Students on the ballot, a seat for Europe and Starlink back on

Three stories, three angles: what happened, how it's being told, and what we don't know yet.

In Serbia, the students who have protested for almost two years since the Novi Sad station disaster are on the ballot this Sunday, against Aleksandar Vučić's party, and one poll has them narrowly ahead. In Ukraine, the Kremlin says Putin has agreed in principle to new three-way talks after the 10th of November, the same night Russian missiles hit Kyiv, and Europe looks for one person to speak for it. And a week after a speed cap grounded Ukraine's interceptor drones, the Wall Street Journal reports that Trump phoned Elon Musk to get Starlink's limits lifted.

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Everything in this episode comes from reporting already published. The stories behind it are at pollar.news.

Reporting: Pollar (pollar.news/en/event/serbias-tight-election-sunday, /missiles-hit-kyiv-talks-loom, /putin-rejects-truce-talks, /eu-says-no-to-ukraine-envoy, /musk-allegedly-throttled-starshield), AP, Reuters, NSPM, Archive of Public Gatherings, the Kremlin, Politico, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Der Spiegel.

Archive sound: kremlin.ru (22 October 2026, CC BY 4.0), US State Department pool via CNBC Television (21 October 2026).

Cover photo: Mishyac, Wikimedia Commons (public domain, CC0), cropped and toned by Pollar.