nuclear attacks. In Ukraine, one of the alarms said Russia had launched a hypersonic Oreshnik missile — one capable of carrying a nuclear warhead — and that a nuclear alert had been declared.

Ukraine has hit three Russian refineries since Friday. The Novokuibyshevsk refinery, owned by Rosneft, was targeted in a drone attack on Friday, the first Ukrainian strike on a Russian refinery since October 15; over the weekend, drones hit a Rosneft refinery in Bashkortostan and Lukoil's Kstovo refinery in Nizhny Novgorod.

Denmark has reached an agreement with Estonia to recover the money from a military aid package meant to supply artillery ammunition to Ukraine. Estonia paid 9.5 million euros to Datasel as a prepayment but did not receive functional artillery shells in return.

The United States proposed resuming Russian natural gas sales to Europe through Ukraine, according to The Wall Street Journal. The idea was raised by envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff during trips to Moscow and Kyiv in September and would involve selling the gas through a US intermediary to circumvent European sanctions.

Authorities in Ukraine and Russia said their emergency alert mobile apps were targeted by cyberattacks late Sunday, with users in Ukraine receiving false warnings of dangerously high radiation levels in the capital, Kyiv. Hours later, Russia said its own alert system had also been hacked.

A ceasefire of several days in a Russian-occupied Ukrainian city has ended after allowing hundreds of residents to leave. Moscow and Kyiv assessed the truce in Alyoshki positively, according to the press review of the Russian agency TASS.

Ukraine has formally denied considering severing diplomatic relations with South Korea in the dispute over the repatriation of two North Korean prisoners of war, and spokesperson Heorhii Tykhyi said remarks by South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Hyun at a parliamentary hearing were a hypothetical response and that both countries are working to avoid further escalation, according to UPI.

Russia and Ukraine have both reported cyberattacks targeting their emergency alert apps, with hackers sending fake warnings of nuclear, chemical and radiation threats to mobile phone users. In Russia, the emergency ministry's app was hit by a massive cyberattack that resulted in the spread of false information to the public, according to Reuters, which cited the state news agency TASS. The fake alert sent to Russia's app warned that nuclear warheads mounted on P1-Suns, a Ukrainian attack drone, had been launched against all regions of Russia.

The US backs a rapid resumption of Russian natural gas exports to Europe via pipelines crossing Ukraine, as part of talks aimed at securing an energy ceasefire before winter, according to Reuters, in a text republished by Arab News. The idea, raised by envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff during trips to Moscow and Kyiv in September, would involve selling Russian gas via a US intermediary to circumvent European sanctions, according to the Wall Street Journal (WSJ).

After the truce ended, Russia and Ukraine reported cyberattacks against their warning apps — with false information about drone strikes published on the Russian side and false radiation alerts on the Ukrainian side, according to TRT World. Russia reported its case on Monday, hours after the Ukrainian report, according to The Hindu.

Ukraine said it evacuated 167 more people on Sunday from threatened areas of the southern Kherson region, including 22 children and 21 people with limited mobility requiring special assistance, on the day a multi-day localized truce between Russia and Ukraine ended with no violations reported by either side and no sign of an extension, according to Al Jazeera. The pause in hostilities allowed besieged residents to be evacuated from the front-line city of Oleshky, in a rare joint operation between Kyiv and Moscow that ended on Saturday; an estimated 2,000 civilians were in the city when the temporary truce took hold, according to AP News.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Sunday that his country would stop hitting Russian oil refineries — a key demand of US President Donald Trump — if Washington provides Patriot interceptor missiles. He tied the pause to one month of deliveries: if the systems are provided for a month, Kyiv would halt the attacks on the refineries for the same period, according to the Straits Times. Patriot missiles are among the most important weapons Ukraine has to intercept Russian drones and missiles.

The multi-day ceasefire in Oleshky, Ukraine, concluded without violations, TRT World reported. TASS also reported that both sides honored their commitments during the ceasefire in Alyoshki, the spelling used by the agency.

Residents of Kyiv received chemical and nuclear risk alerts on their phones this Sunday (the 1st). The Kyiv Military Administration said the notifications were issued after a probable hack of the system and denied any radiological threat, urging residents to stay calm.

Long-range Ukrainian drones set fire to the Kstovo refinery in Russia’s Nizhny Novgorod region overnight, shortly after a major strike on another large refinery in Samara owned by the state-owned energy giant Rosneft, Russian state media reported, according to The Guardian. Ukrainian officials told the Kyiv Independent that they never agreed to a demand from Jared Kushner, the US president’s son-in-law, to pause refinery strikes for 30 days.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia had struck energy infrastructure in four regions overnight from Saturday into Sunday, leaving hundreds of thousands of people without power, according to the BBC. The humanitarian ceasefire in the Kherson region, which has allowed civilians to evacuate the Russian-occupied city of Oleshky, is due to end on Sunday night.

The Russian Defense Ministry said, according to the TASS news agency, that nearly 50 Ukrainian drones were shot down over Russian regions during the day.

The governor of Russia’s Nizhny Novgorod region, Gleb Nikitin, reported a “massive drone attack” during the night in which an industrial enterprise in the Kstovo district sustained significant damage, according to The Hindu. Ukrainian media treated the target as the Kstovo oil refinery, described as “one of Russia’s largest oil refineries, producing fuel and lubricants.”

Pope Leo XIV said he hopes the humanitarian mission in Alyoshki will be followed by other peace initiatives and will strengthen dialogue between the sides, according to the Russian state agency TASS. Evacuees from the city, in the Kherson Region, were accommodated at a health resort in Russia’s southern Krasnodar Region, the agency reported.

Russia’s Defense Ministry said, according to the TASS news agency, that Russian forces struck a dry cargo vessel carrying cargoes for the Ukrainian army 16 kilometers southeast of Odessa. The ministry said Russian forces continued drone attacks throughout the day on sea vessels used to transport military cargoes.

The longest truce of the Ukraine war, brokered by US First Lady Melania Trump and limited to the Kherson region, was set to end on Sunday evening with neither side announcing an extension, according to AFP. Neither side reported violations after the truce began, in what one Ukrainian lawmaker described as the “biggest de-escalation since 2022.” A Ukrainian officer said he feared fighting worse than before once the truce ends and said Russian forces positioned across the Dnipro River had taken advantage of the calm of the past few days to amass new troops, transport ammunition stocks and collect intelligence on Ukrainian positions using surveillance drones.

Kremlin aide Yury Ushakov said Russian President Vladimir Putin would take a call from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and said the Russian leader has never refused to talk, according to G1.

A woman who was in a car was injured when drone debris fell in the Nizhny Novgorod Region, Governor Gleb Nikitin said on his Max channel. According to the governor, an industrial facility in the region sustained significant damage in a massive drone attack, and the target was not named. Authorities said they were taking measures to keep supplies flowing; the region is home to the NORSI oil refinery, one of Russia’s largest. There is no confirmation in the information released so far that the refinery was the facility hit, according to G1.

Kremlin aide Yury Ushakov said the first rounds of talks on Ukraine should take place in a trilateral format involving the US, Russia and Ukraine. According to him, European representatives may also be at the table, but the process must begin in the trilateral format, given working-level contacts with the Americans. Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Europeans must be at the table, but not with their current approach, which he said demands Russia’s defeat and rules out dialogue. Ushakov also said Putin would take a call from Zelensky and has never refused to talk, according to Interfax, in a G1 report.

Russian attacks hit the energy infrastructure of four regions of Ukraine overnight and left hundreds of thousands of homes without electricity this Sunday, according to President Volodymyr Zelensky, in a G1 report.

Russian Ambassador to Denmark Vladimir Barbin told TASS that Denmark currently serves as a logistical base for the Ukrainian armed forces and that Copenhagen’s grant-based military aid to Kiev has already exceeded 10.5 billion euros. Barbin also said Copenhagen’s intention to order Patriot missiles from Washington for subsequent transfer to Kiev shows that Denmark is financing the continuation of hostilities rather than seeking a political and diplomatic settlement of the conflict.

Ukraine’s economic losses from explosions between January and October 2026 amounted to nearly 1.9% of the country’s nominal GDP, or about $4.28 billion, excluding the metallurgical sector, according to TASS calculations based on Ukrainian government reports.

Kyiv has emergency power outages because of damage to the capital’s power grid, according to the DTEK energy company, cited by TASS. About 200,000 households were without electricity on Saturday in the Dnipropetrovsk region and another 80,000 in the Kyiv region, where a thermal power plant was hit by drones, according to Le Monde.

The Lukoil oil refinery in Kstovo, in the Nizhny Novgorod region, was targeted by a Ukrainian attack overnight from Saturday to Sunday, according to Le Monde, which cited Ukrainian media including the RBC news agency. The regional governor, Gleb Nikitin, reported “a massive drone attack” during the night and on Sunday morning, in which “an industrial enterprise in the Kstovo district suffered major damage,” with no casualties according to preliminary information. Le Monde reported that the plant is one of Russia’s largest refineries, with a capacity of about 17 million metric tons of oil a year, or about 340,000 barrels per day.

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan urged Russia and Ukraine to stop targeting civilian ships in the Black Sea and agreed with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to work on a new grain corridor through the sea, according to Al Jazeera. The two spoke at a joint news conference in Istanbul on Saturday. “It is clear that attacks against civilian vessels and actions that further escalate tensions in the Black Sea serve no one’s interests,” Erdogan said. He added that the attacks are unacceptable “regardless of who carries them out or what justification is offered.”

Russia and Ukraine agreed to organize regular humanitarian missions in Oleshky, a town in the Kherson region, following the completion of a joint humanitarian operation, according to Russian Human Rights Commissioner Yana Lantratova, in remarks carried by Xinhua. Lantratova said joint efforts would continue with Dmytro Lubinets, Ukraine’s parliamentary commissioner for human rights, to provide assistance. Reuters reported the statement that the two sides agreed to carry out regular humanitarian missions, “a very important step”.

Finnish President Alexander Stubb defended the phone call he and Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre made to Vladimir Putin this week, after criticism from some anti-Moscow hawks in Europe, according to RT. Stubb said it was important to hear firsthand the Russian leader's view of the root causes of the Ukraine conflict and described the direct exchange of opinions as a turning point. According to him, the channel was reopened at Kyiv's request, with messages from Zelensky relayed to Putin.

G20 foreign ministers ended two days of talks in Atlanta without consensus on key issues, including Russia's war against Ukraine, and without a joint communiqué, according to the South China Morning Post. The group relied on a chairman's statement summarizing the discussions and listing priorities such as energy, food security and freedom of navigation, released by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio after the meetings closed. Rubio said he would not pretend that countries were close to universally accepted solutions to these problems, but that some governments are working together on supply chains and critical minerals.

Residents evacuated from Russian-occupied Oleshky crossed into Ukrainian-held territory on Saturday and were reunited with their families. The operation began on Friday and was carried out under the most significant truce since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine four and a half years ago, according to The Guardian. An estimated 2,000 people remained in the city when the truce took hold and could choose evacuation to Ukrainian-held or Russian-held territory, or to stay with food and medical supplies replenished.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Saturday that there is growing interest by the international community in facilitating a limited ceasefire in the Black Sea to ensure unfettered energy and grain shipments by Russia and Ukraine, according to Reuters, in a text republished by U.S. News. Turkey submitted proposals to Washington some time ago to ensure the safety of grain shipments through the Black Sea, and Rubio said the US is examining them, according to TASS: “We are examining proposals, for example, that were forwarded to us maybe some weeks ago, maybe a week ago from Turkey in that regard.”

Two people were killed and five injured in a Ukrainian drone attack on a private house in the village of Klimovo, in Russia's Bryansk region, according to regional governor Yegor Kovalchuk, in a post cited by the Xinhua news agency. The fatal victims were a 30-year-old woman and a 41-year-old man, the governor said.

Drone attacks left about 200,000 families without electricity in Dnipro and the surrounding region and more than 80,000 families in the Kyiv region, according to Interfax-Ukraine. President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russian Shahed drones struck a combined heat and power plant in Kyiv and four electrical substations in the Dnipropetrovsk region, according to UNN.

Hundreds of residents of Oleshky, a city occupied by Russia, were evacuated after a humanitarian ceasefire mediated by US First Lady Melania Trump, and planes carrying evacuees landed in Gomel, in Belarus, on Saturday morning, according to Russian and Ukrainian authorities cited by the BBC. The local ceasefire began on Tuesday and is due to last through Sunday, as the operation races to deliver food and medicine to the roughly 2,000 residents still in the city, according to AP.

The US approved the sale of 500 Patriot missiles to Ukraine, a critically needed munition for defense against escalating Russian aerial attacks, after Kyiv said deliveries had been delayed. The purchase, estimated at about $2.1 billion, will be covered with funds from Canada, Germany and Norway and with a loan from the European Union, CNN reported.

Russia's Defense Ministry said it struck a dry cargo ship at sea 18 kilometers south of Odessa that was delivering military cargo for the needs of the Ukrainian army, according to the state news agency TASS.

Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski on Friday called for a rapid ceasefire in the Black Sea that would allow safe passage for grain shipments from both Ukraine and Russia. “I spoke in favor of doing something quickly because the people of the Global South need this grain,” he told reporters during a two-day meeting of foreign ministers from the Group of 20 (G20) major economies in Atlanta.

Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, praised the “strong decision by the US State Department” but warned that deliveries of the Patriot missiles may begin “only in a few years”, in a post on X early on Saturday. The 500 PAC-3 missiles in the approved sale, estimated at 2.1 billion dollars, are yet to be manufactured, and delivery is not expected until a couple of years into the 2030s.

The administration of US President Donald Trump approved a proposed $2.1 billion sale of Patriot air defense interceptors for Ukraine on Friday, after Kyiv accused the Pentagon of delaying delivery of the munition, the Associated Press (AP) reported. The State Department approved the potential sale of 500 Patriot air defense interceptor missiles to Ukraine on Friday, CNN reported.

Stephen Hubbard, 74, a retired Michigan teacher, said on Friday that he only believed he would be freed when he was given new clothes and led to the prison exit, in his first public remarks since his release. He said he had been told many times that he would be released but never trusted what he heard. Trump, who hosted him in the Oval Office, said he had asked Vladimir Putin to free Hubbard and that the United States did not have to release anyone in return. Hubbard was held for more than four years on charges that he fought as a mercenary in Ukraine; his legal team denies the accusations and says he was not involved in any military activity. Putin decided to release him as a gesture of goodwill, according to TASS.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Russia has not changed its position during the talks between Russia, the United States and Ukraine in the United Arab Emirates, according to TASS. In the same statement, Lavrov said a compromise cannot extend to fundamental principles upon which a state's existence depends, least of all when the lives of millions hang in the balance.

The European Commission approved a proposal to provide Ukraine with 45 billion euros in funding for 2027, of which up to 13.3 billion euros would go to budget support and 31.7 billion euros to weapons purchases, according to TASS. The commission also said on Friday it had set up a framework for European countries to approve the remaining 45 billion euros in loans to Ukraine, to be disbursed by the end of 2027, according to Reuters.

The United States Department of State approved the sale of 500 Patriot PAC-3 missiles to Ukraine, in a deal estimated at $2.1 billion, according to TRT World. The purchase would be financed through contributions from Canada, Germany and Norway, channeled via the US JUMPSTART program, TRT World reported.

People living in the besieged Russian-held city of Oleshky in southern Ukraine began to be evacuated on Friday as part of a joint relief operation, the first of its kind in four years and eight months of war, the Guardian reported. The humanitarian convoy, including 25 buses and ambulances, arrived in the city to deliver food and medicine and evacuate those wishing to leave for Russia or Ukraine. The localized ceasefire in the Kherson region allowed the roads out of Oleshky to be demined, making the evacuation possible.

The European Union (EU) and Canada have agreed to deepen their strategic partnership and announced a series of initiatives on trade, technology and security, TRT World reported. The outlet said US President Donald Trump's policies are straining Washington's relations with traditional allies. Canada will join the EU's $103 billion (€90 billion) support loan for Ukraine, initially contributing $558 million (€500 million), while the two sides expand cooperation across several strategic sectors.

Ukraine requested an emergency meeting of the United Nations (UN) Security Council on Friday, October 30, over Russia's latest wave of missile and drone attacks that left at least 25 people dead and 110 wounded nationwide, the Kyiv Post reported. According to LIGA.net, the request was submitted in response to the Russian attacks on Dnipro, Kremenchuk and Chernihiv on October 29.

Russia’s deputy prime minister, Alexander Novak, said on Friday that Ukraine has resumed attacks on Russian oil refineries after a brief pause and warned that the strikes could reduce the diesel exports Moscow has planned, The Hindu reported. Novak also said Russia had shipped around 510,000 metric tons of diesel in October under the deal and plans a higher amount in November, around 2.15 million metric tons.

Ukraine has temporarily paused strikes on Russian oil refineries after weeks of pressure from US President Donald Trump, The Wall Street Journal reported, in an article published by Türkiye Today, citing people familiar with the operations. The unofficial pause reportedly began early last week and is expected to last until after the US midterm elections, potentially extending further into November, according to the report. “Our guys tried to be a little more careful during these days. But they do not have an order” not to hit refineries, Zelenskyy told reporters in Kyiv.

Russian presidential aide Yury Ushakov told Vesti journalist Pavel Zarubin that Moscow and Washington have begun coordinating the exact date for trilateral talks between Russia, the United States (US) and Ukraine in Abu Dhabi and confirmed the meeting will take place in November, TASS reported. Only mid-November had been mentioned before, with no specific dates stated, he added.

The chief executive of Russia’s state nuclear corporation Rosatom, Alexey Likhachev, said that employees of the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant are being deliberately targeted by Ukrainian troops, according to TASS.

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will visit Türkiye for talks with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Russia’s war against Ukraine and Black Sea security, according to TRT World. The Istanbul meeting will focus on strengthening bilateral ties and regional developments, the broadcaster said.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday that preparations for trilateral talks on Ukraine do not imply any commitment to limiting hostilities, according to Sputnik. Peskov told reporters that Russia is against a ceasefire that would give the Ukrainians a respite.

More than 1,400 Africans have been enlisted since 2023 to fight for Russia in Ukraine, an issue notably absent from the official agenda of the Russia-Africa summit, according to France 24. In Tunisia, the families of several men who traveled to Russia for work or study are still searching for answers about the fate of their loved ones.

Deep rifts over the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East are likely to derail unified actions and statements at the two-day meeting of foreign ministers from the world’s 20 largest economies in Atlanta, according to Reuters, in a text republished by US News. The US has not invited South Africa to the ministerial, which takes place from October 30 to 31.

The evacuation of Oleshky, a Ukrainian city under Russian occupation, is under way, confirmed by Russian and Ukrainian authorities, with a convoy of 25 buses allowing up to 750 people to leave until 14:00 local time (12:00 GMT), along with ambulances for people with limited mobility. Ukrainian ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets and his Russian counterpart, Yana Lantratova, traveled to the city together on Friday to follow the operation, the BBC reported. An aid convoy entered the Russian-held town, in Ukraine's southern Kherson region, after weeks of efforts to organize a relief operation for residents, Al Jazeera reported.

Ukraine resumed drone attacks on Russian oil refineries, and a refinery in Russia's Samara region was struck in the new wave, according to Al Jazeera. Russian authorities say they intercepted more than 1,000 Ukrainian drones over multiple regions overnight, the broadcaster reported.

