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Reuters: President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Thursday discussed his proposed "victory plan" with the leaders of Britain, France and Italy, and the incoming head of NATO as he seeks to garner military support to put himself in a position for eventual peace talks.

The Kyiv Independent: Two large fire erupted at an oil depot terminal in Russian-occupied Feodosia late at night on Oct. 10 at the site of a previous Ukrainian drone strike, where another blaze has been burning for four days, local media reported.

Reuters: Moldovan police said on Thursday they searched homes across the country of leaders of a group linked to fugitive pro-Russian businessman Ilan Shor, as part of a criminal investigation into election-meddling.

The Independent: Military chiefs are considering sending British troops to Ukraine to train soldiers and boost Kyiv’s recruitment efforts, it has emerged.

Reuters: The World Bank's executive board on Thursday approved the creation of a financial intermediary fund to support Ukraine, with contributions expected from the United States, Canada and Japan, three sources familiar with the decision said.

The Kyiv Independent: Viktoria Roshchyna, a Ukrainian journalist held captive by Russia, has died, said Petro Yatsenko, a spokesperson of Ukraine's Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War, on national television on Oct. 10.

Reuters: Russian authorities are set to raise the one-off contribution that foreign companies leaving the country must make to the state treasury to as high as 35% from 15%, the RBC business daily reported on Thursday.

POLITICO: More than 1,800 Russians entered Poland on visas issued “without any legal basis” over a period of 22 months between the start of Moscow’s war on Ukraine and this year, the head of Poland’s Supreme Audit Office has said.

The Guardian: The UK has not lifted restrictions on Ukraine using long-range missiles after Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s visit, Downing Street has said.

Reuters: A group of five nuclear weapons states will hold a meeting in New York in the next two weeks, Russian state media quoted Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov as saying on Thursday.

Bloomberg: Moscow’s use of the tankers sanctioned for their involvement in the Russian oil trade is accelerating, with close to one-third of the blacklisted vessels back at work (archive).

The Guardian: North Korean military engineers have been deployed to help Russia target Ukraine with ballistic missiles, and North Koreans operating in occupied areas of Ukraine have already been killed, senior officials in Kyiv and Seoul said.

AP News: NATO will hold a long-planned major nuclear exercise next week, the alliance’s chief said Thursday, a few weeks after Putin announced changes to Russia’s nuclear doctrine to discourage Ukraine’s Western allies from supporting attacks on his country.

Reuters: Ramzan Kadyrov, leader of Russia's Chechnya region, has accused Russian lawmakers from neighbouring regions of attempting to commission his assassination, and threatened them with a "blood feud", the state news agency TASS reported on Thursday.

Bloomberg: Russian exporters are facing mounting liquidity challenges amid delays in receiving payments from foreign banks fearful of falling foul of US sanctions (archive).

Reuters: Unilever has sold its Russian business to Arnest Group, it said on Thursday, becoming the latest multinational company to exit Russia since its invasion of Ukraine, following a "complex" sale process. UK-based Unilever, owner of brands including Dove soap and Hellmann's mayonnaise, said the sale includes all of its business and four factories in Russia as well as its business in Belarus.

The Kyiv Independent: Russian emergency services were unable to extinguish a fire for the fourth day after it erupted at an oil depot in Russia-occupied Feodosia after a strike, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty's Crimean service reported on Oct. 10.

Reuters: Parliament approved Ukraine's first major wartime tax increases on Thursday to shore up its finances as war with Russia drags on with no end in sight.

Reuters: Attacks by Russian forces on Ukraine overnight and on Thursday across the country hit civilian and critical infrastructure facilities, injuring at least 10 people, Ukrainian authorities said. Russia launched two ballistic missiles on the southern city of Mykolaiv in the early afternoon, targeting critical infrastructure, regional Governor Vitaliy Kim said.

Reuters: The Ukrainian military said on Thursday it had struck an ammunition depot overnight at an airfield in Russia's Adygeya region in the North Caucasus, about 450 km (280 miles) from the frontline in eastern Ukraine.

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