Ukrainian drone strikes have destroyed 38 percent of Russia's oil refining capacity and suppressed processing rates until at least mid-2026, inflicting more economic damage than all Western sanctions combined.
A teenager stabbed a 17-year-old Ukrainian boy to death at a Dublin emergency accommodation facility for asylum seekers on October 15, with gardaí arresting the suspect at the scene before he was hospitalized
A Russian ballistic missile attack on a Ukrainian training base on 16 October marks at least the sixth such strike on military training facilities since June
Russia is deploying North Korean drone operators to adjust launch missile system fire on Ukrainian positions, following critical personnel losses and a failed offensive
Some 19 Russian soldiers have been convicted in absentia for sexual violence since 2022, while Ukraine's Office of the Prosecutor General has verified 365 cases involving survivors aged four to 80
Russia warns of "very serious" escalation if the US sells Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine, though the weapons would mirror Russia's own Iskander, Kinzhal, and Kalibr missiles used in weekly strikes against Ukraine since 2022, according to the Institute for the Study of War.
Russia has targeted Ukraine's energy infrastructure for four consecutive winters, the UK told the OSCE, citing recent strikes involving 35 missiles and 60 drones against gas facilities in Kharkiv and Poltava.
Pro-Kremlin channels are spreading a fabricated story about Ukrainian soldiers allegedly murdering three civilians in Sumy Oblast, using a fake screenshot designed to look like an official police report
Alexandru Munteanu, a 61-year-old businessman and economist with no prior political experience, will be proposed for Moldova's Prime Minister position by the ruling Party of Action and Solidarity (PAS)