Seoul is seeking a way out of its diplomatic dispute with Kyiv, which began after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy disclosed in his September 23 address to the United Nations General Assembly the transfer of two North Korean prisoners of war to South Korea, a transfer Seoul says it had asked to keep confidential. A senior presidential official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the government did not believe it was desirable for the issue to drag on and that discussions were under way to find a way out, according to the Korea Herald. The official also denied that Seoul was tilting toward Moscow, saying relations with Russia operate under international sanctions and restrictions and that the country continues to take part in international efforts to support Ukraine.

Russian forces carried out a massive overnight strike on Ukrainian military-industrial enterprises and the power facilities sustaining them, also hitting port infrastructure in the Odessa region, as well as drone and missile plants in Kyiv, substations in Kyiv and Dnepropetrovsk and port targets in Odessa, Russia's Defense Ministry said, as cited by TASS. Ukraine's air defense forces say they neutralized three Russian missiles and 96 drones in the overnight attack, with impacts recorded at 17 locations, Ukrinform reported.

An aid convoy started moving overnight toward Oleshky, a Russian-held town in southern Ukraine, carrying food and medical supplies, according to the Russian newspaper Izvestia — Ukrainian ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets, who heads Ukraine’s negotiating team, said Thursday that demining of the routes was completed and the humanitarian convoy was assembled and ready, according to the Associated Press (AP). The Kremlin said it hopes the aid reaches Oleshky on Thursday or Friday and that those who wish to leave will be able to do so, Interfax reported on Thursday.

Ukraine’s military has paused its strikes on Russian oil refineries after pressure from US President Donald Trump, according to the Wall Street Journal, which cited people with knowledge of the operations. The unofficial pause is expected to last until after the US midterm elections and potentially deeper into November, according to the Jerusalem Post, which also reported that long-range strike units were told in mid-October that the campaign against refineries was on hold once missions already in motion were completed.

A Russian drone slammed into a busy platform at the railway station in Dnipro, Ukraine, killing at least 14 people, according to ABC News. Ukraine’s Air Force said it had intercepted three jet-powered drones in the daytime attack, but a fourth evaded its defenses and hit the station, also according to ABC News.

A bipartisan group in the United States House introduced legislation that would streamline the transfer to Ukraine of certain US-origin munitions through South Korea and other allies, according to The Korea Herald. The bill covers 155-millimeter artillery shells, Excalibur extended-range artillery shells and High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) and Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System (GMLRS) munitions, according to The Korea Herald.

Lieutenant General Brett Sylvia admitted to leaking classified information about Ukraine and Iran to two reporters from separate outlets over a one-year period, according to an internal investigation report obtained by Axios, in a text republished by Yahoo News. He failed three polygraph tests about sharing classified material with the press, and the case was referred to the Department of Justice after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth fired him, according to CBS News.

President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukraine halted attacks on Russian refineries for three days while Russia kept striking Ukrainian energy infrastructure during the energy truce. In an account to journalists at a closed-door briefing on Oct. 27, he said: “For three days we did not respond with strikes on Russian refineries while Russia was striking our energy sector,” and said he had proposed to respond calmly against other targets for at least 72 hours, without touching the refineries. The pace of Ukrainian attacks on refineries has fallen in recent weeks; the most recent were at Ryazan on Oct. 15 and in St. Petersburg on Oct. 18, according to the Kyiv Independent.

Colombia's Foreign Ministry said on Thursday that 256 Colombians have died and 973 are missing in Russia's war against Ukraine, according to G1. The deaths were recorded through two channels — 162 through information from Ukraine and 94 through information from Russia — and among the missing, 676 cases were registered through Ukraine and 297 through Russia, according to UPI.

A Russian drone strike killed at least 14 people on a crowded platform at the Dnipro station in Ukraine on Thursday, where passengers waited to board a regional train to Zaporizhzhia, Reuters reported in a text republished by SRN News. Ukrainian state railway operator Ukrzaliznytsia said a jet-powered drone struck the platform and that the air force intercepted three drones, but a fourth broke through the defenses. President Volodymyr Zelensky called the attack “horrific” and said it demands a response from Kyiv’s allies.

The container ship Contship Jet, Greek-owned and operated by Israel's ZIM Integrated Shipping Services, was hit by at least three unmanned drone vessels and sank in the Black Sea, according to Globes. The ship had sailed from Haifa, and the 421 containers it carried went down with it. The crew was rescued unharmed. All 18 crew members, 14 Filipinos and four Ukrainians, were taken to the Bulgarian port of Varna, according to Israel Hayom. ZIM said the ship was small, chartered and not owned by the company, that the crew was safely evacuated and that the initial estimate of financial damage is minimal, the company told Globes.

Russia's Defense Ministry said it hit a dry cargo ship at sea carrying military and dual-use cargo to the port of Odessa for the Ukrainian armed forces. “As a result of strikes at sea, a dry cargo ship delivering military and dual-use cargo to the port of Odessa for the Ukrainian armed forces was hit,” the ministry said in a statement, according to Sputnik.

Russia and Ukraine began a localized ceasefire on Tuesday to allow humanitarian aid into Oleshky, a Russian-occupied town on the left bank of the Dnipro in southern Ukraine, according to DW. Both sides confirmed the truce took effect at 3 a.m. local time (0100 GMT), after an agreement brokered by US first lady Melania Trump. Around 2,000 people, including up to 50 children, remain trapped in the town, according to Ukrainian and US estimates.

Russia’s Ministry of Defense said on Thursday its air defenses intercepted and destroyed 1,214 Ukrainian drones between 8 p.m. on October 28 and 8 a.m. on October 29, Moscow time, according to the Russian agency Sputnik. The count covers the whole night, and Moscow says the drones targeted Russia in that period, according to TRT World.

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said 613 drones were launched toward the city and its surroundings between 20:30 and 7:00, and that most were neutralized by air defense. On the other side, a train was hit in Dnipro and at least 13 people were killed, according to Ukrainian authorities. The head of the Dnipro region, Serhiy Ganzha, reported 13 dead and said at least five injured were receiving medical care.

Trilateral talks on Ukraine in Abu Dhabi, with representatives of Russia, Ukraine and the United States, will take place after November 4, and the exact date has yet to be determined, Kremlin aide Yury Ushakov told reporters, according to the TASS news agency. The Kremlin is ready to resume the format after November 4, when Russia celebrates National Unity Day, according to the Kyiv Independent.

The Pentagon's watchdog declined a bipartisan request by nine senators to open an investigation into the slowdown of Starshield, SpaceX's military-grade system, in Ukraine, according to a letter obtained by CNN. Inspector General Platte Moring said in a letter dated Tuesday that the senators' questions about the slowdowns and their impacts should be directed to the US Air Force and Space Force. The request, led by Republican Thom Tillis and Democrat Jeanne Shaheen, also covered commercial-grade Starlink and asked for an “immediate investigation” into the disruptions to both systems in Ukraine.

Volodymyr Zelensky called the ceasefire in force since Tuesday morning in Oleshky, in Kherson Oblast an “immense success,” according to Le Monde, and called for a meeting between Russia, Ukraine and the United States in November. The local ceasefire has passed 30 hours without a single incident, according to The Guardian.

Security guarantees for Russia and Ukraine will be discussed in Abu Dhabi at a trilateral meeting in November, Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, according to TASS. Peskov said the security guarantees should be mutual.

A localized truce in the devastated city of Oleshky, in southern Ukraine, held for its first 30 hours without violations, Russia’s ombudsperson Yana Lantratova and Ukraine’s human rights ombudsperson Dmytro Lubinets said on Wednesday, according to the Associated Press (AP), in a text republished by The Hill. The truce began on Tuesday and is due to last through Sunday, in a humanitarian operation racing to get about 2,000 remaining residents food and medicine and to evacuate those who want to leave.

The European Union (EU) is discussing strengthening its own capabilities and reducing dependence on the US after the Starlink slowdown in Ukraine, a topic at the Oct. 15–16 summit, according to the Russian agency TASS, citing sources — and according to those sources, cited by Bloomberg via TASS, such changes would take years and the realistic way out would be to strengthen Europe's role within structures such as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

Kremlin aide Yury Ushakov told Channel One that Vladimir Putin has emphasized countless times that Volodymyr Zelensky can come to Moscow if he wants a one-on-one, where he will be provided with “all necessary precautions”, according to TASS. According to Ushakov, Zelensky’s surname was mentioned in light of the Ukrainian president’s insistent desire to talk directly with Putin.

A ceasefire that began with the aim of getting food and medicine to the Russian-occupied Ukrainian city of Oleshky has been extended across the wider southern region of Kherson, according to sources cited by the BBC. Under the deal, the ceasefire will be followed by deliveries of humanitarian aid to Oleshky and then evacuations, planned for Friday, for anyone wishing to leave. David Arakhamia, a key official in President Volodymyr Zelensky’s parliamentary party, said it would continue until 22:59 Ukrainian time on Sunday, November 1, and described the truce as the “largest de-escalation since 2022”.

A local ceasefire in Oleshky, a southern Ukrainian city under Russian occupation, appeared to be holding on Tuesday, with both sides ceasing drone attacks ahead of an apparent evacuation of about 2,000 trapped civilians, the Guardian reported. Kremlin aide Yury Ushakov said Russian President Vladimir Putin told Finland's president, Alexander Stubb, and Norway's prime minister, Jonas Gahr Støre, that Zelensky could come to Moscow for direct talks.

A localized ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine took effect early Tuesday ahead of a humanitarian mission in Oleshky brokered by US first lady Melania Trump, according to AP. The local pause in fighting started at 3 a.m. to allow an aid mission into the Russian-occupied town in southern Ukraine later this week. According to the UN, up to 2,000 people are stranded in Oleshky with dwindling food and medicine and are unable to leave because of explosive mines and drone attacks in the area. In a Telegram statement, Russia’s defence ministry said it had stopped firing toward the Ukrainian city of Kherson at 04:00 Moscow time (01:00 GMT) in preparation for the humanitarian operation, the BBC reported.

One person was killed and ten others were wounded — nine hospitalized — in Russian attacks on the Ukrainian capital, according to an evening Telegram toll from Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko, according to Le Monde. Most of the wounded are students living in a university dormitory hit in the Desniansky district.

A ceasefire tied to a humanitarian operation in Alyoshki is set to take effect in the Kherson direction from 4:00 a.m. Moscow time (1:00 a.m. GMT) on October 27, according to the TASS news agency. Russian Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov announced on October 23 that Russian forces would cease fire in the Kherson direction from 4:00 a.m. on October 27 to allow for the operation in Alyoshki, in the Kherson Region.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said on Monday that authorities in Kiev have intensified targeted strikes on the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant and its satellite town of Energodar, according to the Sputnik news agency. Asked about the situation around the plant, Zakharova described Energodar as home to the plant's employees, who “continue to perform their duties in the most difficult conditions”, and her statement did not detail dates, locations or targets of the strikes.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Kyiv has been waiting nearly a month for US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to sign off on missiles for Patriot and NASAMS air defence systems. He said he ordered his team to raise the matter with Washington again.

The number of people injured in the missile attack on Yelets has risen to seven, according to TASS.

Two people were killed and 17 others, including a child, were injured in a Ukrainian drone attack on Russia’s Voronezh region, the regional governor said Monday, according to TRT World.

A Russian strike on the southeastern city of Zaporizhzhia injured four people overnight, the regional governor said on Telegram, according to The Hindu; two more were injured in strikes on the Chernihiv region, Ukraine’s emergency service said; President Volodymyr Zelensky said Kyiv would halt strikes on Russian refineries only if Moscow stops hitting power infrastructure, or if the US allows the use of Starshield or supplies Patriots.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said a trilateral meeting between Kyiv, Washington and Moscow will take place in November to restart stalled peace negotiations, TRT World reported. Moscow and Kyiv confirmed the trilateral round between Russia, Ukraine and the United States is planned for the first half of November in Abu Dhabi, according to Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, as cited by Al Jazeera.

US President Donald Trump told reporters at the White House on Sunday that trilateral talks on Ukraine are going to be happening “some pretty soon”, according to the Sputnik news agency. Russian presidential aide Yury Ushakov told Russian media that “the next deadline is November 4 — a major holiday for us” and that Russia would be ready to resume negotiations after that.

Serhii Beskrestnov, a defence technology adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, said on Sunday that existing restrictions on Starlink's use in Ukraine prevented such operations, referring to drone strikes, the Hindustan Times reported. On Saturday, Elon Musk had written on X that “using Starlink, a civilian commercial service, for offensive drone strikes to kill people has never been allowed, nor should it be”.

Russia's Defence Ministry said on Sunday that its drones struck a cargo vessel bound for the Black Sea port of Chornomorsk in an overnight attack and another cargo vessel en route to the port of Odesa during the day, according to Reuters, in a text republished by MarketScreener. Russian forces also hit a logistics centre, a distribution centre and a logistics terminal in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv overnight, according to the ministry. Reuters could not independently verify the ministry's information.

Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said on Sunday, October 25, that Moscow would support the appointment of an EU diplomatic envoy to take part in negotiations, provided the designated representative shows a genuine commitment to a peaceful settlement. Speaking to Russian state news agency TASS, Peskov said Moscow remains open to European diplomatic engagement but accused Brussels of failing to adopt a constructive approach to resolving the conflict in Ukraine, according to the Kyiv Post.

At least three people were killed and 16 injured in Ukrainian attacks on Russia, while 10 people were injured in Russian strikes on Ukraine, officials from both countries said on Sunday. In Belgorod, one person was killed and 14 injured in a large-scale overnight drone attack, regional Governor Alexander Shuvaev said on the Russian social media platform Max. In Ukraine, 10 people, including three emergency responders, were injured in Russian strikes in Kharkiv and Vinnytsia, Ukraine's State Emergency Service said.

Russian air defense systems intercepted and destroyed 532 Ukrainian drones of the fixed-wing type over Russian regions overnight, according to the Russian Defense Ministry, as cited by TASS.

Ukraine lost about 500 locomotives from January 2025 through September 2026, about 14% of its total, according to calculations by the Russian agency TASS based on information from the Ukrainian government. Since February 2022, Ukraine has lost approximately 600 locomotives, roughly 17% of its total, according to the same calculations.

United States (US) President Donald Trump said Washington will do business with Ukraine and with Russia after this war ends, according to TRT World.

The center of Belgorod in western Russia came under a massive Ukrainian drone strike with significant damage and casualties, according to the city's mayor, Valentin Demidov. In a post on his Max channel, he said the strike hit residential neighborhoods in the city center, damaging residential buildings, cars and social and commercial facilities, and that preliminary reports indicated there were casualties.

Elon Musk accused Ukraine's military of violating Starlink's terms of service by using the system for offensive drone attacks, and said the gap was closed last week, in a post on social media platform X. Also on Saturday, Ukraine's government announced that Starlink and its military version, Starshield, were fully operational again after more than a week of restrictions, according to G1.

Ten days after its use of the satellite communications system was suddenly restricted, Ukraine’s government said the military has a stable connection to Starlink. The restrictions capped the terminals at 160km/h and led to the failure of several Ukrainian combat missions earlier this month.

Ukraine’s Ministry of Defence said on Saturday that its monitoring systems are recording a return of Starlink and Starshield to normal speed, above 400 kph, with a stable connection. The return came after over a week of service restrictions that slowed connections and disrupted military operations, according to Reuters.

Russia's Defense Ministry said Russian forces damaged at sea a cargo vessel carrying supplies for Ukraine's armed forces to the port of Odessa, according to a statement cited by Sputnik. Overnight, the ministry added, Russian forces also struck a workshop producing uncrewed boats at the port of Chernomorsk.

The White House said US First Lady Melania Trump “successfully secured” a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine in the Russian-occupied city of Oleshky, the BBC reported. According to the statement, the truce in the “front-line war city on the brink of disaster” would begin on October 29, though Ukraine and Russia have so far not commented. Oleshky, in the Kherson region, was seized by Russian forces in the first days of the full-scale invasion in February 2022.

Russian air defense systems intercepted and destroyed 616 Ukrainian fixed-wing drones overnight over Russian regions and the waters of the Azov and Black seas, the Russian Defense Ministry said, according to TASS.

The Joe Biden and Donald Trump administrations repeatedly asked SpaceX to turn its Starlink service on or off in various countries, the Jerusalem Post reported. Under Biden, the requests included switching off the service to prevent Iranian proxy militias in Yemen and Lebanon from using it to communicate, and activating it to provide internet inside Iran and in Ukraine to support its military. The Trump administration also discussed with Musk and SpaceX getting Starlink terminals into Iran after US-Israeli strikes there in June 2025 and again in February 2026, the Times of Israel reported.

Two former Ukrainian prisoners held alongside freed US prisoner Stephen Hubbard said they witnessed him being beaten and humiliated by Russian guards during his four-year detention, according to the BBC. The accounts from the two corroborate statements by Hubbard’s family that he was tortured in prison.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukraine is ready to hold a trilateral meeting with the United States and Russia next month in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, according to Xinhua, citing the Interfax-Ukraine news agency. The meeting at the negotiating-team level is planned for the first half of November and depends on the Russian side, he said in an online address to the Hudson Institute. The Kyiv Independent reported that negotiation teams from the three countries will meet in Abu Dhabi in November to begin peace talks.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Friday that Beijing has “influence” over Moscow that it should use to stop the war in Ukraine, according to the South China Morning Post (SCMP).

Russia's Chief of the General Staff, Valery Gerasimov, announced that the Russian army is ceasing fire in the Kherson direction and introducing a “regime of silence” starting at 4am Moscow time (1am GMT) on October 27, for a humanitarian operation in the Aliochki area, according to Sputnik. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed that trilateral talks involving Russia, the US and Ukraine are scheduled for November in Abu Dhabi, to discuss a solution to the war, according to The Cradle. The Russian announcement comes after the White House said first lady Melania Trump had brokered a ceasefire in the city of Oleshky to allow for humanitarian aid and the evacuation of civilians.

The White House said First Lady Melania Trump “secured a ceasefire” between Russia and Ukraine in the southern Ukrainian city of Oleshky. Neither Russia nor Ukraine immediately confirmed Friday's statement. According to the White House statement, her representatives worked directly with “Russian and Ukrainian leadership to define the terms of the localized ceasefire”, and civilian leaders from both countries will work together to grant humanitarian access to civilians in the city.

Russia reaffirmed its readiness to resume trilateral peace talks on the war in Ukraine, with the negotiations set to focus on ways to ensure postwar security for both sides, according to TRT World. Ushakov said Putin told Steve Witkoff that Moscow was, in principle, prepared to resume the talks around November 10.

The Starshield military communications system is back in Ukraine, President Donald Trump said on October 22, after The Wall Street Journal reported that he asked businessman Elon Musk to restore the service, which is vital to Kyiv’s forces. Trump refused to say whether he personally called Musk. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Starlink speed in Ukraine had still not been fully restored, according to Reuters, in a text republished by the Hindustan Times.

Vladimir Putin said on Thursday, October 22, that Russia is ready to resume three-way talks with Ukraine and the United States, but on the security parameters of a final peace deal, rather than a “short” ceasefire. Putin said the goal of the discussions is to address security for both Ukraine and Russia within the framework of a final agreement, rather than after a short pause in fighting.

Donald Trump said Elon Musk has restored Ukraine’s internet access. The US president also said Ukraine’s access to Starshield, a military-grade satellite service, has been restored, according to TASS. Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, said connectivity, which is provided by Musk’s Starlink satellite system, had yet to be fully restored.

Russia said on Thursday its air defences intercepted 808 drones fired by Ukraine at Moscow and other cities, as it bombarded Kyiv with ballistic missiles in an hourslong nighttime barrage, according to The Hindu. The attacks hit 12 regions of Ukraine overnight, killing at least two people and wounding 34 others, including five children, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on social media.

