Burgas is Bulgaria's only oil refinery, and was a key part of Lukoil's foreign business empire, which is being threatened after the US joined Britain last month in imposing sanctions on Russia's two largest oil companies over Moscow's war in Ukraine.

The Russian Defense Ministry said Wednesday that Ukrainian troops should surrender to save themselves in Pokrovsk, a transport and supply hub seen as a gateway to bigger nearby cities.

Russia‘s rough equivalent is its Kalibr missile, which it has frequently fired at Ukraine. Moscow has said it would damage relations with the U.S. if Trump greenlit the transfer of Tomahawks, and that it would be an “escalation” of the conflict because Kyiv would need U.S. assistance to use the missiles.

Officials in the southeastern Ukrainian city of Kamianske say several people are injured after a "massive" Russian drone attack overnight. Elsewhere, the Kremlin has responded to Donald Trump's suggestion he will start nuclear weapons testing.

On November 2, a total of 162 combat engagements took place between Ukraine’s Defense Forces and Russian troops, with the enemy exerting the greatest pressure in the Pokrovsk sector of the front. — Ukrinform.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Kyiv is working with its partners in the "Coalition of the Willing" to draw up a peace plan, including a ceasefire, to end the Russian war against Ukraine in a similar vein to U.S. President Donald Trump's 20-point framework for Gaza.

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.

An update from the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees estimated the number of Ukrainian refugees in Europe at 5.192 million as of October 3, 2025 (5.138 million on September 2), and at 5.753 million worldwide (5.696 million).

Ukrainian forces are struggling to fend off intensifying Russian advances on the eastern city of Pokrovsk, the military and open-source analysts said on Wednesday.