The Ukrainian city of Kharkiv was subjected to a massive Russian air attack tonight, UNIAN reported.
The head of the regional military administration, Oleg Sinegubov, reported that powerful explosions could be heard in the city, and there were power outages in some neighborhoods.
Mayor Igor Terekhov said that Russia carried out 25 strikes with "Shahed" drones that night in Kharkiv - all in the "Nemishlyansky" district, where there are industrial enterprises.
He added that about 20 explosions were heard in the city and that fires had broken out.
"There are no reports of casualties so far. Another group of Russian drones is heading towards the city - be careful!", Terekhov warned.
US President Donald Trump said that he had "somewhat" decided to supply "Tomahawk" missiles to Ukraine, Reuters reported.
"I think I want to understand what they are going to do with them. Where are they sending them? I guess I'll have to ask them that question," Trump told reporters in the Oval Office.
"I'm not looking for escalation," he noted.
Trump also commented on the negotiations to end the war in Gaza.
"I think things are going very well and that the Hamas group has accepted some very important things", the US president said, quoted by Agence France-Presse.
Finnish President Alexander Stubb and Prime Minister Petteri Orpo will visit Washington on October 9 and 10 for talks with US President Donald Trump, the Finnish government announced, quoted by Reuters.
The talks will focus on bilateral relations between Finland and the United States, trade and economic cooperation, as well as on Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the Finnish government added.
Any decision by the European Union to use frozen Russian assets to help Ukraine must comply with international law, European Central Bank (ECB) President Christine Lagarde said yesterday, quoted by Reuters.
"We expect to see that any scheme that is discussed and ultimately presented at some point will comply with international rules, of international law“, Lagarde told MEPs in Strasbourg.
The EU is currently looking for ways to finance Ukraine's defense and reconstruction by securing nearly 210 billion euros of Russian sovereign assets frozen in the West since the start of the Russian invasion, Reuters reports.