Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will visit Croatia on Wednesday to take part in the Ukraine-Southeast Europe summit hosted by the city of Dubrovnik.

On 8 October, the EU Council approved a new sanctions regime against Russia for destabilising the EU and its member states.

France has stated that it will provide Ukraine with Mirage 2000 fighter jets next year.

US intelligence officials have said that Russia, Iran and China are continuing to be responsible for most attempts to influence American voters.

US Vice President Kamala Harris has said that she would not agree to a bilateral meeting with Russian leader Vladimir Putin to talk about his war against Ukraine.

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico reiterated his negative stance on Ukraine's NATO membership but promised not to block its path to the EU.

Josep Borrell, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, has said that everyone wants the war in Ukraine to end as soon as possible, first and foremost the Ukrainians themselves, but the main question is how exactly this will happen.

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock is not opposed to Ukraine striking deep into Russian territory in self-defence in the future.

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has stated that he, as head of the government, would never agree to Ukraine's accession to NATO.

The Netherlands will allocate €400 million to start the development and production of drones together with Ukraine.

By the end of 2024, Poland will begin construction of the first elements of defensive fortifications on its borders with Russia and Belarus as part of the East Shield project.

Lithuanian border guards refused to let the cars of the Moscow-Kaliningrad transit train pass, which had the letter "Z" painted on them and the inscription "Vilnius is a city of Russia".

The Patriot anti-aircraft missile system that Bucharest pledged to transfer to Kyiv has arrived in Ukraine.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha has held a meeting with his Armenian counterpart Ararat Mirzoyan in Warsaw.

The Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs denied that Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha addressed the idea of a peace accord with territorial concessions in exchange for security guarantees with Western colleagues, as reported by the Financial Times.