The German government plans to increase financial assistance to Ukraine by approximately €3 billion in 2026 and is preparing to approve the corresponding amendments to the draft budget.

Defence Minister Guido Crosetto has said that Italy is working on another aid package for Ukraine – the 12th since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Admiral Giuseppe Cavo Dragone, Chair of NATO's Military Committee, has said NATO will continue to support Ukraine until the parties are ready to sit down for peace negotiations.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has suggested that Moscow can provide "security guarantees" to European Union and NATO countries.

Yuri Ushakov, an aide to Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin, has stated that Russia maintains "general readiness" to hold a summit between Putin and US President Donald Trump, which has been postponed indefinitely.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has said the US sanctions on major Russian oil-producing companies were a mistake.

Belgium, which has expressed concern about the use of frozen Russian assets for the benefit of Ukraine, wants to achieve a change in the conclusions of the EU summit in this regard.

Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin will not personally attend the G20 summit in South Africa, which is a signatory to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC).

The Pentagon chief spokesman Sean Parnell has responded with a vulgar joke to a question from a HuffPost journalist about the colours of US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's tie, which resembled the Russian flag.

US President Donald Trump plans to hold a phone conversation with Russian ruler Vladimir Putin on Thursday 16 October.

The Ukraine-EU Association Committee in Trade Configuration has approved a decision to lift some tariffs and expand export quotas for Ukrainian agricultural products to the European Union.

US President Donald Trump may receive his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy this week.

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has mocked Russia over the malfunction of its submarine Novorossiysk, which surfaced near the coast of France a few days ago.

Polish Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski has condemned the latest Russian attack on Ukraine during his visit to Lviv on Friday 10 October.

Russian senior officials have made contradictory statements within a day on whether the "momentum" for resolving Russia's war against Ukraine after the Alaska summit has been exhausted.