Russian troops took the community of Mirovka in the Zaporozhye region over the past day, the Russian top brass said, according to TASS.

Germany's federal prosecutors confirmed on Thursday the arrest of a Ukrainian man identified as Vadym Y. in the state of Brandenburg, 85 km west of Berlin, on suspicion of spying for Russia. According to DW World, the suspect allegedly used his connections to European defense firms to gather information, which he passed on to a Russian intelligence agency.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday (10/22) that trilateral talks between Russia, the United States and Ukraine could take place in Abu Dhabi, according to Opera Mundi. Peskov told reporters that Abu Dhabi is now being considered as the venue for the talks, according to TASS.

Three ballistic missiles with cluster warheads were fired at Kyiv on the night of October 21-22, and one of them struck the historic centre of the capital, according to Ukrainska Pravda. One of the missiles struck Pechersk, the area between the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra and the Holy Presentation Monastery, and damaged monastery buildings, residential buildings, shops, cafés and other civilian infrastructure. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky also said Russia had kept targeting the country’s energy infrastructure, with more than 170 strikes on critical facilities since October 11, according to Reuters, in a text republished by the Jerusalem Post.

Russia handed over the bodies of 252 Ukrainian servicemen to Ukraine, and the Ukrainian side transferred 25 bodies to Russia, according to Anadolu, which cited a statement. The exchange took place at the Novaya Huta checkpoint on the Belarusian border, the agency reported.

Russia agreed on Wednesday to resume three-way negotiations next month with Washington and Kyiv, aimed at ending the war in Ukraine, according to a Kremlin official cited by The Associated Press (AP). It could be the first such talks since February. The same day, US envoy Steve Witkoff met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in St. Petersburg to discuss the conflict in Ukraine, as US President Donald Trump pushes Kyiv and Moscow to reach a deal that stops the fighting.

Moscow’s mayor said that 630 drones flew toward the Russian capital between 8:30 p.m. on October 21 and 4:00 a.m. on Thursday, according to TASS. Russia and Ukraine traded major attacks overnight, shortly after a US envoy held talks with the Russian president in St. Petersburg, according to the South China Morning Post (SCMP).

Missiles struck Kyiv in the early hours of Thursday, after an evening attack that injured six people and damaged homes, a petrol station and transport equipment, according to Reuters in a text republished by France 24. US envoy Steve Witkoff held talks this week with Zelensky and Putin to mediate an end to the war, also according to Reuters in a text republished by France 24. The Kremlin said new peace proposals lack substance after the Witkoff-Putin meeting in Russia, according to The Guardian.

Cuba’s Foreign Ministry restated its absolute rejection of US accusations about alleged Cuban participation in the conflict in Ukraine, according to Opera Mundi. The Cuban foreign ministry says Cuba is not part of the conflict and has no military personnel in Ukraine or in any other country, according to the Rio Times, and says it has investigated 17 cases involving 49 people since 2023 and brought 43 people to court in 12 mercenarism cases, also according to the Rio Times.

Lviv’s regional council decided on Tuesday to organize “cultural, memorial, scientific, and mass media events”, exhibitions and national-patriotic rallies to mark the 120th anniversary of Roman Shukhevych’s birth and 85 years since the creation of the militant group that, according to RT, perpetrated mass killings of ethnic Poles, Jews and Russians. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk branded the move a “suicidal tactic” on Ukraine’s part, Defence Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz called it “unacceptable”, and Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski called for the resolution’s key sponsor, Lviv regional lawmaker Svyatoslav Sheremet, to be placed on Poland’s travel ban list, according to RT.

Russia has released retired American teacher Stephen Hubbard, who had been imprisoned on charges of fighting as a mercenary in Ukraine, US envoy Steve Witkoff said on Wednesday. Putin told Witkoff that Hubbard was at St. Petersburg’s Pulkovo airport after the release, AP reported. The Guardian reported the release order on the same day Putin met Trump’s envoy for talks on Ukraine.

The Kremlin said on Wednesday that Moscow is ready to resume trilateral talks between the United States, Ukraine and Russia next month, after President Vladimir Putin met US envoy Steve Witkoff, according to France 24.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called on Wednesday for freezing the front line in the war against Russia as a first step toward ceasefire talks, according to France 24. “Right now we have to freeze, and I think this is the real way to end this war,” he said. Zelensky said any peace talks must include Ukraine. “I always said that we are open to negotiate in any format, any topics. But don’t speak about us without us, please.”

A new round of trilateral talks on Ukraine may take place in Abu Dhabi around mid-November, Russian presidential aide Yuri Ushakov told Russian media, according to Sputnik. “We’re aiming for Abu Dhabi… It was agreed that this would happen somewhere around the middle of November, in the first ten days or so of the month,” he said. According to Ushakov, Vladimir Putin will decide who will be part of Russia’s delegation to the talks.

Putin agreed in principle to resume trilateral talks with Washington and Kyiv after November 10, Kremlin foreign affairs adviser Yuri Ushakov told reporters after the meeting with U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff. According to Ushakov, cited by PBS News, the Russian president agreed to resume the negotiations on ending the war in Ukraine. Sputnik, for its part, attributed to Putin himself the readiness to resume the talks in November, also based on Ushakov’s account.

Russia will respond firmly to a Japanese company's supply of combat drones to Ukraine, Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said at a news briefing, according to the TASS agency. The agency did not name the company or specify which response is under consideration.

The European Union (EU) called on SpaceX to urgently restore Kyiv's full access to Starlink, Le Monde reported. Ukraine said SpaceX imposed speed limits of 100mph (160km/h) on Tuesday night, and any weapons travelling faster than that lost connectivity, according to the BBC. US senators called for an investigation into restrictions that reportedly degraded Ukraine's ability to conduct defensive operations against Russian drone and missile attacks on civilian infrastructure.

Steve Witkoff, the US envoy, met with President Vladimir Putin in St. Petersburg on Wednesday to discuss Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine and thanked Putin for lifting Russia's ban on diesel exports, AP News reported in a text republished by France24. According to the agency, Witkoff said the move would help lower prices for US farmers and truckers and that he hoped to discuss the resumption of trilateral talks involving the US, Russia and Ukraine.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Russia’s position on a possible “energy ceasefire” with Ukraine remains unchanged, with Moscow seeking peace rather than a truce, and that a full settlement is impossible without Kiev’s participation, according to TASS. Aide Yury Ushakov said that US envoy Jared Kushner will miss the meeting with President Vladimir Putin and Steve Witkoff due to illness, according to TASS. The meeting was agreed days ago, will include special envoy Kirill Dmitriev and has the Ukraine settlement on the agenda, according to Sputnik.

After talks in Oslo with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky described as positive by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, US special envoy Steve Witkoff will meet Russian President Vladimir Putin in Saint Petersburg on Wednesday after the Oslo talks, according to France 24. Rubio said Witkoff will take the ideas gathered in Oslo to the Russian side, the outlet Axios, cited by France 24, reports that he will present Putin with an updated proposal to end the war, and Zelensky thanked Washington for the resumption of US intelligence on Russian strikes.

The Ukrainian delegation led by Volodymyr Zelensky met US President’s Special Envoy Steve Witkoff in Oslo on October 20, according to TASS. After the meeting, Finnish President Alexander Stubb did not give Zelensky an opportunity to answer reporters’ questions during a press conference.

Elon Musk last week ordered the slowdown of a military-grade version of Starlink used by Ukraine, according to The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), in an account published by the South China Morning Post (SCMP) citing US officials and people familiar with the matter. The restriction hampered Ukrainian attack and air-defence drone missions against Russia, according to the account. Musk and US President Donald Trump discussed the decision in a call soon after the slowdown became public, while the president was campaigning last week.

Kaja Kallas accused US negotiators of trying for about a year and a half to push Ukraine into surrender on Putin's terms. “American negotiators have been trying to push Ukraine into surrender for already almost two years, one and a half years now,” she told the European Parliament on Tuesday, according to Euronews. Kallas said Ukraine has not surrendered on Putin's terms because Europe has kept supporting the country. She called for Europe's involvement in peace talks, tougher pressure on Moscow and a just, lasting settlement, according to the Kyiv Post.

US special envoy Steve Witkoff will travel to Russia on Wednesday after meeting in Oslo with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and the leaders of Norway and Finland, Reuters reported in a text republished by Investing.com. According to the agency, Witkoff will fly to Saint Petersburg, where he will meet with the Russian leadership and exchange ideas from that meeting and from proposals worked on by European and American colleagues. In the same report, US President Donald Trump called on Ukraine to make a deal to settle the war with Russia and said Moscow wanted to get it done. “Ukraine has to want to settle this war,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office.

US intelligence sharing for early warnings of Russian attacks is working again, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Tuesday in Oslo. Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre said US envoy Steve Witkoff is due to travel to St. Petersburg to present Russia’s leadership with proposals drawn up during the Oslo talks. The Kremlin said it hopes Witkoff will brief President Vladimir Putin on those talks in the coming days.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirmed on Tuesday that there are “serious tensions” in relations with Ukraine, at a press conference during his visit to India and after a phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. According to him, President Donald Trump is “angry and frustrated” with the lack of progress in peace negotiations, as well as with accusations that Washington refuses to provide intelligence to Kyiv.

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) will send additional assets to the Black Sea, including support for surveillance, reconnaissance and forensics, according to The Guardian. According to TRT World, the deployment includes more maritime patrol aircraft, radar systems and drones, following a series of deadly attacks on shipping. Russia's military said it struck three cargo vessels at Ukraine's port of Reni and two others en route to Odesa on Tuesday.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky arrived in Oslo on Tuesday for talks with US envoys, where he is meeting special envoy Steve Witkoff. Secretary of State Marco Rubio rejected as scandalous accusations that Ukrainians were dying because the US was withholding intelligence from Kyiv, according to the BBC.

Hungary blocked the next step in the European Union (EU) membership process for Ukraine and Moldova, according to the Kyiv Independent, in a text republished by Byteseu, even though their previous demands had been met. The TASS news agency reported the block.

Russia launched another missile and drone blitz of civilian areas in Ukraine, killing at least seven people, officials said Tuesday, as President Volodymyr Zelensky scrambled to ensure more American and European help during his visit to Norway. In the Kyiv region, four people were killed and 27 others wounded, including children, in Russian missile and drone attacks over the past day, regional police said. In Oslo, US envoy Steve Witkoff, who along with Jared Kushner has tried without success to steer Russia and Ukraine toward a settlement, was also in the city, and Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre and Finnish President Alexander Stubb were also due to meet with Zelensky.

Ukraine did not receive a warning from the US about an impending Russian missile attack on Sunday evening, Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, reviving concerns that Washington is withholding intelligence to bully Kyiv into capitulating to Moscow, The Guardian reported. Yuri Ihnat, a spokesperson for the Ukrainian air force, said on television that Ukraine had not received a warning before a Russian missile barrage hit power plants in Kyiv. Speaking in the early hours of Monday on a trip to Samarkand, Uzbekistan, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said: “If it happened last night, I don't know exactly. I know a few nights ago there was a software problem involving their early warning system.”

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky will fly to Oslo on Tuesday to meet US special envoy Steve Witkoff, trying to repair ties with Washington that have deteriorated sharply over the past two weeks, Reuters reported in a text republished by The Straits Times. On Monday, US President Donald Trump said “Russia, frankly, has been fine on Ukraine” and “Zelensky is not helping matters much”, and called on Kyiv to find “somebody else to negotiate”.

Volodymyr Zelensky said he discussed ballistic missile interceptors, early warning and the situation with Starlink and Starshield with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, according to the Kyiv Independent — Ukraine has recently suffered disruptions to early warning, which relies on US intelligence, and to Starlink and Starshield services, which have hampered drone operations, including interceptor drones, according to the same outlet.

South Korea's foreign ministry said it will withdraw some staff from its embassy in Ukraine amid the dispute over North Korean prisoners of war, according to Agence France-Presse (AFP), in a text republished by Arab News — the announcement came more than a week after the South Korean ambassador returned home following President Volodymyr Zelensky's disclosure of the transfer, and President Lee Jae Myung has demanded an official apology, according to the same agency.

Russian air defenses downed 136 Ukrainian drones overnight, according to the Russian military command, via TASS.

The US administration has not approved the transfer of Patriot interceptor missiles to Ukraine, according to Xinhua, which cites a Washington Post report published on Monday. The report places the decision amid tensions between US President Donald Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky.

A Russian drone strike on a park in Ukraine’s north-eastern Kharkiv region killed six people, including three children, according to Al Jazeera.

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) kept deportation protections in place for about 101,000 Ukrainians and 1,800 Sudanese whose Temporary Protected Status (TPS) was set to end on Monday, and said an announcement on the program “will be made at the appropriate time”, according to The Guardian. Until then, Ukrainians and Sudanese covered by those measures “retain protection”, the department said in a written statement.

Jared Kushner, US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, and Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff are set to travel to Norway this week for the next round of negotiations on ending the war in Ukraine, according to three people familiar with the matter. The people, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the schedule is tentative and could change.

The Ukrainian military released footage of what it says is the world’s first drone airlift of a wounded soldier from the front line, according to the BBC. The 92nd Assault Brigade said a ground rescue mission was not possible because the wounded serviceman was surrounded by landmines and there was high Russian drone activity in the area; according to the brigade, a “heavy” hexacopter, piloted by a remote operator, maintained stability during the “very difficult” operation. BBC Verify confirmed the identity of the army personnel involved in the video and found no signs of AI generation or manipulation.

US President Donald Trump said on Monday that someone other than Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky should negotiate on Kyiv’s behalf as it seeks to end the war with Russia. Trump also told reporters that Russia has been “fine” with regards to Ukraine. “They haven’t been doing much,” he said.

EU countries do not know where to find an additional 70 billion euros ($78.4 billion) to aid Ukraine in 2027, after Volodymyr Zelensky requested the amount at the bloc’s most recent summit, according to La Repubblica, cited by Sputnik. The EU has already agreed to a 90-billion-euro loan for 2026-2027, with 60 billion euros earmarked for military spending and 30 billion for budget support.

An adviser in President Volodymyr Zelensky’s office told the BBC that Ukrainians had died because there was no time to warn citizens about ballistic missile strikes. “It’s dangerous… People already died,” Serhii “Flash” Beskrestnov said. Zelensky said frontline units had reported that Starshield equipment stops functioning at speeds of 130-160 kilometres per hour, slowing down the response. The White House said there had been no changes to intelligence sharing with Ukraine, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio attributed a recent episode to a “software problem” in the alert system.

US President Donald Trump defended his decision to waive sweeping sanctions planned against Russia as an effort to keep Moscow at the negotiating table, OilPrice reported. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned that easing sanctions would embolden Moscow as Russian attacks on Ukraine continued.

Ukrainian air defences did not intercept a single Russian ballistic missile overnight, according to data published by the Ukrainian Air Force on its Telegram channel, cited by TASS. Russia’s Defense Ministry said the strikes hit military-industrial facilities, storage sites for cruise missiles and drones, and a data center in Kyiv and the Kyiv region.

A Russian air strike killed a woman in Kiev overnight and hit a subway station on the left bank of the capital, besides damaging a 25-storey residential building, according to Mayor Vitali Klitschko, in a Telegram message on Monday.

Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed a summit next month with US President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping to negotiate an end to the four-year-old war in Ukraine on terms favorable to Moscow, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the discussions. The Kremlin suggested holding the trilateral dialogue on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit, set for November 18 and 19 in Shenzhen, Reuters reported, in text republished by WHBL. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed to the Journal that there were discussions about a possible meeting, but said there is still no clear understanding about the meeting itself or its agenda. A senior US official said Trump had not agreed to such a summit.

The Ukrainian army carried out eight attacks on residential areas in the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) over the past day, according to TASS, citing the regional government department that documents Ukrainian war crimes.

Metinvest chief executive Yuriy Ryzhenkov told the BBC the recently imposed tariffs on steel imports into the EU were “unfair” and had been put in place “without any consideration for the situation Ukraine is in”. The EU capped the amount of steel that can enter tax free at 18.3 million tonnes per year — a 47% reduction from 2024 levels.

US President Donald Trump defended his decision to waive some sanctions on Russia and once again accused Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky of not wanting to end the war, according to France 24. The outlet reported that Trump has also temporarily waived sanctions on Russian diesel, allowing large quantities to flow into global markets to try lowering fuel prices ahead of US elections early next month. TASS, citing Trump, said Zelensky does not want to end the conflict with Russia and probably never did.

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Sunday that he spoke with the American president’s envoys, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, and said the war with Russia must be brought to an end and that his country is preparing for the “next steps” of diplomacy to end the conflict. Amid his spat with President Donald Trump, Zelensky said in a conversation with the envoys that “a lot depends on America”, according to the South China Morning Post (SCMP).

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the United States has resumed sharing intelligence with Ukraine after suspending it for “some period of time”, in an interview on Meet the Press reported by Bloomberg. The temporary suspension of intelligence flows occurred amid sharp disagreements between Washington and Kyiv over battlefield targeting rules, according to the Kyiv Post.

At least one person has been killed and at least five have been injured in an overnight attack on St Petersburg that targeted two of the city’s oil facilities, according to the BBC. The region’s governor, Alexander Beglov, said fires were being extinguished at the St Petersburg Oil Terminal and the Ruchyi oil depot, and that 12 apartment buildings and two homes were damaged, with Pulkovo Airport temporarily closed. A logistics center belonging to Ozon and a data center belonging to VKontakte were also hit. Ukraine has not yet commented on the strikes, and Russia’s defense ministry said it had shot down more than 1,000 Ukrainian drones over Russian territory overnight, according to the BBC.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Ukraine does not have access to Starshield and that Kyiv’s request to conduct deep strikes inside Russia is under discussion, according to Al Jazeera. Rubio distinguished commercial Starlink from military Starshield, in comments released by the Department of State.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a post on X on Sunday that Russia had attacked Ukraine’s energy, oil and gas sectors 76 times in the week since Donald Trump’s announcement of an energy ceasefire, according to the Associated Press (AP), in a text republished by WTOP. Trump announced on Oct. 11 that Russia and Ukraine had agreed to an “energy ceasefire” in the 4 1/2-year-old war, but offered no details and Kyiv reported attacks by Moscow on energy sites after his statement.

Ukrainian attacks set an oil export terminal ablaze in St. Petersburg on Sunday and left one person dead and five wounded, according to local Governor Alexander Beglov, in an Associated Press (AP) text republished by WTOP. The fires hit the Petersburg Oil Terminal and the Ruchi depot, and Russia’s Defense Ministry said it destroyed 1,015 Ukrainian drones over 15 Russian regions, the annexed Crimea and the Black Sea, part of more than 1,000 drones Kyiv launched in one of the largest aerial bombardments Ukraine has carried out in the war.

A Russian military satellite, Cosmos-2612, changed its orbit repeatedly to approach ICEYE-X36, a commercial radar-imaging satellite registered in the US and whose operator currently supplies radar data to Ukraine, according to The Hindu. Astronomer Marco Langbroek, a lecturer at Delft University of Technology, estimated that the two were only 1-2 km apart — considered a very small distance in earth orbit. There is no indication that ICEYE-X36’s operators invited the approach.

Ukrainian forces launched a massive drone attack on St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, and Russian air defense forces downed 126 of them over the region, Governor Alexander Drozdenko said. Pulkovo Airport suspended all arrivals and departures, according to the Russian agency Rosaviatsia, and drones hit the St. Petersburg Oil Terminal and civilian infrastructure in four city districts, causing no casualties, Governor Alexander Beglov said. VK confirmed a drone attack on its data center in the Leningrad Region and said its services remain available to users as usual.

