Russian strikes on Ukraine overnight killed at least two people and injured 15 others, including two children, Ukrainian authorities said. Meanwhile, Russia said it had intercepted the vast majority of 630 Ukrainian drones launched towards Moscow.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Thursday that U.S. President Donald Trump could ‘very easily’ bring Russian President Vladimir Putin to the negotiating table, and urged him to direct his criticism at Moscow instead.
‘Given the way he talks about me, President Trump needs to start using that kind of rhetoric concerning Putin,’ Zelenskyy told British podcaster Steven Bartlett.
He also called Trump’s claims that Ukraine is to blame for rising U.S. diesel prices ‘unfair’. He said Putin had rejected Trump’s request for an energy ceasefire.
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday that Elon Musk had restored Ukraine’s access to Starlink, saying ‘the bottom line is Musk put it back’.
Earlier, the Wall Street Journal reported that Trump had called Musk and asked him to lift restrictions on Ukraine’s use of the satellite internet service. Citing U.S. officials, the newspaper said Trump was frustrated that limits remained in place.
According to U.S. and Ukrainian officials, Starlink was working more normally on Thursday. Some Ukrainian officials, however, said the service had not been fully restored.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said eastern Ukraine is “historically Russian land” and reiterated that Russia is not preparing for war with Europe.
Putin said potential trilateral talks with the United States and Ukraine should focus on ensuring the security of both Russia and Ukraine.
He added that European security should also be discussed.
Zelenskyy said Ukraine was ready to participate in peace talks during the G20 summit in the United States, but said Kyiv had not yet received an invitation.
He said a meeting in Florida during the G20 summit could be possible with mediation from Trump and Ukraine’s partners.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Starlink speed had not yet been fully restored in Ukraine and that Kyiv was working to resolve the issue.
He said he hoped to speak with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio in the coming days. Ukraine has relied on Starlink communications for military operations, including drone missions.
U.S. President Donald Trump called Elon Musk and asked him to lift restrictions on Ukraine’s use of Starlink, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing U.S. officials.
The Starlink system was working more normally in Ukraine on Thursday after the conversation, according to U.S. and Ukrainian officials cited by the newspaper.
Denmark has agreed to buy its first long-range precision missiles to deter Russia, Defence Minister Jeppe Bruus said on Thursday.
He said the weapons would allow strikes “behind enemy lines” if the country were attacked. The order includes Anthem missiles from U.S. firm Covenant and Kongsberg’s Joint Strike Missiles for Denmark’s F-35s.
Bruus did not disclose quantities or cost.
Russia’s embassy in Copenhagen accused Denmark of seeking confrontation and warned of “inevitable disastrous consequences”.
The Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) will bring home one of its two staff members in Kyiv on safety grounds, Yonhap news agency reported on Thursday.
The decision followed a safety review and comes amid intensifying Russian drone and missile attacks on the Ukrainian capital.
The move comes as Seoul and Kyiv are locked in a diplomatic dispute. South Korea withdrew its ambassador this month, accusing Ukraine of breaching a confidentiality agreement over the transfer of two captured North Korean soldiers to the South.
Russia struck Kyiv overnight with three ballistic missiles carrying cluster munition warheads, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Thursday.
He said the warheads burst in the air and scattered damage across an area 400 metres wide, and that one hit near the monastery buildings of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra.
He also said Russia had struck critical energy facilities more than 170 times since 11 October.
Moscow did not immediately comment, and the claims could not be independently verified.
Polish authorities have detained a second suspect in the June killing of Russian artist Robert Kuzovkov, a critic of Vladimir Putin, Tomasz Siemoniak, the minister who oversees Poland’s security services, said on Thursday.
A court has remanded the 22-year-old Georgian national in custody for three months on suspicion of complicity, Siemoniak wrote on X.
Kuzovkov, who worked under the name Semyon Skrepetsky, was shot five times in Biala Podlaska. A 36-year-old man using a Georgian passport was arrested at the time.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Thursday he was not surprised by the arrest near Berlin of a suspected Russian spy, and warned there would be more such cases.
He called the arrest a success, saying Germany was a target of intensive espionage.
“Let us not delude ourselves: the activities of Russian intelligence services in Germany remain at a consistently high level,” Merz told a press conference in Montenegro.
A Ukrainian national has been arrested in Germany on suspicion of spying for Russia, German newspaper Bild has reported, citing a statement by federal public prosecutors.
The public prosecutors did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
A man accused of leaking details about the location of Russia's Black Sea fleet to Ukrainian security services has been arrested in Crimea, Russian state news agency TASS has reported, citing the FSB's media centre.
“The Federal Security Service (FSB) has stopped the illegal activities of a Russian citizen born in 1969, an identified agent of the 5th Directorate of the Criminal Investigation Department of the Security Service of Ukraine, suspected of treason, in the Republic of Crimea,” the FSB said.
An uptick in diplomatic activity by Europeans around a peaceful settlement in Ukraine is a positive development, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said.
Russia will review a U.S. invitation for President Vladimir Putin to attend a G20 meeting in Miami in December but no decision has been made yet, he added.
Peskov also said that no decision had been made on who will represent Russia in potential trilateral talks between Moscow, Washington and Kyiv.
NATO member Denmark is set to announce deals to acquire long-range precision missiles for the first time as the Nordic country seeks to beef up its security, Danish public broadcaster TV2 reported, citing anonymous sources.
The government in Copenhagen said last year that it intended to buy long-range offensive weapons to counter a Russian military threat to Europe, drawing sharp condemnation from Moscow.
Finland seeks to begin producing new landmines in 2028, Colonel Riku Mikkonen had told the official news publications of the Finnish Defence Forces.
