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For the first time in history, an Article 5-style collective defense agreement has been activated outside of NATO.

President Volodymyr Zelensky visited Pryluky with UK Foreign Secretary Edward Miliband on Thursday, Oct. 8, after a Russian barrage left 22 civilians dead, including five children.

Senior US envoy Jared Kushner and Kremlin envoy Kirill Dmitriev have reportedly discussed bringing a US investor into the Nord Stream gas pipeline, five sources familiar with the matter told Reuters on Thursday, Oct. 8.

Ukraine’s SSO says it struck the Omsk Oil Refinery for the second time, with drones traveling nearly 3,000 km (1,864 miles).

Ukrainian negotiators will visit the United States on Oct. 9–10, President Volodymyr Zelensky said during a visit to Pryluky following a deadly Russian strike.

Ukrainian business leaders at the fourth Forbes Ukraine CEO Summit in Kyiv shared strategies for sustaining companies, teams and themselves through the war, from decentralizing operations to supporting employee wellbeing and building resilient organizatio…

Russian forces launched a massive assault on Ukrainian civilian businesses overnight on Oct. 6-7, severely damaging multiple civilian commercial storage hubs.

Ukraine’s Defense Ministry has codified the Blade interceptor, clearing it for procurement and military use.

The US military ordered another 1,320 F10 strike drones from Ukraine's F-Drones under the Drone Dominance program, the company told Militarnyi.

Quantum Systems says a letter of intent has been signed for tens of thousands of SPYS drone interceptors for Ukraine, with Germany financing the program.

The Lithuanian Defense Minister responded to a request by the Interior Minister to bolster the border with Kaliningrad by deploying around 100 troops to support border guards.

A Ukrainian drone strike set the 107,000-ton Aframax Rio ablaze 30 km (15 nautical miles) off Sochi.

An alleged Russian analytical document obtained by Schemes calculates that Moscow would need about 1,000 drones, bombs and ballistic missiles to disable 60 critical Ukrainian facilities.

Kyiv authorities reported water supply disruptions on Thursday as Russian attacks on the energy grid affected water pumps across the city, with extensive blackouts also reported months ahead of winter.

Russian drone attacks killed three people and injured 14 in Kyiv on Thursday, with a UAV hitting a four-story store in the Solomianskyi district.

Polish prosecutors closed an investigation into the 2025 Russian drone incursion after failing to identify who directed it.

A Russian strike on a passenger bus in Kramatorsk killed at least 12 people and injured 13, local authorities said.

South Korea is recalling its ambassador from Ukraine amid a diplomatic dispute over Kyiv’s disclosure of two North Korean prisoners of war transferred to Seoul.

Dramatic footage published by a local Telegram channel appears to show a downed Russian jet-powered drone falling beside cars in Kyiv.

Russia is attacking bridges in Kyiv, causing significant traffic jams.

Russia has stepped up sabotage operations targeting Danish defense companies supplying Ukraine, using increasingly bold recruits to disrupt weapons production, Denmark’s intelligence service said.

South Korea said alleged shipments of diesel to Russia did not violate its export controls, while stressing that the fuel’s origin remains under investigation.

Ukraine struck a Yandex data center in Russia’s Ryazan region and a major oil refinery in Bashkortostan overnight on Oct. 8, triggering a fire and disrupting some Yandex services, according to Ukrainian monitoring channels and eyewitness footage.

The Cabinet of Ministers on Oct. 7 approved partial exports of domestically produced gas, letting private producers sell up to 15% of the previous month's output abroad through exchange auctions.

War in Ukraine - Latest update, key takeaways and map from the Institute for the Study of War on November 7, 2026.

Lithuania approved €15 million ($16.8 million) for Ukraine’s recovery, allocating €10 million ($11.2 million) through the World Bank’s SPUR 2.0 program and €5 million ($5.6 million) through the EIB’s EU4U Fund.

Russian jet-powered drones threatened Kyiv, Lutsk and other Ukrainian cities in the early hours of Thursday, Oct. 8.

Democratic Senator Jeanne Shaheen and Republican Senator Roger Wicker urged Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to use new sanctions powers against Russia’s shadow fleet, illicit financial networks and military technology s…

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Russian opposition figures criticized France for securing the removal of Kremlin-linked billionaire Alisher Usmanov from EU sanctions in connection with the release of a French prisoner in Azerbaijan.

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Russia launched a fresh attack on Kyiv on Wednesday evening, killing two people and injuring at least 13, hours after a massive overnight missile and drone barrage killed at least 25 people across Ukraine.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio urged Europe to end its “long slumber” and strengthen its military and economic power, warning that the West faces a crossroads between renewed strength and decline.

Russia’s large-scale missile and drone barrage killed at least 25 people and injured more than 100 across Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky said.

The director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO) said he has requested additional information from Russia concerning the weekend death of a worker at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute.

Russian President Vladimir Putin told Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian that Moscow is ready to help mediate the Middle East war, Iranian state media reported.

Three one-year-old boys were among 18 people killed in a Russian missile strike on a residential building in Pryluky, northern Ukraine.

Kazakhstan is negotiating with Moscow to return citizens serving with Russian forces in Ukraine after men and their relatives said they had been deceived or coerced into signing military contracts.

Ukraine is working with international partners on five possible ceasefire tracks, including a full truce, Black Sea security and energy infrastructure, Foreign Ministry spokesman Heorhii Tykhyi said.

Ukraine’s counteroffensive in northern Donetsk has disrupted Russia’s attempt to encircle the Sloviansk-Kramatorsk defensive belt and reversed months of Russian gains, The New York Times reported.

NATO Military Committee (CMC) chair, Admiral Giuseppe Cavo Dragone, and the Military Representatives of all 32 NATO nations visited Kyiv on Tuesday.

Ukraine’s anti-graft agencies said a lawmaker and her assistant will soon stand on trial for soliciting bribes in exchange for national sanctions against business competitors.

Nataliya Mykolska, former executive director of Diia.City United, has been appointed vice president of growth and affairs at Sine Engineering.

Twenty years after her murder in Moscow, her reporting still exposes the violence that binds Putin’s Russia to its imperial past.

A Ukrainian presidential advisor noted that the newly introduced AI-assisted automatic AAA (anti-aircraft artillery) turret-mounted machine guns around Kyiv – numbering 12 at present with another eight planned – should be seen as the last layer of defense,

Ukrainian forces hit Russia’s Seshcha airfield in the Bryansk region and multiple military sites across occupied Ukraine on Oct. 6-7, the General Staff said.

Serhii Kolyada’s ironic take on the latest international events.

Ukraine received another €1.2 billion from the EU for defense, Prime Minister Serhiy Koretsky announced, bringing total funding received under the program to nearly €13 billion.

About half of Ukraine’s approximately 43 F-16s are awaiting maintenance in Europe.

Russian authorities said they have opened a criminal probe into forged certificates for animal vaccines that reportedly led to over 100 canine deaths.