The situation at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant and in the city of Energodar remains tense, with Ukrainian drone activity despite the local ceasefire around the Zaporozhye thermal power plant, according to TASS. The local ceasefire, mediated by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), was announced on October 15 by Rosatom Director General Alexey Likhachev.

Ukraine hit a refinery in the Ryazan region, about 300 kilometers (180 miles) southeast of Moscow, with a drone and started a fire, according to Russia’s Defense Ministry and Governor Pavel Malkov, as reported by The Hindu. Volodymyr Zelenskyy told the Financial Times his patience had run out and that Ukrainian attacks on Russian refineries would resume, and told Piers Morgan he felt betrayed by Trump’s deal with Putin, the energy ceasefire announcement and the Starlink limits that restricted Ukrainian drone use. Ukraine has run out of missiles for the US-made Patriot air defense system, according to a source cited by CNN in a report by the Jerusalem Post.

Members of Congress criticized Donald Trump’s decision to waive sanctions on Russia days before they were to take effect, with Republican Senator Thom Tillis calling it beyond irresponsible on social media and asking what the president and his advisers do not understand about enforcing a law passed 86-11 by the Senate, according to the Associated Press (AP). Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Trump will take 60 days to assess the impact of potential sanctions against Russia, according to TASS.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Saturday criticized Donald Trump’s decision to pull back on sanctions against Russia, saying that a sanctions blackout, easing pressure on the aggressor and financial rewards for Putin all only encourage him to keep attacking. On Friday, Trump signed the executive order suspending the sanctions under the so-called “Lindsey Graham Act”, a law passed in September to target Russia’s energy and defense sectors, including its tanker network used to circumvent US restrictions. Washington is also weighing lifting sanctions on the “shadow fleet” of Russian and Iranian tankers to help bring down diesel prices before the midterm elections, according to The Cradle.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has warned that Donald Trump’s decision to roll back sanctions on Russia will intensify the Kremlin’s war in Ukraine, according to the Guardian. “Unfortunately, the lifting of sanctions will continue, and I believe that the ‘diesel deal’ is the first step,” he said on Saturday. According to Opera Mundi, Zelenskyy also wrote that easing US sanctions reduces the pressure on the aggressor and that financial rewards for Putin only encourage him to keep attacking.

The Russian Defense Ministry said its forces had taken control of eight more Ukrainian settlements, including the town of Dobropillia in the eastern Donetsk region, according to the Interfax news agency. Ukraine’s General Staff said Ukrainian forces remained in control of Dobropillia and described Russia’s claim to have captured it as untrue. Ukraine also rejected Russia’s claim that its forces had captured more than 1,800 square km (695 square miles) and 92 settlements since September 1.

Ukraine’s Air Force said Russia launched 332 drones and missiles overnight, of which 293 were intercepted or neutralized. At least eight people were killed and nearly 60 injured in the latest wave of Russian strikes across Ukraine, according to Al Jazeera. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia attacked more than 15 Ukrainian energy facilities in western and central regions overnight.

Russian forces said they had taken Palamarevka and Kovalevka, in the Kharkov region, and Malokaterinovka, in Zaporozhye, according to the Russian agency Sputnik.

US President Donald Trump blocked, in an executive order signed on Friday night, sanctions on Russia approved by Congress to punish the country for its war in Ukraine, according to the BBC. In the order, Trump said it is in the US “national interests” to withhold some of those sanctions. Kirill Dmitriev, envoy for Russian President Vladimir Putin, called the suspension of the Graham Act “an important and truly historic moment”, according to The Hindu.

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said air defense forces repelled an attack by 75 Ukrainian drones heading for the capital, according to the Russian agency TASS. There were no preliminary reports of casualties or damage, and the drone raids disrupted air traffic at airports across western Russia, including Moscow’s Domodedovo and Zhukovsky.

Russian attacks in Ukraine killed at least eight people and injured 60 on Friday, struck nine regions and two shopping centers and cut power to more than a million people, Ukrainian officials said. In Kharkiv, a 71-year-old woman and a 58-year-old man died and 12 were wounded in strikes on three districts, Governor Oleh Syniehubov said, in a Reuters text republished by Internazionale. The Hindu reported three people killed in strikes across several regions, and Al Jazeera said about 370,000 households lost power in Volyn.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called Russia’s stance a “parody” of the peace negotiations and criticized US President Donald Trump’s diesel deal with Russia, while welcoming the prospect of European allies stepping up their role in the talks, according to the Daily Star. In a speech at the European Union (EU) summit in Brussels, he warned the deal directs funds straight into Putin’s pocket, according to The Independent.

Italy's defence minister said it is “a complete mistake, a major mistake” for the US to limit Ukraine's access to satellite systems and intelligence used to defend itself against Russian attacks, according to the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). The relationship between US President Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky is close to breaking down, according to TASS, which cites The New York Times.

US President Donald Trump denied limiting Ukraine’s access to Starshield, Starlink’s sister internet network, after it restricted drone speed, according to the BBC. The EU’s foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, said Europe cannot replace Starlink in the short term. The EU wants to fully include Ukraine in GOVSATCOM, the bloc’s programme for pooling satellite communications capacity; Europe’s own network, IRIS2, has launches planned for 2029 and full operations targeted for 2030, according to TRT World.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said the country is establishing a security zone inside Ukraine along their border, which will be non-negotiable in any future talks with Kyiv, according to Reuters. According to TASS, Putin said only 10% of the territory of the Donetsk People’s Republic and around 16.5% of the Zaporozhye Region remain under Kyiv’s control and stressed the importance of better protecting civilians and military facilities.

Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, asked EU leaders for at least €70 billion more and said the war will cost €155 billion next year, asking for at least €70 billion “for defence, for weapons, and for our resilience”. French President Emmanuel Macron is temporizing after Kyiv’s request, according to Le Monde.

Pope Leo XIV called Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday to discuss the war in Ukraine, the Vatican said. According to the Vatican, the pontiff asked Putin to pause attacks to allow food and supplies to enter and residents to leave voluntarily from areas under crossfire, and expressed grave concern about the humanitarian situation in Oleshky, a Russian-occupied city in southern Ukraine.

According to Ukrainian commanders, robots and drones led the offensive in eastern Ukraine and 250 Russians surrendered in a year-long campaign that has freed 16 settlements from Russian occupation. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Starlink access for Ukraine's military has still not been fully restored.

Ukrainian forces struck an oil refinery in Russia’s Ryazan region, Russian officials said, hours after Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukraine would resume attacks on Russian energy facilities, according to OilPrice. Ryazan Governor Pavel Malkov said in a post on Telegram that “our region came under a massive drone attack” and that “a fire broke out at the oil refinery.” In Brussels, reacting to criticism from Donald Trump, Zelensky said he is “just defending Ukraine’s interests”, according to Opera Mundi.

European leaders expressed support for Volodymyr Zelensky in Brussels on Friday, at a moment of great tension between Kyiv and US President Donald Trump, according to G1. European Council President António Costa said it was not the time to withdraw support for Ukraine or to ease sanctions on Russia. EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said “Starlink is really needed for Ukraine” and admitted Europe cannot replace the system in the short term.

US President Donald Trump called Ukraine’s fresh wave of strikes on Russian oil refineries a “disgrace” and said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is “more difficult to deal with than [Vladimir] Putin”, in an interview with Newsmax on Thursday, according to the BBC. Zelensky had paused the attacks for three days at Trump’s request for a ceasefire on energy targets, and said on Thursday the strikes would resume because Moscow had never stopped. The criticism follows the US announcement of a deal to import 300,000 tonnes of Russian diesel to bring fuel prices down, which Zelensky called a gift to Putin.

Nine US senators, led by Jeanne Shaheen and Thom Tillis, called on the Defense Department’s inspector general, Platte Moring III, to investigate the disruption of Starshield systems in Ukraine. According to reports cited by the senators, speed restrictions imposed on SpaceX’s Starlink terminals between October 12 and 14, 2026, disrupted critical communications capabilities supporting Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles and fixed-wing and rotary-wing aircraft. The senators said they were alarmed by incidents in which US diplomatic, military and security personnel were unable to reach designated bunkers during Russian air raids, and want to determine whether any US government officials directed, authorized, approved or had advance knowledge of the changes.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said his country would resume hitting Russian oil refineries. Ukraine struck a Russian oil refinery after he declared that Kyiv was abandoning a ceasefire covering energy sites that Trump had announced, and US President Donald Trump told Newsmax that the resumption of strikes on Russian refineries is a “disgrace” that keeps global energy prices elevated.

US President Donald Trump said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is not a good guy for the US to deal with, according to TASS. Trump also confirmed he had asked Zelensky to halt strikes on Russian oil refineries, according to the Russian agency.

The order to limit Starlink, the satellite system Ukraine uses for battlefield communications and drone operations, came from inside the White House, according to two US officials and one Western official cited by Reuters, in a text republished by G1. A person at Ukraine’s defense ministry said on Thursday that the receivers resumed working while moving, but only at speeds of up to 160 km/h. The Guardian reported that the change to Starlink happened without warning at about 1 a.m., when Ukrainian soldiers reported that terminals on drones stopped working at speeds above 100 mph, rendering communications inoperable. The British defense minister acknowledged “the challenges of recent days,” a reference to the US government’s sudden decision on Monday to limit Ukraine’s military use of Starlink.

Ukrainian drones struck the Ryazan refinery on Thursday, ending Kyiv’s brief pause in attacks on Russian energy infrastructure, according to OilPrice. Ryazan Governor Pavel Malkov confirmed a fire at the facility following what he described as a major Ukrainian drone attack. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told the Financial Times on Thursday that the restriction on refinery attacks was finished.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he feels betrayed by Donald Trump over a throttling of Starlink access and accused the US president of picking the other side, risking a breakdown in US-Ukraine relations. Ukraine’s military reported that the system, produced by Elon Musk’s SpaceX but managed by the US government, was no longer working on terminals moving at speeds greater than 100 mph, which crippled most Ukrainian strike drones behind the lines and affected the defense against Russian drones over Kyiv, according to The Guardian. Zelensky also told the BBC that Ukraine will resume attacks on Russian refineries and that the pause came from political will and not from a technical problem.

South Korea will continue supporting Ukraine “as a responsible member of the international community,” despite a diplomatic dispute, according to the South China Morning Post. The dispute involves Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s public disclosure of the transfer of North Korean prisoners during his UN General Assembly speech on September 23.

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico said Slovakia will not take part in a new financing package for Ukraine, speaking in Brussels on Wednesday, according to RT. “By all means, give money to Ukraine, but the Slovak Republic will not participate in this mechanism,” he said. “These are not loans; they are gifts. Ukraine will never pay back any of this money.” Fico also said the existing €90 billion EU loan package had already proved insufficient.

Ukraine’s in-motion Starshield functionality has been restored, a source said, The Jerusalem Post reported. Ukraine’s defense ministry said it would continue to seek clarification on the reasons for Wednesday’s disruption of the military-grade version of SpaceX’s internet service.

Ukraine resumed attacks on Russian refineries after Volodymyr Zelensky condemned the withdrawal of US intelligence, according to The Jerusalem Post, citing Reuters. Since US President Donald Trump’s surprise announcement on Sunday of an energy ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine, Kyiv had refrained from attacking Russian refineries.

Far-right leader and presidential candidate Marine Le Pen said in Brussels that France can no longer finance Ukraine, citing the country’s high deficit and weak economic growth, according to France 24.

Elon Musk said US President Donald Trump is “ultimately” responsible for any curbs on Ukraine’s Starshield systems, according to CNBC. The same report records a thank-you to Musk early Thursday morning for the restoration of Starlink connectivity at speeds of up to 160 kilometers an hour.

A commercial ship anchored in Romanian territorial waters caught fire late on Wednesday, October 14 and had its crew evacuated, according to Romanian authorities cited by The Hindu; the authorities confirmed the fire and the evacuation, according to Al Jazeera.

A Russian overnight attack damaged 26 facilities of Ukraine’s power system and four in the oil and gas sector and left at least 600,000 people without power in the Kyiv and Kharkiv regions, according to Volodymyr Zelensky. The New York Times reports that Kyiv has found itself increasingly vulnerable, with a Pentagon-funded satellite program apparently curbed without warning.

SpaceX owner Elon Musk said any disruptions reported by Ukraine in using the Starshield satellite communications system would be the responsibility of the US government, according to AFP, in a text republished by the South China Morning Post. Musk said the Starshield systems are owned and controlled by the US government and that any limits on speed or usage are decided by the US military and, ultimately, by the president. He was responding to a social media post by Ukraine’s former defence minister Mykhailo Fedorov, who said Starlink connectivity at speeds of up to 160km/h is being restored.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he feels personally betrayed by Donald Trump after it emerged that Ukraine’s military had its access to Starlink restricted. Overnight, Ukraine’s military reported that the Starlink satellite communications system, produced by Elon Musk’s SpaceX but managed by the US government, was no longer working at speeds greater than 100 Mbps, without explanation. The restriction comes as no surprise, according to an analyst quoted by France24: the service had been throttled after the SpaceX boss called the targeting of data services in Russia by Ukrainian drones “a step too far”.

Russia said Kiev attacked ships in the Azov-Black Sea region 214 times in 2026, out of 228 since the start of what Moscow calls a special military operation, according to TASS. The same agency reported that Yulia Zhdanova advocated collective international pressure on Kiev as the best way to ensure the safety of commercial shipping in the Black Sea.

Ukraine accused Elon Musk's SpaceX of limiting Starlink services and crippling its drones, as Russian missiles knocked out power stations in attacks President Volodymyr Zelensky called “ostentatious disrespect” to Donald Trump. Zelensky's external adviser and expert in communications and unmanned systems, Serhiy Beskrestnov, said SpaceX limited the speed of Starlink satellite internet terminals used by the Ukrainian army overnight. In an interview with NPR, Zelensky said the US warned Ukraine that it could suspend intelligence sharing and that his generals reported being notified of that possibility at the military level.

A Ukrainian man accused of helping to mastermind the attacks on the Nord Stream pipelines went on trial for war crimes in Germany on Wednesday, with his defence calling for the case to be dismissed, according to the South China Morning Post. The first hearing took place at the Higher Regional Court in Hamburg, according to TASS. The German Federal Prosecutor's Office says the suspect and his accomplices, also service members, acted on orders from Ukrainian government agencies.

The United States and Russia agreed last week that Moscow would initially supply more than 300,000 metric tonnes of diesel to US and global markets, according to Reuters, in a text published by The Hindu. Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni called the deal a “very risky choice” that, according to Reuters, runs counter to efforts to force Vladimir Putin to sit at a negotiating table with Ukraine. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky criticised the accord, calling it “an investment in a war that must be ended.” Russian envoy Kirill Dmitriev said the deal benefits both countries and helps the global market, according to Sputnik Globe. The International Energy Agency (IEA) warned that the gasoil market balance will remain tight well into 2027 and is dependent on a recovery of product supply from the Middle East, according to Türkiye Today, based on the Oil Market Report.

At least 600,000 people were left without power in the Kyiv and Kharkiv regions after overnight Russian attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said. Zelensky said there was significant damage to 26 facilities of the power system and four in the oil and gas sector, and highlighted a targeted ballistic missile strike against infrastructure that he said should have been covered by the energy ceasefire announced on Sunday by US President Donald Trump.

London announced £45 million in surface-to-air missiles, including £10 million to be accelerated for Ukraine’s urgent winter needs, according to the Kyiv Post — the addition to Volodymyr Zelensky’s visit to Downing Street this Wednesday (October 14, 2026), where British Prime Minister Andy Burnham hosts him. The deliveries form part of the existing £1.6 billion commitment to supply more than 5,000 LMMs over four years, the outlet said.

Presidential adviser Serhii Beskrestnov confirmed that SpaceX imposed overnight on October 13–14 a speed restriction on Starlink terminals in motion in Ukraine, capped at 100 miles per hour (160 kilometers per hour) and hitting the StarShield military package without prior warning, according to the Kyiv Independent. The restriction severely disrupted several Ukrainian military missions, the same adviser said.

Between 8:30 p.m. on October 13 and 7 a.m. on October 14, 493 drones flew toward the Moscow region, most of them neutralized at long-range approaches, according to RBC-Ukraine. Moscow’s Sheremetyevo, Domodedovo, Vnukovo and Zhukovsky airports suspended operations, with Vnukovo closed for more than eight hours, the outlet said. TASS assessed the attack as one of the largest against Moscow and the region in two years.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will meet British Prime Minister Andy Burnham in London on Wednesday, October 14, 2026, as Britain looks to reaffirm its support for Ukraine, including with the promise of a new package of surface-to-air missiles, according to Reuters, in a text published by The Hindu. The announced package is £45 million (US$59.60 million) of surface-to-air missiles used to target jet-powered Russian drones, with £10 million of that package fast-tracked to meet an urgent need in Ukraine. Britain has said it does not support the US-Russia diesel deal and called on allies to keep up the economic pressure on Moscow.

Germany put a Ukrainian on trial, accused of blowing up the Nord Stream pipelines, according to BBC News. The defendant is a 50-year-old Ukrainian identified as Serhii K. by the German federal prosecutor’s office and suspected of being one of the main organizers of the operation, according to Le Monde. His full name, Serhii Kuznietsov, was revealed during his extradition from Italy.

Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said the Kiev regime, under the formal pretext of concern for global food security, wants a protected maritime channel to send weapons to Ukraine’s armed forces and to create yet another mechanism of political and economic pressure on Russia, according to TASS. Zakharova also said the Black Sea artery supplying Volodymyr Zelensky’s government is “very important for its sponsors”.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Tuesday that the country received no early warning from its partners about the Russian strike with five ballistic missiles that hit civilian infrastructure in Kyiv. He also said Ukrainian forces did not strike Russian oil refineries or energy facilities in the two days following Donald Trump’s announcement on Sunday, according to The Guardian.

US President Donald Trump denied having suspended intelligence sharing with Ukraine and said the Russian diesel deal is destined for the global market, not for the United States, according to the Jerusalem Post. Asked directly whether the United States had suspended intelligence sharing, he replied: “No, we haven’t. We help them, but we’re really helping them get to a final answer.” On diesel, he said: “That’s a diesel deal, not for us. That’s being released into the world. That’s not being released to us.”

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Moscow launched a targeted strike on a power plant in Kharkiv, causing further damage to the country's energy system, and that Russia violated the “energy ceasefire” announced by US President Donald Trump, according to the Jerusalem Post, citing CNN. In a post on X, Zelensky said Ukraine has not carried out strikes on Russian oil refineries or the energy sector in general in the two days since the announcement.

For the first time since US President Donald Trump’s weekend announcement of an “energy ceasefire”, Russia hit no Ukrainian energy targets on Tuesday and pounded cities’ transport and logistics overnight, according to France 24. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukraine had not hit Russian refineries for two days, since Trump’s announcement, but that Russia kept up attacks on energy and critical infrastructure during that period. Four people were killed in Russian strikes in Kharkiv and at least a dozen were injured across the country, according to Ukrainian officials.

US President Donald Trump defended allowing Russian diesel exports and insisted an energy ceasefire between Kyiv and Moscow is in place despite a lack of confirmation from either side, according to OilPrice. The deal lifted US sanctions on Russian diesel exports to allow Russia to supply almost 2 million metric tons of the fuel, a bid to lower US fuel prices, according to France 24. According to France 24, which cites Reuters and other outlets, US officials have reportedly threatened to cut off intelligence sharing and weapons sales to Ukraine unless it halts its strikes on Russian oil refineries.

