Russia-Ukraine war

Valerii Markus, a Ukrainian serviceman and former chief sergeant, wrote on Facebook that Ukraine is paying with blood for data that someone else can convert into capital, international influence, and big money.

Palantir CEO Alex Karp was the first chief of a major Western Big Tech company to personally visit Kyiv after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Spanish authorities quietly instructed state-backed companies to avoid signing new contracts with Palantir, citing concerns about exposing sensitive national security information.

Trump accused Zelenskyy of being "ungrateful" for Washington's aid during an Oval Office meeting in February 2025.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Russia hoped Trump would continue his peacemaking efforts regardless of the election result.

Kaja Kallas is the European Union's foreign policy chief.

Russia's Defence Ministry confirmed it hit two power stations in Ukraine's Kyiv and Zhytomyr regions.

Ukrainian drone strikes killed three people in Russia's Belgorod region.

Reuters reported, citing Ukraine's emergency service and local officials, that Russia also hit the regions of Poltava, Dnipro, Kirovohrad and Rivne.

BBC Verify confirmed the bodycam video was filmed in the same place as footage released by Ukraine's state emergencies service DSNS showing the aftermath of the attack.

The Russian military has not publicly commented on the attack.

The bodycam footage was recorded by a camera worn by one of the police officers killed in the attack.

Local officials had earlier confirmed 37 deaths.

A follow-up strike hit an underground shelter filled with people.

Four police officers and two members of a rescue crew were among the dead.

Ukraine said nine gliding bombs, some weighing 3,000kg, hit the village as people gathered to receive humanitarian aid.

Ukraine said the shelter was near a local school being used to distribute humanitarian aid.

President Zelensky said more than 30 people may still be under the rubble.

At least 26 people were killed in Russian strikes on a school being used as a humanitarian aid centre in Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia region.

Ukraine's president said there were two separate strikes, an initial attack and then a second one on a building where residents were hiding.

There are suspicions that the incident was engineered to discredit Ukraine's war effort.

Around 100 people gathered after social media reports alleged recruits were being tortured and abused.

Ukraine is investigating clashes between protesters and authorities at a military dormitory near Kyiv.

Any force sent to Ukraine would not take part in offensive operations or be involved in peacekeeping or ceasefire monitoring missions.

UK Defence Secretary Wes Streeting said the exercise showed Britain, France and their allies were stepping up preparation for the day when peace came to Ukraine.

The force would not operate under the command of NATO or on the front line.

Biden provided approximately $60 billion in military aid for Ukraine during the early years of the war.

Witkoff said US negotiators would meet with representatives from France, Germany, the United Kingdom, the European Union and NATO in Brussels.

Russia bombed a hospital in Kharkiv.

Russian forces bombed an aid centre in the village of Komyshuvakha in the Zaporizhzhia region.

The last US-mediated talks were held in February, before the US and Israel launched their war on Iran.

Russia's Ministry of Defence said its forces shot down 212 Ukrainian drones overnight.

Vladimir Medinsky will serve as Moscow's chief negotiator at the talks in Abu Dhabi on Nov. 10-11.

U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff said Washington will mediate Ukraine-Russia peace talks in Abu Dhabi on Nov. 10-11, focusing on security arrangements, de-escalation and humanitarian issues.

Ukraine accused Russia of using the ceasefire to reinforce its military positions in the city of Oleshky.

Russian strikes on Dnipro hit residential areas, killing two people and injuring 20 others.

Russian strikes killed at least 38 civilians and injured scores of others over 24 hours.

Zelensky called the strike in Komyshuvakha village one of the largest mass killings committed by Russia during the war.

It remains unclear whether Putin will attend the G20 summit for the first time since the invasion.

Putin and Zelenskyy have had no direct contact since Russia launched its full-scale invasion in February 2022.

Zelenskyy's visit to Berlin was not announced in advance for security reasons.

The attacked vessel was the Liberian-flagged Contship Jet Monrovia, loaded with more than 400 containers, travelling from Haifa to Romania.

Viktor Honcharenko, president of the Association of Farmers and Private Land Owners of Ukraine, said hardly more than 50 percent of grain can be exported via land routes after the ports of Odesa were paralysed.

Putin said in December that if attacks on Russian tankers continue, Russia will consider retaliatory measures against ships from countries assisting Ukraine.

