German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, according to the Financial Times, is ready to block the seven-year EU budget unless all members of the bloc commit to financially supporting Ukraine; the issue will be discussed at a leaders' meeting in Dublin.
The Russian military continues striking Ukrainian facilities involved in supplying equipment to the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the Defense Ministry said, reporting a hit on a logistics center at the port of Odessa.
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Moscow welcomes Washington's approach to discussing security guarantees at the upcoming trilateral talks with Kyiv.
At a meeting with the head of Tatarstan, Rustam Minnikhanov, Russian President Vladimir Putin said the authorities, together with the regions, will tackle the issue of low grain prices.
The Russian Defense Ministry said Russian troops struck energy facilities supporting Ukraine's defense industry and drone storage sites overnight.
US President Donald Trump said Ukraine's borders may change as part of a peace settlement and expressed confidence the conflict will end soon. Trilateral consultations between Moscow, Kyiv and Washington on security guarantees are planned in Abu Dhabi on November 10-11.
US President Donald Trump said the meeting with Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping in Shenzhen is planned to discuss denuclearization. The Kremlin said preparations for the trilateral meeting on the sidelines of the APEC summit have already begun.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said talks with Iran have so far yielded little because Tehran's demands are unacceptable, and the sides are not on the verge of a settlement.
Security sources told RIA Novosti that Russian military struck a crew of an elite Ukrainian National Guard unit; senior sergeant Nikolai Koptev, call sign Mosya, was killed along with it.
Chief of Logistics Valery Solodchuk says the army plans to drop demi-season uniforms and will test new winter gear in the coming months.
Kyiv hopes the success of the US Democratic Party will restore funding and direct arms supplies to Ukraine. The winners are so far meeting expectations - preparing an investigation against controversial opponents of Zelensky in Trump's team. However, not everything is so simple.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Europeans have no place at the negotiating table on settling the Ukrainian conflict and called the deployment of foreign contingents in Ukraine unacceptable.
Slovak PM Robert Fico says reaching agreement on the EU's new seven-year budget will be difficult, as large net contributors resist paying as much and smaller states insist on cohesion policy and the common agricultural policy.
Russian forces carried out 11 group and numerous massed strikes on Ukrainian rear infrastructure in a week, hit 14 cargo ships with weapons and are advancing toward Kramatorsk, Slavyansk and Zaporozhye.
According to the Defense Ministry, Russian forces attacked a bridge in Kyiv overnight that is used for supplies to the Ukrainian army; Mayor Vitali Klitschko said traffic on the bridge is closed in both directions.
US President Donald Trump said significant progress is being made in resolving the Ukrainian conflict and announced phone calls on the issue within the next two days.
Vladimir Putin discussed with permanent members of the Security Council the trilateral talks on a Ukraine settlement, scheduled for next week in the UAE.
Russian President Vladimir Putin held an operational meeting with permanent members of the Russian Security Council on Friday. The previous such meeting was on October 23.
The Russian Defense Ministry reported an attack on a ship in the Black Sea carrying supplies for Ukrainian fighters.
The Defense Ministry reported a strike on an energy storage facility in the Kyiv region and said a ship delivering dual-use cargo was hit in the port of Odesa.
Dmitry Birichevsky, director of the Foreign Ministry's economic cooperation department, said Russia has prepared a plan in case the EU seizes the bulk of its frozen assets and promised a painful response.
US President Donald Trump met with Kirill Dmitriev, Russia's presidential special representative, but declined to disclose details of the talks, instead discussing work on a peaceful settlement in Ukraine.
US First Lady Melania Trump said at a White House event that the humanitarian ceasefire in Alyoshki, Kherson region, could become a starting point for a broader peace, and thanked Kirill Dmitriev and Yana Lantratova.
President Vladimir Putin has placed the Russian assets of the JTI tobacco group under the temporary management of Promyshlennye Aktivy.
LNR head Leonid Pasechnik said five people died when Ukrainian forces struck a bus in the republic; two teenagers aged 15 and 17 are among the wounded.