The Kremlin said it has seen only in the press The Washington Post’s report about the United States and Europe moving toward a joint peace proposal on Ukraine and said it has received no information about it, according to TASS. The Kremlin said there is no connection between the diesel agreement with the United States and Russia’s position on Ukraine, and described it as a mutually beneficial example of Russian-US cooperation. It also said European Union sanctions and other unilateral actions could hamper the implementation of the fuel deal between Russia and the United States.

The United States and Europe are working on a four-point proposal to settle the Ukraine conflict, Washington Post columnist David Ignatius wrote, citing sources, according to TASS. Ukraine's reconstruction would be the first pillar, and negotiators asked Kiev for detailed cost estimates. A third pillar would be economic integration of Russia, Ukraine and Europe through an energy deal that could include a pipeline carrying Russian oil and gas to Europe, with Ukraine and Russia splitting the profits.

Ukraine halted strikes on Russian oil refineries and on its other energy infrastructure for two days, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Tuesday (13). The pause followed US President Donald Trump's announcement of an energy ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine, according to Reuters, in a text published by Al Arabiya. Zelensky said that during this time Russia attacked both Ukraine's energy facilities and its critical infrastructure, sending absolutely clear signals that it has no intention of refraining from strikes on Ukraine.

The Ukrainian-owned ship “Chelsea 3,” sailing under the Maltese flag, was hit by three drones and sank about 18 nautical miles off the Bulgarian coast around 1:30 a.m., with its crew of seven Ukrainians and eight Azerbaijanis rescued, in the second such incident in a week, according to The Hindu, citing Reuters; five crew members received medical care, with no one seriously injured, and Prime Minister Rumen Radev said he will speak with North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Secretary-General Mark Rutte.

Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said it had thwarted an attempt by Ukraine's security service to attack the Baltimor military airfield in Voronezh with drones, involving nine drones to be controlled via the internet from Ukraine in the final phase, according to Sputnik.

Ukraine's Air Force said that radars detected ballistic targets only during the attack on Kyiv, with no timely launch data, while Ukraine's counter-disinformation center assesses that intelligence sharing may have been halted, according to TASS, citing the Air Force's Telegram channel and the center.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called the diesel deal struck by Trump with Putin a “weak decision” and “a gift to Putin” and approved further drone strikes on Russian refineries, according to Politico Europe; according to TASS, citing Politico Europe, Trump could cut Kyiv's access to US intelligence or press Elon Musk to disable Starlink, on which Ukraine's military relies.

Air defenses intercepted 13 drones heading toward Moscow, Mayor Sergey Sobyanin said, according to TASS, which reports 23 drones destroyed since the start of the day.

Envoys of US President Donald Trump told Ukrainian officials on Friday that a deal to allow Russian diesel exports is part of a bid to draw Russia back to negotiations after the failure of previous efforts to launch sustained talks to end the war, three people familiar with the meeting told Reuters. The warring sides have not confirmed the energy ceasefire Trump announced on Sunday, and Russia struck energy targets inside Ukraine on Monday. Under the deal, Russia will supply more than 2.25 million barrels of diesel to US and global markets, and Trump defended it on Monday as “the right choice for the American people.” The Jerusalem Post reported that Trump said on Monday that Putin wants a deal more than Zelensky and insisted that the ceasefire was agreed because he said so: “They agreed because I said they agreed.”

A Russian drone attack on a residential building in Kyiv killed two people on Monday evening, according to the Ukrainian capital’s prosecutor’s office: a 59-year-old woman and a person who was in a car near the building. According to Reuters, the strike on a high-rise residential building in a Kyiv suburb killed two people and injured at least nine, while attacks in other Ukrainian regions killed at least six, Ukrainian officials said.

Residents of the city of Izyum were hit by blackouts after a Russian strike destroyed power grids, according to Ukrinform, cited by the BBC. Energy and railway infrastructure in the region of Zhytomyr, in western Ukraine, were also targeted overnight, according to the head of the region’s military administration, Vitaliy Bunechko. The state-owned grid operator Ukrenergo reported new power cuts in Kharkiv, Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia due to damage to energy equipment. President Volodymyr Zelensky said there were glide bomb strikes and strikes on energy infrastructure, and that a power plant in Kharkiv was attacked.

The administration of US President Donald Trump warned Ukraine and allies in Europe that the United States could suspend intelligence sharing and European purchases of US weapons for Kyiv if Ukraine does not halt its deep strikes on Russian energy facilities, according to CNN. Reuters, citing the Financial Times, reports the same threat to stop the procurement mechanism that supplies weapons to Ukraine, as a way to press Kyiv to halt strikes on Russian energy infrastructure.

Insurance costs for ships carrying oil across the Black Sea rose from about $200,000 to $2.5 million per vessel in recent months, according to OilPrice. According to the publication, the increase reflects mounting risks to commercial shipping after repeated attacks on vessels and port infrastructure. On October 6, drones struck two commercial vessels, sinking the Togo-flagged Alfa Watan and damaging the Palau-flagged Able; all 18 crew members aboard the Able were rescued.

US President Donald Trump defended on Monday the diesel deal with Russia as lawmakers from both parties complained the agreement appears to violate US law barring imports of Russian energy until Moscow ends its aggression against Ukraine. On Sunday (11), a group of Republican and Democratic senators called on Trump to “reverse course” on the deal, saying it may violate a 2022 law designed to support Ukraine in its bid to repel Russian invaders. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told Fox News on Monday that diesel prices depend on the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, not on Ukrainian attacks on diesel targets in Russia.

Russia hit at least six energy targets during a night and morning of deadly airstrikes across Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Monday, according to Reuters, adding this showed Moscow had no interest in an energy ceasefire announced by US President Donald Trump. Trump declared over the weekend, blindsiding Kyiv and its European allies, that Ukraine and Russia had agreed not to hit each other’s energy systems. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said talks were ongoing about a possible energy ceasefire and that further information would be revealed in due course, but he rejected Zelenskyy’s proposal for a full 60-day truce.

US President Donald Trump announced on Sunday an “energy ceasefire” between Ukraine and Russia; Kyiv expressed astonishment and Moscow went silent, according to France24. According to Bloomberg, in a text republished by TASS, Zelensky is reportedly “on a collision course” with Trump for continuing to ignore Washington’s calls to halt strikes on Russian oil refineries.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy said a drone hit a power plant in Kyiv on Sunday, leading to power outages in the capital, and then reported a strike on a power plant in Kharkiv, saying Ukrainian skies had been infested with Russian “shaheds” all day, according to The Guardian in its Europe live. The account came after United States (US) President Donald Trump’s Sunday morning announcement of an “ENERGY CEASEFIRE” between Russia and Ukraine, effective immediately, according to the same live. European Union (EU) foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said the bloc would welcome a truce “when it holds” and that it had not yet seen Russia stick to it, according to the same live.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen promised that the European Union (EU) will provide additional funding this week for Ukraine to purchase drones and missiles, following a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, according to The New Voice of Ukraine, which reports that Ukraine received an additional €1.24 billion on October 7 under the Ukraine Support Loan program, dedicated to Ukrainian-made drones and missiles. Von der Leyen said that Ukraine will be front and center at this week’s European Council, with discussion of next year’s funding needs, according to TASS.

The Sunday announcement by US President Donald Trump of an “energy ceasefire” between Russia and Ukraine referred to a potential deal in which each side stops attacks on oil refineries — and he expects Volodymyr Zelensky to abide by it, a White House official said, according to Axios. Trump said he asked Zelensky to stop attacking Russian oil refineries and claimed Zelensky’s actions harmed American farmers; Zelensky said the announced ceasefire “was news for me.”

Both main crude contracts fell more than 1% after US President Donald Trump announced an energy ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine, according to AFP. Trump wrote on Truth Social that there is an energy ceasefire “effective immediately” and that “both parties have agreed. Do not break it!”. Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky appeared to express surprise, said he was seeking further details and added that “Ukraine supports the ceasefire, and it is important that Russia support it as well”. AFP also reported that Kyiv said Moscow had struck multiple power plants in the country.

Witkoff and Kushner put their planned trip to Moscow on hold until there is clarity on whether Ukraine and the Europeans are ready to agree to a new unified proposal, according to Axios, cited by TASS. The US, Ukraine, the E3 (United Kingdom, France and Germany), the European Commission and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) held talks in Miami on October 9, according to the same report.

The energy-ceasefire proposal only covers attacks on oil refineries, a White House official told Axios, with no official confirmation from Moscow as of yet. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the announcement was news to him, but that Ukraine will endorse it if the Russians accept, while awaiting details from the American side, according to Opera Mundi.

British Prime Minister Andy Burnham called Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Saturday, the same day US President Donald Trump suggested the Ukrainian leader should be replaced for refusing to reach a settlement with Moscow, according to RT. Earlier on Saturday, Trump accused Zelenskyy of seeking to “make problems for the world” through continued attacks on the Russian energy infrastructure, including refineries. “I suggest they get a new leader who can make a deal,” he said.

One civilian died and three people were wounded, including two teenagers, in Ukrainian drone attacks on Russia’s Belgorod region, according to the regional emergency response center. A man died after a drone hit his car on the Posokhovo-Kazinka road, and a 15-year-old boy and a 13-year-old girl were hurt in the village of Novostroyevka-Pervaya.

Ukrainian lawmaker Oleksandr Merezhko called the U.S. diesel deal with Russia a betrayal, in an interview with NPR on Sunday.

The US administration threatened to block the weapons procurement program for Ukraine and intelligence sharing over Ukrainian attacks on Russian energy infrastructure, according to the Financial Times, cited by TASS. US officials made a series of phone calls to European capitals and Kyiv on October 10 and 11 threatening to cut off intelligence sharing and the PURL program.

European Commissioner for Defence Andrius Kubilius called for no longer expecting any US help in settling the Ukrainian crisis, according to TASS. He argued that the European Union (EU) and Ukraine should draw up and implement an independent peace strategy.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that the CHPP-5 plant in Kharkiv was struck shortly after the announcement of an energy ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine by US President Donald Trump. According to Ukraine’s Presidential Office, the attack occurred after Trump announced the ceasefire in a Truth Social post, in which he wrote that the energy ceasefire was effective “immediately”. Zelenskyy said the strike happened “just now”.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on ABC's This Week that he would organize elections if Putin agreed to 60 days of a total ceasefire, according to Reuters, in a text republished by the Jerusalem Post. The statement answered Saturday's demand by US President Donald Trump that Zelenskyy stop attacking Russian refineries and that Ukrainians replace him in new elections.

US President Donald Trump said on Sunday that Ukraine and Russia had agreed to what he described as an energy ceasefire, effective immediately. In an interview with Axios, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Trump's post was the first he had heard of the deal, but a senior Ukrainian official told Reuters that Ukraine was ready to accept the ceasefire if Russia was. Earlier on Sunday, Zelenskyy had repeated Ukraine's long-standing position that it was willing to halt attacks on Russian refineries, but only if Moscow ceased its own strikes on Ukrainian power infrastructure.

Russia's Defense Ministry said its Center battlegroup liberated Novotroitskoye and Petrovskoye in the Donetsk People's Republic over the past 24 hours, according to TASS. The ministry said troops continued to mop up the western neighborhoods of Dobropolye and the Donbropolskaya mine area.

Check Point research describes hundreds of hacking attempts that targeted consumer security cameras around the Middle East, according to Wired. Russia and Ukraine have ramped up camera-hacking in their war, aiming to spy on each other, find new targets and assess damage from their attacks, according to The Wall Street Journal, in a text republished by LiveMint. The Jerusalem Post reported that hackers use security cameras to track troops and military targets in Israel and Ukraine.

Russia’s Defense Ministry said on Sunday its troops had captured the villages of Kupyne and Riznykove in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region, as well as Novotroitske and Davydovske in the Donetsk region, according to Asharq Al-Awsat, citing Interfax.

US President Donald Trump called on Saturday for Ukraine to replace President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, after the Ukrainian criticized Washington’s easing of Russian diesel, according to France24. Trump also railed against Ukraine’s attacks on Russian oil infrastructure, according to Reuters.

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on October 11 that Ukraine is ready to halt its attacks on Russian oil refineries if Russia ceases strikes on Ukrainian energy infrastructure, and conditioned any de-escalation on reciprocity and real guarantees. A US official told Axios that President Trump decided to make a diesel deal with Russia after Zelenskyy ignored half a dozen US requests to stop attacking Russian refineries.

Russia's Ministry of Defense said it struck data centers, Ukrainian port infrastructure and vessels serving the Ukrainian military overnight, including the TeNet data center in Odessa, used to process, transmit and store information, according to the ministry, cited by Sputnik.

Power supply in Vladimir, locally disrupted by a drone attack, was restored to 80%, with heat and water fully restored, according to regional governor Alexander Avdeyev. Yandex said the attack damaged its facilities and caused the complete shutdown of its data center in the Vladimir region — the third major company data center to go offline in recent days.

Bryansk regional governor Yegor Kovalchuk said a man was killed and two women were injured in Ukrainian strikes on the region. According to him, a kamikaze drone struck the village of Sluchok and seriously injured a resident, who died in the hospital.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday (October 10, 2026) that Russian President Vladimir Putin would like to reach a deal on the war in Ukraine, accusing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of resisting a compromise, according to AFP, in a text republished by The Hindu. Trump said Putin told him he wanted a settlement, “strongly,” in their phone call on Friday (October 9, 2026). In another statement, Trump said Zelenskyy, for various reasons, does not want to pursue a peaceful settlement, according to Mehr News.

Three Indian nationals rescued from the merchant vessel MV Royad Mammadov, attacked in the Black Sea on Monday, have left Romania for India, according to the Embassy of India in Bucharest, in information published by The Tribune with data from the ANI news agency. Two foreign seafarers were killed in the attack and the three Indians were injured and rescued by Romanian authorities, according to the same account.

Ukraine will have to pay $27.94 billion in interest to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank until 2061, according to TASS calculations based on data from Ukraine's Finance Ministry. Counting principal and interest, the bill with the two institutions reaches $128.86 billion, by the same estimate.

Under the diesel deal between the United States and Russia, Russia would release an initial 300,000 tonnes of diesel to the American and global marketplace, followed by an additional 500,000 tonnes in November, according to the BBC, citing President Donald Trump. EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said suspending sanctions provides Moscow with more revenue to wage war and that Europe will not ease pressure.

At least 15 people, including three children, were killed in Zaporizhzhia after Russia hit the city with five glide bombs. At least 16 others were injured and people are missing under the rubble, according to the BBC. Russian forces struck a five-story residential building in the city with guided aerial bombs early on October 10, according to the Kyiv Independent, which reported four dead and four injured in that strike. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky attributed the attack to Russia expressing “its thanks” for a deal announced by US President Donald Trump easing sanctions on Moscow to import Russian diesel, according to the BBC.

The Russian government has partially lifted its ban on diesel exports to implement the agreements reached by Presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, the cabinet said. The measure takes effect on October 10, allowing 500,000 metric tons of diesel to the global market at this stage, according to the statement.

US President Donald Trump said it is time for Ukraine to get a new president, responding to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s criticism of the US diesel deal with Russia, according to the BBC. Trump told reporters on Saturday that he suggests they get a new leader who can make a deal, and that it is time for Ukraine to get a new president, according to Axios. Zelensky called the diesel deal not fair and not honest, a sign of weakness by Trump and a birthday gift to Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to Axios.

US negotiators Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner may visit Moscow within the next two weeks, a source told TASS. The presidents of Russia and the United States held a phone call on October 9 discussing Russian diesel supplies, according to TASS.

A day after US President Donald Trump announced a deal to buy Russian diesel, Russian strikes killed at least 11 people in Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia region on Saturday, October 10, according to officials cited by The Hindu. Three children were among the dead and at least 16 people were wounded when Russian aerial bombs hit residential buildings, said Mykhailo Semikin, head of the regional military administration. Ukraine's national police said Russia targeted residential neighborhoods with five guided aerial bombs early Saturday, according to Asharq Al-Awsat. Trump wrote that Russia would immediately supply more than 300,000 tonnes of diesel, followed by an additional 500,000 tonnes in November 2026 and 1 million tonnes immediately thereafter, with 3 million more within a short period of time. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called the deal “a weak decision, unfortunately, a weak decision by strong partners”.

The death toll from the Russian bombardment in Zaporizhzhia rose to 12, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. The bombardment took place on Saturday and Zelensky said five glide bombs hit residential buildings in the city.

US, Ukrainian and European officials met in Miami on Friday in a renewed diplomatic push to end Russia's war in Ukraine, as Washington seeks a way out of the dangerous stalemate. US envoy Steve Witkoff said the talks tackled potential avenues to de-escalate and conclude the war before winter, toward a durable peace; according to him, the meeting included the E3, the European Commission, Ukraine and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and covered energy resilience, grain, security guarantees and reconstruction. The meeting follows the announcement that Russia would immediately supply more than 300,000 tons of diesel, with another 500,000 tons in November, and that the US Treasury would issue a temporary license to allow Russian diesel to flow to global markets.

A Russian attack on the southern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia killed seven people and wounded ten others on the morning of October 10, regional governor Mykhailo Semikin said, as rescuers searched for more people under the rubble. The attack hit several locations at once in the early hours of that day, according to Reuters, in a text republished by The Hindu.

President Donald Trump announced that Russia will supply more than 300,000 tons of diesel immediately, an additional 500,000 tons in November and 1 million tons shortly after, according to DW. The US Treasury Department issued a temporary license allowing Russian diesel to reach global markets through April 2027, DW reported. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said gifts to Russian President Vladimir Putin will not bring peace or any benefit to the civilized world and that Russia will “repay” the diesel with further terror and perfidy, according to DW. Kremlin foreign policy aide Yuri Ushakov said that by launching a massive drone attack on Moscow, other cities and polling stations on the main voting day, Kyiv disrupted the possibility of an immediate resumption of the negotiation process, according to Reuters, in a text republished by SRN News.

Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum announced that the country is investigating a viral video said to show mercenaries chanting drug cartel slogans in Ukraine, according to Al Jazeera.

The United States (US) is leading a fresh round of Ukraine peace talks with meetings in Miami, according to AFP. US presidential envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner are set to present new proposals aimed at restarting negotiations during two days of talks, after receiving directives from Trump on October 8, according to Axios, in a text published by Hromadske.

Russia’s Defence Ministry said a dry cargo ship carrying military cargo to the port of Odesa was struck at sea, according to Sputnik.

Rubio said in Lisbon that the war in Ukraine has hit a stalemate that usually ends in negotiation or escalation, and he called escalation “very dangerous”, including possible Russian sabotage or strikes in neighboring NATO countries that could rapidly widen the conflict, according to OilPrice.

Residents of Kramatorsk, in eastern Ukraine, are being forced to flee the city as drone strikes intensify, according to France 24. On the evening of 8 October, two people were killed in a Russian drone strike on a civilian car in the centre of Kramatorsk, bringing the number of people killed in the city over the course of the day to 32, according to the city council cited by Ukrainska Pravda.

The United Kingdom has chosen Audere Group as its partner to set up a dedicated business centre in Kyiv, giving British businesses a permanent base, according to the UK Ministry of Defence. The centre will give direct access to battlefield data and targets defence industrial partnerships, under the 100-Year Partnership. It builds on more than 40 major UK-Ukraine industrial partnerships already established.

China is running the most systematic effort of any outside power to learn from the drone war in Ukraine, with military and defense-industry analysts writing up new battlefield techniques within about four months, although those lessons usually take a year or more before showing up in training, equipment or force structure of the Peopleʼs Liberation Army (PLA), according to the South China Morning Post (SCMP).

