US President Donald Trump has said he believes that calling Vladimir Putin a dictator is mocking him, and this conflicts with his desire to make a deal with the Russian leader.

The Congressional Ukraine Caucus has expressed deep concern regarding threats to halt intelligence-sharing with Ukraine and recent operational restrictions placed on Starlink.

Slovakia and Russia are set to resume meetings of an intergovernmental commission which were suspended following Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, with energy supplies, nuclear fuel and the treatment of Russian athletes among the key issues.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has said she does not miss the days of Russian tanks in European countries, as she explained to MPs why it is necessary to continue supporting Ukraine and prevent its capitulation.

The European Commission has transferred €2.86 billion to Ukraine for drones, missiles and urgent battlefield needs.

For the first time since the row over the Order of the White Eagle, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is flying out on an official trip from Rzeszów Airport on Wednesday.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said Russia had shown unprecedented contempt for the United States by carrying out a ballistic missile strike on Ukraine's energy infrastructure facilities overnight on 13-14 October.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will arrive in the UK on 14 October as London plans to speed up deliveries of Lightweight Multirole Missiles (LMMs) used to shoot down Russian jet-powered drones.

A bipartisan group of 12 US senators has written to President Donald Trump demanding that he scrap a recently reached agreement with Russian ruler Vladimir Putin to allow Russian-origin diesel fuel to be sold on global markets.

Dmytro Lytvyn, communications adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, has responded to a report in The Washington Post which claims Europe and the US are drawing up a peace plan for Ukraine and Russia that envisages territorial concessions. Lytvyn said the information presented in the article is merely the American team's perspective.

Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha has said that Ukrainian and Azerbaijani citizens were among those injured in a Russian attack on merchant vessels near Bulgaria's territorial waters and called on Ukraine's partners to step up pressure on Moscow.

Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, envoys of the US president, have informed the Ukrainian delegation at negotiations in Miami on 9 October that the agreement permitting the export of Russian diesel fuel is part of an effort to bring Russia back to the negotiating table.

Two merchant ships were attacked by drones on the night of 12-13 October off the Bulgarian coast, causing one of the vessels to sink. Bulgarian Prime Minister Rumen Radev has announced his intention to summon Russian Ambassador Eleonora Mitrofanova for explanations, although the origin of the drones has not yet been established.

The Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian Parliament) adopted amendments to the law on education on Monday 12 October in a bid to secure Hungary's consent to the opening of the second and third negotiating clusters in Ukraine's EU accession talks.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy believes that the United States should have concluded a "diesel agreement" with Ukraine, since it is Ukraine that determines which Russian oil refineries operate and which ships carrying Russian oil can navigate at sea.