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31 October 2025
Head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) Vasyl Maliuk stated that since the beginning of the year, 160 Russian oil production and refining facilities have been successfully targeted, including 20 such sites in September and October.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Ukraine has already identified priority targets for a new wave of “long-range sanctions” to be implemented in the near future.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said that while Russian troops are present in Pokrovsk, they are being systematically destroyed by Ukrainian forces. As of the morning of October 31, there have been no significant changes in the town, no encirclement has been recorded, and the situation remains under the control of Ukraine’s Defense Forces.
President Volodymyr Zelensky has signed decrees imposing sanctions on individuals involved in Russia’s military production and propaganda efforts.
Russia has in recent months attacked Ukraine with the 9M729 cruise missile — a secret development that prompted U.S. President Donald Trump in 2019 to withdraw from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty.
A peace on Russia’s terms would mean nothing but a pause before a new war
Members of the United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine will pay another visit to the country from 3 to 6 November 2025.
President Volodymyr Zelensky stated that Russia’s budget deficit next year, caused by sanctions, will amount to at least $100 billion, and according to more optimistic forecasts, up to $130 billion.
The Head of the Security Service of Ukraine, Vasyl Maliuk, said that in the summer of 2023, the Defense Intelligence of Ukraine, the Security Service of Ukraine, and the Foreign Intelligence Service destroyed one of three Oreshnik missiles on Russian territory.
I would advise Trump to start from the premise that Putin is a genocidal murderer
Oschadbank has announced the temporary suspension of operations at the Gulliver Shopping and Office Center in Kyiv, effective from 22:00 on October 30. The closure was prompted by ongoing obstruction from the previous owner, LLC Tri O, which has blocked the transfer of management and infrastructure, creating risks to the facility’s safe functioning.
The United States has canceled a planned meeting in Budapest between U.S. President Donald Trump and Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin due to Moscow’s hardline demands regarding Ukraine.
Law enforcement officers are investigating the circumstances of a fatal road accident involving servicemen from one of the military units in the Lviv region, in which four soldiers lost their lives.
As a result of Russia's missile and drone attack on Ukraine on October 30, electrical substations critical to maintaining nuclear safety in Ukraine were damaged.
Ukraine and its allies are jointly developing a peace plan that will result in a single document; there are no alternative “plans” proposed by individual countries.
Authorities in several regions of Russia on Friday reported drone attacks, including strikes on a combined heat and power plant in the city of Oryol and an electrical substation in the Vladimir region.
Police have detained a man involved in the explosion at one of the sorting centers of Ukrposhta, Ukraine`s National Post, in the Solomianskyi district on October 30.
Russian invaders killed eight and wounded 18 residents of the Donetsk region over the past day, October 30.
Fighters from the Phoenix unmanned aerial systems unit of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine destroyed a Russian BM-21 Grad multiple rocket launcher, two tanks, and around 50 enemy troops near Kostiantynivka in the Donetsk region.
In southern Ukraine, drone operators have destroyed Russian equipment and communication systems.
Across Russia, cell sites and communications equipment belonging to local mobile operators continue to be set on fire.
Defense Forces destroyed one Iskander-M ballistic missile and 107 drones used by the Russian army to attack Ukraine on the night of Friday, October 31. Thirty-six enemy UAVs were spotted hitting 20 locations.
Ukrainian forces engaged in 132 combat clashes with Russian invaders on October 30.
Russia suffered approximately 1,141,830 casualties in Ukraine between February 24, 2022 and October 31, 2025, with 970 soldiers killed or wounded in the past 24 hours.
In October, nearly 400 people were evacuated from the Donetsk region and provided with free accommodation in safer parts of Ukraine, including 137 people with limited mobility.
In southern Ukraine, drone operators have destroyed Russian equipment and communication systems.
Ukrainian Energy Minister Svitlana Grynchuk met with IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi during her visit to Canada.
A court has sentenced the former commander of the Kyiv Berkut regiment in absentia to ten years in prison and ordered him to pay nearly UAH 680,000 in damages to the state.
Across Russia, cell sites and communications equipment belonging to local mobile operators continue to be set on fire.
In Kharkiv, counterintelligence officers of the Security Service of Ukraine preemptively detained an agent of Russia’s Federal Security Service who was making an improvised explosive device and planning to detonate it.