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Morning opening: What's next for Ukraine?
Jakub Krupa
Ukraine has reported another series of attacks from Russia overnight, including a strike on the north-eastern Ukrainian city of Sumy, which injured at least 11 residents, local authorities said.
The Sumy region borders Russia and has been under constant attack from drones and missiles, Reuters reported. The emergency services said on the Telegram messenger service that Russia had struck a residential multistorey building, private houses and infrastructure facilities.
Separately, it emerged that Russia has in recent months attacked Ukraine with a cruise missile whose secret development prompted Donald Trump to abandon a nuclear arms control pact with Moscow in his first term as US president.
Ukrainian officials told Reuters that Russia has fired the ground-launched 9M729 missile at Ukraine 23 times since August, with one missile allegedly flying over 750 miles (1,200km) before hitting its targets in Ukraine.
The reports highlight the troubling lack of progress in Trump’s plan to end the war in Ukraine, with the Financial Times newspaper reporting that a planned Budapest summit between Trump and Russia’s Vladimir Putin was cancelled because of Moscow’s continuing hardline demands.
In a memo, the Kremlin reportedly requested “territorial concessions, a steep reduction of Ukraine’s armed forces and guarantees it will never join Nato,” the paper said (£).
I will keep an eye on official reactions to the overnight attacks and bring you the latest here. Elsewhere, I will also keep an eye on the latest in the Netherlands, as we still wait for the final results of this week’s parliamentary election.
It’s Friday, 31 October 2025, it’s Jakub Krupa here, and this is Europe Live.
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