Only 41.7 billion euros of the 100 billion euros in support reported by Berlin actually went to Ukraine, while 35.9 billion was spent in Germany and another 22 billion consists of future military commitments, according to the Kiel Institute.

Envoys of US President Donald Trump will meet Ukrainian negotiators and European officials in Miami on Friday to discuss new peace proposals, two US sources told AFP. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed that the Ukrainian team is due to meet Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff in the US, in a two-day meeting, and is counting on European participation. The American negotiators also invited national security advisers from the United Kingdom, France and Germany, as well as officials from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the European Union, to discuss security guarantees and a post-war prosperity plan.

Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Zelensky’s confrontational statements demonstrate Ukraine’s unwillingness to pursue peace, according to TASS. Peskov said Zelensky’s earlier threats of a 40-day operation against Russia are now backfiring on Ukraine itself.

The Russian attack on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure on October 8 left most of Kyiv without power, with the metro shut down due to a lack of electricity and water scarce, according to the Kyiv Independent. Energy Minister Denys Shmyhal confirmed the attack on an energy facility important for Kyiv and said crews are trying to restore power. Drone strikes on October 8 killed four people and injured at least 19 in Kyiv, according to Mayor Vitali Klitschko. According to Le Monde, 78 people were killed and 215 wounded on October 7 and 8 alone.

Germany has announced a new round of military aid for Ukraine valued at approximately €1 billion, to include turbojet-powered drone interceptors, standoff weapons and space-based technology, according to Breaking Defense. The package includes several tens of thousands of Quantum Systems interceptor drones, to be produced in Ukraine and deployed against Russia's intensifying drone campaign. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed Germany's new aid package is worth more than €1.3 billion, including funding for interceptors against turbojet Shaheds, according to UkraineToday.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the war in Ukraine is at a dangerous stalemate, according to Reuters, in a text republished by Internazionale. Rubio warned the escalation could become a sabotage campaign in neighboring countries that are members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). In an interview, he said he does not believe the war can be settled through negotiations at this time, according to The New Voice of Ukraine.

South Korea said it will recall its ambassador to Ukraine, stepping up its protest against Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s recent revelation of a supposedly secret transfer of two North Korean prisoners of war to South Korea, The Associated Press reported. South Korea has accused Ukraine of violating a nondisclosure agreement on their transfer in mid-September, but Kyiv has denied agreeing to such a deal.

A Russian attack on two passenger buses in Kramatorsk, near the frontline in eastern Ukraine, killed 30 people and wounded 18, according to local authorities. The Donetsk regional prosecutor’s office and the governor’s office gave the same toll of 30 dead and 18 wounded. Ukrainian authorities said 30 people were killed and at least 18 injured in Russian strikes in eastern Ukraine that included the attack on a public bus, The Associated Press reported.

Yandex suspended operations at one of its key data centers on Thursday after a drone strike, as Ukraine continues to target the country’s infrastructure, according to CNBC. The attack caused a fire at the company’s data center in Sasovo, in western Russia’s Ryazan region, and affected part of its infrastructure, Yandex told CNBC. Open-source intelligence (OSINT) groups Exilenova+ and ASTRA identified the site as Yandex DC Sasovo, which the company describes as its largest data center, according to the Kyiv Independent.

22 people were killed in Pryluky in a missile attack the previous day, including five children, and 54 others were injured, including seven children, according to Ukraine's Emergency Service, RBC-Ukraine reported.

A Russian overnight missile and drone attack hit Ukrainian cities on October 7 and killed at least 26 people, according to the Kyiv Independent. In Pryluky, in the Chernihiv region, a Russian cruise missile hit a residential building, killing at least 20 people, including five children, and wounding at least 55, according to the Kyiv Independent. The Kyiv Post later reported a toll of 18 dead in Pryluky and 24 overall, citing updated figures from the Ukrainian emergency service, as rescue operations continued in the rubble of a five-story building.

Russia has begun sabotage operations against Danish companies supplying Ukraine after concluding that broader disruption efforts failed, according to Reuters, in a text republished by The Straits Times. Analyst Josefine Christensen of Denmark’s PET intelligence service said at a conference in Copenhagen that Russia is now trying to hit targets with a direct impact on the front line, namely weapons production, according to Reuters, in a text republished by SRN News.

Russia’s Defence Ministry said it had carried out a massive strike with precision weapons and drones on military-industrial facilities in Ukraine, in Kyiv and other regions. The ministry confirmed the overnight strike and did not mention civilian casualties. In the Chernihiv region, a missile hit a five-storey residential building in Pryluky, killing nine people, including three children, and wounding 34, according to Ukraine’s Interior Minister, Ihor Vyhivskyi.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Washington understood and acknowledged Moscow’s position on a possible trilateral meeting on Ukraine, after Kiev’s attempts to disrupt the State Duma elections, according to TASS. On another front, European Union ambassadors agreed to resume the technical stage of EU accession talks for Ukraine and Moldova, stalled by Hungary since the summer, with the possible opening of two clusters, according to TASS, citing the Rapporteur report.

Countries in Central Asia began buying oil from Iran as the Russian fuel supplies they long depended on ran dry amid Ukraine’s mounting attacks on Russian energy infrastructure, according to Al Jazeera. Tajikistan expects to receive 2.55 million tonnes of oil and petroleum products from Iran.

The toll from the Russian overnight attack from October 6 to 7 rose from 2 to at least 11 killed and more than 34 injured in Pryluky, Dnipro, Kremenchuk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kyiv, according to The Guardian. Ukraine’s Air Force says, according to Reuters, in a text republished by G1, that Russia launched 130 drones and 48 cruise and ballistic missiles and that 161 targets were shot down; Russia’s Defense Ministry claimed a “massive attack” on the military-industrial complex. Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russian ballistic missiles remain the greatest challenge and that air defense packages are a vital necessity.

The 23 crew members, all Indian citizens, were rescued from the Liberian-flagged tanker attacked by naval drones, while crude oil is burning openly in the Black Sea waters and firefighters could not tackle the blaze due to its intensity, according to The Hindu, citing Russia’s transport ministry for the attack and the burning oil.

Two people died in a fire in the Darnytskyi neighbourhood in Kyiv as a result of Wednesday’s attack, according to France24, with information from the Agence France-Presse (AFP). On the eve, Volodymyr Zelensky said there was updated intelligence indicating Russian preparation of a massive attack and that Ukraine’s position depended largely on what weaponry the allies could provide, according to Reuters, in a text republished by The Hindu.

About 223,000 Ukrainians left the country between January and June 2026, according to Ukraine’s State Border Guard Service, in data obtained by TASS. The flow follows years of departures: about 7 to 8 million in 2022, around 180,000 in 2023, 460,000 in 2024 and 302,000 in 2025, according to TASS.

Russian troops advancing near Golubkovo, a settlement Russia says it has liberated in the Zaporozhye region, approached Novoukrainka, military expert Andrey Marochko told TASS. After liberating Golubkovo on October 6, Russian servicemen were establishing a foothold for an offensive in two directions, north and northwest of the settlement, according to TASS.

Sweden will deploy Patriot missile defence systems to eastern Poland to help protect the NATO logistics hub that supplies weapons to Ukraine, Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said on Tuesday, according to Reuters.

Two commercial vessels were struck by drones on Tuesday, October 6, in Bulgaria’s exclusive economic zone in the Black Sea — the first attack on shipping in the exclusive economic zone of a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) member, according to CBC News. The Togo-flagged Alfa Watan suffered critical structural damage and sank, and the crew’s fate remains unknown. The second ship, registered in Palau, caught fire and its Turkish and Indian crew members were rescued, according to RFI. Bulgaria’s prime minister said, according to CBC News, that the situation is seriously disrupting shipping in the Black Sea, driving up insurance costs even further and making shipping extremely difficult.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that Ukraine's membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is not currently being discussed, because Washington is focused on resolving the Ukrainian conflict. Asked by a journalist whether Ukraine should be a NATO member, Rubio said “there's no yes or no answer”, according to TASS.

Russia said it intercepted nearly 900 Ukrainian drones overnight on Tuesday over multiple regions of the country, as well as the occupied Crimean peninsula and the Sea of Azov, according to the Defence Ministry in Moscow. Unconfirmed media reports said a major fuel depot in the Moscow region was on fire after the attack, which killed two people. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said 650 drones flew towards the Moscow region between Monday evening and Tuesday morning.

Of the 521 locomotives hit in Ukraine since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion, almost 60% have been this year, according to statistics released by the state-owned operator.

Russia said the overnight drone attack saw 868 vehicles intercepted over Russian regions and the Sea of Azov, according to TASS calculations based on Defense Ministry data, with drones shot down over 11 regions, Crimea and the Sea of Azov, including Belgorod, Bryansk, Kursk and the Moscow region, according to TASS.

Russian bombs struck a residential area of Kharkiv, in northeastern Ukraine, killing at least five people and injuring more than 50, according to officials cited by Reuters, in a text republished by Yahoo. The toll later rose to six dead and 59 injured, according to Ukrainska Pravda. The attack used guided aerial bombs in the Slobidskyi district, with hits on civilian businesses and near a residential building.

US President Donald Trump blamed Ukrainian strikes on Russian oil refineries for high gasoline prices on Monday, according to G1. Trump said, in a post on the Truth Social network, that gasoline is being driven up by Russia's refineries hit by Ukraine, and no longer by the Strait of Hormuz, from which record numbers of barrels are coming out on an almost daily basis, according to Gulf News, in a text from the AFP. Prices have been high since the start of the year, when the United States launched its attack against the Iranian regime alongside Israel and Tehran closed the Strait of Hormuz in retaliation, according to G1.

About 53% of Ukrainians think President Volodymyr Zelensky should not run for a second term, according to a poll published on October 5 by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS) and reported by the Kyiv Independent. The poll surveyed 1,002 people in government-controlled territories between September 12 and 21, according to the same outlet.

Eleven crew members, nationals of Azerbaijan and India, have been rescued after an attack on a vessel carrying corn in the Black Sea, according to the BBC. Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky condemned the “horrific” Russian attack on the ship, also according to the BBC. Romania's interior ministry said the ship sank about 30 nautical miles south of its port of Sfantu Gheorghe.

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said that at least one person was killed and another wounded in a Russian drone attack on a Turkish-owned civilian vessel in the Black Sea. According to him, Azerbaijani and Indian citizens were on board and the ship’s captain was killed, with eleven crew members rescued and one of them injured; the fate of one other person is still being established. Romanian authorities said, according to AFP, in a text republished by RFI, that two crew died and 11 were rescued after a fire caused the ship to sink.

Russia's state nuclear company (Rosatom) says two buildings at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant — the laboratory and the radioactive waste facility — were attacked overnight, with roof damage, according to TASS. Rosatom chief Alexey Likhachev said there is no threat to nuclear safety, according to TASS.

Hungary is expected to lift its veto on the technical phase of Ukraine's EU accession talks, with letters on internal market and competition chapters, according to the Financial Times, in a text cited by TASS. Full political support would hinge on Ukraine's parliament passing a bill on minority educational rights on October 12, according to the Financial Times, in a text cited by TASS.

Russia says that a mercenaries unit from Ecuador arrived in Kharkov for counterattacks in the area of Kazachya Lopan and Goptovka, where about 16,500 mercenaries now serve in the Ukrainian Armed Forces, according to TASS citing Russian security agencies.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Ukraine is ready to hold trilateral talks with the United States and Russia this month, according to Al Jazeera. He confirmed that the United Arab Emirates, which has hosted previous talks, could again host the meeting.

Russian drones hit a warehouse storing medical supplies in Sumy, killing a 52-year-old employee and injuring three others, according to the Kyiv Independent, citing local authorities, in a text by the Hindustan Times. The Ukrainian embassy in Delhi said the warehouse belonged to Indian owners.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia has transferred jet-powered drone technology to North Korea as part of its intensifying defense partnership, according to the Kyiv Independent. Asked whether Moscow had shared the new jet drone technology with Pyongyang, Zelenskyy’s response was unequivocal: “Yes, of course.”

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky said Germany will provide another aid package worth more than 1.3 billion euros, including weapons and support for the energy sector, after his meeting with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz in Kiev, according to TASS. The amount includes 1 billion euros for interceptor drones and long-range weapons production and 350 million euros for energy, according to German government sources cited by DPA.

Hundreds of protesters took to the streets of Paris on Saturday against continued aid to Ukraine, in a national protest by the Les Patriotes party of Florian Philippot, according to RT. The protesters called on President Emmanuel Macron to halt the aid and pushed for France's withdrawal from the European Union and all supranational institutions, including the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

Russia's Defense Ministry said it will intensify strikes on military and defense industry facilities in Kyiv and other Ukrainian regions. The decision was presented as a response to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's statement that Ukraine will double down on attacks on Russian refineries, according to Reuters, in an article republished by the Hindustan Times.

Russia's Defense Ministry said Ukraine carried out a deliberate attack on residential areas of Belgorod, where, according to the ministry, there are no military facilities. The strike killed and wounded civilians and damaged apartment buildings, private homes and vehicles, the ministry said.

Russia again struck Kyiv with drones, hitting the North Bridge over the Dnieper during German Chancellor Friedrich Merz's surprise visit, according to the BBC. Merz arrived in Kyiv unannounced with the economy minister and defense and energy executives, pledging long-range weapons and 1,000 specialized interceptors, according to the Kyiv Post. He warned that Russia's war machine will turn against NATO if it is not stopped. The Ukrainian capital is under increasing missile and drone attacks on infrastructure, including the energy sector vital for electricity and heating before winter, according to France24.

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky said the country will double down on attacking Russian oil refineries in response to a new policy of airstrikes by Moscow, according to CNBC. Zelensky said intelligence documents show an order from Vladimir Putin to expand attacks on infrastructure, logistics, roads, schools and hospitals to pressure civilians into leaving cities, according to ABC News. According to him, Ukraine's response will target Russian energy, especially refineries, without indiscriminately attacking civilian objects, according to The Independent.

The United List, the centrist, pro-Ukraine party of Latvian Prime Minister Andris Kulbergs, won the country's parliamentary election by a wide margin, Al Jazeera reported. According to Reuters, the governing party secured the biggest parliamentary election victory since Latvia regained independence in 1991 and was set to retain power and form a pro-Ukraine coalition.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz arrived in Kyiv on Sunday, October 4, for talks with Volodymyr Zelensky, according to the Kyiv Post. Merz said he traveled to Ukraine because the country needs support and that, if Russia is not stopped, its war machine will sooner or later turn against the West. He was joined by Economy Minister Katherina Reiche and executives from the defense and energy sectors, France 24 reported.

The governor of Russia's Belgorod region, Alexander Shuvayev, said 17 municipalities came under 141 Ukrainian attacks over the past day, with 182 drones downed or suppressed, according to TASS. One civilian was killed in Grayvoronsky district and two more died in hospitals after injuries in Belgorod and Krasnoyaruzhsky. Russia's Defense Ministry said Russian forces used Geran drones to strike a data center in Odessa and a Nova Poshta logistics center in Chernomorsk, as well as a ship carrying military supplies.

Ukraine’s 2027 military spending is set at $108.3 billion, compared with $71.7 billion in its own revenues, and the draft leaves the country needing an additional $25.4 billion from Western sponsors to cover military spending alone, according to the Russian state agency TASS.

A military expert cited by the Russian state news agency TASS, Andrey Marochko, said Ukraine has lost more than 80% of exports shipped through the port of Odessa after Russian strikes on the port of Izmail. According to him, container ships can no longer sail without fear of repercussions, making it impossible to deliver supplies on the scale previously provided by the West.

Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev said in an interview with Iranian broadcaster Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) that Ukraine will need to embrace a neutral, non-nuclear status, reject its nationalist policy course and recognize the four new Russian regions for a lasting political settlement, according to TASS. Medvedev said Russia and Iran are developing joint activities in defense and attach great importance to this, and that Iran plays a key role in ensuring security in the Strait of Hormuz in terms of geography and international law.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that the Vivaldi operation has de-occupied about 125 to 140 square kilometres so far and is not yet finished, in an interview with Reuters published by Ukrainska Pravda. He also said that Russian casualties rose to 42,000 a month in the recent period, up from 30,000 to 32,000 a month since the start of the year, according to Ukrainska Pravda, citing the Reuters interview.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said Ukraine is ready to consider India’s proposal for a ceasefire in energy and the Black Sea, but only in that combination, and that it is the broadest of the four proposals received. The initiatives came from India, Turkiye, Egypt and the United States, Sybiha said. Russian President Vladimir Putin said Indian Prime Minister Modi has “very good ideas” aimed at finding mutually acceptable solutions.

At least five people were killed in the long-range strikes exchanged by Kyiv and Moscow, Al Jazeera reported, and Russia again urged diplomats and foreigners to leave the Ukrainian capital. Russia said its drones had hit the two bridges used to transfer Ukrainian troops and military cargo, the BBC reported.

Talks between the United States and Russia to end the war in Ukraine have expanded to include a proposed multibillion-dollar deal for Lukoil’s international oil assets, according to the New York Times, in a text republished by the Times of India. Russian President Vladimir Putin raised the proposed transaction when he met Witkoff and Kushner at the Kremlin, on September 5, according to people familiar with the meeting. A group led by US investor Todd Boehly has emerged as the leading bidder, alongside Middle Eastern investors and the US government.

Russia’s Foreign Ministry said Moscow will continue large-scale retaliatory strikes against military targets in Ukraine, in response to what it calls Kiev’s terror against Russians, according to Sputnik. The ministry reiterated its warning to foreign nationals, including diplomatic mission staff, against staying in Ukraine or travelling to its territory.

Russia’s Defense Ministry said its forces took control of the settlement of Novaya Kazachya in northern Kharkov region, according to Sputnik. The village lies a few kilometers from Russia’s Belgorod region and close to Kazachya Lopan, a road and rail hub.

A strike on Saturday morning damaged the road surface and trolleybus overhead wires on the Northern Bridge in Kiev and blocked traffic, according to the BBC. It was the second major bridge hit in the city in days: the Southern Bridge was targeted several times by Russian drones on Thursday and Friday, the BBC also reported. Russia's Defense Ministry said that overnight drone strikes hit the Severny road bridge over the Dnieper, used to move troops and deliver military cargo, according to TASS.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced on 1 October the first combat use of the FP-7 tactical ballistic missile, of Ukrainian manufacture. The FP-7 was developed by Ukrainian company Fire Point.

After Russian drone strikes, the Southern Bridge over the Dnipro was completely closed to traffic in both directions, according to Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko; the Paton Bridge was open one way only, and there were no reports that it had been hit. The drones struck the support structures of the Southern Bridge on Thursday, according to Reuters, in a text republished by AOL. A separate strike on a 25-storey residential building killed one person and wounded at least two.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has “very good ideas” for a settlement in Ukraine and raises the issue at “every meeting”, according to The Hindu, in remarks made on Thursday at the annual meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club, according to TASS cited by the paper.

Russian drones hit a major bridge in Kyiv on Thursday for the first time since the start of the conflict with Ukraine, according to Agence France-Presse (AFP). The Southern Bridge in central Kyiv was again hit by a Russian drone on Oct. 1 and into the early hours of Oct. 2, with damage reported, according to the Kyiv Independent.

