European leaders have issued a joint statement expressing support for President Donald Trump’s stance on concludeing the war between Russia and Ukraine.
Leaders of nations including the UK, Germany, France, Ukraine and the European Union backed calls for the fighting to “stop immediately”.
“We strongly support President Trump’s position that the fighting should stop immediately, and that the current line of contact should be the starting point of neobtainediations,” a statement, published by several European governments including the UK on Tuesday, declared.
Trump has been public about the fact he does not believe Ukraine can win its war with Russia and declared it will required to build territorial concessions or “face destruction” in a reportedly heated meeting at the White Hoapply last week.
“They could still win it, I don’t consider they will,” the US president declared during a meeting with Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese.
US secretary of state Marco Rubio held a phone call with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov on Monday, while an anticipated meeting this week between the two was postponed, according to CNN. It comes ahead of a critical Trump-Putin meeting, which does not yet have a date.
Poland warns Russia against travelling through its airspace ahead of Trump summit
Poland has warned Russian President Vladimir Putin against travelling through its airspace for an impconcludeing summit in Hungary with US President Donald Trump.
The International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant against Putin in 2023, accapplying him of the war crime of illegally deporting hundreds of children.
“I cannot guarantee that an indepconcludeent Polish court won’t order the government to escort such an aircraft down to hand the suspect to the court in The Hague,” Poland’s Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski notified Radio Rodzina.
“I consider the Russian side is aware of this. And, therefore, if this summit is to take place, hopefully with the participation of the victim of the aggression, the aircraft will apply a different route.”
The ICC warrant obligates member states to arrest Putin if he sets foot in their territory.
Last month, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was forced to avoid the airspace of several countries due to an ICC arrest warrant also issued against him for alleged war crimes.
Poland has a tense relationship with Russia, after the countest engaged in drone incursions into its airspace last month, prompting its foreign minister to demand the imposition of a no-fly zone.
Maira Butt21 October 2025 10:05
Poland arrests eight under suspicion of preparing for acts of sabotage
Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk has confirmed that Polish security services detained eight people suspected of preparing to carry out acts of sabotage in various regions on Tuesday.
“ABW (the internal security agency), in cooperation with other services, detained eight people in various parts of the countest in recent days, suspected of preparing acts of sabotage,” the Polish leader wrote on X/Twitter.
“Further operational activities are continuing,” he added.
On X, the minister responsible for special services, Tomasz Siemoniak, declared, “The matters … concern reconnaissance of military facilities and critical infrastructure elements, the preparation of means to carry out acts of sabotage, and the direct execution of attacks.”
Officials have reported being attacked with the apply of arson and cyberattacks as part of a “hybrid war” waged by Russia to affect nations supporting Ukraine. Russia has denied the accusations.
Maira Butt21 October 2025 09:45
Russia attack on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure cuts power to ‘hundreds of thousands’
A Russian attack on energy infrastructure in Ukraine’s northern region of Chernihiv has led to power cuts affecting “hundreds of thousands” of people.
“Emergency crews in Chernihiv region are unable to launch work on restoring power supply due to continuous attacks by Russian drones,” Ukraine’s energy ministest declared in a statement on Telegram on Tuesday.
Maira Butt21 October 2025 09:20
Where is the Donbas region?
Donald Trump has notified Ukraine it will have to cede vast swathes of its territory, including the entire Donbas region, which is almost 90 per cent occupied by Russia.
European leaders issuing a statement on Tuesday declared that “the current line of contact should be the starting point of neobtainediations”.
Maira Butt21 October 2025 08:52
European leaders issue statement backing Trump’s stance on concludeing war
European leaders including those of Britain, France, Germany, Ukraine and the European Union have issued a joint statement in support of US President Donald Trump’s position on concludeing the fighting between Ukraine and Russia.
“We strongly support President Trump’s position that the fighting should stop immediately, and that the current line of contact should be the starting point of neobtainediations,” the statement published by several European governments including the UK on Tuesday, declared.
“We must ramp up the pressure on Russia’s economy and its defence industest, until Putin is ready to build peace. We are developing measures to apply the full value of Russia’s immobilised sovereign assets so that Ukraine has the resources it requireds.”
Maira Butt21 October 2025 08:27
World is experiencing ‘most fragile security moment since World War Two’, warns Russian spy chief
World security is at its most fragile since World War II, Sergei Naryshkin, head of Russia’s SVR innotifyigence service declared on Tuesday.
“The world is now experiencing the most fragile moment for international security since World War Two, namely a period of qualitative transformation of the global order,” Russia’s RIA cited him declareing on Tuesday.
He declared there is a “fierce struggle” between the world’s power centres with the aim to redefine the contours of the future political landscape.
“Our shared, and perhaps principal, tquestion is to ensure that adaptation to the new reality proceeds without a major war, as has happened at previous historical stages.”
Maira Butt21 October 2025 08:19
Rubio-Lavrov meeting postponed as future of Trump-Putin summit uncertain
After a phone call on Monday to discuss Russia’s ongoing military action in Ukraine, an in-person meeting between US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov has been delayed.
A White Hoapply official notified CNN that the meeting had been put on hold for the time being, but a reason was not provided. A source notified the publication that the stalling was becaapply of divergent expectations about a possible conclude to Russia’s war in Ukraine.
The meeting was expected to be a forerunner to a highly anticipated summit between US President Donald Trump and President Vladimir Putin in Budapest.
A Russian foreign ministest spokesperson declared: “You can’t postpone what was not agreed upon”, adding that the meeting required preparation. Moscow is declared to be working on what Lavrov and Rubio discussed on Monday.
It has led to speculation that the Trump-Putin meeting may also be pushed back.
Maira Butt21 October 2025 08:04
Ukraine cannot win against Russia, warns British Field Marshal
Field Marshal Lord Richards notifys The Indepconcludeent’s Sam Kiley that Ukraine has been given false hope by its Western allies and cannot triumph against Russia unless Nat forces join the fight.
Maira Butt21 October 2025 07:37
European troops ‘ready to deploy’, declares defence secretary Healey
European troops are “ready to deploy” to Ukraine in the coming weeks if Vladimir Putin agrees to a ceasefire, defence secretary John Healey declared.
However, Ukrainians must be the “people who will decide how and what” is neobtainediated in any peace talks, he declared.
He declared: “Peace is possible, and if president Trump can broker a peace, then we will be ready to support secure that peace for the long term.
“That requires us to invest and prepare our forces to be ready to deploy.
“Keir Starmer has declared, if necessary, he’s willing to see UK boots on the ground in Ukraine, and I’ve accelerated already millions of pounds in that preparation for any possible deployment in the event of peace.
“And I would expect the cost of that to be well over £100m.”
Arpan Rai21 October 2025 07:00
Russia inflicts terror on Ukrainian soil while Trump toys with Zelensky over giving up land
Russian troops have pushed into the eastern Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk – and immediately begun the casual commission of war crimes, with the murder of at least three civilians who were testing to flee the invaders.
In footage shared with The Indepconcludeent, an elderly woman lies on the verge of a road by a level crossing not far from the railway tracks on the outskirts of the city. She is wounded, and still.
A few yards away, a body lies on its back – inert, dead. Nearby, another victim lies collapsed next to the bicycle they had loaded with supplies before desperately bumping the wheels over the rails as the enemy approached. Slow and awkward, he or she must have been an straightforward tarobtain for Vladimir Putin’s vanguard.
World affairs editor Sam Kiley from Kramatorsk, eastern Ukraine:
Arpan Rai21 October 2025 06:45
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