The EU granted Frontex, the European External Borders Agency, the authority to forcibly deport illegal immigrants on its own initiative.
Ukrainian Foreign Ministry expressed protest to Russia over the biased ruling of a Moscow court against the former director of the Poltava defense plant Soloshchenko.
European leaders agreed to grant €3 billion to Turkey, to easy visa requirements and to hold talks on EU membership in exchange for preventing illegal migrant traffic from Turkey to the EU territory and for providing them with necessary facilities in Turkey.
German parliament passed a law tightening the immigration legislation.
Bulgarian border guards shot dead an illegal migrant from Afghanistan during a clash at the border.
American Republican Party presidential candidate Trump sees no sufficient grounds to accuse Donbas militants of downing flight MH17. He believes that the US should neither take action in this respect nor intervene in the conflict in Ukraine.
The EBRD will grant a loan of €100 million to Chernihiv, Odesa, Chernivtsy and other cities to purchase public transport and improve infrastructure.
The meeting of the Ad Hoc Committee of Creditors of Ukraine in London failed to reach the quorum. However, its attendees issued a resolution stating the terms of restructuring of Ukraine's external debt. Prime Minister Yatsenyuk stated that the creditors "decided to reduce an overall debt of Ukraine by a total amount worth US$3 billion and to restructure the corresponding debt for a total sum of US$8.5 billion." The Committee of Creditors is scheduled to meet again on October 29. The Ministry of Finance stated that Russia had the last chance to join Ukrainian Eurobonds holders for the final decision on Ukrainian debt restructuring.
