Zelensky signs Ukraine's official application for EU membership

The United States is prepared to supply European countries with "as much gas and oil as is needed" to replace Europe's dependence on Russian energy imports, President Volodymyr Zelensky claimed in his evening address on Oct. 19.

"He's won certain property," Trump told Fox News, indicating that Putin would lay claim to Ukrainian lands as part of a U.S.-brokered peace deal.

All 192 miners were safely evacuated to the surface after a large-scale attack on a coal enterprise in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, the energy company DTEK announced.

Soldiers should "stay where they stay," Zelensky said, and not offer new territory to Putin, who has reportedly demanded full control of Donetsk Oblast as a condition for ending the war.

The survey further found that 66% of those polled are against paying citizens' benefits to Ukrainian war refugees.

In the latest episode of Ukraine This Week, The Kyiv Independent’s Anna Belokur reports on another Trump–Zelensky meeting in Washington, following Russian President Vladimir Putin’s intervention to dissuade the U.S. from supplying Ukraine with Tomahawk missiles.

Ukrainian soldier and chess grandmaster Ihor Kovalenko won the individual gold medal at the European Team Chess Championships, The Guardian reported on October 18, citing tournament organizers.

Russian President Vladimir Putin demanded that Ukraine hand over full control of Donetsk Oblast to Russia as a condition for ending the war during a phone call with U.S. President Donald Trump this week, The Washington Post reported on Oct. 18, citing two senior U.S. officials.

The attack took place at around 5:40 p.m. local time, hitting a residential neighborhood and damaging homes and outbuildings.

Vienna had previously held up the sanctions over a demand that the EU compensate Austria’s Raiffeisen Bank International for losses inflicted by Russian penalties.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said that the meeting had not gone as Zelensky had hoped.

International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Grossi said "both sides engaged constructively" with the agency to enable the repair plan.