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Russia kills 5, wounds 22 in overnight attacks across Ukraine (updated)
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
A Russian soldier killed three civilians in the temporarily occupied Kharkiv region – DIU
Intelligence officials added that the Russian occupier who opened fire did not survive. According to his accomplices, he died from his own bullets
Russian double-tap drone strike on Ukraine railway station in Shostka, Sumy region, injures 30, including 3 children (updated)
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
Russia tortures Crimean Tatar prisoner Mamut Belyalov again – human rights defenders
26-year-old Mamut Belyalov, who is already serving a 12-year sentence on fabricated charges, has been brought back to occupied Crimea and subjected to so-called ‘interrogation’ in the form of savage beatings, without a lawyer present
Russian forces kill French photojournalist Anthoni Lallican in targeted drone attack in Donetsk Oblast (updated)
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
Russian shelling kills five civilians in Ukraine on October 1
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
Russia’s attacks extend beyond Ukraine and threaten all of Europe — PACE resolution
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
Overnight Russian attack hits railways, kills civilians in multiple regions of Ukraine
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
Russian attack leaves Chernobyl’s New Safe Confinement without electricity
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
Russian strikes kill 2, wound 53 across Ukraine in 24 hours
On September 30 and overnight into October 1, 2025, Russians shelled the Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Kherson, Sumy, Chernihiv, and Zaporizhzhia Oblasts (regions), using missiles, aerial bombs, artillery, and drones. At least two people were killed and 53 were wounded. Residential buildings, markets, a hospital, infrastructure, and transport were damaged
Family of four, including expectant mother of twins, killed in Russian shelling in Sumy region
Civilians were killed and wounded, and material damage was reported in the Sumy, Kyiv, and Chernihiv regions following Russian shelling on the night of September 30, according to the National Police and regional administrations
Russia shells Ukraine overnight with 32 drones; 2 civilians wounded in Dnipropetrovsk and Sumy regions
Civilians were wounded in the Dnipropetrovsk and Sumy regions following Russian shelling on the night of September 29, 2025, according to regional military administrations
Russian drone strikes kill man in Kharkiv, woman in Dnipropetrovsk
Russian drone attacks killed a man in Kharkiv Oblast and a woman in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast on September 28, 2025
At least four people, including a child, killed in the Russian attack on Kyiv (updated)
A "massive attack" by Russia against Ukraine's capital killed at least four people, including a 12-year-old girl, and injured at least 27 others at night and in the morning on September 28, 2025
Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant loses external power for record three days: Russia blamed for manufacturing nuclear crisis at Europe’s largest power plant
Ukrainian officials among those concerned Russia is manufacturing crisis to keep hold of frontline plant
Two civilians killed, more than 30 wounded in latest Russian strikes in Ukraine
On September 26, 2025, two civilians were killed in Russian attacks in Donetsk and Kherson Oblasts. In addition, nine civilians were wounded in Donetsk, 12 in Kherson, five in Dnipropetrovsk, and six in Kharkiv Oblasts
Force cannot define international borders
Taoiseach reaffirmed Ireland’s steadfast support for Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, stressing that justice must underpin any lasting peace. Concluding, he pledged that Ireland and the EU will stand with Ukraine for as long as it takes
During Crimea Platform Summit at the UN, Zelensky urges world to resist normalizing Russian occupation
Ukrainian President called for continued sanctions coordination among partners. He also thanked participants for maintaining sanctions and urged the international community not to allow killings and occupation to become something "the world can simply turn a blind eye to."
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