U.S. President Donald Trump has called it “a disgrace” that Ukraine has resumed attacks on Russian oil refineries. Attacks are continuing from Russia and Ukraine as media reports say Ukraine has almost run out of Patriot interceptor missiles.
Moldova has condemned Russia after five drones, identified by Moldovan authorities as Russian, crashed on its territory within 24 hours, escalating concerns over the spillover effects of the war in neighbouring Ukraine.
According to Moldovan officials, the drones entered the country's airspace on Thursday and Friday before crashing in northern and eastern regions.
One person was lightly injured and minor property damage was reported. Chisinau said the incidents threaten civilian safety and regional stability, renewing criticism of Moscow as tensions between the two countries remain strained.
Pope Leo spoke by phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday, urging a truce to allow the delivery of humanitarian aid and food supplies, according to the Vatican.
The Pope also called for the voluntary evacuation of civilians and expressed grave concern over the humanitarian situation in Oleshky.
The Vatican said Pope Leo reaffirmed the Holy See's commitment to dialogue and initiatives aimed at achieving peace.
Asked about the strained relationship between Trump and Ukraine, Germany’s foreign minister said the U.S. essentially continues to provide support for Kyiv. He added that, ultimately, Ukraine and Russia will have to negotiate. The comments come as tensions between Zelenskyy and Trump overshadow the EU summit in Brussels.
Russia hit energy facilities in Kyiv and the Kyiv, Volyn, Odesa and Rivne regions overnight and into Friday morning, leaving some consumers without power, Ukraine’s energy ministry said. New outages were also reported in six other regions.
Russia launched 149 drones overnight, and at least three people were killed and more than 50 injured across the country over the past day.
Zelenskyy described his talks with Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar as “very good”, saying a lot had been discussed, and added that he would not mind travelling to Budapest. The meeting, their first bilateral talks after years of tension between Kyiv and Budapest, produced a political agreement on strengthening the rights of the Hungarian minority in Transcarpathia.
Turning to Washington, Zelenskyy said he hopes Ukraine and the U.S. will hold talks in the coming days. He also revealed that Ukraine had asked the U.S. for air defence systems if Trump’s diesel deal with Russia goes ahead. The deal, struck in defiance of Western sanctions, has pushed relations between Kyiv and Washington to a new low.
Zelenskyy said European allies have enough Patriot missiles to help Ukraine get through the winter, as air defence remains one of his top priorities alongside energy and funding. He also said Starlink services have not been completely restored, warning that the throttling puts civilians at risk. Ukraine’s service was partially restored on 14 October, but a speed limit on terminals in motion remains in place, affecting the interceptor drones Kyiv relies on to defend cities against Russia’s jet-powered attack drones.
Speaking at his press conference in Brussels, Zelenskyy said Ukraine expects to receive more F-16 fighter jets before the end of the year. Last month, he announced an agreement with Belgium for three F-16s to be delivered by the end of the year through an accelerated procedure. Belgium has pledged to hand over all 53 of its F-16s by 2029.
Romania has resumed a search for seven sailors missing from a chemical tanker hit by a drone near its Black Sea coast.
The missing crew were among 12 sailors aboard the San Marino-flagged tanker Wine Trader, which was struck early on Thursday about a mile outside Romanian territorial waters.
Five crew members were rescued, but efforts to find the others have been hampered by strong winds and rough seas.
“Our colleagues returned today to search the ship and continue the mission to identify the rest of the crew,” a Romanian Interior Ministry spokesperson said.
Officials said a Black Hawk helicopter would place four rescuers aboard the vessel while a ship continued searching nearby waters.
Ukrainian state oil and gas firm Naftogaz's acting CEO has said the company has built its largest gas reserves in six years ahead of winter, despite a jump in Russian strikes on the firm's facilities.
Ukraine uses vast volumes of gas to heat its cities during the winter months. Russia has sharply intensified its attacks on Ukraine's energy sector in recent months.
Naftogaz CEO Sergii Fedorenko said Russia had attacked Naftogaz assets more than 400 times so far this year, twice as many times as in 2025.
“This year, most of our facilities have come under attack,” Fedorenko said, adding that oil and gas production, processing and transportation facilities, as well as thermal power plants in frontline regions, had been hit.
“We are strengthening defences and digging in,” he said.
Hungary is ready to use all diplomatic tools to help achieve a ceasefire and lasting peace in Ukraine, Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar has said in a statement on X following a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Brussels.
"We also agreed that it is in both countries’ interests to build a new foundation for our political and economic relations. I expressed my full solidarity with Ukraine in the face of Russia’s brutal aggression, which has continued for almost five years," Magyar said.
Russian drones killed at least three people across Ukraine early on Friday, Ukrainian officials said.
Two people died and 12 more were wounded in attacks on three districts of the eastern city of Kharkiv, Governor Oleh Syniehubov said.
In the northwestern region of Volyn, which borders Poland, a drone strike on a food-processing facility killed one person and wounded eight others, according to Governor Roman Romaniuk.
Other attacks hit at least two shopping centres, one in the northern city of Sumy, which sits close to the front line, and one in the neighbouring region of Rivne, officials said.
Bulgaria has formally asked NATO to deploy combat aircraft and anti-drone systems to bolster its defences after a series of drone attacks on commercial shipping in the Black Sea, Sofia's Defence Minister Dimitar Stoyanov has said.
