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Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi on Friday urged Moscow to immediately release a Japanese journalist detained on suspicion of espionage and take steps to achieve a just and lasting peace in Ukraine during a meeting with his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov.
Russian forces are deploying recruited mercenaries from African and Asian countries in assaults on the Huliaipole sector of the front line.
One woman, aged 43, was killed and 12 people were injured in Russian attacks in the Sumy region over the past day.
A total of 173 combat engagements between Ukraine’s Defense Forces and Russian invading forces were recorded along the front line on October 30.
Ukraine’s air defense forces neutralized 105 out of the 134 drones launched by Russian invading forces against Ukraine since the evening of October 30.
Russian forces attacked five districts of the Dnipropetrovsk region more than 20 times with drones overnight. One person was killed and two others were injured.
The total combat losses of Russian forces in Ukraine from February 24, 2022, to October 31, 2026, amount to approximately 1,588,170 personnel, including 1,670 over the past 24 hours.
Canada will contribute to the Ukraine Support Loan provided by the EU for 2026–2027 and will allocate €500 million.
Three people were injured and 10 residential buildings were damaged in a Russian drone strike on Kharkiv.
The European Union and Canada have pledged to continue stepping up pressure on Russia and supporting Ukraine, including with reforms and Euro-Atlantic integration.
President Volodymyr Zelensky called the U.S. State Department’s decision to authorize Ukraine to purchase interceptors for countering Russian ballistic missiles for Patriot systems a strong one.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has invited members of the Coalition of the Willing to a meeting in Berlin in November to coordinate further support for Ukraine.
Putin's new demands that NATO reduce its presence on the eastern flank repeat proposals the Kremlin leader made back in December 2021 and which the Alliance rejected at the time. Their reiteration today shows that Putin is out of touch with reality.
The first mobile civil defense shelters in the capital could be installed using budget funds by the end of the year.
Ukraine's Defense Forces have destroyed or disabled 1,039 Russian military boats and vessels using unmanned aerial vehicles since the beginning of 2026.
At the 17th Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (COP17), being held in Yerevan, Armenia, the Ukrainian delegation highlighted the large-scale impact of Russia’s armed aggression on Ukraine’s natural environment.
Counterintelligence officers of the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) have detained a man in the Khmelnytskyi region who is suspected of providing Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) with the coordinates of defense and civilian facilities for a new series of missile and drone attacks on the western region.
Several critical infrastructure facilities in Kyiv have been left without power following a Russian air attack, causing disruptions to the city's water supply.
Russian forces attacked a private home with an FPV drone in the Stetskivka district of the Sumy region, injuring a woman.
Police are investigating the circumstances of an explosion at a residential building in Kyiv's Shevchenkivskyi district.
