⚡️Russia behind Britain's Brexit vote, UK prime minister admits for first time.

⚡️Russian air strike on Kharkiv kills at least 1, injures 8. President Volodymyr Zelensky said "this week alone, the Russians have launched around 1,450 aerial bombs, 75 missiles of various types and over 1,640 attack drones, around 60% of which are jet-powered."

⚡️Ukraine will only stop attacking Russian oil as part of an energy ceasefire, Zelensky says. "The real cause of the war in Europe is Russia, and Russia alone. It is already possible today to halt the attacks on our energy sector, but Putin does not want to do so," Zelensky said.

⚡️Ukraine welcomes Baltic push to ban Russian grain transit through EU. "It is important to see this initiative now being advanced at the EU level," wrote Agriculture Minister Taras Vysotskyi.

⚡️At least seven injured in Russian aerial bombing of Sloviansk. "There may be people trapped under the rubble," President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a social media post.

⚡️Russian attacks kill at least 2, injure 25 across Ukraine as Moscow targets energy infrastructure around Kyiv. In Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Russia killed one child and injured nine other people in attacks on civilian targets.

⚡Third Yandex data center in Russia shut down following reported drone attack. Russian technology giant Yandex's data center in Vladimir Oblast has been completely shut down following a reported drone attack, Russian state news agency TASS said on Oct. 11, citing the company.

⚡Civilians evacuated from Russian-occupied territories, including Chornobyl disaster responder. Sixteen Ukrainian civilians have been evacuated from Russian-occupied territories to government-controlled Ukraine, Human Rights Ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets announced on Oct. 10.

⚡11-year-old boy killed, five injured by Russian drone attack in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. One child was killed, and five other people were injured, including two children, in Russian drone and missile attacks on Dnipropetrovsk Oblast on Oct. 10, regional authorities reported.

⚡️️️️️️️'Will only lead to more slaughter' — bipartisan backlash erupts in US over Trump-Russia diesel deal. Lawmakers from both major parties argued the move would undermine recent sanctions, provide Moscow with billions in revenue, and contradict efforts to pressure Putin to end the war in Ukraine.

⚡️️️️️️️Russia partially lifts ban on diesel exports after Trump-Putin deal. Effective Oct. 10, the Russian government will permit the sale of 500,000 tons of diesel to foreign markets. Moscow previously banned diesel exports in July in response to Ukrainian strikes.

⚡️️️️️️️US Democrats call on FBI Director Kash Patel to cancel upcoming trip to Russia. Rep. Jamie Raskin and Rep. Jim Himes urged Patel to cancel the visit, citing “urgent national security concerns,” including the FSB's history of conducting espionage operations against American officials.

⚡️️️️️️️'He better damn well stop' — Trump slams Zelensky for attacking Russian refineries, says Ukraine should get 'new president.' "I think it's time for Ukraine to get a new president," Trump said when questioned about his deal to ease sanctions against Russia in exchange for diesel.

⚡️️️️️️️US demands Kyiv halt refinery attacks, threatens to suspend intelligence sharing. During recent talks, the Ukrainians were told that Washington would cut off intelligence sharing that has helped Kyiv identify and strike targets inside Russia, one person present told the Kyiv Independent.

⚡️️️️️️️Update: Death toll in Russian airstrike in Zaporizhzhia rises to 20. At least 20 people have been killed after Russia dropped five guided bombs on a residential neighborhood in Zaporizhzhia early on Oct. 10. The victims include three children.

“It felt like a trap,” one senior Ukrainian official told the Kyiv Independent.

Kyiv’s negotiators, who had come to discuss a possible energy ceasefire with Russia, found themselves blindsided by a decision they feared would hand Moscow fresh revenue to finance its war while undermining Kyiv’s leverage.

When U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner told Ukraine’s delegation on Oct. 9 that President Donald Trump was preparing to lift sanctions on Russian diesel exports, the Ukrainians struggled to believe what they were hearing, the Kyiv Independent reports.

⚡️Exclusive: 'It felt like a trap.' How Ukraine was blindsided by Trump's Putin pivot

The report follows Alter Ego’s engineers and operators as they confront the risks of robotic evacuations and prepare an all-robot counterattack against Russian troops in Donetsk Oblast.