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The EU approved the largest sanctions package against Russia; Zelenskiy made a statement about an energy truce and the “diesel deal.” Korrespondent.net highlights the main events of yesterday.
The EU approved the largest sanctions package against Russia.
EU foreign ministers approved nearly 1600 new sanction positions aimed at Russia's military-industrial complex. This is the most extensive expansion of the EU sanctions list since the war began. More than half of the new entries in the sanctions list are connected to the ballistic missile production chain in the Russian Federation. It is also known that 77 Russian politicians who were involved in conducting elections to the State Duma in temporarily occupied Ukrainian territories were included in the list.
Meanwhile Ukraine intends to propose to the European Union to impose sanctions on ten more Russian oligarchs after the exclusion of Mikhail Fridman and Alisher Usmanov from the lists. This was stated by Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba before the start of the EU Council meeting.
Zelenskiy made a statement about an energy truce and the “diesel deal.”
Ukraine has only one refinery, so in the matter of an energy truce it is crucial to stop Russian strikes on power plants and power grids. The American team is well informed about this, the president Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in a message to the Warsaw Security Forum. If this winter Russia does not agree to an energy truce, Ukraine will respond, the president warned.
He also noted that diesel fuel supplies to the United States should be arranged with Ukraine, not Russia. “If there are such actions, why doesn’t America sign a ‘diesel deal’ with Ukraine? Let Ukraine propose a ‘diesel deal.’ We affect whether these ships go or not. Whether these refineries operate or not. If that’s the case, let’s do it,” he suggested. At the same time, in Zelenskiy’s opinion, the volume of diesel that Russia exports will not affect the price.
strikes on Yandex Ukraine "knocked out" Russian bots.
There is a global report of a sharp decline in activity of Russian bots on the internet. As the monitoring platform Cloudflare reports, this is connected to extensive strikes by Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles on key Yandex data centers in Russia. Experts say this amounts to a real digital collapse of the enemy's automated traffic. After the first strike on October 8, the data center in Sasovo, Ryazan region, bot traffic from the Yandex network fell to 57% of its usual maximum. And after the third strike on October 11, the activity of automated bot farms plummeted to an abnormal 0,4% (essentially zero). However, some think these data reflect traffic of a specific network, not the number of bots on social networks, political comments, or activity of accounts on Facebook and X, so they may be biased.
Lithuanian Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė suggested asking Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to intensify strikes on data centers in Russia to protect European elections from hybrid threats from the Russian Federation.
Ukraine’s accession to the EU: The Council adopted a law on minority languages.
The Verkhovna Rada adopted a law on education in the languages of national minorities, which should help unlock negotiations for Ukraine’s accession to the EU. The document normalizes the right of children belonging to national minorities and indigenous peoples of Ukraine to study in their native language alongside the state language. In other words, it provides for the possibility of receiving education in the native language in parallel with Ukrainian, and not instead of it. The Hungarian Foreign Minister, Anikó Orbán, greeted this decision of the Verkhovna Rada. According to her, adopting the law is an important step that opens the path to advancing negotiations for Ukraine’s EU accession.
Vittoff and Kushner postponed their trip to Moscow: media named the reason.
Special envoys of the U.S. President Steve Vitkoff and Jared Kushner postponed the planned trip to Moscow, Axios reports, citing sources. It is noted that new visit dates will not be agreed until it is clarified whether Ukraine and EU countries are ready to agree to a new, coordinated proposal for the Russian ruler Vladimir Putin.
Putin gives Ukraine one day before the elections.
Russian leader Vladimir Putin will be ready to issue instructions not to strike on the day of Ukraine’s elections if Kyiv decides to hold them. This was stated by the Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov. “Exactly on the day of the elections,” he emphasized. Peskov also said that contacts regarding a possible energy truce are ongoing.
In Kharkiv a drone hit a multi-story building, and in Donetsk region Russians with MLRS killed a family.
In Kharkiv, a Russian attack drone hit a high-rise residential building. The attack caused significant damage to the upper floors. Residential buildings and a sports complex were also damaged. It is known that 19 people were injured, including a 10-year-old boy.
Three people, including a 13-year-old girl, were killed and four were wounded as a result of a Russian strike on the village of Cherkasske in the Kramatorsk district of Donetsk region. The Russians shelled the village with Smerch multiple rocket launch systems, using cluster munitions. One of the projectiles hit a private house.
The Russians launched 10 banderole on Kharkiv.
Russian aggressors in the evening of Monday launched 10 Bandera-type missiles at civilian infrastructure in Kharkiv. An apartment building entrance was destroyed, at least 10 private houses were damaged. A bank branch and cars were on fire. 11 people were injured.
Russia launched six ballistic missiles at Kyiv.
Late Monday evening Russian forces struck Kyiv with six ballistic missiles; their type is being clarified, according to the Ukrainian Air Forces. Before the attack there was no information about launches from the territory of the adversary, so the explosions occurred before the alarm. Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said hits were registered in two districts — Dnipro District, where a missile hit a transportation infrastructure facility, and Desnianskyi District, where a missile hit a four-story warehouse building.
Terrorist attack in Rivne thwarted against the military.
Counterintelligence prevented the fourth terrorist attack that the Russian special services were preparing in Rivne since the beginning of 2026 year, the SBU reported. This time the Russians attempted to blow up an entire unit of the Armed Forces of Ukraine as it was being dispatched to its permanent deployment point. It is noted that a student from a Kyiv university was working for the enemy. SBU officers had preemptively exposed the enemy plan, neutralized the explosive, and detained an agent at the bus station as he tried to leave Rivne for Kyiv after placing the IED to “lie low.”
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