Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy warned against expecting too much success too quickly in Ukraine's counteroffensive as air alerts sounded in Kyiv and other regions late on October 31.
Three Russians have been arrested in New York for shipping electronic components to Russia in violation of U.S. sanctions, American officials said on October 31.
Russian citizen Mansur Movlayev, an outspoken critic of Chechen strongman Ramzan Kadyrov,who was sentenced in Kyrgyzstan earlier in October to six months in prison for illegal border-crossing, says he has been tortured in a detention center in Bishkek.
With the war between Israel and Hamas raging, a UN humanitarian official urged the Security Council on October 31 to "not lose focus" on Ukraine, especially with winter approaching.
The Supreme Court of Russia's Republic of Tatarstan has denied the appeal filed by RFE/RL journalist Alsu Kurmasheva against her pretrial detention on charges of failing to register as a foreign agent, which she rejects.