🇺🇲 🇺🇦 Speed restrictions on #Starlink communication systems in #Ukraine remained in place, Ukrainian officials said on Friday, contradicting #Trump's statement that the services had been fully restored.

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/ukraine-says-starlink-speed-curbs-remain-despite-trump-assurance-2026-10-23/

#usa #elonmusk

🇺🇦 🇷🇺 Ukrainian troops infiltrated the rear of Russian forces near Kupiansk in Kharkiv Oblast after moving about 15 kilometers (9 miles) through underground gas pipelines, Ukraine's National Guard’s 2nd Khartiia Corps said on Oct. 22.

https://kyivindependent.com/ukrainian-troops-infiltrate-russian-rear-through-gas-pipelines-near-kupiansk-khartiia-says/

#ukraine #russia

🇺🇦 🇷🇺 Ukrainian forces struck a weapons plant in Serpukhov, Moscow Oblast, overnight on Oct. 22, monitoring channels reported.

https://kyivindependent.com/ukrainian-forces-reportedly-strike-moscow-oblast-weapons-plant/

#ukraine #russia

🇨🇦 Taylor says Russia's use of propaganda is widespread and effective because it uses its knowledge of how the West works and key language skills to ensure its campaigns will have maximum impact.

She says the large Russian dissident community, including independent journalists, that are now outside #Russia could be an effective counteroffensive on the cognitive battlefield.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/sarah-taylor-russia-ambassador-putin-9.7389977

💬 US Sec. ‌of State Rubio said on Wed. that decisions regarding Ukraine's access to #Starlink were up to #SpaceX and Elon Musk, not the White House, comments that suggested Musk may have restricted Kyiv's access to the service.

Rubio's comments are likely to intensify concerns in Washington regarding Musk's singular ability to influence US ‌foreign ⁠policy. They also represent an apparent shift in position for the administration.

https://www.reuters.com/world/rubio-says-witkoff-zelenskiy-meeting-positive-ideas-be-discussed-with-russia-2026-10-21/

#usa #trump #elonmusk #ukraine

🇺🇸 A handful of Republicans have spoken out against Trump’s softening stance on #Russia, threatening to pull financial support for his agenda over his “embarrassing” handling of the #Ukraine war.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/20/republicans-push-back-trump-ukraine-russia

#usa #trump

💬 #Ukraine is pushing ahead with plans to develop European alternatives to US-made air defence systems and Starlink satellite communications, with concrete discussions already under way and Kyiv expecting progress considerably sooner than sceptics anticipate, a senior Ukrainian presidential official has told Euronews.

https://www.euronews.com/2026/10/16/ukraine-pushes-for-european-alternatives-to-us-air-defences-and-starlink-amid-tensions-wit

The Kyiv Independent Editorial:

🇺🇲🇷🇺 It's already been said many times that the U.S., under #Trump, was turning its back on #Ukraine

But the past few days show something worse than abandonment: Trump is now actively helping #Russia win the war.

https://kyivindependent.com/editorial-donald-trump-is-helping-russia-win-the-war-2/

#usa

🇺🇦 🇷🇺 Ukrainian drones hit #Russia's biggest data ​centre, owned by the country's largest bank and technology ‌company, Sberbank, but did not disrupt its operations, a senior company executive said on Wednesday.

https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/ukrainian-drones-hit-russias-biggest-data-centre-2026-10-14/

#ukraine

💬 #NATO's top commander bluntly warned #Russia on Monday that his forces would destroy "anything and everything" involved in any attack if Moscow was "foolish enough" to launch ‌an assault on alliance territory.

https://www.reuters.com/world/nato-commander-grynkewich-warns-russia-attack-would-be-utterly-futile-2026-10-12/

🇱🇹 #Russia will not stop its hybrid attacks against #Europe until the EU shows it is serious, and calls Moscow's foreign military intelligence agency a terrorist organization, Lithuania's Foreign Minister Kestutis Budrys told journalists ahead of an Oct. 12 meeting of EU foreign ministers.

https://kyivindependent.com/lithuania-calls-on-eu-to-designate-russias-foreign-intelligence-agency-a-terrorist-organization/

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The US message, the officials added, included threats to cut off intelligence sharing and Purl — the Prioritised Ukraine Requirements List mechanism for procuring US weapons for #Ukraine

https://www.ft.com/content/68fd8c4f-6f34-4f6e-a52c-76f635164031

#usa #russia #trump

🇺🇸 🇺🇦 The #Trump admin is threatening to stop the procurement system that provides #Ukraine with weapons in order to press Kyiv to halt its deep strikes on Russian energy infrastructure, acc. to officials in Europe.

The officials, who received calls from American officials on Saturday and Sunday or were briefed on them, said the US was lobbying European capitals and Kyiv in an attempt to end the attacks on Russian oil refineries. The White House declined to confirm or comment on the calls.

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🇷🇺 🇺🇦 #Russia struck Kharkiv’s CHP-5 power plant on Oct. 11, President Volodymyr Zelensky said. Ukraine’s Presidential Office confirmed that the attack occurred AFTER #Trump announced "an energy ceasefire" between Russia and #Ukraine

https://kyivindependent.com/russia-struck-kharkivs-power-plant-shortly-after-trump-announced-energy-ceasefire/

🇺🇸 A bipartisan group of six senators on Sunday called for #Trump’s administration to “immediately reverse course” on a plan to purchase diesel from #Russia as part of an effort to lower high fuel prices.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-diesel-russia-ukraine-senators-protest-93fa63c8a88e538f1456e7d448fc550d

#usa

🇷🇺 🇺🇦 Loud explosions rang out in #Kyiv around 2 p.m. on Oct. 10, according to Kyiv Independent journalists in the city, as #Russia launched a series of missiles at the city following a morning drone attack on energy infrastructure.

https://kyivindependent.com/loud-explosions-heard-in-kyiv-as-city-comes-under-daytime-attack/

#ukraine

🇺🇲🇷🇺 #Trump decided to make a diesel fuel deal with #Russia after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky ignored half a dozen U.S. requests to stop attacking Russian oil refineries, a U.S. official with direct knowledge told Axios.

https://www.axios.com/2026/10/10/trump-zelensky-putin-diesel-deal-war

#usa #ukraine

🇩🇪 🇺🇦 #Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) will launch a joint motion with the small far-left BSW party in a regional parliament calling for an end to military support for #Ukraine, an AfD spokesperson said on Wednesday.

https://www.reuters.com/3fec1b0a85a0/world/germanys-afd-calls-end-support-ukraine-2026-10-07/

🇸🇪🇵🇱 #Sweden's Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said on Tuesday the Nordic country will deploy Patriot missile defence systems to eastern #Poland ‌to help protect the #NATO logistics hub that supplies weapons to #Ukraine

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/sweden-deploy-patriot-missiles-nato-hub-poland-2026-10-06/

💬 #Putin is becoming “increasingly cavalier, dangerous and risk accepting,” as his war in #Ukraine drags on and as he seeks to divide Western allies, #NATO’s deputy commander in #Europe said Tuesday.

https://apnews.com/article/nato-russia-ukraine-war-putin-6c7f62a5d388d0a9f378ea144cb25550

#russia