The Latest Breaking News from Ukraine

The European Union’s executive branch has been developing a plan to use Russia’s frozen assets as collateral to drum up funds

The Kremlin said as part of Moscow’s nuclear triad and drills, an intercontinental ballistic missile was test-fired from the Plesetsk launch facility in northwestern Russia, and a Sineva ICBM was launched by a submarine in the Barents Sea.

EU leaders will look Thursday to greenlight a potential mammoth new loan for Ukraine using Russian frozen assets, in a bid to bolster Kyiv as US President Donald Trump vacillates on peace efforts with Moscow.

Sir Keir Starmer said allies had agreed a ‘clear plan for the rest of the year’ on supporting Ukraine

The Ukrainian market has serious trust problems that occurred during the war. New dangerous operators emerged, and the threat to the users in the Ukraine casino segment increased.

In a sweeping escalation of economic pressure on Russia, the U.S. Department of the Treasury said that it will be imposing full blocking sanctions on its two largest oil companies, Rosneft and Lukoil, citing Moscow’s “lack of serious commitment to a peace process to end the war in Ukraine.”

Double dose of Russian oil sanctions from EU and US; freezing war at current frontlines is ‘good compromise’, says Zelenskyy. What we know on day 1,338

Trump, who has to date not put sanctions on Russia over the war and instead relied on trade measures, says Rosneft and Lukoil will be targeted. Key US politics stories from Wednesday 22 October

Trump says he canceled meeting with Putin because ‘we have good conversations but then they don’t go anywhere’