On October 12, there were 149 combat clashes between Ukraine’s Defense Forces and Russian troops, with the fiercest fighting taking place in the Pokrovsk and Oleksandrohrad sectors. — Ukrinform.

Germany plans to send more than $2 billion in military aid to Ukraine amid concerns about dwindling Western support.

Speaking ahead of a meeting of Nato defence ministers held in Brussels, he urged members of the alliance to invest more into the Prioritised Ukraine Requirements List (PURL) arms initiative for Ukraine, which allows Nato to buy US weapons and supply them to Kyiv.

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said on October 8 the "powerful momentum" toward finding a peace settlement in Ukraine that built up after Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin met in Alaska on August 15 has been "largely exhausted," laying the blame at the door of Kyiv's European allies.

Donald Trump wants to follow up on his recent success in implementing a ceasefire in Gaza, and securing the release of the remaining living Israeli hostages, by ending the war in Ukraine.

The number of Russian casualties in the Ukraine war has burst through the one million barrier, according to the latest UK intelligence. An update posted on Tuesday by the Ministry of Defence revealed that Moscow has seen approximately 1,118,000 of its troops killed or injured since Vladimir Putin launched his invasion in February 2022.

IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said today that he expects repairs to start soon to restore off-site power to Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP), more than three weeks after the site lost the connection to the grid for the tenth time during the military conflict.

The European Council has agreed to reduce and eliminate duties on a range of Ukrainian agricultural products, paving the way for the first significant update to tariffs under an EU-Ukraine trade agreement since it was adopted in 2016.

Ukraine says Russia is using oil tankers to launch drone attacks. NPR's A Martinez speaks with Johns Hopkins professor Sergey Radchenko about Russia's "shadow fleet."