On Tuesday, a commercial vessel sank off Bulgaria's Black Sea coast following a drone attack, prompting Sofia to summon Russia's ambassador.
“We have sent letters and a request to the NATO Secretary General and the Supreme Allied Commander, urging them to strengthen our capabilities, which also means deploying additional forces on our territory. We are awaiting their decision,” Stoyanov said
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he discussed financial support for Ukraine for the upcoming year with the presidents of the European Commission and European Council in Brussels on Friday.
Ukraine currently faces a wartime budget crisis driven by a huge military funding deficit, stalled economic growth, and domestic revenue shortfalls due to intensified Russian strikes on businesses and infrastructure.
Russia has moved to seize the assets of a number of European companies, including Belgian, French, German and Swedish firms.
Russian President Vladimir Putin's decree would put the affected brands under temporary management.
The Kremlin said the measures were a response to European Union (EU) nations' involvement in “direct battlefield hostilities” but stressed they were “reversible.”
Companies affected include French flooring maker Tarkett and German packaging manufacturer Menshen.
The latest move against European companies came ahead of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's appearance at an EU summit on Friday.
Russia has sentenced a Ukrainian drone operator and British and Georgian volunteers fighting with the Ukrainian Armed Forces to sentences in absentia, ranging from life imprisonment to 13 and a half years.
Speaking at a press briefing on Friday, Maria Zakharova, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson, said the Ukrainian individual had carried out what she described as “terrorist activities" on Russian territory.
The British volunteers were named as Alexander Moss and James Richard Taylor by Zakharova. The Georgian volunteer was called Tornike Iremashvili, Zakharova said.
Ahead of the EU leaders summit, EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen told reporters that EU will continue to support Ukraine and will not lift any sanctions against Russia.
“One thing is absolutely clear: we will not lift any sanctions unless Russia stops this war,” von der Leyen told reporters, joined by Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Gas supplies from Russia to Uzbekistan continue according to existing contractual obligations despite an explosion on the Central Asia–Centre gas pipeline in Russia. According to Uzbekistan’s Energy Ministry there are currently no disruptions to deliveries.
The incident occurred on 13 October in Russia’s Penza region, where the pipeline was temporarily shut down following the blast.
Ahead of the second day of the European Council meetings in Brussels, Latvian Prime Minister Andris Kulbergs, said European member states are united in discussions on Ukraine accessing the bloc.
Russian drone strikes on Ukraine's northwestern Volyn region bordering Poland have left 370,000 people without power, regional Governor Roman Romaniuk said on Telegram. Two people were also injured in the attacks, he added.
Another five people were wounded after drones struck an apartment building in Uman in central Ukraine, the country's national police said on Telegram.
Emergency power cuts were introduced in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv during Russian strikes, private energy provider DTEK said on X.
Images releases by Ukraine's State Emergency Service show the aftermath of Russian strikes on the Cherkasy region in central Ukraine. Firefighters have now extinguished all blazes triggered by the aerial attacks, the agency said.
Russia's army destroyed a major logistics centre in Teplodar, southwestern Ukraine overnight, Moscow's Defence Ministry said in a post on Telegram.
Russian forces also hit a cargo vessel which was transporting military goods to the Port of Odesa in southwestern Ukraine, the Defence Ministry added.
Ukraine's resumption of strikes on Russian refineries is a “disgrace” that keeps global energy prices elevated, U.S. President Donald Trump told the Newsmax news outlet in an interview aired on Thursday.
Ukraine struck a Russian oil refinery after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy declared that Kyiv was abandoning a ceasefire covering energy sites that Trump had announced, and criticised Trump's willingness to strike deals with Moscow.
“All he's doing is making the world oil price higher. Well, I think that's a disgrace,” Trump said in the interview, after Ukraine hit a Rosneft refinery southeast of Moscow which helps to supply the Russian capital.
“There are a lot of targets you can hit, but when you shoot at diesel refineries where you make, you know, diesel oil, and we need that, and the world needs that, then he's not doing a good service for the world,” Trump added.
The order to limit a satellite internet system used by Ukraine for battlefield communications and drone operations came from inside the White House, according to two U.S. officials and a Western official briefed on the matter.
The officials said leaders at the U.S. Defence Department received a message that the SpaceX Starshield service for the Ukrainian military needed to be slowed.
The officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, did not specify who in the White House made the decision or who was responsible for implementing the order. The Pentagon is the biggest customer of Starshield, which is the military-grade version of the Starlink service.
Ukrainian officials said this week that military-grade Starlink receptors stopped working in Ukraine when mounted on fast-moving objects, interfering with the performance of Ukrainian drones that rely on them for onboard guidance systems over Ukrainian territory.
A person in Ukraine's Defence Ministry said on Thursday that the receptors were now working when in motion, but only at speeds of up to 160 kilometres per hour.
Ukraine's stock of Patriot air defence missiles has reached critically low levels, leaving the country vulnerable to continued Russian attacks, U.S. newspaper The Washington Post has reported, citing a Ukrainian official and another person familiar with the matter.
Patriot air defence missiles are the only weapon capable of reliably intercepting ballistic missiles fired at the country by Russia.
According to a Ukrainian official spoken to by The Washington Post, the country has just two Patriot interceptor missiles remaining.
Global supplies of the missiles are extremely depleted due to their heavy use in conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East.
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