Hi, this is Asami Terajima reporting from Kyiv on day 1,344 of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Today's top story so far: Ukraine's Special Operations Forces (SSO) said on Oct. 31 that it had destroyed a Russian Buk-M3 air defense system and a Nebo-U radar in Russia's Rostov Oblast,

Russia suffered approximately 1,141,830 casualties in Ukraine between February 24, 2022 and October 31, 2025, with 970 soldiers killed or wounded in the past 24 hours. — Ukrinform.

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.

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,

Europe is under attack — not with bombs, but with saboteurs recruited through social media. These “low-level agents” aren’t spies. They’re petty criminals or ordinary people, hired for small sums to commit acts of sabotage — then discarded.

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."

In the city of Kherson, in southern Ukraine, small drones routinely target ordinary people by dropping hand grenades, and record video documenting their attacks, a U.N. commission reported.

The two leaders planned to meet in Budapest was earlier put on hold after Moscow stuck to several demands, including that Ukraine must give more territory as a condition for a ceasefire.

Trump wants Russia and Ukraine to freeze the war on the current battlelines, with Moscow holding a huge swathe of eastern Ukraine.