After Melania Trump reportedly brokered a localized truce, residents of Ukraine's Oleshky managed to leave the occupied city. Meanwhile, Kyiv claimed a hit on a Russian rocket fuel plant. DW has more.
The civilians traveled by bus and plane through Russia and Belarus before returning to Ukraine, following a deal brokered by U.S. first lady Melania Trump.
Vladimir Putin’s possible attendance at the Group of 20 leaders’ summit in Florida in December would risk regularizing Russia’s return to international forums while its war in Ukraine continues, according to the European Union’s top diplomat Kaja Kallas.
The United States on Friday said it had agreed to sell hundreds of U.S.-made Patriot interceptors to Ukraine, after the country’s president pleaded with Washington to boost his depleted weapons supply. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has long pressed the Trump administration to sell Patriot interceptors, which are a valuable component of Kyiv’s air defense against […]
EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas tells Bloomberg This Weekend that Russia is escalating its war in Ukraine and is not serious about peace, criticizing Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov’s statements at the G20 foreign ministers’ meeting in Atlanta and warning against normalizing Moscow on the international stage. Speaking with host David Gura, Kallas also calls for a diplomatic solution to tensions with Iran and discusses efforts to deepen the EU’s relationship with Canada through greater cooperation on trade, energy and defense. (Source: Bloomberg)
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Ukraine’s drone forces struck a complex of refineries deep within Russia, even as Kyiv and other parts of the country struggled to restore electricity following overnight Russian strikes on energy infrastructure.
Four planes transporting evacuees from the war-ravaged city have arrived in Belarus's Gomel.
The G20 foreign ministers’ meeting in the US is wrapping up two days of talks without agreement on several key global security issues. On the sidelines, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio signed an Arctic cooperation deal with Japan and South Korea and confirmed Washington’s participation in Riyadh’s World Expo in 2030. Meanwhile, European ministers confronted Russia’s Sergei Lavrov over the war in Ukraine and refused to join him for the traditional group photo. Jack Pownall reports.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged his allies to speed up deliveries of the critical munition.
Ukraine has long said it urgently needs more missile interceptors to knock down the growing waves of missiles from Russia.
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Deal would be one of the most significant steps to supply defensive weapons to Kyiv since Trump took office in 2025.
The Ukrainian president called the US decision strong, but added that delivery of 500 Patriot PAC-3 missiles could take years The US has approved the sale of 500 Patriot PAC-3 missiles to Ukraine for an estimated $2.1bn, but Volodymyr Zelenskyy has warned deliveries could take years and stockpiles were needed now to counter Russian ballistic missile attacks. “The proposed sale will improve Ukraine’s capability to meet current and future threats by improving its integrated air and missile defense capabilities,” the US state department said in a statement on Friday. Continue reading...
Presented by Palantir {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security The Big Story Ukraine gets approval for Patriot missile sale The State Department approved on Friday a possible $2.1 billion sale of 500 Patriot interceptor missiles to Ukraine that is funded entirely by U.S. partners and allies. © Getty The Trump administration greenlit the…
Ukraine correspondent Dan Johnson explains the temporary ceasefire in the devastated town of Oleshky.
The Trump administration approved the sale of $2.1 billion in Patriot air defense systems to Ukraine on Friday, the State Department said in a statement.
The American-made interceptors are the only effective weapon for downing Russia's ballistic missiles.
UK Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband confronted his Russian counterpart at the meeting and accused his government of killing innocent civilians in Ukraine.
The Trump administration has approved a proposed $2.1 billion sale of Patriot air defense interceptors for Ukraine
Residents evacuated from the Russian-occupied Ukrainian town of Oleshky have left for Russia's Anapa city with a Ukrainian delegation, senior official David Arakhamia said Friday. They are expected to fly to Belarus before returning to Ukraine by bus, during a rare ceasefire brokered by the United States.
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Oil prices rose with the market on edge about possible military escalation in the Middle East, while an attack on a tanker in the Strait of Hormuz, Houthi claims of more attacks on Saudi refineries and a Ukrainian strike on a Russian refinery fed supply concerns.
Under the local ceasefire, an aid convoy of 25 buses arrived with humanitarian aid and as transport for fleeing Oleshky residents. The Ukrainian city has been occupied by Russia since 2022 and faces food shortages.
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The Court of Arbitration for Sport overturns the ban on Russia by ice hockey's global governing body.
Humanitarian convoy brings food and medicine to Russian-held city where people have suffered severe shortages People living in the besieged Russian-held city of Oleshky in southern Ukraine were evacuated on Friday as part of a joint relief operation, the first of its kind in four years and eight months of war. The city, which lies on the Russian-occupied side of the Dnipro River, opposite Kherson, has suffered months of serious food and medical shortages, leading to warnings of starvation for the few thousand people remaining there, including about 50 children. Continue reading...
Some residents of Oleshky, a Russian-occupied town in southern Ukraine ravaged by food and medicine shortages, left on Friday during a rare ceasefire brokered by the United States – due to end on Sunday evening. Ukrainian and Russian officials visited the town together on Friday, delivering aid and marshalling those who wanted to leave.
The first strike on a Russian oil refinery in two weeks comes after Russian attacks killed 27 civilians on Thursday.
Russian made an unprecedented combative move this month as one of its military satellites, the Cosmos-2612, encroached upon the orbit of Ukrainian commercial satellite, Iceye-X36, in behaviour deemed "threatening" by the US State Department. Norbert Pouzin, an orbital analyst at French space tech firm, Aldoria, described the mercenary manoeuvre as the first of its kind.
Hundreds of people are also understood to have stayed in the front-line town, despite the dangers.
From the EU's perspective, the second Trump presidency has felt even more destabilising than the first. From making the false claim that the EU was set up to "screw" the United States, to slapping tariffs on European goods, to making territorial claims on Greenland, to doing a diesel deal with Vladimir Putin and telling Ukraine to get a new president, Donald Trump has more than ruffled feathers on this side of the ocean. He has shaken the very foundations of the historical transatlantic relationship.
Starving and exhausted residents of Oleshky, a Russian-occupied town in southern Ukraine, were being evacuated on Friday, October 30, as part of a joint relief operation involving the opposing sides – the first operation of its kind in four years and eight months of war. FRANCE 24’s Ukraine correspondent Emmanuelle Chaze reports.
A Greek container ship has sunk after being struck by three drones, potentially of Russian origin, in the Black Sea off the Bulgarian coast on Wednesday, October 28. This incident highlights growing concerns for commercial shipping as the conflict between Ukraine and Russia persists.
Russian and Ukrainian officials have entered the devastated city of Oleshky following a rare ceasefire brokered by U.S. first lady Melania Trump
An evacuation mission was underway in a Russian-occupied city in Ukraine, during a truce brokered by first lady Melania Trump and with Pope Leo XIV’s involvement.
"Novaya Gazeta," one of the last remaining independent, critical media outlets in Russia, has announced it is closing under pressure from state authorities. Meanwhile, in Ukraine, evacuations have begun in Oleshky.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport has ruled that Russian teams must be allowed to take part in international ice hockey tournaments. The IIHF had banned Russia following the country's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth fired a senior Army general this week after the general admitted to sharing classified information with multiple reporters from different outlets. Army Lt. Gen. Brett Sylvia confessed to leaking information about the Ukraine and Iran wars to two separate reporters over a one-year period, according to a Pentagon report reviewed ...
Ukraine has ended a pause on Russian refinery attacks and Binance probes what may be the biggest-ever crypto heist.
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