Russian President Vladimir Putin is claiming that Ukrainian forces are surrounded by the Russian army in two key eastern cities and is offering to negotiate a deal for their surrender.

Moscow’s forces infiltrated Pokrovsk after months of attacks on the city, a strategic part of Ukraine’s eastern defenses.

Ukraine's military reportedly struck an oil refinery as well as a chemical plant in Russia's western regions overnight on Oct. 29, Russian Telegram media channels reported.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says long-range strikes on Russian refineries have reduced Moscow's oil refining capacity by 20%.

Mourners have gathered at a church in Kyiv to honor two Ukrainian journalists killed last week by a Russian drone strike.

As Zelenskyy lauds Europe and the U.S. for ramping up economic pressure on Putin over the war in Ukraine, Moscow dismisses them as a counterproductive "act of war."

While Kyiv’s International Legion attracts recruits from Europe and beyond, Moscow has also drawn support from foreign nationals. Against this backdrop, the Kremlin has renewed its warning to those it calls “outsiders” on the battlefield.