U.S. President Donald Trump's success in brokering the Oct. 9 ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas has been praised worldwide. What seems to be a diplomatic victory in the Middle East stands in sharp contrast with Trump's failure to negotiate a ceasefire in Eastern Europe. One reason for the difference is objective. Trump has far more leverage over Israel than over Russia, while Hamas has been weakened so much that it had no choice but to agree to a ceasefire. Another reason, experts say,

The meeting comes as a Ukrainian delegation — also including top presidential aide Andriy Yermak and Security Council Secretary Rustem Umerov — holds high-level talks with U.S. officials on defense, energy resilience, and sanctions.

Hi, this is Jared Goyette reporting from Kyiv on day 1,329 of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Today's top story: Russia's largest oil depot in occupied Crimea is still burning a day after being struck by Ukrainian drones, with a huge column of smoke visible from more than 25 kilometers away, local media reported on Oct. 14. A source in Ukraine's Security Service (SBU) confirmed to the Kyiv Independent on Oct. 13 that drones had struck the facility in the city of Feodosia, sparking a

The military monitoring group Belarusian Hajun was an open-source intelligence project that tracked Russian and Belarusian troop movements and other military activity in Belarus.

Polunin previously worked with the the Royal Ballet in London and later as the director of the Sevastopol Opera and Ballet Theater in Russian-occupied Crimea from December 2019 until the summer of 2024.

Editor's note: The story has been updated to include comments from the Odesa mayor. President Volodymyr Zelensky stripped Odesa Mayor Hennadiy Trukhanov of his Ukrainian citizenship after years of allegations that he possessed a Russian passport. "The presence of Russian citizenship has been confirmed for certain individuals. The decree has been signed," the president said on Oct. 14, not naming the Odesa mayor by name. The decision would effectively oust Trukhanov from his post. The mayor sa

"Poisonous smoke floats over the city, which can be seen even from Stary Krym (25 kilometers away)," local media reported.

The comments come ahead of a meeting of NATO defense ministers in Brussels on Oct. 15, chaired by NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte.

The IMF forecasted 2% growth in 2025 and 4.5% in 2026, unaltered from its April 2025 projections.

In the book “Ecocide in Ukraine,” Ukrainian scholar Darya Tsymbalyuk places the destruction of the Kakhovka dam at the center of a broader look into Russia’s ongoing environmental destruction of Ukrainian land.

Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha urged U.N. member states to condemn Russia’s Oct. 14 attack on a U.N. aid convoy in Kherson Oblast, which left one truck destroyed and another badly damaged.

If most investors have opted to watch Ukraine from a distance during Russia’s ongoing invasion, Charles Whitehead and Dominique Piotet are undeterred, launching a 50 million euro venture capital fund to boost local talent and help put Ukrainian startups on the global map. The two veterans of Ukraine’s start-up and tech scene inaugurated the Ukraine Phoenix Tech Fund (UPTF) on Sept. 29 — a project that's been in the works since 2019 and the first institutionally backed global venture capital fun

Speaking about past negotiations with Moscow, Trump said U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff "had no idea about Russia, had no idea about Putin too much" at the time.

On Sept. 29, 2025, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law withdrawing from the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture, symbolically making Russia the first country in history to abandon this anti-torture pact. Russia’s government attempted to present the withdrawal as a matter of “procedural fairness.” Moscow claimed it was forced out because the Council of Europe had denied Russia participation in the governing committee of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture

The proposal, initiated by the Russian National Automobile Union, comes amid a deepening supply crisis exacerbated by Ukraine's escalating drone strikes on Russian oil infrastructure.

Summary: * Russia has earned 954 billion euros from exports of fossil fuels since the intensification of its war against Ukraine in 2022, 214 billion euros of which came from the EU * Oil and gas account for 30–50% of Russian budget revenue and 20% of gross domestic product (GDP) * China remained the largest buyer of Russian fossil fuels in August, accounting for 40% of exports; India was second, followed by Turkey (a NATO member) * A group of five EU states together spent 979 million euros

"Dozens of (strike drones) were launched somewhere. Can you imagine?! I look and it's flying. Where will it fly, and what will it do, what is it targeting? It's simply hopeless," the woman said.

"We will wait for their big proposals, for a big deal, as they like to say. They love these big deals," Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko said.

The Tomahawk's range would open up great swathes of Russia to Ukrainian long-range missile strikes, most notably Moscow and St. Petersburg.

"He's respected by Russia. Ukraine, I can't tell you about, but he is respected by (Russian President Vladimir) Putin," Trump told journalists.

At the time of the attack, more than 100 patients were in the hospital.

In July and August, total military aid to Ukraine fell 43% lower than the amount received in the first half of the year, a report by the Kiel Institute finds.

The meeting, scheduled for Oct. 17, will follow two phone calls between the two leaders regarding Ukraine's air defenses and long-range capabilities.

Kremlin Spokesperson Dmitry Peskov issued a new round of veiled threats towards Moldova on Oct. 12, warning Chisinau not to suffer from the same fate as Ukraine just weeks after an election that saw Moldova’s pro-European Action and Solidarity Party (PAS) secure a parliamentary majority.

The European Council has agreed to reduce and eliminate duties on a range of Ukrainian agricultural products, paving the way for the first significant update to tariffs under an EU-Ukraine trade agreement since it was adopted in 2016. The original agreement, known as the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement, or DCFTA, cut most tariffs and aligned regulations with EU standards. But several Ukrainian agri-food products were subject to tariff-rate quotas — trade instruments that permit tari

Estonian officials say Moscow is intensifying its provocations after an unusual movement by Russian troops near the border forced Tallinn to shut down a transit easement on Oct. 10. The Saatse Boot — located near the small boot-shaped section of Russian territory that juts into southeastern Estonia — was closed after border guards reported seeing seven armed men in unmarked uniforms briefly appear on the road. "Russian border guards routinely patrol the area near Saatse, as it lies within thei

In the first nine months of 2025, 18-year-old Ukrainians received Hr 181.9 million ($4.3 million) in government assistance to purchase books through the program, the Culture Ministry reported.

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Ukrainian air defenses face a new threat: rain and cloud cover cloaking Russian Shahed-type drones. President Volodymyr Zelensky recently said on Oc.t 10 that Ukraine’s air defense had seen its effectiveness fall by “20-30%,” as a result of recent overcast weather, according to Reuters. As a result, more and more Russian drones are getting through — hitting Ukrainian cities, and killing and injuring civilians. On the ground, members of Ukrainian mobile air groups agree that bad weather poses

Leaders signed the peace deal during a summit in Sharm El-Sheikh in Egypt later in the day.

Dutch Defense Minister Ruben Brekelmans feels that Europe must do more to counter Russia's threat — and he has a few ideas how to do it. "(Vladimir Putin) knows he is creating unrest, that's positive for him, there is no disadvantage nor drawback for him," Brekelmans said, responding to a question on the recent Russian drone incursions into NATO territory. "So I suggested, for example, just as an idea, let's make sure that for every drone incursion, every Russian drone that's entering NATO air

"What a change from the 1984 Tom Clancy novel The Hunt for Red October. Today, it seems more like the hunt for the nearest mechanic," NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said.