Witkoff said the discussions will focus on post-war security arrangements, de-escalation, humanitarian efforts, and next steps toward peace.

Witkoff said the Brussels meeting will discuss security guarantees for Ukraine, Europe's post-war security architecture, and economic opportunities to support Ukraine's reconstruction.

U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff said the United States will mediate working-level negotiations between Ukraine and Russia on November 10–11 in Abu Dhabi.

Ukraine's Air Force issued a statement within 15 minutes saying the alert app had been compromised and that there was no radiation threat.

Sofia Kochmar, a 34-year-old mother-of-one living in Lviv, said she was initially concerned by the alerts but quickly questioned their authenticity.

Some of the false alerts in Ukraine were written in Russian.

The State Department approved the potential sale of 500 Patriot PAC-3 interceptor missiles to Ukraine for an estimated $2.1 billion.

Ukraine's General Staff accused Russian forces of using the humanitarian pause to rotate troops, reinforce defenses, and improve battlefield logistics.

Nearly 800 people were evacuated during the six-day humanitarian pause, according to first lady Melania Trump.

Zelensky referenced a recent joint Russian-Ukrainian operation to evacuate civilians from the Russia-occupied city of Oleshky during a temporary ceasefire brokered by US First Lady Melania Trump.

Rescue teams were forced to halt their operation multiple times due to Russian drone attacks in the area, according to Semikin.

Teams from Ukraine, Russia, and the US are due to resume peace talks in the next few days, likely in Abu Dhabi.

The US midterm elections were scheduled for Tuesday.

Ukraine's General Staff said the enemy used the humanitarian pause to set up their positions and recorded rotation of Russian units, expansion of anti-drone equipment, and delivery of ammunition.

Local authorities said Moscow hit a medical facility in Kherson city centre on Monday morning.

A separate air raid alert app specifically for the Ukrainian capital Kyiv was working normally during the incident.

The false alerts in Ukraine included warnings of a radiation threat, a chemical attack, street fighting, and deployment of Russia's Oreshnik missile.

The false radiation hazard signal was played on loudspeaker devices in Ukraine's Lviv region.

Before the truce took hold, the United Nations estimated that 2,000 civilians remained in Oleshky.

NBC News could not verify who Hitcorecorp is or whether it was responsible for the alerts.

Ukraine's armed forces accused Russia on Monday of using the truce to rotate its units and fortify positions in the area.

President Zelenskyy said October had been the deadliest month for Russia since the invasion began in 2022.

The ceasefire allowed humanitarian aid and evacuations in the Russian-occupied town of Oleshky.

Ukraine's General Staff of Armed Forces said Moscow used the ceasefire to reinforce its military positions in Oleshky.

The truce was mediated by US First Lady Melania Trump and involved Pope Leo XIV.

More than 100 Ukrainian drones were shot down over Russia's Nizhny Novgorod region, according to Governor Gleb Nikitin.

Pope Leo XIV wrote on X that he hoped cooperation between the parties would strengthen the desire for dialogue and lead to new concrete peace initiatives.

The truce in Oleshky is due to end on Sunday evening.

Oleshky had a pre-war population of about 24,000, which fell to an estimated 1,700 before the evacuation.

Despite the ceasefire in Oleshky, fighting continues in other parts of the front, with Russia and Ukraine keeping up drone attacks against each other.

The localised ceasefire was scheduled to end at 22:59 Ukrainian time.

Zelensky said Ukraine struck a major missile fuel producer in Russia's Rostov region, causing a fire and damaging four production facilities.

The State Emergency Service of Ukraine said an overnight strike killed two people in the Vinnytsia region, including a 13-year-old girl.

Some residents in areas including Kyiv received additional fake warnings of radiation, chemical attacks, and street fighting.

It was unclear who was behind the cyberattacks or whether the two incidents were connected.

Peskov said the proliferation of AI technology was contributing to an increase in cyberattacks.

Oleshky was seized by Russia during the first few days of its full-scale invasion in February 2022.

Residents had a four-hour window on Friday to leave, with a convoy of 25 buses brought in for up to 750 evacuees.

Tetiana and Volodymyr said their entire home in Oleshky was burned down three years ago and they had been living in the abandoned house of a neighbour since.

In July, Trump said Washington had not agreed to license Ukraine to produce Patriots.

Only 600 Patriot missiles are produced per year according to the US Department of Defence.