“We have an ongoing materials project, which is currently in the preparation and market review phase. At the same time, we are drawing up technical requirements for the mines,” he said.
Finland's army is aiming to add a million new anti-personnel mines to its stockpile.
In January 2026, Finland withdrew from the Ottawa Convention, an anti-personnel landmine ban it signed in 2012, alongside Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland, fearful of potential Russian aggression.
Russia and Ukraine exchanged bodies of their war dead, with Moscow handing over 252 corpses and receiving 25 bodies in the swap, Belarusian state news agency Belta reported on Thursday.
Ukrainian troops infiltrated the rear of Russian forces near Kupiansk, northeast Ukraine, after travelling through underground gas pipelines, Ukraine's National Guard's 2nd Khartiia Corps said in a post on Telegram.
The soldiers travelled around 15 kilometres through the pipelines before carrying out the assault, in conjunction with drone strikes.
A man was killed and another was wounded as a result of Ukrainian drone strikes in Russia's western Belgorod region, local authorities said.
Kirill Dmitriev, an envoy of Russian President Vladimir Putin, told an economic forum in Istanbul on Thursday that the undersea Nord Stream gas pipelines, damaged by blasts in 2022, will resume their operations in future.
“It's economically inevitable,” he said. “The resumption of energy supplies from Russia is absolutely inevitable,” he added.
Russia launched 21 ballistic missiles at Ukraine overnight, killing two people and injuring 34 others, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said in a statement on X.
In Kyiv, residential buildings, energy facilities, a railway station, the metro, a shopping centre and businesses were hit, Zelenskyy said.
He reiterated Ukraine's need for stronger air defences and more missiles to destroy ballistic missile launchers, as well as additional sanctions on Russia.
“When Russia responds to negotiations with ballistic missiles, real pressure on Russia is needed to bring about different steps – steps toward ending the killing," he said.
Ukraine's Security Service (SSU) has arrested a Russian agent in Ukraine's army who leaked coordinates of Kyiv's military logistics centres to Moscow's intelligence services.
The SSU said that it had moved more than 100 drones from zones at risk of attack.
Russia and the U.S. are discussing the future of sanctioned Russian oil giant Lukoil's overseas assets, Ukrainian newspaper the Kyiv Post has reported, citing remarks made by Kremlin foreign policy aide Yuri Ushakov on Wednesday. The firm's sanctioned assets are valued at approximately $22 billion.
Photos from Ukraine's State Emergency Service show the aftermath of Russian strikes on Ukraine overnight in Kyiv, as well as Sumy and Kharkiv in northeastern Ukraine.
More than 2,000 soldiers have been killed in a single day, Ukraine's central military command said in a statement on X.
“Over the past day, 21 October 2026, the Defence Forces of Ukraine neutralised 2,250 Russian occupiers. This is the highest daily figure for enemy personnel losses since the start of Russia's full-scale armed aggression against Ukraine,” the General Staff wrote.
U.S. software company Palantir has sought to reassure Europeans that its military AI system used by NATO has no “kill switch,” after disruptions to Ukraine's Starlink services heightened concerns about reliance on U.S. tech firms.
Louis Mosley, Palantir’s Executive Vice President for the UK and Europe, said on Wednesday that neither the company nor the U.S. could switch off the Maven Smart System AI platform used by NATO’s military headquarters and several European armed forces.
“What we have seen in the news over the past few days around Starlink is extremely concerning,” Mosley said in an interview from Brussels.
“But as concerns Palantir, I can provide categorical reassurance that where customers have bought our software, they are in full operational control of that software,” he said.
“There are no kill switches. There's no ability for Palantir or the U.S. government to reach in and switch it off.”
Russia struck factories and warehouses involved in the production and storage of missiles and drones overnight, Moscow's Defence Ministry has said.
Transport infrastructure in Kyiv and port infrastructure in the Odesa region, as well as ships supporting the Ukrainian army, were also hit, the Ministry said.
Appeasement will not resolve the Russia-Ukraine war, Kyiv's Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha has said. He said that Moscow launched ballistic missile attacks across Ukraine, hours after Russian President Vladimir Putin met with U.S. negotiator Steve Witkoff.
“Appeasement, servility, and flattery will not stop this war. Only strength will,” Sybiha wrote on X.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told U.S. media outlet Fox News that he is open to freezing the front lines of the Russia-Ukraine conflict in order to bring an end to the war.
Asked in an interview if he would accept a peace deal that halts the conflict where it now stands, Zelenskyy said, “Yes, right now, we have to freeze. And I think this is [a] real way to end this war.”
NATO will let Ukraine buy weapons and other military equipment via its procurement agency, a move which could allow Kyiv to acquire defence supplies quicker, the Financial Times has reported, citing a NATO official.
The partnership opens up an additional procurement channel for Ukraine, rather than having to rely on bilateral deals.
Russian strikes on Kyiv wounded at least 15 people overnight, including two children, the city's Mayor Vitali Klitschko has said in a post on Telegram. Eight of the injured are being treated in hospital.
He added that parts of a subway running on the Southern Bridge over the Dnipro River were damaged in the attacks.
Missiles struck Kyiv in the early hours of Thursday, a Reuters witness said, in another attack on Ukraine's capital after a Russian strike on Wednesday evening injured six people and damaged homes, a petrol station and transport equipment.
Ukraine launched 630 drones towards Moscow overnight, the city's Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said on Telegram, with Russia downing the vast majority of them. He added that two people were injured in the wider region and were receiving medical treatment.
A man was also injured in the city of Lipetsk, western Russia, after drones hit apartment buildings and a medical centre, Governor Igor Artamonov said on Telegram.
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