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After all, the Hungarian capital was the site of the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, in which Ukraine gave up the thousands of nuclear weapons it had inherited upon the breakup of the Soviet Union in return for assurances that Russia would respect Ukraine's territorial integrity. Putin broke that promise with his 2014 invasion and annexation of Crimea, with his decade-long military offensive in the Donbas region, and then with his all-out invasion in 2022.

Ukraine was the most successful nation at this week's European team championships, winning gold in the open event and silver in the women's. It also sparked one of the most memorable results of recent years, as Igor Kovalenko, a serving army soldier who played no chess for three years, won the individual gold on fourth board with 6.5/8, the best percentage of the entire tournament.

Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine was supposed to be a short campaign, but the larger country's swift victory anticipated by many analysts failed to materialize. Part of the reason for Ukraine's effective defense was Kyiv's early warning of the build-up of Russian forces on its border. U.S./allied intelligence warned Kyiv, but another non-government source tipped them off to the impending invasion: commercial imagery, especially Maxar's optical photos, publicly documented the build-up and the initial invasion, revealing the long convoy heading toward Kyiv on Feb. 27, 2022.

Kyiv has announced that it is sending a delegation to Washington for talks on strengthening its defence and energy resilience as Russian forces continue targeting Ukraine's power infrastructure ahead of the cold winter months. The departure of a senior delegation, led by Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko, was announced on Monday, just as Ukraine's Energy Ministry said it had imposed power outages across the country in a bid to reduce pressure on the grid in the wake of damaging Russian attacks.

10/10/2025October 10, 2025 Ukraine's air force said the capital had come under a large scale aerial drone and missile bombardment. The country's energy minister said Russia was targeting energy sites. DW has more. Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said nine people had been injuredImage: Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Photo/picture alliance Skip next section What you need to know Russia launches launches wave of drone and missile attacks on Kyiv High-rise apartment building in central Kyiv struck, power outages reported Ukraine says Russia targeting energy sites

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Wednesday night that "long-range sanctions against Russia," a reference to its deep-strike campaign targeting Russian energy facilities, is "achieving truly significant results." Moscow's vast oil industry is a critical sector, with oil and natural gas exports fueling its war efforts in Ukraine. Ukraine has been targeting infrastructure across Russia, including refineries, with long-range weapons to turn up the pressure on Moscow.

With over 90% of votes counted the right-wing populist party ANO of billionaire former Prime Minister Andrej Babis, a self-described "Trumpist" who opposes continued military assistance for Ukraine, had garnered 36% of the vote. ANO translates to "Yes" but is also an acronym for Action of Dissatisfied Citizens. The center-right Spolu (Together) coalition, headed by Prime Minister Petr Fiala, is on track to take 22.4% of the vote.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy, speaking to a security forum in Warsaw, said his country was offering to Poland and all our partners to build a joint, truly reliable shield against Russian aerial threats, drawing on Ukraine's experience. He said his country's military can counter all types of Russian drones and missiles and argued that if Russia loses the ability to strike in the skies, it will be unable to continue the war.

Ukraine is taking steps to begin exporting some of its weapons, such as the naval drones it has used to pummel Russia's navy in the Black Sea. At first glance, permitting companies to export weaponry abroad when the country is at war and its growing domestic defense industry has been critical to keeping Ukraine in the fight seems deeply counterintuitive. Ukraine, both its political and industrial leadership, has been thinking carefully about this, though.

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy has landed in New York where he will attend the United Nations general assembly and try to drum up support for a US-led peace effort to end the war in Ukraine. We are doing everything to stop the war, he wrote on X on Tuesday, adding that he had two dozen meetings scheduled. The Ukrainian leader is expected to meet US president Donald Trump and other world leaders on the sidelines of the UN meeting, and deliver an address on Wednesday.

Security guarantees in essence are a deterrent. That deterrent has to be plausible and in order for it to be plausible it has to be strong, Stubb told the Guardian, in an interview in Helsinki before travelling to New York for the UN general assembly. He said the guarantees would only come into effect after a future deal between Ukraine and Russia, but insisted that Russia would have no veto over their format.