The Working Party on Enlargement and Countries Negotiating Accession to the EU (COELA) will discuss the screening results for negotiating clusters 4 and 5 in Brussels on 20 October. This could be the next step towards opening the clusters for Ukraine's EU accession negotiations.

Ukraine could receive around €30 billion from the European Union by the end of 2026 if it continues to implement the relevant reforms.

Ukraine was unable to intercept jet-powered Shahed drones to protect civilians because Starlink connection speeds had been reduced.

European politicians are trying to convince their US partners that pressure must be put on Russia in order to end the war in Ukraine.

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has said Ukraine needs funding to continue fighting Russia and that frozen Russian assets are the most obvious source of additional EU support.

Estonia continues to insist that Russian oil refineries and energy facilities should be destroyed because they fund Russia's war against Ukraine.

European Union leaders plan to call for a ban on the export through EU territory of grain that Russia steals from the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine.

Ukraine will be at the top of the agenda on 16 October, the second day of the European Council meeting in Brussels. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is expected to attend.

From March 2022 to July 2026, European Union countries paid Russia around €197 billion or approximately US$209 billion for fossil fuels.

The European Union must focus on three points as it prepares to accept new members: strengthening safeguards against backsliding on democratic norms, enabling more flexible decision-making, and expanding gradual integration for candidate states prior to full accession.

A source has told European Pravda that US weapons and ammunition supplies to Ukraine through the Prioritised Ukraine Requirements List (PURL) mechanism are continuing, despite US President Donald Trump's demands.

Elections cannot be held in Ukraine while the war is still ongoing, so international pressure should be directed primarily at Russia to force it to end the war.

The European Union welcomes the agreement on an energy ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia, but has yet to see evidence that Moscow is complying with it, and is therefore calling for increased sanctions pressure.

On 12 October, the EU Foreign Affairs Council will discuss the possibility of introducing further restrictions on the movement of Russian diplomats between EU member states, potentially including a complete ban on travel outside the country to which they are accredited.

The European Commission has condemned the Russian attack on civilians in Kramatorsk and emphasised that all perpetrators and accomplices of war crimes must be held accountable.