Six lanes and metro line under fire: Kyiv prepares about $22 million for backup river crossings after Russian strike on Southern Bridge
The bridges are of critical importance. About 600,000 vehicles cross the Dnipro River in Kyiv every day.
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Volodymyr Zelenskyy
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“I really don’t want this to be Yalta 2, 3, 4”: Zelenskyy fears Trump-Xi-Putin meeting could redivide world, with Ukraine on agenda
Great powers may sit down to redraw the world’s spheres of influence again.
“Above all, we do not have enough missiles for Patriots”—Zelenskyy after 100+ ballistic missiles
Zelenskyy says delays in US-approved air defense supplies help Russia’s strikes and weaken Ukraine’s hand in diplomacy.
Ukraine says it has finished its part of FREYJA, Europe’s joint anti-ballistic project. Partners’ work is still underway
Zelenskyy told ABC News on 23 October that Ukraine got only 24 US Patriot interceptors from the US in three months.
Ukraine’s Zelenskyy welcomes Student List’s win in Serbia and says Kyiv is “ready to keep increasing cooperation”
The party itself plan to end the trade that brought Ukraine €800 million in ammunition.
Full speed returned to Ukraine’s satellite links on Saturday morning. “We simply enforced our terms,” Musk claims after blaming Washington for 10 days
The SpaceX owner, who had earlier said the US government decides such limits, wrote that his company had closed a gap he says Ukrainian troops used for drone strikes.
Putin claims Russia is ready for new talks with Ukraine, calls occupied land historical Russia
He also cited unnamed genetic studies to claim Russians and Ukrainians are one people, a day after hosting a US envoy.
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 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.
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.
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.
Ukrainian OSINT analyst: Russia’s Yandex data center in Sasovo burned out inside, though its roof shows almost no significant holes
Yandex hasn’t said whether the AI supercomputers there were damaged.
Russian missiles and drones kill one and injure 24 in Kyiv, splitting its metro line in two
Hours after a Kremlin aide said Russia was ready in principle for new talks, prosecutors say Russia destroyed 13 homes in one Kyiv district.
From “bad-guy fleet” to “good-guy fleet”: US will let investors buy sanctioned tankers and return them to legal trade
Chris Wright puts the dark fleet at about 1,600 ships. Each would need US approval, on terms he didn’t spell out.
In Oslo, US pushes Zelenskyy toward deal with Russia again. Day later, in same city, Norway discusses arming Ukraine with more NASAMS missiles
As Washington eases pressure on Russia and leans on Kyiv, Ukraine’s European partners are moving the other way.
Starlink slowdown makes Ukraine’s Shahed-hunting drone maker rethink air-launched interceptors
Its spokesman says other companies that lean harder on Starlink have voiced concerns, and points to interest in Europe’s Eutelsat.
Rubio thinks Starlink is fixed. Kyiv says it still cuts out above 161 km/h
The two sides do not agree even on which service was capped.
A diesel tank burns at Transneft’s Druzhba hub as Ukraine keeps striking Russian energy despite Trump’s pressure
Russia’s state pipeline monopoly has said nothing, and the local governor described the site only as an enterprise, while residents posted video of the flames.
More ballistic missile interceptors and F-16 repairs inside Ukraine: Kyiv’s two asks to Lockheed Martin
The talks came as a batch of Patriot missiles that allies have already paid for awaits a Pentagon signature, Ukrainian officials say.
Russian drone kills six in Kharkiv Oblast park, including mother and her 14-month-old in a stroller. Hours later, Ukraine shows photos to US senators
A Russian drone strike killed two children and four adults, while 15 people, including seven children, were injured, a local official said.