Russia’s waging the world’s first war aimed at obliterating internet use in the target country, but Ukraine’s resistance is winning, says a top scholar on the conflict.

Russia fired one of its largest drone and missile assaults against Ukraine overnight, killing three people, including a 7-year-old girl, and cutting power to thousands as winter approaches,

Ukraine and Russia have traded strikes targeting each other's energy infrastructure as the war heads into the winter months. Moscow's attacks have repeatedly plunged parts of Ukraine into blackouts, while Kyiv has hit Russia's oil refinery capabilities.

Russia mounted its second most-intense aerial assault overnight into Thursday, October 30, launching a salvo of 653 drones, decoys and missiles. Ukraine’s Air Force intercepted 592 drones and 31 missiles;

This marks the first time since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion that Ukraine has handed over a Russian prisoner of war to a foreign country for criminal prosecution.

Ukrainian forces hit an important fuel pipeline in the Moscow region that supplies the Russian army, Ukraine's military intelligence said Saturday, as Russia kept up a sustained campaign of massive drone and missile attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure.

Fighting for control of the strategic hub of Pokrovsk in eastern Ukraine is intensifying, with the Russian Defense Ministry claiming to have eliminated a group of Ukrainian special forces sent to help defend the area.

As Trump's plan to meet Putin is called off, Zelenskyy says another bloody night in Ukraine shows Russia isn't feeling "enough pressure for dragging out the war."

Pokrovsk was dubbed a "fortress" settlement, key to Ukrainian lines in the east and connected to other cities forming the backbone of Ukraine's defense in the east. Russia kicked off a push to take Pokrovsk in the summer of 2024.

Ukraine's President Zelenskyy reported approximately 170,000 Russian troops are in Donetsk, intensifying efforts to capture Pokrovsk, though he denied the city is fully surrounded. Meanwhile, Ukraine continues long-range strikes on Russian oil infrastructure,

The US has imposed sanctions on Russia’s two largest oil companies as it called on Moscow to agree to an immediate ceasefire in its war with Ukraine.

German companies have paid nearly $2 billion (€1.72bn) in taxes to Russia since the Ukraine invasion, funding the war effort. Critics urge immediate withdrawal.View on euronews