Ukraine's State Customs Service has introduced a mechanism for the automatic customs clearance of imported and exported international postal and express shipments without physically presenting them to customs authorities and without the involvement of customs officials.

The Ukrainian Armed Forces (AFU) will ensure the implementation of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief's decisions to carry out a humanitarian mission in the occupied town of Oleshky in Kherson region, according to a statement from the AFU General Staff.

The deaths of 19,349 Ukrainian civilians have been confirmed since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion, including 762 children, Ukraine's acting Prosecutor General Anton Kovalsky said on Facebook on Friday.

One person was killed and 18 others were injured in Chernihiv as a result of a hostile attack on Friday, according to the city council's press service.

Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Ruslan Stefanchuk, who is on a working visit to Hungary, met with Speaker of the Hungarian National Assembly (parliament) Ágnes Forszthoffer, according to a post on the Ukrainian parliament's Telegram channel on Friday.

Head of Kherson Regional Military Administration Oleksandr Prokudin said five more children had been returned to territory controlled by Ukraine from the temporarily occupied part of Kherson region: two girls and three boys aged 15 to 17.

The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has authorized private businesses to build underground production facilities for defense purposes, Prime Minister Serhiy Koretsky said.

Dmytro Lubinets, the Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights, confirmed the agreement on a humanitarian mission to the Russian-occupied city of Oleshky in Kherson region, which had previously been announced by U.S.

The timing of the trilateral Ukraine-U.S.-Russia meeting at the command level to end the Russia-Ukraine war depends on the Russian side, but it is currently scheduled for the first half of November of this year in Abu Dhabi (UAE), Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed that speed limits on SpaceX's Starlink satellite communication terminals and their military version, Starshield, remain in effect, creating problems for the Ukrainian military.

Ukraine's biggest challenge for the winter, amid intensifying attacks from Russia, is its air defense capabilities, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.

Kyiv has already commissioned approximately 85 MW of generating capacity, which will help the city get through the fall-winter period of 2026/2027, while preparations for winter under the concept provisionally dubbed "dark but warm" are approximately 80% complete, Managing Director of the Energy Industry Research Center Oleksandr Kharchenko said.

The number of Ukrainian citizens currently abroad stands at 9.5 million, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said.

Brigadier General Denys "Redis" Prokopenko, commander of the Azov military group, announced the return of 35 Azov fighters as part of a prisoner-of-war exchange with Russia on Friday, noting that more than 500 remain in Russian captivity.

The State Customs Service of Ukraine, together with experts from the World Customs Organization (WCO), has begun reviewing internal goods-clearance procedures and is introducing the European practice of process mapping to eliminate corruption risks.

An operation to lift the blockade of the town of Oleshky and its surrounding areas will start shortly.

The Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) has confirmed the death of a Ukrainian sailor following the sinking of the vessel Khoryv near Constanta, Romania.

The number of people wounded as a result of a strike by Russian occupiers on a residential area in the city of Dnipro on Friday has risen to five, one of whom is in critical condition; it has also been reported that one person was killed.

Kyiv has spent more than UAH 16 billion on strengthening its energy security since the start of 2026, compared with UAH 2 billion last year, and plans to spend another UAH 4.5-5 billion by year-end, Managing Director of the Energy Industry Research Center Oleksandr Kharchenko has said.

Petro Poroshenko, a member of the Ukrainian Parliament and leader of the European Solidarity party, handed over five Ai-Petri data transmission and electronic warfare systems to strengthen Kyiv's defense against air attacks by Russian occupiers.