European Council President António Costa has held a phone call with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, during which they discussed, among other things, Ukraine's progress towards EU membership.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Ed Miliband, the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs of the United Kingdom, have visited Pryluky in Chernihiv Oblast, where a Russian missile struck an apartment block on 7 October.

Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda has said he is not surprised by Russia's letter to NATO threatening nuclear strikes in the event of threats to Kaliningrad Oblast.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has announced that Belgium has agreed to transfer three F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine by the end of the year.

Ukrainian national Volodymyr Zhuravliov, whom Germany suspects of blowing up both strings of the Nord Stream gas pipeline, has applied for political asylum in Croatia.

The Atlantic has reported that US President Donald Trump's special envoy John Coale has proposed a new strategy towards Russia that would seek the release of political prisoners in exchange for easing sanctions and resuming economic ties with Moscow.

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has said his country faces "very difficult weeks and months" due to Russia's increasingly aggressive actions towards Ukraine.

Polish prosecutors are investigating a fire at a Starlink ground station in the village of Wola Krobowska as an act of sabotage and a terrorist-related crime.

EU member states have agreed on the conditions for allocating €6.6 billion to Ukraine from the European Peace Facility.

Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Michael O'Flaherty has warned that the humanitarian situation in the Russian-occupied town of Oleshky in Kherson Oblast is deteriorating rapidly and called for humanitarian access and the safe evacuation of civilians.

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has commented on a fire at a Starlink ground station in the Masovian Voivodeship, saying it was unlikely to have been accidental.

The District Court in the Croatian city of Pula has approved the extradition of Ukrainian citizen Volodymyr Zhuravlov to Germany, where he is suspected of involvement in the sabotage of the Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines.

Ukraine will receive nearly €3 billion in the coming period after the Council of the EU approved the eighth regular tranche under the Ukraine Facility.

The lifting of EU sanctions on Uzbek-Russian oligarch Alisher Usmanov following efforts by France has left a bitter aftertaste among officials and diplomats in Brussels, who now fear that it could set a dangerous precedent.

The Operational Command of the Polish Armed Forces reported on 23 September that a Russian Mi-8 helicopter had violated Polish airspace.