South Korea’s President Lee Jae Myung threatened to take unspecified further action if Ukraine does not issue a public apology for revealing that two North Korean prisoners of war had been sent to the South, according to the BBC. The South Korean president expressed anger at Ukraine over comments by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in a speech at the UN that appeared to reveal a secret deal, according to Al Jazeera. Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha described the situation as a “diplomatic misunderstanding” and said Kyiv was working to resolve it, according to the BBC.

The European Union turned down Kyiv’s request for an additional 27 billion euros, including by speeding up payments as part of the 90-billion-euro loan, according to TASS, citing Bloomberg and European sources. The EU demanded continued reforms tied to the phased release of the first 45-billion-euro tranche, due later this year, with no early payment.

Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, said the country had used its FP-7 tactical ballistic missile in combat for the first time, according to Reuters, in a text republished by The Straits Times. In a Telegram message, Zelensky wrote that it was the missile’s “first combat use”. He did not say where the missile had been used or against what target.

The Trump administration has stripped tens of millions of dollars in US military assistance from European and Middle Eastern countries and will give those funds instead to conservative-leaning governments in Latin America, three US officials told The Washington Post. The diverted funds include tens of millions of dollars Congress approved for countries impacted by the war in Ukraine.

Russian President Vladimir Putin ruled out a ceasefire on long-range strikes with Ukraine, as Moscow steps up its campaign of aerial attacks on Kyiv, Al Jazeera reported. Putin said Ukraine had “partially achieved its objectives” with those strikes and that attacks on Russian oil refineries had cost the country 1 percent of its gross domestic product (GDP). He added that Russia would prefer to end the conflict through talks and wanted Ukraine to be a neutral country after the end of hostilities.

Russia plans to spend 17.1 trillion roubles ($202.58 billion) on defence in 2027, around 27% more than the 13.5 trillion roubles originally budgeted and the highest figure since the start of the war in Ukraine, in 2022, according to Reuters. The government raised its estimate for its 2026 budget deficit to 3.2% of gross domestic product (GDP), from 1.6% previously, the agency reported. The explanatory note for the 2027–2029 budget draft projects the 2026 federal deficit at 3.2% of GDP, or 7.335 trillion roubles, according to TASS.

A Russian drone hit a school in Kyiv on Thursday while children and staff were hiding in shelters, and there were no immediate reports of casualties, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said. Two other Russian drones hit an important bridge connecting eastern and western Kyiv, forcing the suspension of metro services and ground public transport. Ukraine’s nuclear safety watchdog said a Russian drone hit the grounds of a nuclear research facility in Kyiv on Wednesday, causing a fire but leaving the facility’s test reactor undamaged. The United Kingdom announced a new package of 31 sanctions on Russia, aimed at stemming funding to the “Kremlin war chest, propagandists and torturers”.

Russia launched the heaviest combined attack on Ukraine's energy sites in months, hitting power facilities and infrastructure around Kyiv and other regions, according to France24. Seven people were killed in the strikes, according to Ukrainian officials. Ukraine's state power grid operator Ukrenergo said it had imposed emergency power cuts in Kyiv and three surrounding regions.

Russian forces took more than 50 settlements in September, according to TASS calculations. In the breakdown by battlegroup published by the agency, Battlegroup North took 30 settlements, Center nine, South four, West one and East six.

Papal envoy Cardinal Matteo Zuppi discussed humanitarian issues in the Ukraine war in talks with Russian officials and visited Ukrainian prisoners of war, Russia's Foreign Ministry said, according to Reuters, in a text republished by KFGO. Zuppi met Kremlin foreign policy aide Yuri Ushakov and addressed prospects for a settlement, prisoner exchanges and displaced children. This was his third visit to Moscow since 2023, and he told TASS his primary mission is to help find solutions to humanitarian issues.

Ukrainian Prime Minister Serhiy Koretskyi said Russia launched the largest attack on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure since the spring, primarily targeting Kyiv and the surrounding region, according to the BBC. At least six people were killed and 33 injured in the overnight attacks across the country, including a child in the Kyiv region, according to local authorities cited by the BBC. DTEK, a major private Ukrainian energy company, said crews had restored electricity to about 8,000 households after the attacks, according to Al Jazeera. Russia’s Defence Ministry said its forces had struck power infrastructure in the Kyiv region, according to Al Jazeera.

Russian airstrikes killed a child and injured five people in Kyiv and the surrounding region early on Wednesday, according to officials cited by Reuters. Mayor Vitali Klitschko said fires hit houses, a store and a warehouse in the capital, leaving two people injured. Ballistic missiles struck Kyiv overnight and disrupted electricity in parts of the city, according to the Kyiv Independent.

The Zaporizhstal steelworks, which employs 8,500 people, shut down indefinitely after four waves of Russian attacks — two in August and two in September, according to the BBC. Russia fired 17 missiles at the plant, said Oleksandr Myronenko, chief operating officer of Metinvest, the steelworks owner; eight workers were killed and 31 were wounded.

Russia’s Ministry of Defence said a dry cargo ship carrying military equipment for Ukraine’s armed forces was hit this afternoon by a drone strike in the northwestern part of the Black Sea, according to Sputnik Globe. The ministry added that it continues striking port infrastructure and vessels used to support Ukrainian troops.

Ukraine’s air force said Russia fired ballistic missiles and dozens of jet-powered drones at Kyiv on Tuesday, September 29, 2026, according to The Associated Press (AP), in a text republished by The Hindu. Ukrainian authorities said the barrage hit apartment buildings, houses and public transportation in Kyiv, wounding one person, according to AP, in a text published by U.S. News & World Report. Russia’s Defence Ministry said its forces hit data processing centres in Kyiv that Moscow says are used by the Ukrainian military.

Russia hit port facilities in overnight strikes on the Odesa region, according to the Guardian. Russia’s Defense Ministry claimed it struck the Bimobail and Parkovy data processing centres in Kiev — which handled data for the Ukrainian army, according to Sputnik Globe. Moscow also listed two dry cargo vessels among the night’s targets — one in port, one at sea, according to the same source.

Pope Leo XIV urged Russia and Ukraine to sit at the negotiating table to resolve the conflict, according to TASS. According to the agency, the pope said the Church has a responsibility to continually invite leaders, such as those of Russia and Ukraine, to dialogue. Reuters reported that the appeal was made on Monday and that the pontiff urged the two countries to discuss how to end their four-year war.

Waves of jet-powered Russian drones hit central Kyiv, striking the National Academy of Sciences and a large, state-of-the-art medical center, according to The Washington Post. The newspaper describes the attacks as part of a campaign that is turning the Ukrainian capital into a daytime war zone.

Russia’s uninterrupted bombardment killed at least seven people and wounded more than 80 in Ukraine on Monday, according to The Associated Press. On Sunday, September 27, Russia hit the headquarters of Kyivstar, the country’s largest mobile provider, causing no casualties, and Russia’s Defence Ministry said it struck a data center belonging to Vodafone Ukraine, the country’s second-largest cell network operator, according to Reuters. In Kyiv, the National Academy of Sciences building was hit in the Shevchenkivskyi district and a woman died, according to the city military administration.

South Korea’s Vice Foreign Minister Park Yoon-joo lodged a formal complaint with Ukraine’s acting ambassador, Andrii Vieshkin, and expressed “strong regret” that President Volodymyr Zelensky revealed the transfer of two captured North Korean soldiers, which Seoul says was supposed to be a secret, according to the BBC. Seoul summoned the diplomat after Zelensky announced last week that his government had transferred the two soldiers to Seoul, according to the BBC.

Russian strikes killed three people in Kyiv, including one in an attack on a building housing the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. A jet-powered drone strike hit the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in the capital, killing one person and wounding four, according to local authorities. The State Language Protection Commissioner said two academicians were killed in the strike on the Academy building, with contact lost with others. President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukraine struck two defence plants in the Tula and Voronezh regions, as well as oil facilities in the Krasnodar region, in a post on X.

South Korea demanded an official explanation and apology from Ukraine for revealing the transfer of the two North Korean prisoners, expressing “strong regret” over the unilateral disclosure, according to Al Jazeera. Volodymyr Zelenskyy revealed at the UN General Assembly that Kyiv transferred the two prisoners, captured in Russia's Kursk region in January 2025.

US President Donald Trump said Volodymyr Zelensky stated that Kyiv may ease strikes on Russian oil refineries, according to TASS. In an interview, Zelensky said he would only stop the strikes if a ceasefire were established with Moscow and declared that “our lives are more important than the price of energy” while defending his strikes against Russian oil refineries, according to Yahoo News.

Russian strikes killed eight people across Ukraine on Sunday, according to France24, with AFP, a day after Moscow vowed to pursue the war. Three people, including a 16-year-old girl, were killed in a strike on a children’s centre in the northern city of Sumy, according to Interior Minister Ivan Vyhivskyi. France24 also reports that three people were killed in night-time strikes on the southern Zaporizhzhia region and a Russian drone strike killed one man in Kyiv, according to President Volodymyr Zelensky. Zelensky said Russia launched more than 2,200 attack drones, around 1,650 aerial bombs and 38 missiles over the past week.

South Korea’s presidential office demanded an official explanation and apology from Ukraine for disclosing the transfer of two North Korean prisoners of war to South Korea, according to the Hindustan Times, in a text from the Reuters feed. Seoul says Ukraine repeatedly asked for secrecy through various channels about the operation. The presidential office said Ukraine’s denial that any confidentiality agreement existed was false and had damaged trust between the two governments, according to Nikkei Asia, citing Reuters.

Strikes exchanged between Russia and Ukraine overnight and on Sunday killed at least six people in Ukraine and one in Russia, according to officials. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia struck twice at a data centre in Kyiv on Sunday morning, wounding two children and an adult. On the sidelines of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov brushed off on Saturday what is believed to have been the first face-to-face meeting with his German counterpart since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

Russia hit the headquarters of Kyivstar, Ukraine's largest mobile service provider, on Sunday; the company told Interfax Ukraine that its head office in Kyiv had been hit, but there were no casualties, according to Reuters. Russia's Defense Ministry said its forces continued strikes on communication and logistics centers, as well as maritime vessels used in support of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, according to Sputnik Globe. The ministry also said a logistics center of the Novaya Pochta company in Odessa, which was used to store military cargo, was struck.

The Russian Ministry of Defence said the Armed Forces carried out overnight drone strikes against logistics centers, port and transport infrastructure, communications centers and vessels operating on behalf of the Ukrainian military, according to TASS. The ministry said it hit the Vodafone data center in Kiev, one of the largest providers of mobile communications and high-speed internet to the Ukrainian military, including the transmission of intelligence data, and that it hit in the port of Kiliya the headquarters of the Vostok naval base, a State Border Guard Service outpost, four warehouses with military equipment and port infrastructure facilities. According to Sputnik, the ministry also said a dry cargo vessel was hit while transiting at sea, having been delivering military equipment and dual-use cargo to the port of Odessa.

Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, Pope Leo XIV’s special envoy for Ukraine and president of the Italian Episcopal Conference, told TASS he is travelling to Moscow on Sunday. According to him, the mission is to support the parties’ efforts on children evacuated from combat zones, prisoner exchanges and civilian problems arising from the conflict.

Russian attacks killed four people across Ukraine on Saturday, September 26, officials said, according to The Hindu (PTI). A Ukrainian drone attack on the Krasnodar region killed three people and wounded two, local officials said.

The meeting between the German and Russian foreign ministers on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly is believed to be the first of its kind since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, according to PBS. German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul called on Russia to abandon its “dangerous path of escalation” with Germany, Europe and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in the talks with Sergei Lavrov. After the meeting, Lavrov said that “nothing new came from” the conversation.

The Donetsk regional government department for recording Ukraine’s war crimes said Ukrainian armed forces carried out 31 attacks on settlements in the Donetsk People’s Republic over the past 24 hours, wounding one civilian, according to TASS. Three residential buildings, passenger cars, specialised machinery and three civilian infrastructure facilities sustained damage, the statement said.

The ArcelorMittal Krivoy Rog, Ukraine’s largest steel producer, halted production after repeated Russian attacks, the company announced on Friday, according to RT. The mill was struck four times over five weeks, killing five workers, according to SBS, citing Reuters, and the company said safe and sustainable operations were no longer possible. With Zaporozhstal and Kamet Steel halted, the three plants that accounted for about 90% of Ukraine’s steel output are shut down, according to the Financial Times.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Russia may agree to a transfer of S-400 missile systems from Turkey to a third friendly country, but that no such requests have been made so far, according to the Russian state news agency TASS. He also said Moscow believes the Anchorage summit yielded an agreement and is still ready to go back to it.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused European countries of making every effort to hamper a peace settlement and disrupt the negotiations sought by Donald Trump’s administration, in a speech at the UN General Assembly. Russia, together with other responsible states, he said, stands ready to contribute to stabilizing Hormuz and the Gulf, which he called a strategically important region.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul met on the sidelines of the 81st United Nations General Assembly, the first meeting between the two countries’ top diplomats since the start of the war in Ukraine, according to Anadolu Agency. The meeting took place at Germany’s request, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.

The Russian Ministry of Defense said its troops had taken control of Marino, in Sumy province, and Petrovavlovka and Lozovaya in the Kharkiv region. The same ministry said the Ukrainian Army had suffered 245 casualties in the last 24 hours in the sector where the Northern group of Russian forces operates, according to Mehr News.

Vladimir Putin said Russia is not preparing for any kind of hostilities with Europe and that Moscow has no real motive to escalate tensions with European countries, according to the Hindustan Times. According to him, proposals to resume negotiations with Ukraine are on the table, but the steps to take in response to the Ukrainian attacks will be given careful thought.

Ukraine’s General Staff said units of the Defense Forces struck the Ilsky oil refinery, in the Ilsky district of Krasnodar Krai, in Russia, on the night of September 26, and that a fire broke out at the facility. Krasnodar Krai Governor Veniamin Kondratiev confirmed that drones attacked the Seversky district, where the refinery is located, and said there were fatalities and one person seriously injured. The General Staff described the refinery as a facility that fuels Moscow’s war effort in Ukraine.

Russian air defenses shot down nine drones flying toward Moscow, according to the city’s mayor, Sergey Sobyanin. The total number of drones downed approaching Moscow since the start of the day reached 20, according to TASS.

Russia's Defense Ministry said the country's air defenses intercepted and destroyed 645 Ukrainian fixed-wing drones overnight, over Russian regions and the waters of the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov.

Russia’s Defense Ministry said its forces hit the Novaya Pochta logistics center in the Odessa Region, where military cargo for the Ukrainian army was stored, and the Cosmonova data center in Kiev, which provided mobile internet and supported the Starlink satellite communication system for the Ukrainian forces. Operator Cosmonova confirmed that the data center’s premises were damaged in the attack, with no employees injured and data preserved through geographic redundancy.

Rodion Miroshnik, Ambassador-at-Large of the Russian Foreign Ministry, told TASS that Europe’s reaction to corruption scandals in Ukraine clearly shows that Europeans themselves are involved in them. According to him, even the heads of European states are involved in these corruption schemes. The accusation was not confirmed by another source.

Denis Pushilin, head of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), said that the United States and Europe support terrorism at the highest level and that Kyiv’s militants can already assemble explosive-laden drones from parts sold in children’s toy stores, according to Russia’s state news agency TASS. The accusation comes from one of the parties to the conflict and has not been confirmed by an independent source.

The governor of the Russian region of Krasnodar, Veniamin Kondratyev, said the Seversky District was attacked by a drone, with fatalities and one seriously injured person hospitalized, according to the Russian state agency TASS. According to him, debris damaged a residential building and fires broke out on the premises of two enterprises.

The $400 million package that the United States Congress approved in late 2025 for military aid to Ukraine does not include Patriot air defense system missiles, according to RBC-Ukraine, citing Reuters. Donald Trump’s administration took on the legal obligation to spend the full amount before September 30; as of the start of this week, $307 million had already been contracted and the remaining $93 million will be formalized by the deadline. The package includes offensive weapons, equipment and spare parts for armored vehicles.

Bloomberg reported, in a text republished by RT, that U.S. President Donald Trump suggested that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky travel to Moscow for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, during a meeting on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). According to people familiar with the conversation cited by Bloomberg, Zelensky rejected the idea, which reportedly upset Trump. The Ukrainian Presidential Office told Ukrainska Pravda the report was “false information”.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia has widened its attacks to target data centres and internet providers, according to BBC News. On Friday, September 25, 2026, a Russian drone hit a business centre in Kyiv, killing four people and damaging a data centre, the same report said. Russia’s defence ministry confirmed it had hit the Datagroup site, which it said was being used by Ukrainian military intelligence.

Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, tied a resumption of talks with Ukraine to Russia’s electoral calendar: he said negotiations would hardly be possible before the State Duma elections, but that after them Moscow would be ready to resume them, Ukrainska Pravda reported, citing a briefing carried by the Russian state news agency TASS. Putin also said that on the night of 19–20 September more than 1,600 drones entered the Moscow zone and that polling stations were hit — a claim coming from the Kremlin itself.

The Trump administration has made legally binding commitments to spend almost the entire $400 million package Congress approved for military aid to Ukraine, preventing the money from expiring on September 30, according to U.S. News. By early this week, $307 million of the $400 million under the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative (USAI) had been obligated, and the remaining $93 million is to be locked in before the end of the fiscal year.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday, 25 September 2026, that Ukraine so far has no “counter-action” or “antidote” against Russia’s Geran drones, in remarks carried by TASS. Putin also said provocations by Kyiv will not bring the result they seek and only worsen Ukraine’s position, according to TASS, and questioned the purpose of Ukrainian strikes on warehouses of marketplaces such as Wildberries and Ozon, which he described as civilian facilities.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Ukrainian attacks on Russian and foreign-flagged merchant vessels and tankers — including ships linked to the United States and Turkish merchant vessels hit by drones — prompted Russia’s retaliatory actions, according to the Russian state news agency TASS. Peskov also said Moscow is in no hurry to name new ambassadors to the United Kingdom and France, because normal bilateral relations with both countries are missing, according to TASS.

Russia’s Defense Ministry said it struck the DataGroup data center in Kyiv on Friday, September 25, 2026, claiming the facility handled the processing and transmission of intelligence data for Ukraine’s armed forces, according to Sputnik Globe. Operator Datagroup confirmed that its data center in Kyiv was damaged in an attack on Friday afternoon, with no injuries and services running from backup sites, according to Interfax-Ukraine. The company said customer data was preserved and that all services continued to operate from redundancy sites, according to Interfax-Ukraine.

Ukrainian drones struck markets in the Nikitovsky and Tsentralno-Gorodskoy districts of Gorlovka, in eastern Ukraine, according to mayor Ivan Prikhodko, cited by TASS. Emergency services reported one civilian killed and another injured in the strike on the market in the Nikitovsky district, TASS reports.

European Union (EU) member states approved the terms to release €6.6 billion from the European Peace Facility, the fund the bloc uses to finance military aid to countries outside it, in support of Ukraine, according to Kaja Kallas, the bloc’s top diplomat, as cited by the Russian state news agency TASS. Of the total, €900 million go to the EU Military Assistance Mission for Ukraine, €1 billion finances new joint procurements and €4.7 billion are set aside to compensate participating countries, according to TASS. The money refunds governments for military aid already delivered, Reuters reports, in a text carried by Cyprus Mail.

Russia’s Defense Ministry claims to have encircled Dobropolye, a Ukrainian defensive hub in the Donbas, with units of its Center group advancing toward Aleksandrovka, according to a report by Europe Sun. Moscow argues that holding the town allows it to cut the lateral supply route to Ukraine’s remaining strongholds in the region, in an analysis by Sputnik Globe.

