Authorities have detained a Ukrainian citizen in Poland and two others in Romania for allegedly working with Russian intelligence on a sabotage campaign.

Here is how things stand on Friday, October 31, 2025: Russia’s Ministry of Defence said its forces took control of the villages of Krasnohirske in Ukraine’s Zaporizhia region and Sadove in the Kharkiv region, Russian state news agencies reported.

Faced with an increasingly aggressive Russia and mixed messages from the US, Warsaw is ramping up its defensive capabilities

For more than a decade, Poland has been building up for the worst case scenario: becoming the front line in a war between Russia and the West.

Russia is using cryptocurrencies to pay saboteurs carrying out hybrid attacks across the European Union, according to a Polish security official.

The road known as Via Baltica will pass through a narrow strip of land between Belarus and Russia ’s Kaliningrad exclave, called the Suwalki Gap.

A Polish court handed down prison sentences to three Ukrainians on Friday for their roles in a string of huge fires in Poland and the Baltic states, as Warsaw aims to crack down on what it says is a wave of sabotage orchestrated by Russia.

Two suspects were also arrested in Romania for allegedly depositing incendiary devices at an international courier company in Bucharest.

Polish and allied air forces were activated as Russia struck targets in Ukraine, prompting temporary closures of Radom and Lublin airports.

Lithuanian Prime Minister Inga Ruginiene said on Thursday that her Polish counterpart Donald Tusk has agreed to postpone a reopening of crossings on Poland's border with Belarus.