What is happening in Ukraine — short and clear
A Russian strike damaged Kyiv’s Northern Bridge on Oct. 3, injuring two people. The Southern Bridge has been closed to cars and the metro after repeated attacks on Oct. 1–2.
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Regional head Raikovych reported a UAV crash during an alert on 3 October; debris set dry grass alight, the fire was contained.
Border guards have held their sector since June: 118 Russian troops killed, seven captured; fighting continues.
PM Koretskyi announced a facility in a 900+ m² radiation shelter so 115 children can spend a full day learning without air-raid interruptions.
In a Reuters interview the president called the eastern counteroffensive a success still underway; the Third Army Corps freed several villages on the Lyman axis.
Zelensky told Reuters Ukrainian intelligence obtained documents on broader Russian civilian targeting before winter; Kyiv will hit energy, not civilians.
During his third mission to Moscow, Cardinal Matteo Zuppi visited a camp holding Ukrainian POWs and conveyed Pope Leo XIV’s closeness. Talks also covered the return of children.
Since the start of 2026 Ukraine’s Defence Ministry has approved 1,678 new weapon models, 1,530 of them made in Ukraine. Anti-drone protection now covers more than 1,560 km of key roads.
The Telegraph and Welt am Sonntag report that the attempt to blow up a Ukrainian An-124 cargo plane at Leipzig/Halle Airport may have been organised by GRU-linked Russian citizen Oleg Levushkin.
Drone attacks on Sept. 19, 20 and 27 damaged transformers at the Zaporizhzhia thermal plant that are vital for off-site power to the occupied nuclear plant. The IAEA is brokering an eighth local truce.
A Russian attack on a civilian cargo ship flying the Liberian flag in a port in Ukraine’s Odesa region on October 3 killed a motorman and injured three other crew members.
The U.S.–Ukraine Reconstruction Investment Fund (URIF) approved its largest package yet: a mining platform with BGV Group, DTEK battery storage and community energy hubs.
The 2026 Prix Alain Bosquet has gone to Ukrainian poet and soldier Yaryna Chornohuz and to Ella Yevtushenko and Frédéric Martin, translators of her collection.
A conference of the World Federation of Ukrainian Women’s Organizations is discussing reconstruction, return, countering disinformation and keeping Ukrainian identity alive abroad.
Russia hit Kyiv’s Cosmonova data center twice on September 26, damaging its backbone network and knocking TV channels off air. Officials ordered extra protection for telecoms.
Andrii Sybiha says people in Russian-occupied Oleshky, Kherson region, are starving and urges the world to secure humanitarian access and safe evacuation.
In two days, attacks hit a McDonald’s partner’s warehouse, a foreign-invested plant in Zhytomyr region, a pharmaceutical plant, a hypermarket and a sushi chain’s warehouse. Kyiv wants more pressure on Moscow.
President Zelensky enacted a security council decision sanctioning 44 people involved in staging Russian State Duma “elections” in occupied parts of Ukraine.
Crossings in Volyn have been briefly shut in recent days because of the threat of attacks, with Poland halting its side too. What border guards say and how travellers should act.
The defence ministry is gradually adding sign-in with Diia.Signature alongside BankID in the military registration app. What you need, what to do if the button is missing, and what else changed.
Russia is targeting network infrastructure, but Ukraine’s highly distributed internet channels make a countrywide outage unlikely, says tech adviser Serhii Beskrestnov (“Flash”).
On September 25 Russian drones hit a high-rise in Pecherskyi district, an office block in Solomianskyi district and the High Council of Justice. 59 people were injured.
Ukraine’s top military command reviewed tests of interceptors against jet drones, approved plans to build jet engines at home and heard intelligence on Russia’s 2027 tech plans.
EU countries have agreed terms for releasing European Peace Facility money that Hungary had blocked since 2023. Here is where the money goes and when Ukraine might see it.
Ukrainian and Polish specialists finished work at Lviv’s Holoskivskyi Cemetery, recovering 115 Polish Army soldiers and 17 Wehrmacht troops killed in the September 1939 battles for the city.
The steelmaker told Ukraine’s government it cannot safely resume operations at ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih after four missile strikes in five weeks.
Most of Ukraine’s defence funding gap is money for drones and missiles. Unless they are ordered and paid for in October–November, January and February will be hard, the president says.
Washington has suggested technical-level trilateral talks hosted by the Emirates, and Kyiv is waiting for a date. Meanwhile, Putin’s invitation to the G20 is dividing Western politicians.
The EU Council approved the eighth regular Ukraine Facility payment. For the first time, almost €800 million comes from the Ukraine Support Loan.
Speleologists found a vertical cave about 30 metres deep in the Ivano-Frankivsk region and a new 50-metre section of the “Na Khomakh” gypsum cave in the Ternopil region.
