French freelance photojournalist Antoni Lallican was killed near Kramatorsk in a deliberate strike by a Russian drone on 3 October. His Ukrainian colleague Georgiy Ivanchenko was critically wounded
Killed and wounded civilians and damaged infrastructure were reported across the city of Kyiv and the Kyiv, Zaporizhzhia, Sumy, Dnipropetrovsk, Cherkasy, and Poltava regions following Russian shelling on the night of October 10, 2025. The strikes caused power cuts across several of these regions
Russian shelling on October 8, 2025, killed six people and wounded 15 others across the Kherson, Sumy, Kharkiv, Donetsk, and Zaporizhzhia regions
Civilians were killed and wounded, and damage was reported in the Odesa and Sumy regions following Russian shelling on the night of October 9
On the night of October 4, 2025, Russian drones shelled the Chernechchyna hromada – a local government area that includes one or more nearby settlements – in the Sumy region, hitting a grain storage facility in what reports indicated was a deliberate strike
The investigation into war crimes committed by Russian military personnel in Bucha and the Bucha District of the Kyiv region is also ongoing. Investigators continue to document these crimes with international partners
The man said he had traveled to Russia to study but was imprisoned on drug-related charges and later offered "freedom" in exchange for signing a military contract
Civilians were killed and wounded, and material damage was reported in the Sumy, Poltava, and Kherson regions following Russian shelling on the night of October 7, 2025
ZMINA met with Dmytro Khyliuk at the hospital where he is currently undergoing treatment and rehabilitation. She spoke with him about the first days of the occupation of the Kyiv region, the conditions of detention for Ukrainians in Russian colonies, what helped him maintain his psychological resilience in captivity, and what he plans to do in the future
The Sumy Oblast Military Administration and Andriy Yermak, head of the Office of the President, reported that Russians deliberately struck a local health care facility with a drone in Sumy, causing the roof of a perinatal center to catch fire. At the time of the strike, 166 people were inside the center, including 11 children and 35 patients
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy reported that Russia launched more than 50 missiles and around 500 attack drones against Ukraine on the night of October 4-5, targeting Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Zaporizhzhia, Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, Kherson, Odesa, and Kirovohrad oblasts
Intelligence officials added that the Russian occupier who opened fire did not survive. According to his accomplices, he died from his own bullets
Oleksii Kuleba, deputy prime minister for the restoration of Ukraine and minister of communities, territories, and infrastructure development, said that Russian forces struck the railway station twice during the evacuation
Ukrainian journalist and freelance photographer Heorhiy Ivanchenko, a member of the Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers, was working with him at the time. He was injured but is in stable condition
As a result of Russian shelling on October 1, five civilians were killed in the Kherson and Kharkiv regions, and more than 30 injured in the Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, and Sumy regions
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) adopted a new resolution on Russian aggression. According to the document, Russia's attacks go beyond Ukraine and threaten all of Europe, and the Ukrainian state has the sovereign right to membership in any international organizations, including NATO
Russian shelling on the night of October 2, 2025, killed and wounded civilians in the Kyiv, Kharkiv, Odesa, Dnipropetrovsk, and Chernihiv regions and destroyed railway infrastructure
The New Safe Confinement, which covers the destroyed fourth reactor, was left without power. The structure is critical to preventing the release of radioactive materials
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