The principal contractor for the sale is Lockheed Martin.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said there was growing international interest in a limited ceasefire in the Black Sea to secure grain and energy shipments.

Erdogan said attacks on civilian vessels were unacceptable regardless of who carries them out.

Zelenskyy discussed with Erdogan the possibility of a meeting in Turkiye among other options for talks.

The 2023 destruction of the Kakhovka dam on the Dnipro River released most of its 18 cubic kilometres of water contaminated with fertiliser runoff, heavy metals, and machine oil.

Rusev estimates it would take 30 to 50 years to renew the cetacean population so the sea ecosystem becomes more or less normal.

Fishing and poaching in littoral Black Sea nations plummeted because of Russia's 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

People evacuated from the Russian-occupied city of Oleshky crossed from Belarus into the Ukrainian region of Chernihiv.

Before the war, Oleshky was home to 24,000 people.

Several hundred people decided to stay in the war-torn city despite widespread devastation and lack of gas, electricity and running water.

Ukrainian human rights ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets is the first Ukrainian official since the start of the war to visit Russian-occupied parts of Ukraine.

Before the war, Oleshky was home to 24,000 people.

A humanitarian ceasefire took effect across the Kherson region on Tuesday.

The entry of the convoy into Oleshky followed a localised ceasefire brokered by Melania Trump.

A humanitarian aid convoy containing both Russian and Ukrainian officials entered the city of Oleshky on October 30, 2026.

The city of Oleshky was under siege at the time of the convoy's entry.

The ceasefire in Oleshky is due to be in force until the end of Sunday 1 November.

Dmytro Lubinets is the first Ukrainian official since the start of the war to visit Russian-occupied parts of Ukraine.

A ceasefire has been in force in the frontline region of Kherson since Tuesday.

Reuters reported that the Pentagon told NATO allies to tone down public criticism of Russia.

Emergency power cuts came into force in Dnipro and Dnipropetrovsk Oblast on Friday after damage from Russian attacks.

More than 350,000 people were left without power in the region.

Russian authorities stated that they intercepted more than 1,000 Ukrainian drones over multiple regions overnight.

An oil refinery in Russia's Samara region was struck by Ukrainian drone strikes.

The evacuation involved coordination between Russia and Ukraine.

The ceasefire in Oleshky was brokered by US First Lady Melania Trump.

Residents had a four-hour window to leave the city of Oleshky.

A Ukrainian delegation headed to the Russian-controlled town of Oleshky, where a localized ceasefire is underway to provide humanitarian aid.

Russia targeted Kharkiv, damaging an educational institution, according to Mayor Ihor Terekhov.

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said air defence forces destroyed 231 UAVs on approach to the city.

The population of Kherson has decreased from over 250,000 to about 65,000 since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

The temporary ceasefire is due to end on Sunday.

Petro Andriushchenko said Kherson locals witnessed a Russian military build-up around Radensk, 20km from Oleshky.

A Russian drone strike killed at least 14 people at Dnipro's main railway station on Thursday morning.

At least 14 people were wounded in the attack, including an 11-year-old boy.

Almost 60% of the 521 locomotives hit since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion have been hit in 2026.

Sokolov's operations director Ruslan Zhukov told investigators that North Korean workers were enrolled in colleges they did not attend to avoid the application of labour law.

Russia granted more than 36,000 visas to North Koreans in 2025, a fourfold increase from the previous year, almost all officially for educational purposes.

Zhukov denied the report's allegations, calling them "false, fabricated, and categorically rejected in their entirety".

Zelenskyy's forces have been attacking Russian oil refineries, disrupting oil production and bringing the war home to ordinary Russians.

Steve Witkoff dubbed Putin a 'humanitarian' for releasing one elderly American held in prison.

Trump's war against Iran inflated energy prices because Iran restricted shipments through the strait of Hormuz.

U.S. and Ukrainian officials have said the Starlink and Starshield services have been restored to normal conditions.

Platte Moring told lawmakers that the disruptions were a contractual matter best addressed to the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Space Force.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the imposition of limits on the satellite networks was a U.S. government decision.

The Dutch government announced a new support package for Ukraine worth 1.2 billion euros over the next three years.

Finnish President Alexander Stubb said European countries would be involved in November's Abu Dhabi talks.

Zelenskyy thanked British Prime Minister Andy Burnham for a newly announced additional support package worth 10 billion pounds after a Wednesday morning phone call.

