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On 2 November Hungarian Gripen fighters escorted a Wizz Air jet flying from London to Sofia to Budapest after a report of a bomb threat. Authorities have not said whether the threat was real.
Kyiv region police and the National Guard denied rumours of 40 hostages and a death in Petropavlivska Borshchahivka. Questions about one man in a private house and blocked medics remain.
Since the full-scale invasion Ukraine's Defence Ministry has verified 1,256 incidents with mines and explosive ordnance: 1,757 casualties, 510 of them killed, including 26 children.
Residents of occupied Oleshky crossed into Chernihiv region after a 19-hour journey via Anapa and Gomel. The youngest is one, the oldest 94. Zelensky: Russia's first bilateral ceasefire.
Ukraine has 6,716 boiler houses running and Kyiv will start heating homes on Monday. Meanwhile Ukrenergo has imposed outage schedules and the government is funding maternity shelters and hospital protection.
In Donetsk region 57,000 civilians and 1,746 children remain in communities with active fighting. In Sumy region about 34,000 people remain in the dangerous border area.
UN human rights chief Volker Türk says he 'fears the worst' for civilians. UN coordinator Matthias Schmale outlined a support plan running until March 2027.
A team at Kyiv City Clinical Hospital No. 1 performed Ukraine's first simultaneous heart-and-liver transplant. The surgery took about 15 hours; the 44-year-old patient is breathing on his own and is stable.
Traffic on Kyiv's Southern Bridge is restricted after the 27 October attack. Detours via the Darnytskyi and Paton bridges, extra City Express trains, a split metro line, a taxi price cap and ₴1bn for river crossings.
Taras Zvarychuk, a defender of Mariupol from the Azov regiment, returned in the 23 October exchange. Russia had sentenced him first to 25 years, then to 29, allegedly for terrorism.
The government published resolution No. 1328: criticality criteria will be reviewed within 10 days, a Coordination Centre for deferrals is created, and the cap for defence and energy firms rises to 95%.
A drone strike on Pavlohrad killed one person and injured seven, including two 10-year-old girls. In the Kramatorsk community one person was killed and 10 injured. In Odesa region Russia hit rescuers twice.
On 24 October a series of jet-powered Shahed strikes caused a massive fire at the last Epicentr hypermarket still open in Kharkiv. The city was attacked 36 times in a week: three killed, 28 injured.
Overnight Russia attacked Ukraine with four missiles and 140 drones; air defence downed three missiles and 112 drones. Ukrenergo reported new outages in six regions and schedules of up to two rounds.
On the day protections were due to lapse, DHS said Ukrainians with TPS keep their protection and work permits until a further announcement. No extension period was given.
On the evening of 19 October a man brought to Kyiv's Pechersk recruitment centre for breaching mobilisation rules opened fire during a check. Six wounded people were hospitalised; the shooter was detained.
At 04:00 on Sunday, 25 October, clocks go back to 03:00 as Ukraine returns to UTC+2. The law abolishing seasonal clock changes has still not been signed.
Zelensky said Kyiv lags other regions on resilience — shelters, schools, transport, infrastructure. After October Shahed strikes, districts lose power and water earlier than in past war winters.
A missile hit a residential block and a shop outside Kharkiv, killing three, including a 16-year-old, and injuring 25. In Ivano-Frankivsk a jet-powered drone killed three servicemen.
With shelling intensifying, the capital's authorities urged people to prepare for emergency blackouts. Lviv, meanwhile, is setting up more than 70 wood-fired boiler rooms at schools.
A drone hit a nine-storey block late on 10 October, blowing out hundreds of windows; another strike at dawn damaged a second building. An 11-year-old boy was also killed in the Nikopol district.
On the morning of 10 October Russia dropped guided aerial bombs on a residential area. The dead include two schoolgirls and three generations of one displaced family; 32 people were injured.
Ukrenergo is applying hourly outage schedules of 0.5–1.5 queues in some regions. On the evening of 7 October emergency cuts were in force, and Kyiv saw water supply disruptions and halted electric transport.
Russia hit Ukraine with about 70 missiles plus drones. Zelensky: 25 killed, 100 wounded. In Pryluky a Kh-101 missile destroyed a stairwell of a five-storey block; five of the 20 dead are children.
On 5 October Russia dropped guided aerial bombs on Kharkiv: more than 30 apartment blocks were damaged, warehouses burned and people were trapped under a collapsed car-repair shop. Three children were hurt.
Extra Vydubychi–Darnytsia runs, stopping at Bereznyaky, will operate at peak hours 06:00–09:00 and 16:00–21:00. How to use them and what else crosses the river.
On the evening of 4 October Russia hit the Industrialnyi district. About ten apartment blocks were damaged, cars and an office building burned; a police officer is among the injured.
Regional head Raikovych reported a UAV crash during an alert on 3 October; debris set dry grass alight, the fire was contained.
PM Koretskyi announced a facility in a 900+ m² radiation shelter so 115 children can spend a full day learning without air-raid interruptions.
A Russian strike damaged Kyiv’s Northern Bridge on Oct. 3, injuring two people. The Southern Bridge has been closed to cars and the metro after repeated attacks on Oct. 1–2.
A conference of the World Federation of Ukrainian Women’s Organizations is discussing reconstruction, return, countering disinformation and keeping Ukrainian identity alive abroad.
Crossings in Volyn have been briefly shut in recent days because of the threat of attacks, with Poland halting its side too. What border guards say and how travellers should act.
On September 25 Russian drones hit a high-rise in Pecherskyi district, an office block in Solomianskyi district and the High Council of Justice. 59 people were injured.
Speleologists found a vertical cave about 30 metres deep in the Ivano-Frankivsk region and a new 50-metre section of the “Na Khomakh” gypsum cave in the Ternopil region.
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