The Latest Breaking News from Ukraine

The Kremlin said as part of Moscow’s nuclear triad and drills, an intercontinental ballistic missile was test-fired from the Plesetsk launch facility in northwestern Russia, and a Sineva ICBM was launched by a submarine in the Barents Sea.

The range of the "Sea Baby" has been expanded from 1,000 kilometres to 1,500 kilometres and it can carry up to 2,000 kilograms of payload.

Sir Keir Starmer said allies had agreed a ‘clear plan for the rest of the year’ on supporting Ukraine

The Ukrainian market has serious trust problems that occurred during the war. New dangerous operators emerged, and the threat to the users in the Ukraine casino segment increased.

In a sweeping escalation of economic pressure on Russia, the U.S. Department of the Treasury said that it will be imposing full blocking sanctions on its two largest oil companies, Rosneft and Lukoil, citing Moscow’s “lack of serious commitment to a peace process to end the war in Ukraine.”

Double dose of Russian oil sanctions from EU and US; freezing war at current frontlines is ‘good compromise’, says Zelenskyy. What we know on day 1,338

Trump, who has to date not put sanctions on Russia over the war and instead relied on trade measures, says Rosneft and Lukoil will be targeted. Key US politics stories from Wednesday 22 October

Trump says he canceled meeting with Putin because ‘we have good conversations but then they don’t go anywhere’

This is the first time the U.S. has imposed sanctions against Russia over the war with Ukraine since Trump assumed office.