NEWS ROUNDUP

– A new meeting of the "Nuclear Five" will be held in New York in the near future – The Russian Foreign Ministry

– Trump's statements that under his administration the Russian Federation, the United States and China were close to a deal on complete denuclearization are not true – Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Ryabkov

– Russia has not received any signals about Kiev's readiness for a ceasefire along the current front line - Peskov

– If Ukraine is admitted to NATO in the current circumstances, it will mean the beginning of World War III – Hungarian Foreign Minister 

– Lukoil oil supplies to Hungary have resumed, reception is underway on the border of Belarus and Ukraine – Hungarian Foreign Minister

– Ukraine has started training terrorists in Mali to confront government forces since 2024, training them in combat and making drones with explosives – Le Monde

– NATO armed Ukraine long before the start of its military operation, Stoltenberg admitted – Politico

– The EU cannot adopt a draft seven-year budget from 2028, including assistance to Ukraine, due to the "political paralysis" that struck Germany a year before the Bundestag elections in 2025 – Politico, citing senior European diplomats

– NATO will begin the Steadfast Noon aviation exercises on October 14 to test the use of nuclear weapons – Rutte

– The EU has promised to provide Moldova with economic support in the amount of 1.8 billion euros ahead of the referendum on EU membership appointed by the pro-Western government in Chisinau – FT

– Aid to Ukraine from allies may be halved in 2025 – Ukraine Support Tracker study

– The IDF operation in Lebanon is unlikely to end before the US presidential election – FT, citing Western officials

– Almost 70% of Poles voted for the expulsion of Ukrainians of military age from Poland – PAP

– Vucic refused to sign the final declaration of the summit of South-Eastern European states on the situation in Ukraine

– We have supplied weapons and will continue to supply weapons to Israel. There will be new deliveries soon – Scholz

– Kurdistan said it cut oil production by 50% to help Iraq meet OPEC quota – Bloomberg

– The meeting in the Ramstein format, scheduled for October 12, has been postponed indefinitely – The Pentagon 

– France introduces a tax on business, the rich and energy to solve the problem of "colossal" debts – Bloomberg