
On the first day of the trial, prosecutors accused Serhii Kuznetsov of being an accomplice to war crimes by committing an attack against civilian infrastructure. Kuznetsov has denied any involvement.

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

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.

A Russian airstrike on Kramatorsk in Donetsk Oblast damaged six apartment buildings and a residential area, resulting in four injuries and fatalities. Emergency services are working at the scene.

New Delhi wants Moscow and Kyiv to ensure safe commercial shipping in the Black Sea amid attacks that put Indian seafarers at risk.

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.

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.

“Are you playing politics with your products again?”, Poland’s foreign minister challenges Musk

The Ukrainian army lost roughly 1,265 troops in battles with Russian forces in all the frontline areas over the past 24 hours
Europe must continue supporting Ukraine because the war concerns the security of the entire continent, while Kyiv needs to ramp up domestic production of air defense systems amid shortages of missiles in Europe and the United States.

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.

“It’s very crucial to help Ukraine to defend itself and to defend the whole Europe,” European Commissioner for Defence and Space Andrius Kubillius.

The secret operation that blew up the Nord Stream pipelines severed western Europe from the biggest source of Russian natural gas.
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said her government’s position on supporting Ukraine remains unchanged, as the capitulation of a country defending its freedom cannot be called peace.

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.

Ukraine is in contact with the US, SpaceX and NATO to seek clarification over limitations imposed on its access to the Starlink satellite internet system, a source in the country's Defence Ministry said on Wednesday. Ukrainian troops have reported that the Starlink connection is being shut off when travelling at higher speeds, causing major disruption to Ukrainian drone operations, many of which depend on satellite internet to pilot the craft. FRANCE 24’s International Affairs Edi

A Ukrainian man accused of helping to mastermind the attacks on the Nord Stream pipelines four years ago went on trial for war crimes in Germany on Wednesday, with his defence calling for the case to be dismissed. The closely watched trial – the first involving one of the alleged perpetrators of the 2022 attacks in the Baltic Sea – opened at the Higher Regional Court in the northern city of Hamburg with a significant international media presence. The defendant, 50-year-old Serhiy Kuznetsov, is..

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
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.

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
Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense is in contact with the United States, SpaceX and NATO partners over the unilateral restriction on the operation of Starshield (“military package”) terminals while in motion.

SOFIA: Bulgaria is investigating a report that several antennas used for communication with the Starlink satellite network were deliberately set on fire, Prime Minister Rumen Radev said Wednesday. “The investigation is extremely intensive. We are working with partner services to successfully carry out this operation,” Radev said in parliament, without confirming or denying the claim. Ukraine uses the Starlink satellite system controlled by SpaceX owner Elon Musk for battlefield communications
The unnamed Ukrainian official noted that the restrictions had been imposed "without warning, in the middle of the night"

SpaceX restricted Starlink terminals to 160 km/h without warning, hitting Ukrainian drone missions; the Defence Ministry is in contact with the US and NATO.

Drone types, areas, time windows: the model was tested on real data. A second tool ranks artillery plans and is now in trials.

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.

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.

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 European Commission has transferred €2.86 billion to Ukraine under the defence component of the expanded Ukraine Support Loan. The funds will be used to procure drones, air defence systems, missiles, radars, electronic warfare systems and ammunitions.

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

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.”
The capital has completed its initial general plan for organizing energy resilience and significantly increased backup power sources during the full-scale war, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said in a speech in the Verkhovna Rada on Wednesday, an Interfax-Ukraine correspondent reported.
The United States will not abandon its support for Ukraine, as this is prevented by the will of the American people, the stance of the Republican Party, and unity with NATO allies, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, Chairman of the Kyiv Security Forum (KSF) and former Prime of Ukraine (2014–2016), is convinced.
Russian leader Vladimir Putin must be held accountable for attacking Ukraine's energy infrastructure rather than being offered incentives to continue the war.
Restrictions on Starlink satellite communications affect not only long-range missions and frontline logistics, but also the deployment of interceptor drones used to protect Ukrainian airspace from jet-powered Shahed drones, Presidential Advisor Serhiy Flash Beskrestnov has noted.

Dmitry Peskov noted that sabotage of a settlement in Ukraine by the Europeans is possible
Four people were killed and another 25 were injured as a result of an evening Russian attack on Kyiv and strikes on the capital overnight and in the morning, the Kyiv City Prosecutor’s Office said on Telegram on Wednesday.