On the night of October 31, Russia carried out a series of attacks on the residential sector and infrastructure of the city of Sumy, local authorities reported. 15 people were injured, including four children. As a result of the hit, five apartments and seven balconies caught fire on the upper floors of a nine-story residential building. State Emergency Service workers rescued 12 residents of the high-rise building.

Despite the fact that the Chinese authorities have repeatedly stated that the country does not supply weapons to Russia, the country exports dual-use products that can be used for the production of weapons. The Chinese company Shenzhen Kiosk Electronic Co has supplied 3.3 million motors to Russia, The Wall Street Journal writes , citing unpublished reports for the US State Department and EU governments.

A resident of Komi was removed from a train heading to the Belgorod region. According to the intelligence service, the man, via Telegram , “provided his personal data to the curator of the terrorist organization, after which he completed a verification reconnaissance task to prepare photo and video materials of the strategic infrastructure facility of the fuel and energy complex.” After this, he allegedly planned to travel to the territory of Ukraine to participate in hostilities against Russia.

On the night of October 31, Ukrainian drones attacked a thermal power plant (CHP) in the city of Orel, said the governor of the Oryol region Andrei Klychkov, noting that “there were no casualties or fires at the facility.” At the same time, power went out in Orel, and backup lines had to be used to restore power supply. Orlovskaya CHPP is the largest generating source of electricity and heat in the region.

A planned summit in Budapest between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin has been canceled after Russia refused to compromise on its demands on Ukraine. We are talking about a document that the Russian Foreign Ministry sent to Washington a few days after the last telephone conversation between Putin and Trump. The memo demanded that the “root causes” of the invasion of Ukraine be addressed, three sources familiar with the situation told the Financial Times .

The head of the department, Andrei Lipov, believes that the institution of consent to the processing of personal data is extremely outdated. “It was probably effective at the dawn of the emergence of Federal Law 152 on the processing of personal data, when it left the content of consent to the discretion of the citizen and the company where the person came and which asks him to sign such consent,” says the head of the RKN.

An administrative claim was filed in court by the prosecutor of the republic, Arsan Adayev, which notes that members of the movement are calling for “hostility and destabilization of the socio-political situation.” The court agreed with the arguments of the prosecutor's office and recognized the NIYSO movement as an “extremist” organization. “We don’t see any need to pay special attention to this.

The St. Petersburg City Court rejected the appeal of lawyer Maria Zyryanova against the decision of the Dzerzhinsky District Court of St. Petersburg to arrest Diana Loginova for 13 days for “organizing a mass event that entailed a violation of public order,” a SOTAvision * correspondent reported in court.

On October 30, the Leninsky District Court of Perm arrested ex-deputy of the regional legislative assembly and Perm City Duma Konstantin Okunev in the case of “calls for terrorism,” reports Properm . The case was brought against him due to posts in a certain telegram channel, although, according to the defense, the investigation has no evidence of the politician’s involvement in the channel.

Judge of the Sverdlovsk Regional Court Pavel Neretin sentenced 41-year-old former participant in the war in Ukraine Vladimir Alexandrov to life imprisonment, finding him guilty of the rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl in Nizhny Tagil, as well as the rape of a 20-year-old girl and the illegal deprivation of her liberty, a Mediazona correspondent * reported from the courtroom. The court also decided to recover 8 million rubles from him in favor of the father of the deceased girl.

The Russian company Lukoil has agreed to sell its foreign assets to the Swiss oil trader Gunvor Group , founded by Gennady Timchenko and Swedish businessman Torbjorn Törnqvist. Lukoil has received an offer from the international company Gunvor to acquire LUKOIL International GmbH , which manages subsidiaries in Europe, Asia and Africa, the company said in a statement. The company accepted the offer, undertaking not to negotiate with other potential buyers.

Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One that China had agreed to suspend for a year restrictions on exports of rare earth metals, which are critical to U.S. automakers and defense plants. The US President also said that Xi has agreed to take tougher measures to stem the flow of chemicals used to make fentanyl, in response to which the US will reduce tariffs on Chinese goods from 20% to 10%.

The Russian Ministry of Defense is ready to cease hostilities in the areas of Pokrovsk, Dimitrov and Kupyansk for 5-6 hours in order to ensure a safe visit to these territories for foreign journalists, including Ukrainian ones.

A record number of Russians were convicted in the first half of 2025 under the article about military “fakes.” In the first six months of this year, courts handed down sentences against 45 people, which is 2.5 times more than in 2023. Last year, 67 Russians were sentenced.

UPD: The number of victims in Zaporozhye has increased to 23 people, a two-year-old girl was injured. The bodies of two victims were recovered from the rubble. Russia attacked Ukraine overnight with 653 UAVs and 52 missiles, the Ukrainian Air Force reported.