German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has held a videoconference with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, during which they discussed, among other things, Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine.

Kajsa Ollongren, Minister of Defence of the Netherlands, has promised to allocate EUR 500 million to Ukraine for ammunition after visiting Kharkiv and Kyiv. 

A group of former and current government officials, diplomats and academics has written an open letter to the Group of Seven countries and the EU calling for Ukraine to be allowed to use Russia's frozen assets.

Minister of Foreign Affairs Dmytro Kuleba has said that Ukraine still expects to receive long-range Taurus missiles from Germany.

Germany is planning to supply Ukraine with military aid until the end of this decade and beyond.

Over 8,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been trained in Germany since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine.

A group of high-ranking Republicans in the US Congress has called on President Joe Biden to send missiles with longer effective range to Ukraine.

The United States has not lost focus on the need to provide support to Ukraine, and Congress is expected to approve the Ukraine funding request when it comes up for a vote.

Gitanas Nausėda, President of Lithuania, has listed the reasons for the delay of a million artillery shells that the European Union promised Ukraine.

North Korea has provided Russia with over a million rounds of artillery for use in the war against Ukraine.

US senators from both parties expressed doubts on 31 October about a plan by House Republicans to provide US$14.3 billion in aid to Israel separately from support for Ukraine.

Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba has stressed that the cost of an air defence missile is several times less than repairing the consequences of a hit to the energy infrastructure, so it is more profitable to invest in air defence directly.

European politicians have intended to visit the United States in order to strengthen support for Ukraine, responding to the calls of some lawmakers from the Republican Party to reduce the flow of aid, military equipment and finances to Kyiv.

German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius has said that German residents should start getting used to the idea that there is a danger of war in Europe.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba believes that the meeting of advisers in Malta has demonstrated broad support for Ukraine by the world's States against the background of the escalation in the Middle East.

China has not been present at the meeting of national security and foreign policy advisers held in Malta, but Ukraine is seeking to host a Global Peace Summit of world leaders this year.

The EU summit in Brussels, which ended on Friday 27 October, has confirmed the intention of joining together to work on "future security commitments" for Ukraine.

Specialists from the Polish defence holding Polska Grupa Zbrojeniowa (PGZ) have departed to Ukraine to repair damaged military equipment.

Colonel Tarmo Kundla, head of the Estonian Defence Forces (EDF) General Staff's ops department, believes that the Russian government is seeking to gain at least a minimal initiative in Ukraine to create an impression of success in the war among the fellow Russians.

Slovakia is ready to increase its contribution to the EU budget over the next four years by 400 million euros so that Ukraine receives an aid package of 50 billion euros – on certain conditions.

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak that the Russian Federation has lost at least a brigade in its attempts to encircle and capture Avdiivka, Donetsk Oblast.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán once again has stated that the EU's strategy for the Russian-Ukrainian war has failed, and Ukraine will not win on the battlefield. 

At the meeting of EU leaders in Brussels, Prime Minister of Slovakia Robert Fico expressed his concerns about corruption in Ukraine amid the EU’s plans to allocate further financial aid to Kyiv. 

Brussels should tighten its belt instead of asking EU countries for additional contributions to its multi-year budget.

The US House of Representatives shall consider new military aid to Ukraine and Israel as separate measures.

The citizens of Ukraine which had been forcibly taken to Russia from the Ukrainian city of Kherson by the Russian occupiers were finally allowed to enter Georgia after two weeks of being denied entry.

Gabrielius Landsbergis, Lithuania’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, has called on European Union member states to avoid slowing down the supply of ammunition to Ukraine because North Korea has to date given more ammunition to Russia than the EU has to Ukraine.

Robert Fico, the newly appointed Prime Minister of Slovakia, has confirmed that he will not support military aid to Ukraine, as he said during the election campaign.

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has said that he is not going to support "any sanctions" against Russia in the EU without assessing the effect of these sanctions on member states.