


The Russian Deputy Prime Minister said the Ukrainian side shows no signs of moving toward an energy ceasefire

ISLAMABAD: Russian Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev highlighted the potential for expanding trade and economic cooperation with Pakistan in a meeting with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Wednesday, the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) said. Kolokoltsev arrived in Pakistan on Monday on a four-day visit at the invitation of Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi, marking the first instance of a Russian interior minister visiting Pakistan. According to a statement issued by the PMO, in a meeting with t

ISLAMABAD: Russian Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev highlighted the potential for expanding trade with Pakistan in a meeting with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Wednesday, the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) said. Kolokoltsev arrived in Pakistan on Monday on a four-day visit at the invitation of Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi, marking the first instance of a Russian interior minister visiting Pakistan. According to a statement issued by the PMO, in a meeting with the premier on Wednesday,
Europe has yet to agree on a clear, unified position toward Russia. If it tried to reach a deal with the Kremlin at Ukraine’s expense, it would open the door to a major war on the continent.

New Delhi wants Moscow and Kyiv to ensure safe commercial shipping in the Black Sea amid attacks that put Indian seafarers at risk.
Search and rescue operations at the site of a Russian strike in Lutsk have been completed. Six people were killed and 13 injured.

Maj. Gen. Ireneusz Nowak, the operational commander for the Polish Armed Forces, said 80 percent of his service’s attention is focused on the air defense, with the ground and air components of Poland’s integrated air defenses still three to four years away.

Speaking to the Italian Senate, Meloni noted that "the surge in fuel prices is due primarily to the war in Iran, not the conflict in Ukraine," the Italian Ansa news agency reported.
Search and rescue operations have been completed in Lutsk at the site of the Russian strike, according to Ukraine's State Emergency Service.
Andrey Kropotkin stressed that a direct clash between Russia and NATO could not be viewed as a routine military-political scenario, as the cost of a mistake could be catastrophic for all of Europe

Estonia's defense minister said the government should consider fielding aircraft capable of shooting down Russian jet-powered attack drones.
Russia owns two military facilities in Syria - the Russian Navy's logistics center in the port city of Tartus and the Khmeimim airbase in Latakia province

The comments come hours after Russia launched another deadly aerial attack targeting Ukrainian cities and power plants, in what Zelensky called a show of disregard for the Trump-backed truce.

The Ukrainian army lost roughly 1,265 troops in battles with Russian forces in all the frontline areas over the past 24 hours

MOSCOW: The US-Russia diesel deal can pave the way for further economic cooperation between the two countries, Kremlin envoy Kirill Dmitriev said on Wednesday, adding that Moscow would overcome any sanctions-related difficulties to ensure the diesel supplies. The example of diesel cooperation with the US “will open other opportunities as well,” he told reporters.

The Kyiv Independent’s Tim Zadorozhnyy speaks with Browder about Trump’s deal to allow Russian diesel supplies to the U.S., the implications for Ukraine and Western policy, and whether sanctions can force Russia to negotiate.

In three days, Washington sanctioned the court that issued Putin’s arrest warrant, lifted its own sanctions on Russian diesel, called for Zelenskyy to step down, and declared an “energy ceasefire” that asks only Ukraine to stop firing. These are not the acts of an ally.

The secret operation that blew up the Nord Stream pipelines severed western Europe from the biggest source of Russian natural gas.

Nobel Peace Prize winner Navi Pillay on Wednesday hit out at Donald Trump’s “illegal” sanctions against the International Criminal Court (ICC), saying the US president needed a lesson in international law. In an interview with AFP, Pillay also said it was no coincidence the US sanctions on the ICC were announced just hours after her Nobel, as a “reaction to the fact that the award was not given to President Trump”. Asked what her message was for Trump, the 85-year-old judge told AFP: “Call in yo
Moscow is monitoring the situation in the Middle East with concern, Georgy Borisenko said

Ukraine accused Elon Musk's SpaceX on Wednesday of limiting Starlink services, crippling its drones, as Russian missiles knocked out power stations in attacks President Volodymyr Zelensky called "ostentatious disrespect" to Donald Trump. Kyiv's relationship with Washington has taken a sharp turn for the worse since US President Trump abruptly lifted sanctions on Russian diesel last week and publicly turned on Zelensky. FRANCE 24's Gulliver Cragg reports from Kyiv, Ukraine.

