Russian Geran drone crashes in Moldova near homes and energy facility: Chisinau expels Russian diplomat
President Maia Sandu condemned the latest incursion as Russia’s war on Ukraine increasingly threatens neighboring Moldova.
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Denmark rushes 50,000 cannon rounds to Ukraine to help F-16s hunt Russia’s advanced jet drones
Ukrainian pilots are already using the 20-mm ammunition to intercept jet-powered attack drones, as Russia deploys faster targets that challenge Ukraine’s air defenses.
Ceasefire planned for occupied Oleshky as residents face starvation and blocked escape routes, White House announces
A truce announced by Melania Trump is due to take effect October 29, opening the way for humanitarian supplies and evacuations if Russia and Ukraine implement the agreement.
Finland gives Ukraine 10 diesel locomotives that keep trains running when Russian strikes cut the power
The engines come free from Finland’s state railway, part of a visit that also brought winter energy money and new defense, housing, and satellite deals for Kyiv.
Ukraine frees 270 from Russian captivity in “historic” prisoner swap, including 5 Olenivka survivors and American teacher Stephen Hubbard
The latest exchange returned 261 military personnel and nine civilians. Some had been held since 2018, while many others were captured during the defense of Mariupol in 2022.
45 seconds of voting in the Lviv Oblast Council sparked a new dispute with Poland: Warsaw says Kyiv promised the UPA year decision will not take effect
Poland is Ukraine’s main hub for Western aid, and every new fight over the two nations’ WWII past erodes the trust that role rests on.
Russia may stage sabotage in Eastern Europe, but wants Kyiv blamed, Ukraine’s Intelligence warns
The agency says Moscow aims to weaken European support for Kyiv by making Russian attacks appear to be the work of Ukraine’s military.
Ukraine wants partners’ Patriot interceptors now. Europe can hand them over only with US approval, Ukraine’s president says
Ukraine is contracting about 1,000 Patriot missiles that will take years to arrive, so it wants partners’ stocks today.
The money starts as bags of cash in a Moscow market and ends up clean in China, leaked files show
The firm, co-owned by the bank behind Russia’s defense industry, hides where the money starts before it reaches foreign banks.
Russia has kept the Red Cross away from Ukrainian POWs since 2024. Now about 1,500 captives it never confirmed as prisoners face prosecution
A captive soldier’s wife says that whenever families find a relative, Russia moves them to another prison and contact is lost again.
Russia keeps hitting Ukraine’s arms plants. Now private developers can dig them space underground—and sell or rent it to them
The state budget has paid to keep war-damaged arms plants running. The new model brings private money into the digging.
The Starlink hot potato: Musk points to Trump, Trump points to nobody, then credits Musk with the fix. The speed limit stays
Ukraine’s military Starlink terminals still lose connection above about 160 km/h, nine days after the limit took effect, and Kyiv has no official explanation of who imposed it.
Russia’s tax service runs on two key data centers. Drones went after one of them overnight, along with a chemical plant that supplies explosives makers
The data center in Gorodets stores state registers, including tax records, and opened in 2015 with Russia’s current prime minister on hand.
Russia’s Doppelgänger operation used fake Ukrainian channels to spread disinformation. Hacked files show who ran it
The campaign targeted Ukraine’s military and political leadership, including with a fake about war widows receiving a can of stewed meat as compensation.
Phones down, water off, a factory roof broken open: Russian-occupied Luhansk counts the damage after another night of drones
Ukrainian monitoring channels pointed to strikes on communications, and pro-Russian local channels filled in the rest of the morning’s picture.
Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1702: Ukraine says Poland paused military aid package over Lviv vote honoring WWII nationalists
On the ground, Ukrainian forces went more than 15 kilometers underground to capture over 30 Russian soldiers.
NATO’s weapons-buying agency opens dedicated door for Ukraine, non-member, letting it buy arms through its contracts and its firms bid for tenders
The agreement, signed by Defense Minister Yevhenii Khmara, gives Ukraine a single entry point into 45 weapons programs.
Zelenskyy names three postwar security guarantees for Ukraine. Even Russia needs one of them, he says
He names NATO membership, direct US guarantees, and a European Coalition of the Willing as the paths under discussion.
One year of Ukrainian arms exports, and industry has questions: how much army gained, where Berlin office is, who joins joint ventures
Ukraine promised to sell surplus weapons abroad 12 months ago. Its arms makers now ask why a fee of up to 30% still blocks the deals.
Trump cannot get Putin to halt strikes on Ukraine’s power grid, so he blames Ukraine instead, Zelenskyy says
Before that, US officials had cut Kyiv off from US intelligence and lowered a speed cap on Starlink to pressure Ukraine.