Russian presidential envoy Kirill Dmitriev is expected to meet U.S. officials in New York to discuss Washington’s latest proposals for de-escalating the war against Ukraine, the Kyiv Post reports. In Moscow, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the possibility of a trilateral meeting was discussed in a phone call between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, with no details settled, according to TASS.

Even with the final approval that Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said he received from Donald Trump to produce Patriot missiles under licence, building industrial capacity would take more than a year and would not cover the acute interceptor shortage Ukraine faces now, according to France 24.

A Russian drone struck a 16-storey residential building in Kyiv’s central Pechersk district, killing a 14-year-old boy and injuring at least seven people, RTE reported. In the same assault, Russia launched nearly 300 drones on the night of September 25, many of them jet-powered; a 25-storey building in the capital was hit at the level of the fourth floor, and one person died in Odesa, according to RBC-Ukraine.

The Russian-installed governor of the Zaporozhie region, Yevgeny Balitsky, said three volunteers from the Omsk region were killed and two were wounded in an attack on a vehicle carrying humanitarian aid near the village of Novobogdanovka, in the Melitopol district, according to TASS, which described the episode as a “cynical terrorist act.” There is no independent confirmation of the attack.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday, September 25, 2026, that there are no specific details yet regarding the organization of a trilateral meeting on Ukraine, Sputnik Globe reports. The United States has proposed technical-level trilateral talks between Ukraine, the United States and Russia, with the United Arab Emirates suggested as the venue, and Kyiv is waiting for Washington to set a date, according to the Kyiv Post.

The Novoshakhtinsk refinery in the Rostov region temporarily suspended operations after a drone attack, the Straits Times reports, citing governor Yuri Slyusar. Russian air defenses destroyed about 50 drones over the region overnight, and the export-oriented refinery — with annual capacity of 5 million metric tons — halted activity, according to the same Straits Times report.

Russia's Defense Ministry said it intercepted 592 Ukrainian drones between the evening of September 24 and the morning of September 25, Moscow time, told TASS. One man was killed by drone shrapnel in the Perm region and 8 people were wounded in Ulyanovsk, including teenagers aged 14 and 17, according to regional governors. Overnight, drones struck industrial sites in Rostov — including the Novoshakhtinsk refinery — Perm, Ulyanovsk and Voronezh, according to Ukrinform.

Finnish President Alexander Stubb appealed to American businessman Elon Musk to expand Starlink coverage and let Ukraine strike ballistic-missile launchers inside Russia, according to TASS. Musk said enabling that use requires a White House decision, and Trump gave no clear answer to Zelensky's requests, according to the Russian agency.

Providers in Kyiv reported damage to data centers in the Russian attack of September 23, leaving about 100,000 households with internet problems in the capital and surroundings, according to the Kyiv Independent. An expert heard by TASS said the strikes on data centers will “disrupt troop control” by Ukrainian forces, which relies on the internet, according to TASS.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said U.S. President Donald Trump gave “final approval” for Ukraine to produce Patriot missiles under license, according to G1. Trump had offered the license in July at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) summit in Ankara, then reversed course on July 31, saying “we have not agreed to that,” according to ABC News.

Chinese journalist Li Xiang said the killing of women, children and civilians is a “red line” when commenting on the attack on the Starobelsk Pedagogical College, he told TASS. According to the Russian account — still without independent confirmation — Ukrainian drones struck the college’s academic building and dormitory on the night of May 22, 2026, killing 21 people, with 86 children present, according to TASS.

Ukraine killed two people in overnight drone attacks on Russia and struck an oil refinery and a passenger train, Russian officials said, according to Devdiscourse. In the Perm region, home to a major refinery, Governor Dmitry Makhonin said one man died during a massive drone attack, according to Devdiscourse.

Russia’s Defence Ministry said it hit enterprises of the military-industrial complex, logistics centres and naval vessels linked to Ukrainian forces on the night of September 25, Izvestia reports, citing the ministry. The alleged targets include a drone assembly site in Borispol, logistics centres in Odessa and Nerubayskoye, and the port of Reni.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov handed United Nations (UN) Secretary-General António Guterres a Russian report on the alleged falsification of the events in Bucha, on the sidelines of the General Assembly, and asked the UN Secretariat to examine the case in detail, according to the Russian state news agency TASS, which cited the Russian foreign ministry. According to TASS, the report attributes the episode to Ukraine and its North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) sponsors. The UN has not confirmed the handover of the document, and the accusation comes from the Russian side.

One man was killed and another wounded in Russia’s Belgorod Region, on the border with Ukraine, after a Ukrainian drone hit a truck, according to the regional crisis response centre cited by TASS. In the Volga region of Ulyanovsk, the agency reported a massive drone attack that wounded at least seven adults and one child. Both tolls come from Russian official sources and have no independent confirmation.

Kirill Dmitriev, special envoy of the Russian president and chief executive of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), met in New York with US President Donald Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, and with Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law, according to TASS, which attributed the report to CNN sources; the three discussed US-Russia cooperation and a peaceful resolution to the war in Ukraine, the Russian agency reports; TASS adds that Witkoff and Kushner visited Moscow on September 5, 2026, where President Vladimir Putin received them, and met Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, in Kyiv the following day.

A massive drone attack is under way in the Russian city of Ulyanovsk, in the Volga region, on Friday, September 25, 2026, with damage to industrial and civilian infrastructure and casualties, according to regional governor Alexey Russkikh, in a message on the Max messenger cited by TASS; “air defenses and our mobile fire groups continue to repel a massive drone attack on the city of Ulyanovsk,” the governor said, adding that the casualties are receiving medical assistance; according to monitoring channels cited by the Kyiv Independent, the Iskra plant, which makes components for communications and radio technology, was struck in the city.

Marine Le Pen said she does not want France to go to war with any nuclear power, recalling that Russia is a nuclear power, according to TASS; in an interview, she stated that under her presidency France would not contribute financial aid to Ukraine.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov meet in New York on Wednesday, September 23, 2026, on the sidelines of the 81st session of the UN General Assembly, according to the State Department, cited by the Kyiv Independent and the Ukrainian news agency UNN. The meeting was scheduled for 9 a.m. (UTC-4) and comes a day after President Donald Trump’s talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who said he was ready for an energy ceasefire if Russia accepts the same terms. Lavrov addresses the Assembly on Saturday, September 26, and Russia’s Foreign Ministry said the agenda includes Moscow–Washington relations and cooperation between the two countries at the UN.

The UN Human Rights Office documented 1,004 cases of sexual violence against civilians and prisoners of war in Ukraine between 24 February 2022, when Russia launched its full-scale invasion, and the end of July 2026, according to the report the office published on 18 September 2026 and G1’s account. Of the total, 89 percent of the cases were attributed to Russian authorities, including members of the armed forces, the prison service and the national security service, and 11 percent to Ukrainian authorities. Most of the victims were men, particularly in places of detention, and the documented violations include gang rape, genital mutilation, electric shocks and beatings to the genitals and other degrading acts of a sexual nature. The youngest rape survivor was four years old and the oldest 82; both were perpetrated by Russian authorities. Many of the men reported electric shocks to the genitals with a Soviet-era military field telephone known as a “tapik”, a method used in 155 cases, or 27 percent of the total, against Ukrainian prisoners of war and retained medical personnel. Almost half of the violations attributed to Ukrainian authorities against Russian or third-country prisoners of war consisted of threats of sexual violence. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, said Russia, “given the high prevalence of cases attributed to its forces”, must take concrete steps to protect civilians and prisoners of war from all forms of torture, and called on both countries to investigate all credible claims. Investigators interviewed about 10 percent of the prisoners released by both sides and never had access to Russian-controlled territory, Danielle Bell, head of the UN human rights monitoring mission in Ukraine, told G1.

French President Emmanuel Macron used his final address to the United Nations General Assembly as head of state to urge countries to recommit to international law and the UN system against what he called a resurgence of the “law of the jungle.” According to Agence France-Presse (AFP) and The Hindu, he called for a “double moratorium” halting strikes on civilian and energy targets in the war between Russia and Ukraine: “We must protect the civilian population, and this is why we’d like to express our support for a double moratorium, a moratorium on strikes on energy and civilian infrastructure.” On Gaza, he said that “some claim that peace has been achieved, but this has not opened up humanitarian deliveries” — “a spectacle that shames us all,” as he put it. Macron also proposed that countries pool investment capacity to build an open-source frontier artificial intelligence (AI) model: “I don’t want anyone to become the vassal of one of the great powers,” he said.

Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, said on Tuesday, 22 September 2026, on the sidelines of the 81st United Nations General Assembly in New York that Ukraine is ready for “any kind of format” of energy ceasefire with Russia as long as Moscow stops attacking Ukraine’s energy system. He said he does not know Russia’s position and hoped “the American side will find a way” to bring Moscow to any kind of negotiations, according to France 24, which carried the remarks with Agence France-Presse (AFP). Zelensky spoke after a 40-minute meeting with US President Donald Trump, which he described as “positive and productive” and about which he wrote on X that “both the US and Ukraine want to see this senseless Russian war ended before winter”, according to Arab News. In his account to reporters, he said a unilateral halt to Ukrainian strikes on Russian refineries was not discussed, and that he is willing to take part in a trilateral meeting with Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. Trump had told reporters, before the meeting, that he and Zelensky would discuss Ukrainian attacks on refineries in Russia: “It is a serious hit on the Russians. It’s also a serious hit on the price of diesel,” he said, according to Reuters, in a dispatch carried by The Sacramento Bee. The previous week, the US president had said Russia and Ukraine had agreed not to strike each other’s energy infrastructure; no deal was confirmed and both sides kept up attacks in the following days, as reported by NBC News.

French president Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday, 22 September 2026, in his final address to the United Nations (UN) General Assembly that countries must resist a “return to the law of the jungle” in international relations, at a moment when “the rhetoric of defeat” is “giving way to abuse of power by empires”. “The question put to us, in very simple terms, is whether we want to live in this state of nature, with a kind of return to the law of the jungle, or in a civilised international society,” he said, according to France 24, which carried the speech with AFP, and DW. On Gaza, Macron hammered the rostrum and said “the scenes, the spectacle, it is shameful. Shame on all of us”: “What is our credibility worth if we remain inactive on Gaza? Some claim that peace has been achieved, but this has not opened up humanitarian deliveries.” He said respect for the “legitimate rights” of the Palestinian people is a “prerequisite for security” for Palestinians and for Israel, and that “all those who claim that Israel’s security requires the violation of the sovereignty of all of its neighboring states are making a very fateful error”. On Ukraine, he proposed a “double moratorium”: an end to strikes by both sides on energy and civilian infrastructure, and a matching commitment in the Black Sea to allow “grain shipments” to flow. “Winter is coming,” he said. Turning to artificial intelligence (AI), he called on countries to pool resources to build an “open-source frontier model” independent of “one of the great powers”: “I don’t want anyone to become the vassal of one of the great powers,” he said, naming India, Brazil, Singapore, African nations and the Gulf states as possible partners.

Donald Trump said on Tuesday, 22 September 2026, in his address to the 81st United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) that Washington is working “very closely” with the leaders of Russia and Ukraine and that a deal to end the war will come “more quickly than people understand”. The Kyiv Post reported that he said he would use, if necessary, the tariff powers granted by the law he signed the previous week — a measure that allows tariffs of up to 100% on buyers of Russian energy. Asked by reporters before the speech what message he had for Vladimir Putin, Trump said: “Settle the war.” CNBC reported that Trump wrote on Truth Social on Monday, 21 September, that “a large number” of Russian diesel refineries had been “blown up”, that Russia has “lost control” of its diesel oil industry because of the war, and that the conflict must end, with “25,000 people, mostly soldiers, killed each month”. The average US retail price of a gallon of diesel rose above US$6.50 for the first time, according to AAA figures cited by CNBC, as Ukrainian strikes on Russian refineries and the war with Iran squeeze global supplies. At the bilateral meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on the sidelines of the Assembly, Trump said the two were discussing “figuring out a solution” and that “they’re going to reach a deal”, without saying what it would be; The Jerusalem Post, citing Reuters, reported that he said Putin is willing to meet to end the war, and that the two leaders are expected to discuss the deployment of Patriot missiles in Ukraine.

The European Union (EU) sealed on Tuesday, 22 September 2026, the deal renewing sanctions on nearly 3,000 people and companies accused of supporting Russia’s war in Ukraine for three years and removing billionaires Alisher Usmanov and Mikhail Fridman from the list, after Latvia relented and opted for a constructive abstention, according to Euronews and The Guardian. Ireland’s presidency of the Council of the EU confirmed the “difficult compromise” hours before the midnight deadline: the rollover moves from six months to 36 months, until 22 September 2029. According to diplomats cited by Euronews, France tied Usmanov’s delisting to the release of two French nationals held in Azerbaijan, and Slovakia vetoed keeping Fridman on the list; The Guardian reports that Luxembourg had asked for the same treatment for Fridman, who is seeking $16 billion from the grand duchy over the freezing of his assets. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called the decision unacceptable and publicly thanked Latvia for its resistance.

The Dnipro steelmaker Interpipe Steel halted production after an overnight Russian strike killed four of its employees, according to the Kyiv Independent and TASS. The Ukrainian company said production equipment and infrastructure were damaged and that it is assessing how long the shutdown will last. Russia's Defense Ministry said the same day it carried out a mass strike on metallurgical and chemical plants and on fuel and energy facilities, including the plant. Interpipe employs around 9,500 people and exports to more than 50 countries, and its products become fuselage, propulsion and wing components for long-range drones, according to TASS.

France signed a contract to deliver radars and interceptor missiles to Ukraine, French President Emmanuel Macron announced on Tuesday, September 22, 2026, after meeting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in New York, according to the Kyiv Post and United24 Media. Macron did not disclose the number or type of radars and interceptors, nor a delivery timeline. The announcement came the same day Russia hit industrial sites in Dnipro, Kryvyi Rih and Pavlohrad and Zelensky pressed for a new winter support package alongside France. Macron said he discussed the initiative with US President Donald Trump and that the two will work toward a moratorium on strikes against energy and civilian infrastructure, a proposal Ukraine conditions on Russian reciprocity.

Ambassadors from the European Union’s 27 member states again failed to reach a deal on Tuesday, 22 September 2026, to renew sanctions on nearly 3,000 people and entities tied to Russia’s war in Ukraine, which are due to expire at midnight on Tuesday. Latvia rejected the compromise that would remove billionaires Alisher Usmanov and Mikhail Fridman from the list in exchange for a 36-month renewal of the remaining listings, according to Reuters and The Guardian. France backs Usmanov’s removal, diplomats say, to unlock the release of French nationals held in Azerbaijan. Without unanimity by midnight, roughly 3,000 listings — asset freezes and travel bans — fall at once.

The number of people missing since the start of the conflict in Ukraine has reached 275,000, according to the president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Mirjana Spoljaric Egger, in an interview with the Russian newspaper Vedomosti published on Tuesday, 22 September 2026 and cited by TASS. She said the ICRC records an average of 10,000 new search requests a month and has been increasing the number of answers given to families. The figure comes from the ICRC itself, the organisation that mediates cases between the parties, and is not a government estimate.

British Prime Minister Andy Burnham makes his UN General Assembly debut on Tuesday, September 22, 2026, and holds his first meeting with Donald Trump on the sidelines of the gathering, with Ukraine, the risks and opportunities of artificial intelligence (AI) and the cost of the conflict in the Middle East on the agenda, according to The Associated Press. Burnham, in office since July, said he will seek “common ground” with Trump and that the two had “found a connection” in two phone calls; in 2017, as mayor of Greater Manchester, he said the US president would not be welcome in the city, and in 2019 he said he would refuse to meet Trump. He is expected to urge Trump to send interceptor missiles to bolster Ukraine’s air defences before another winter of war, and the British government wants to discuss how to restore the free passage of ships through the Strait of Hormuz, blockaded since the start of the US-Israeli war with Iran in February 2026, according to AP. The closure of the route has pushed oil prices up and complicates the British economy.

Russia’s Defence Ministry said on Tuesday, 22 September 2026, that units of its “Centre” group of forces completed the encirclement of Ukraine’s main defence centre in Dobropillya, in the Donbas, claiming that two Ukrainian National Guard brigades — the 4th and the 15th — and the 425th Assault Regiment “Skala” were surrounded, in the ministry’s daily briefing carried by Sputnik. Ukraine’s General Staff did not confirm the encirclement: in the update released on Tuesday covering 21 September it recorded 248 combat clashes along the front, the highest number in the Pokrovsk sector, and listed Russian assaults in the Dobropillya, Novyi Donbas, Myrne and Bilytske directions. The Institute for the Study of War (ISW), a US-based analysis centre, assessed on 21 September that Russia is maintaining the highest tempo of attacks on the front there, averaging 32 a day since 1 August, without establishing footholds.

United Russia elected 49 deputies who took part in the war against Ukraine, the party’s general secretary, Vladimir Yakushev, said on Monday. He first said 86 veterans of the “special military operation” would be elected and later revised the figure to 49. The former combatants will hold about 11% of the 450 seats in the Duma, the lower house of Russia’s parliament, where Vladimir Putin’s party won 355 seats, its highest tally ever and above its 2016 record of 343. The Communist Party took 40 seats, the ultranationalist Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR) 25, and New People 20 — all of them support the military campaign in Ukraine. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said the figures point to “the highest level of consolidation” of Russian society around the head of state. Yabloko, the only registered party that opposed the war, was barred from the election by Russia’s Supreme Court, and the European Union called the vote a setback for democracy. The results come from a count with 95% of ballots processed, when United Russia had 57.83%, according to the election commission chief, Ella Pamfilova, up from 49.8% in 2021.

Moscow’s refinery, owned by Gazprom Neft, has halted crude oil processing after fires broke out at both of its primary crude distillation units following a Ukrainian drone attack on 20 September, according to three industry sources cited by Reuters. The sources said repairs and the restart of operations could take several weeks. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said on Sunday that an industrial facility on the refinery’s premises had been damaged in the attack. The AVT-6 unit has a capacity of 21,400 metric tons per day, 53% of the total, and EURO+, 18,800 tons per day, the remaining 47%. According to the sources, the refinery processed 11.6 million tons of crude in 2024, about 230,000 barrels per day, and produced 2.9 million tons of gasoline, 3.2 million tons of diesel and 1.3 million tons of bitumen. Gazprom Neft did not respond to Reuters’ request for comment.

Ukraine has 608 locomotives damaged since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022: 533 belonging to the state railway company Ukrzaliznytsia and 75 to private companies, according to the Minister for Reconstruction, Infrastructure and Transport, Mykola Kalashnyk. The country is negotiating a “railway coalition” agreed at the Carpathian Eight meeting in Bukovel, with Austria, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia and Czechia, and has secured USD 100 million in grant funding under the RELINC project to buy used locomotives on international markets, plus EUR 130 million from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) for energy resilience. Slovakia will transfer three electric locomotives.

Ukraine launched more than 1,600 drones at Russia in the early hours of Sunday, about 450 of them towards Moscow, on the last day of Russia’s parliamentary election, according to Russian officials in reports by Reuters and Times Now; Moscow’s mayor, Sergei Sobyanin, called it “the most massive” attack on the capital and said one of the drones shot down on approach hit the Kapotnya refinery, run by Gazprom Neft, as well as a residential building. Russia’s Defense Ministry says it downed 1,100 drones nationwide, including over Crimea and the Black Sea, and Moscow region governor Andrei Vorobyov said 249 were brought down over the region and that two people were killed. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed the operation hit an oil facility and a logistics site; Vnukovo airport suspended all operations and Sheremetyevo imposed “temporary restrictions”.