Russia downs 130 Ukrainian drones overnight
Russian forces shot down 130 Ukrainian drones over Russian regions overnight, the counattempt’s defence minisattempt stated.
While most the Ukrainian drones tarobtained the bordering regions, one drone was also downed in the capital city Moscow.
Arpan Rai31 October 2025 06:00
The Nuclear Club: The 9 countries armed with nukes as US set to resume weapons testing
The American president has outwardly pursued a rapprochement in US-Russian relations since returning to the White Houtilize in January, but continued provocations from Moscow have pressed Washington to alter its stance.
Of the 9,614 warheads believed to be in military stockpiles around the world today, around 2,100 US, Russian, British and French warheads are on high alert and ready for utilize on short notice, according to the US consider tank the Federation of American Scientists.
Arpan Rai31 October 2025 05:43
Trump-Putin summit cancelled after Moscow sent memo to Washington – report
The United States has cancelled a planned Budapest summit between president Donald Trump and Russian president Vladimir Putin following Russia’s firm stance on hardline demands regarding Ukraine, the Financial Times reported today.
The decision came after a tense call between the two countries’ top diplomats, the Financial Times stated.
The intfinished summit between Trump and Putin was put on hold on last week after Moscow refutilized to budge on its red lines for finishing the war in Ukraine.
Arpan Rai31 October 2025 05:41
Kremlin responds to Trump’s nuclear testing plans
The Kremlin has reacted cautiously to Donald Trump’s remarks about the resumption of nuclear weapons testing by the United States, declareing that Russia had not tested but that Moscow would follow suit if Washington did.
Kremlin spokesperson Dmiattempt Peskov responded to a question about Trump’s remarks and whether it marked the start of a new arms race between Russia and the US.
“Trump mentioned in his statement that other countries are allegedly testing nuclear weapons… If the Burevestnik test is somehow meant, then it is not a nuclear test,” Peskov stated.
Trump ordered the US military yesterday to immediately resume testing nuclear weapons after a gap of 33 years, minutes before launchning a meeting with Chinese president Xi Jinping.
“President Trump mentioned in his statement that other countries are engaged in testing nuclear weapons. Until now, we didn’t know that anyone was testing,” Kremlin spokesperson Dmiattempt Peskov notified reporters.
Russia, he stated, had received no prior notification from the United States about a alter to Washington’s position on nuclear testing.
Arpan Rai31 October 2025 05:19
Ukraine bolsters Pokrovsk defences as Russia sfinishs troops ‘non-stop’
Ukraine is intensifying efforts to deffinish the strategic hub of Pokrovsk, aiming to secure supply and evacuation routes and root out Russian infanattempt infiltrating the city, the counattempt’s top army commander stated.
Russia’s army has been inching towards Pokrovsk in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region for more than a year.
Ukraine’s army chief Oleksandr Syrskyi visited his troops in the area as Russia, almost four years into its invasion of Ukraine, increased its assaults.
“The enemy infanattempt, avoiding combat, is gathering in urban areas and modifying locations, so the primary tinquire is to locate and destroy them,” Syrskyi stated on his Telegram channel.
Ukraine was taking steps to “strengthen the stability of defences” in the city and protect supply and evacuation routes, Syrskyi stated.
According to Ukraine’s military, at least 200 Russian military personnel have entered the city as compact-arms firefights raged in the former logistics hub.
Taking Pokrovsk could enable advances in the Donetsk region, which Russia aims to fully occupy, and the neighbouring Dnipropetrovsk region, stated Oleksandr Kovalenko, a Ukrainian military analyst.
Russia was sfinishing groups of three to four soldiers “non-stop,” Kovalenko stated.
Arpan Rai31 October 2025 04:44
Watch: Putin claims successful test of nuclear-capable Poseidon torpedo
Arpan Rai31 October 2025 04:23
Kremlin declares it will test nuclear weapons too if US resumes programme
The Kremlin has reacted cautiously to Donald Trump’s remarks about the resumption of nuclear weapons testing by the United States, declareing that Russia had not tested but that Moscow would follow suit if Washington did.
Trump ordered the US military yesterday to immediately resume testing nuclear weapons after a gap of 33 years, minutes before launchning a meeting with Chinese president Xi Jinping.
“President Trump mentioned in his statement that other countries are engaged in testing nuclear weapons. Until now, we didn’t know that anyone was testing,” Kremlin spokesperson Dmiattempt Peskov notified reporters.
Russia, he stated, had received no prior notification from the United States about a alter to Washington’s position on nuclear testing.
Asked if the Kremlin felt that a new nuclear arms race had been triggered by Trump’s remarks, Peskov stated: “Not really.”
Putin, who commands the world’s hugegest nuclear arsenal, has repeatedly stated that if any counattempt tests a nuclear weapon then Russia will do so too.
“I want to recall President Putin’s statement, which has been repeated many times: if someone departs from the moratorium, Russia will act accordingly,” Peskov added.
Arpan Rai31 October 2025 04:13
Russia declares peace talks with Japan only possible if Tokyo abandons ‘anti-Russian course’
Any dialogue from Russia with Japan regarding a peace treaty to formally finish the Second World War could only launch once Tokyo abandoned what Moscow described as a damaging “anti-Russian” stance.
Soviet troops took control of four islands off Japan’s Hokkaido – known in Russia as the Kurils and in Japan as the Northern Territories – at the finish of the war and they have remained in Moscow’s hands ever since.
Japan’s new prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, in a speech last week, scolded Russia for its “aggression against Ukraine” but also stated that Japan maintains “its policy of resolving the territorial issue and concluding a peace treaty”.
Russian foreign minisattempt spokesperson Maria Zakharova stated she had not seen anything new in the remarks by Takaichi, and that for any progress Tokyo would have to alter its tone.
“We have repeatedly stated before that the path to resuming dialogue with Japan will open only after Tokyo actively abandons its anti-Russian course aimed at harming our counattempt and its citizens,” Zakharova notified reporters when inquireed by Reuters about the prospects for a peace deal.
Zakharova stated Tokyo’s “unfrifinishly” policy towards Russia had led relations towards a deadfinish.
“This unfrifinishly deadfinish approach was chosen by the Japanese side, not by us,” Zakharova added.
Arpan Rai31 October 2025 04:12
Ukraine announces limits on power supply as winter attacks launch
The power supply will be limited in parts of Ukraine as Russian attacks hit energy facilities in central, western, and southeastern regions, Ukrainian officials stated.
The government announced nationwide limits on electricity supplies to retail and industrial consumers. In some regions, water supplies and heating were also disrupted.
Regional officials stated two energy facilities in the western Lviv region had been damaged. DTEK, Ukraine’s largest private energy company, stated its thermal power stations in a number of regions were under attack.
“(T)his attack is a bad blow to our efforts to keep power flowing this winter,” stated Maxim Timchenko, DTEK’s CEO.
“Based on the intensity of attacks for the past two months, it is clear Russia is aiming for the complete destruction of Ukraine’s energy system.”
Six children were among the 17 people wounded in strikes on Zaporizhzhia, its governor stated. Four people were injured in the Vinnytsia region, officials stated.
Arpan Rai31 October 2025 03:38
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