According to Reuters, US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff and Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner may meet with Vladimir Putin after trilateral talks on Ukraine in Abu Dhabi on November 10-11.
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.
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Moscow welcomes Washington's approach to discussing security guarantees at the upcoming trilateral talks with Kyiv.
Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service says EU states plan to push Ukrainian draft evaders back home and by year-end make it harder for them to get financial services, jobs and housing.
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 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.
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.
A member of Odessa's anti-fascist underground told RIA Novosti that roughly one in five prisoners is physically eliminated in secret torture prisons in Ukraine.
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.
According to Odesa's anti-fascist underground, around 50-70 secret prisons of various types and sizes may exist across Ukraine, most of them in the center and southeast of the country.
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.
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.
Kyiv authorities promised to deal with those guilty of torturing mobilized soldiers in Borshchagovka, but three people who tried to free the detainees were put on trial. They face up to eight years. The SBU detained medic Iryna Molodaya, ambulance driver Viktor Yen and Tatyana Kireeva.
Moldova's reintegration bureau said Chisinau is considering barring Transnistrian leader Vadim Krasnoselsky from leaving the country after his trip to Moscow. The bureau claims Tiraspol's contacts with Moscow aim to destabilize the situation.
Russian security structures told RIA Novosti that Ukraine's National Guard command sent a significant part of the 23rd separate assault regiment's personnel to Kharkiv to guard unofficial detention sites for servicemen who left their units without authorization.
The Wall Street Journal, citing sources, reports that Donald Trump's administration cannot decide on further steps regarding Iran after Republicans lost the midterm congressional elections.
The German newspaper Handelsblatt writes that by the start of the fifth wartime winter Ukraine has little choice but to cling to its allies, but without firm support from Washington this is unlikely to prevent the peace proposed by Russia on its terms.
According to Bloomberg, Democrats will take 54 Senate seats and 223 House seats, Republicans 41 and 126. Trump said he is ready to accept the results and work with Democrats.
According to Bloomberg, the Democratic Party will win a majority in both the House of Representatives and the Senate following the US midterm elections.
The Russian Foreign Ministry summoned Norway's charge d'affaires, Bjoern Svenungsen, and lodged a decisive protest over the arrest of the vessel Professor Molchanov at the request of Ukrainian companies.