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#ukraine

that was but but Norah, that was Joe Biden's war, not my war. I inherited that stupid war. That should not have been a war. That would've never happened if I were president. And by the way, for four years it didn't happen. There was never even a doubt. Then the election was rigged and stolen, and all of a sudden you see them forming up at the line. And now I come back and I'm gonna get that one solved too.

Ukrainian authorities were working to restore power to Donetsk after Russian attacks on infrastructure caused outages, Ukrainian regional governor Vadym Filashkin said on Sunday. The claim could not be independently verified, as most of the eastern region of Donetsk is controlled by Russian troops. Russian forces have stepped up attacks on Ukraine's power grid in recent weeks as winter draws near.

Vadym Voroshylov, a well-known Ukrainian MiG-29 pilot with the call sign Karaya, wrote on Instagram this week that the JAS-39 Gripen "is the only fighter jet in the world I'd be willing to sell my soul for." He said that this jet us "ideal option" for Ukraine today and also reliable for the future. Voroshylov's post came after Ukraine and Sweden signed a letter of intent to export up to 150 JAS 39 Gripen E fighter jets to Kyiv.

Putin said on Sunday that Russia had successfully tested its unique nuclear-capable Burevestnik cruise missile, which the Kremlin described as part of efforts to ensure the country's national security. When asked on Monday by reporters onboard Air Force One about Russia's nuclear missile test, Trump said Putin should focus on ending the war with Ukraine rather than testing missiles. Trump said the US had a nuclear submarine right off their shores that did not need to travel such distances.

He was in charge from 2014 to 2024 and this documentary, with remarkable access, shows us his final 12 months day-by-day, moment-by-moment after Joe Biden had persuaded him in 2023, when his tenure was technically at an end, to stay on for another year after Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Perhaps, until that moment, Stoltenberg had been happy to assume that for all the meetings and stress, the secretary-generalship was an agreeable prestigious technocratic position without any real danger.

Russian and Ukrainian forces are interlocked in desperate battles for control of Ukraine's eastern towns of Pokrovsk and Myrnohrad, which Moscow considers a gateway to the remaining unoccupied areas of the Donetsk region. On Sunday, Valery Gerasimov, Russian chief of staff, told President Vladimir Putin his 2nd and 51st Combined Arms Armies were advancing along converging axes and have completed the encirclement of the enemy in Pokrovsk and Myrnohrad.

Ukrainian National Police reported that a man detonated a grenade on a train station platform in Ovruch city in Ukraine's Zhytomyr region, killing three people, as well as himself, and injuring 12 others. The three people killed were all women. Police did not say if the attack, which occurred near Ukraine's border with Belarus, was connected to Russia's war in Ukraine.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Ukraine wants the US to stay involved in efforts to end the war after a meeting of western allies in London that took place without president Donald Trump.

Prime Minister Viktor Orban led what he called a "peace march," stressing his opposition to military support for Ukraine, while his main challenger, Peter Magyar of the Tisza Party, led a competing protest. In an address to the crowd in front of parliament, Orban reiterated his opposition to EU military aid for Ukraine as well as potential EU and NATO membership for the country.

Spain is joining the joint purchases of U.S. military equipment by NATO countries for shipment to Ukraine. The decision was confirmed by Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez upon arriving at the meeting of the European Council this Thursday in Brussels. This is a proposal that NATO launched a few weeks ago. I had the opportunity to speak with President Zelenskiy [] and I informed him that we were going to join this program, the Spanish leader stated in response to questions from the media.

European leaders are meeting on Thursday with the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in Brussels to reaffirm support for Kyiv. The president of the European Council, Antonio Costa, welcomed Zelenskyy, addressing him as future member of the European Union. The meeting comes as the 27 member bloc formally adopted a 19th package of sanctions against Russia for its war against Ukraine that includes a ban on Russian liquefied natural gas imports.

Zelenskyy has painted his meeting last week with Trump as a success that yielded progress on acquiring new air defence systems, a contrast from reports that Trump had berated him with obscenities in the White House. In comments to the media on Sunday that were embargoed until Monday, the Ukrainian president described Trump's message at the meeting as positive, even though Zelenskyy did not secure Tomahawk cruise missiles.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has not been invited but said he is ready to join. Asked if troops could deploy if a deal was reached in the next two weeks, Healey said: "If President Trump can broker a peace, then we will be ready to help secure that peace". But he added that Ukrainians must be the "people who will decide how and what" is negotiated in any peace talks.

Trump continues to try to force an end to the fighting, which has been ongoing since Russia invaded its neighbour in February 2022. The US leader has not presented any detailed proposals, and wavers in his approach. But he has grown increasingly frustrated with faltering peace efforts. In recent months, he expressed disappointment at Putin for not making meaningful concessions after the two met in Alaska in August.

After all, the Hungarian capital was the site of the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, in which Ukraine gave up the thousands of nuclear weapons it had inherited upon the breakup of the Soviet Union in return for assurances that Russia would respect Ukraine's territorial integrity. Putin broke that promise with his 2014 invasion and annexation of Crimea, with his decade-long military offensive in the Donbas region, and then with his all-out invasion in 2022.

Ukraine was the most successful nation at this week's European team championships, winning gold in the open event and silver in the women's. It also sparked one of the most memorable results of recent years, as Igor Kovalenko, a serving army soldier who played no chess for three years, won the individual gold on fourth board with 6.5/8, the best percentage of the entire tournament.

Yermak added that while both calls were held on a secure line, the two leaders wanted to discuss issues so sensitive they can only be addressed in person. "There are a lot of questions which are impossible to discuss by phone. Like about the situation in the front line. Like about our [military] plans and about how we and the American side see the next steps for the peace process," Yermak said.

Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine was supposed to be a short campaign, but the larger country's swift victory anticipated by many analysts failed to materialize. Part of the reason for Ukraine's effective defense was Kyiv's early warning of the build-up of Russian forces on its border. U.S./allied intelligence warned Kyiv, but another non-government source tipped them off to the impending invasion: commercial imagery, especially Maxar's optical photos, publicly documented the build-up and the initial invasion, revealing the long convoy heading toward Kyiv on Feb. 27, 2022.

Kyiv has announced that it is sending a delegation to Washington for talks on strengthening its defence and energy resilience as Russian forces continue targeting Ukraine's power infrastructure ahead of the cold winter months. The departure of a senior delegation, led by Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko, was announced on Monday, just as Ukraine's Energy Ministry said it had imposed power outages across the country in a bid to reduce pressure on the grid in the wake of damaging Russian attacks.

10/10/2025October 10, 2025 Ukraine's air force said the capital had come under a large scale aerial drone and missile bombardment. The country's energy minister said Russia was targeting energy sites. DW has more. Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said nine people had been injuredImage: Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Photo/picture alliance Skip next section What you need to know Russia launches launches wave of drone and missile attacks on Kyiv High-rise apartment building in central Kyiv struck, power outages reported Ukraine says Russia targeting energy sites

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Wednesday night that "long-range sanctions against Russia," a reference to its deep-strike campaign targeting Russian energy facilities, is "achieving truly significant results." Moscow's vast oil industry is a critical sector, with oil and natural gas exports fueling its war efforts in Ukraine. Ukraine has been targeting infrastructure across Russia, including refineries, with long-range weapons to turn up the pressure on Moscow.