Ukraine received no intelligence warnings regarding the first wave of Russian ballistic missile launches overnight into October 14

The Khmelnytskyi hub had been effectively Epicentr’s only surviving large warehouse complex, after Russia destroyed its two largest logistics complexes in Kyiv and Kyiv Oblast.
Units of the ground forces of the two countries, warships of the Russian and Indian Navy, as well as aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces are participating in the maneuvers

Ukraine has liberated 16 villages in the Donetsk region as part of a major counteroffensive against Russian forces, amidst increased air attacks by Russia.
Emergency rescue operations have been completed at the site of a Russian missile strike on a four-story residential building in Kharkiv’s Kholodnohirskyi district.

Viktor Yushchenko invokes the Budapest Memorandum and Pearl Harbor days after the US waived sanctions on Russian diesel until April 2027.

Andy Hunder warns that direct Russian missile strikes on US corporate infrastructure send a clear signal, yet requests for White House meetings go unanswered
According to the RDIF chief, the Russian side will keep engaging with the US on economic and investment projects and explaining that American sanctions primarily harm the American people and American farmers
NATO will sooner or later have to establish an advanced missile defense zone if Russian aggression intensifies and the number of aerial incidents increases. At the same time, Poland and Ukraine should deepen their security cooperation and jointly counter Russian disinformation.

Law enforcement officers have recovered an unexploded warhead from a Russian drone from the grounds of a house in Kyiv's Desnianskyi district.
Five people were killed and 10 injured in a Russian drone attack on Lutsk.

ISLAMABAD: Russian Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev called on Chief of Defence Forces and Chief of Army Staff Field Marshal Asim Munir at General Headquarters in Rawalpindi on Wednesday, where both sides stressed the importance of bolstering defence cooperation between Islamabad and Moscow. Kolokoltsev arrived in Pakistan on Monday on a four-day visit at the invitation of Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi, marking the first instance of a Russian interior minister visiting Pakistan. According

SOFIA: Bulgaria on Wednesday said Russia was likely behind drone attacks that struck four ships in the Black Sea in the past week, sinking two, but there was no way of proving Moscow’s culpability. Rescuers are still searching for 11 crew members missing after drone strikes on Tuesday sank two ships in Bulgaria’s exclusive economic zone and adjacent waters, while five other crew members were rescued. One of the ships is registered to Guinea-Bissau but the other one, the Chelsea-3, is Ukrainia
Konstantin Vorontsov, deputy head of the Russian MFA’s Department for Nonproliferation and Arms Control, highlighted "Seoul’s regular attempts to blame Russia for its own years-long deliberate escalatory moves"

Drone types, areas, time windows: the model was tested on real data. A second tool ranks artillery plans and is now in trials.
According to the official. things will depend on the current market situation and Russia's relations with the United States

The trial has begun of a Ukrainian man accused of leading an elaborate plot to blow up an undersea pipeline carrying Russian gas to Germany.
China believes its nuclear capabilities are currently incomparable to those of Russia and the United States, Dmitry Peskov noted

Authorities have issued RO-Alert warnings across Tulcea County as Romanian F-16 fighters monitored assets tracking close to the Ukrainian frontier

In total, President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia struck Ukraine with 39 missiles including Iskander-M, KN-23, S-400, Zircon, and Onyx missiles.

Tokyo summoned Russia’s ambassador after a Japanese reporter was arrested in Russia’s far east and accused of collecting military intelligence.

Kyiv has found itself increasingly vulnerable. A huge attack cut power to 600,000 people there, and a Pentagon-funded satellite program appeared to be curbed without warning.

The Kharkiv Regional Prosecutor's Office said that an unknown person killed five service members of Ukraine's armed forces in Kharkiv Oblast on Oct. 13

The secret operation that blew up the Nord Stream pipelines severed western Europe from the biggest source of Russian natural gas.

President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukraine received “no early warning from our partners” about a Russian attack. President Trump has said Washington is still “sharing intel.”

Volyn Oblast authorities have confirmed three fatalities and twelve injuries following a Russian drone attack on a wholesale venue and apartment block in Lutsk.
As a result of Russian shelling, 121 people have been killed in the Sloviansk territorial community since the beginning of the full-scale war, including 54 since the start of 2026, Head of the Sloviansk City Military Administration Vadym Liakh reported.
Russian leader Vladimir Putin must be held accountable for attacking Ukraine's energy infrastructure rather than being offered incentives to continue the war.