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Ukraine hits Russian cruise missile ship on Lake Onega, military says
Ukrainian Special Operations Forces (SSO) struck a Russian Buyan-M-class small missile ship, a carrier of Kalibr cruise missiles, in Russia's republic of Karelia, the military reported on Oct. 4. The Russian missile ship "Grad" was struck on Lake...
Russian strike hits Ukrainian passenger train, authorities say
A Russian drone strike has hit a passenger train at a station in Ukraine's northern Sumy region, injuring dozens of people including passengers, according to regional governor Oleh Hryhorov and local authorities. Mr Hryhorov claimed the Russian...

'A bit unusual': Russia's Sochi grapples with Ukrainian drones
Internet blackouts have become a fact of daily life in the Russian city of Sochi, which is coming under increasing threat of retaliatory Ukrainian drone strikes. Russia's authorities have tried to shield their citizens from the fallout of Moscow's...

Russian strike on Ukrainian train injures dozens
Officials reported on Saturday that a Russian drone strike targeted a passenger train at a station in Ukraine's northern Sumy region, injuring dozens of people. "A brutal Russian drone strike on the railway station in Shostka, Sumy region,"...
Russian drone strikes Ukrainian passenger train
Credit: X/Volodymyr Zelenskyy A “savage” Russian drone strike on a passenger train in Ukraine’s Sumy region has injured dozens of people, Volodymyr Zelensky said on Saturday. The Ukrainian president posted a video of a burning carriage apparently...

30 Killed In Russian Drone Strike On Railway Station In Ukraine, Says Zelenskyy
At least 30 people were killed on Saturday after a Russian drone strike hit a railway station in Ukraine’s northern Sumy region, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed. Calling the attack “savage,” he said both Ukrainian Railways (Ukrzaliznytsia)...

Russia Used Weapons Manufactured for Kazakhstan and Egypt Against Ukraine
At the outset of the Russian invasion, Russian forces were supplied with export defensive systems for fighter aircraft and scarce 1,500-kilogram bombs that had been intended for Kazakhstan and Egypt. The Black Mirror hacker group published...

Macron Blames Russia as Drone Kills French Photojournalist in Ukraine
A drone killed a French photojournalist on assignment in eastern Ukraine on Friday and wounded a Ukrainian reporter, officials and media groups said. Antoni Lallican, 37, was embedded with Ukraine's Fourth Armored Brigade near the front line in...

Invaders attack train station in Shostka, injuring about 30 passengers on Kyiv-Shostka train
Photo: https://t.me/hryhorov_oleg Around 30 people were injured when Russian occupiers struck a train at a station in the town of Shostka in Sumy region, according to Oksana Tarasiuk, acting head of Shostka District Military Administration. In a...

“They Took The White Gold”: Russia Seizes Ukraine’s Lithium Giant In Donetsk, Threatening US-EU Plans For Non-Chinese Critical Mineral Supply Chains
IN A NUTSHELL 🔋 Russian forces have seized a major lithium deposit in Ukraine’s Donetsk region, impacting global resource dynamics. 🌍 Control over this site gives Russia strategic leverage in the global lithium market and affects international...
French photojournalist Antoni Lallican killed in Ukraine drone attack
Antoni Lallican, an award-winning French photographer on assignment in Ukraine, died in a drone attack in the eastern Donbas region on Friday, press groups have announced. It is the first time a journalist has been killed by a drone in Ukraine in...

Namangan court sentences man to two years for fighting in Russia–Ukraine war.
An Uzbek national who signed a contract with the Russian Ministry of Defense and served in the Russian Armed Forces under the call sign “Ded” as a “mechanic operator” has been sentenced to two years in prison. On September 11 this year, the...

French photojournalist killed by Russian drone in eastern Ukraine
KYIV: A Russian drone attack killed a French photojournalist on Friday in eastern Ukraine on the frontline of the three-and-a-half-year-old war with Russia. The Ukrainian military’s Fourth Separate Mechanised Brigade announced on Facebook that...
Biggest Russian attack on Ukraine’s gas infrastructure; Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry says US shutdown won’t affect arms supplies: October 3 latest
Russia launched the biggest attack on Ukraine’s energy and gas infrastructure. Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry denies that the US shutdown could affect weapons supplies. The suspect in the murder of the former speaker of the Ukrainian parliament Andrii...

Brits warned after tourists targeted by new extortion scam in Amsterdam
Travellers in Amsterdam are being warned about being approached by people in the Dutch city who appear in need - but could actually just be trying to extort money from them. Recent posts on social media have documented reports of tourists being...

Ukrainian potato growers showcase 79 varieties at Field Day in Volyn
For the tenth consecutive year, Ukrainian and Polish farmers gathered in the Lutsk district of the Volyn region for an annual Field Day dedicated to potato production. This season, 79 varieties of seed potatoes, both Ukrainian and European, were...

America’s pastime in Ukraine: Far from the front, baseball provides an unlikely refuge
In Kyiv, Ukraine, Roman Boiko stays up until 2 a.m. most nights to watch his favorite team, the New York Yankees. “It’s my routine,” he said. “Baseball has always been my life.” His fandom began when, as a child, he was gifted a VHS recording of...

Ukraine: French photojournalist killed by Russian drone
French photojournalist Antoni Lallican was killed in a drone attack on Friday in eastern Ukraine. The Ukrainian military confirmed the news with a post on Facebook by The Fourth Separate Mechanised Brigade. Lallican was accompanied by a Ukrainian...

Russian FPV drone strike kills French journalist and injures Ukrainian reporter
Antoni Lallican. Photo: UAPP French reporter Antoni Lallican was killed on 3 October in a Russian first-person view drone strike that also injured Kyiv Independent journalist Heorhii Ivanchenkov. Source: Serhii Tomilenko, Head of the National...

Suspect in MP Parubii's murder acted on orders from Russian secret services – Ukraine's Security Service
Suspect in MP Parubii's murder Mykhailo Scelnikov. Photo: Hromadske The Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) has stated that its investigators have gathered "irrefutable evidence of high treason" on the part of Mykhailo Scelnikov, the suspect in the...