"Tanks will be returned to the battlefield once their technical capability is restored," the Lithuanian Defense Ministry wrote on X (formerly Twitter). It didn't specify how many vehicles are being repaired in the country.
The U.S. has allocated $522 million to purchase energy equipment for Ukraine and protect the country’s electricity infrastructure, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said on Oct. 16.
Ukrainian overnight strikes on Russian military airfields in occupied Luhansk and Berdiansk destroyed nine helicopters, an anti-aircraft missile launcher, and an ammunition warehouse, the Special Operations Forces reported on Oct. 17.
Three more Ukrainian children returned to their parents on the Kyiv-controlled territory on Oct. 17 in a rescue mission by the Ukrainian Child Rights Network and the Reintegration Ministry.
After 11 a.m. local time, Russian forces struck the Dniprovskyi and Suvorovskyi districts in Kherson, wounding four residents, Roman Mrochko, the head of the city military administration, reported on Oct. 17.
German Finance Minister Christian Lindner said it's essential the U.S. continues to provide Ukraine with financial support alongside European commitment, calling the U.S. aid "indispensable," the German broadcaster ARD reported on Oct. 16.
"Your visit is a signal of strong support. It is important for us to see that the United States is ready to help Ukraine get through the winter period and protect critical infrastructure facilities," Zelensky told U.S. Special Representative for Economic Recovery in Ukraine Penny Pritzker at the meeting.
The Energy Ministry refuted social media reports alleging that scheduled blackouts have been introduced in Ukraine, a practice widely used last winter during Russia’s campaign of mass strikes against the country’s energy system.
Bujar Osmani, the chairman-in-office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and Foreign Minister of North Macedonia, arrived in Kyiv on Oct. 16 for meetings with Ukrainian top officials.
The process is likely supervised and financed by the Russian military intelligence agency (GRU), the U.K. Defense Ministry reported on Oct. 16.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will pay an official visit to North Korea amid Western concerns about extended military cooperation between Moscow and Pyongyang.
Penny Pritzker, the U.S. Special Representative for Economic Recovery in Ukraine, arrived in Kyiv on Oct. 16, U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Bridget Brink announced. This is Pritzker's first visit to Ukraine since the appointment in September.
Russian forces have ramped up their assaults near Makiivka in the Lyman direction and towards Kupiansk in Kharkiv Oblast, Oleksandr Syrskyi, the commander of Ukraine's Land Forces, reported on Oct. 14.
Russian forces launched a rocket attack against the village of Bahatyr, Donetsk Oblast, killing a boy aged 11 and wounding his six-year-old brother, Ukraine’s National Police reported on Oct. 14.
Russia's "renewed offensive" in eastern Ukraine hasn't made much progress despite the Russian military bringing back its infamous "human wave" tactics, U.S. National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby said on Oct. 13, as cited by Politico.
Russian troops struck Beryslav in Kherson Oblast early on Oct. 14, killing a 60-year-old woman, Governor Oleksandr Prokudin reported.
Alexey Kopaygorodsky, the mayor of the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi, claimed on Oct. 14 that local air defenses shot down two drones over the sea in the morning. There were no casualties or damages in the city, according to Kopaygorodsky.
Russian shelling in Nikopol, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, injured two rescuers while they were responding to a fire caused by an earlier Russian attack, Ukraine’s Emergency Service wrote on Oct. 13.
Russian law enforcement detained three of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny's lawyers on suspicion of belonging to "an extremist group," Navalny's spokesperson Kira Yarmysh reported on Oct. 13.
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) adopted a resolution on Oct. 13 declaring Russia a dictatorship and calling on the international community to recognize Vladimir Putin's presidency as illegitimate after his current term ends in 2024.
Two buildings were damaged in the city center, the regional governor said on Facebook, adding that the type of weaponry used in the strike is still being established.
The Group of Seven (G7) nations pledged on Oct. 12 that Russian assets held in their jurisdictions, so far estimated at around $280 billion, will remain frozen until Moscow pays war reparations to Ukraine.
Ukraine's eastern Donetsk Oblast suffered the largest number of casualties as Russian attacks claimed the lives of three civilians and wounded another eight, according to the regional governor. Casualties were also reported in Zaporizhzhia and Kherson oblasts.
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) adopted a resolution on Oct. 12 recognizing the Holodomor as a genocide of the Ukrainian people and calling on all member states to follow suit.
Ukraine's Security Service (SBU) reported on Oct. 10 of conducting searches concerning a $2.7 million corruption scheme in the Mukachevo City Council in the western Zakarpattia Oblast. Among the officials in question is Mukachevo Mayor Andrii Baloha, whose property was searched by authorities.
President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a law on Oct. 10 to resume asset declarations for officials and immediately make them publicly accessible.
"Taking into account still unidentified body parts and reports about missing persons, the final death toll may increase," Serhii Bolvinov, the head of the investigative department of the regional police, said on Oct. 10.
President Volodymyr Zelensky arrived in Bucharest on Oct. 10 for his first official visit to Romania since Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine began.
Finland’s Foreign Ministry announced on Oct. 9 allocating an additional 92 million euros ($97 million) to provide humanitarian support to Ukraine, Moldova, and other countries affected by Russia’s war.
Most recently, Russia launched an S-300 missile at Velykyi Burluk, Kharkiv Oblast, injuring two women and a man aged 45 and 34, according to Governor Oleh Syniehubov.
Russian troops targeted Ukraine’s south with 36 kamikaze drones overnight on Oct. 10, the Air Force reported. Air defenses shot down a total of 27 Shahed drones in Odesa, Mykolaiv, and Kherson oblasts.
President Volodymyr Zelensky has dismissed Ihor Tantsiura from the position of Ukraine's Territorial Defense Forces commander, replacing him with Anatolii Barhylevych.
