The helicopter landing operation of Ukrainian military intelligence (HUR) special forces on the north-western outskirts of Pokrovsk ended in complete failure. They were too small in number to provide ...
On 30 October, the first meeting in six years between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping took place. The two leaders reached an agreement to de-escalate the trade dispute, though both sides offered differing ...
On 30 October, Volodymyr Kudrytskyi, former head of Ukrenergo (the national electricity grid operator), was released from custody after posting bail. Two days earlier, he had been detained by officers ...
The Ukrainian Pravda website, citing reports from Pokrovsk’s defenders, reported a critical situation in the city, where at ...
On 30 October, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz paid his first visit to Ankara since taking office. During a press conference with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, he highlighted Turkey’s ...
On 29 October, the United States temporarily (until 29 April 2026) exempted the Germany-registered Rosneft Deutschland (RND) and RN Refining & Marketing (RNRM) from sanctions imposed a week earlier on ...
On 29 October, the Lithuanian government decided to close the country’s two remaining open border crossings with Belarus – at Medininkai and Šalčininkai – until 30 November. The restrictions, which ...
Between 20 and 23 October, the Fourth Plenary Session (Fourth Plenum) of the Central Committee (CC) of the 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) took place. During the meeting, ...
On 17 October, the Supreme Court of the Kingdom of the Netherlands upheld the 2014 arbitration ruling in the ‘Yukos case’, definitively ordering the Russian Federation to pay compensation to the ...
On 22 October, Donald Trump imposed sanctions on Rosneft and Lukoil – Russia’s two largest oil companies. The restrictions also covered their subsidiaries, amounting to a total of 34 entities. On 23 ...
At its meeting on 23 October, the European Council addressed the Joint Communication ‘Preserving Peace – Defence Readiness Roadmap 2030’, presented on 16 October by the European Commission and the ...
President Volodymyr Zelensky’s inner circle continues its efforts to discredit and undermine the independence of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) and the Specialised ...