The roadmaps created by Brussels on the countries' path to EU accession suggest that the European Union has recognised that Moldova has already overtaken Ukraine in the European integration process.

The EU has refrained from predicting when the leading EU candidate countries will complete their accession negotiations, in the hope that Ukraine will accelerate the pace of its reforms.

Foreign policy representatives of Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party have presented two position papers calling for closer cooperation with the Trump administration, an end to military aid for Ukraine and a rapprochement with Russia.

Police in Świdnica, Poland, have seized 250,000 photographs from a Russian citizen detained on suspicion of espionage.

Polish police have announced the arrest of a 30-year-old man suspected of stabbing two passengers on a city bus in Warsaw.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has called for tougher sanctions against Moscow following Russia's latest attack on the railway station in Dnipro.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will visit Atlanta on 30-31 October to take part in the G20 ministerial meeting.

The Lithuanian government approved a decision to provide €84,500 worth of medical supplies to Ukraine on 28 October.

Finnish President Alexander Stubb has stated that the phone conversation he and Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre held with Russian leader Vladimir Putin on 27 October took place in cooperation with Ukraine.

The roadmaps that the EU is preparing for four countries considered to be the leading candidates for EU membership will contain indicative target dates for the conclusion of accession negotiations – for Ukraine, this is the end of 2029.

Vice Speaker of the Slovak Parliament Tibor Gašpar has called the confiscation of frozen Russian assets to fund Ukraine's military needs unacceptable.

Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar has stated that it is in the interests of both countries to put political and economic relations on a new footing following a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has provided details of his meeting with European Council President António Costa and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.

Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš has criticised US President Donald Trump's deal with Russian ruler Vladimir Putin concerning diesel fuel.

Several Russian UAVs violated Moldovan airspace on the night of 15-16 October and on the morning of 16 October.

French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot has stated that Europe has long been providing the bulk of support to Kyiv and that two-thirds of the intelligence shared with Ukraine comes from Europeans, particularly France.

Miroslav Hlaváč, Chief of the General Staff of the Czech Armed Forces, believes that Russia could test the cohesion of a NATO member state by launching a partial attack on its territory.

A Russian drone violated Romanian airspace before returning to Ukraine, where it was shot down by air defence on Wednesday 14 October.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has confirmed that US President Donald Trump's administration warned it could halt intelligence-sharing if Ukraine did not stop striking Russian oil refineries.

Russian diplomat Alexander Krasiy, who, according to Bulgarian media reports, was expelled from Bulgaria five years ago due to an espionage scandal, was accredited in Serbia in 2026 as an assistant military attaché.