Russian Gen. Valery Gerasimov, chief of the General Staff, confirmed Russian forces would cease fire along the Kherson axis and facilitate safe movement of humanitarian convoys into Oleshky.

Both Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy were involved in the talks, according to Melania Trump's senior adviser Marc Beckman.

Melania Trump had previously mediated exchanges of 34 Ukrainian and Russian children with their families across six separate efforts.

Prosecutors had asked for 14 years for Belenkiy.

Lawyer Yevgeny Smirnov said the response from Binance serves as key evidence in the criminal case against Belenkiy.

The court found that between August 2022 and March 2024, Belenkiy made 15 cryptocurrency transfers worth more than 120,000 roubles ($1,500) to fund Ukraine's armed forces and the Azov battalion.

The truce is due to be in place until 23:59 local time on 1 November.

Russia's defence ministry said units from the army's Dnepr group had been conducting engineering reconnaissance and clearing main access roads of explosive and booby-trap devices.

The city has had no electricity, gas, or water for three years.

Oleshky was hit hard by flooding after the destruction of the nearby Kakhovka Dam in 2023.

Negotiators involved in the aid mission said doctors, medicines, food supplies and water would be taken to Oleshky before evacuation corridors are opened.

Russia suspended strikes on the Ukrainian province of Kherson as a localised ceasefire took effect.

The White House said the truce was secured by the US First Lady.

Oleshky is a Russian-occupied Ukrainian city.

Residents told the BBC they were weary of the ceasefire because evacuation routes could potentially take them through Crimea and Russia.

Peskov conceded that Stubb and Støre's talks with Putin had been very constructive and practical talks with the leaders of two key neighbouring states.

Støre said the initiative was taken in their capacity as neighbours of Russia, not on behalf of Europe as a whole.

Finland's President Alexander Stubb and Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre said the aim of the call was to convey messages regarding future negotiations toward peace.

David Arakhamia said the ceasefire would continue until 22:59 Ukrainian time on Sunday 1 November and described it as the largest de-escalation since 2022.

In Kherson city, no explosions have been heard and no drone-related injuries reported since 03:00 on Tuesday.

The White House said last week that Melania Trump had secured a ceasefire.

Russia's Ministry of Defense said its military targeted Ukraine overnight with a massive strike aimed at the Ukrainian defense industry and transport infrastructure in Kyiv.

Rescue operations were underway with reports that people may be trapped under rubble.

Russia launched 16 ballistic missiles in the attack, two of which Ukraine shot down.

A Russian strike on Zaporizhzhia injured four people on Monday morning.

Zelenskyy said Moscow must stop hitting Ukraine's power infrastructure for Kyiv to halt strikes on Russian oil refineries.

Negotiators from Ukraine, Russia and the United States are expected to meet in Abu Dhabi in the first half of November.

Zelenskyy says Ukraine, Russia and the US have agreed to hold trilateral talks next month.

Zelenskyy renewed his push for a meeting with Putin to discuss territorial issues.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy is the President of Ukraine.

The report found that the frequency, intensity and geographic range of systematic waves of attacks have increased over the years.

Russia's Ministry of Defence accused Ukraine of repeatedly striking the Russian-controlled town of Oleshky ahead of a planned local ceasefire.

The commission submitted its report to the UN General Assembly on Monday.

Mendel praised President Donald Trump's efforts to break the diplomatic deadlock.

Mendel said personal opposition between Zelenskyy and Putin has become the main obstacle to diplomacy.

In September, on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly, Zelenskyy replied 'On a missile' when Russian journalists asked when he would visit Moscow.

Musk and SpaceX did not respond to CNBC's requests for comment.

Ukraine announced partnerships with Norway and Finland's Nokia, as well as satellite maker ICEYE, to develop alternatives to Starlink.

A wide array of customers, including non-government entities, the governments of Poland and France, and the Pentagon, have paid SpaceX to provide its Starlink and Starshield hardware and wireless internet services to Ukraine.

This is the first time an Olympic federation has chosen to stage a global event in Russia since the country's full-scale invasion of Ukraine began in 2022.

The Russian Weightlifting Federation said it is the first Olympic sports federation to bring a top-level official competition back to Russia in many years.

The IOC said it would continue to not organise IOC events in Russia or invite Russian government or state officials to its events.