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CONFLICTOct 2Russia decided to increase planned war spending for 2027 in response to Ukrainian strikes on refineries and warehouses, the newsletter Vlast reportsMeduza [en]
POLITICSOct 2Boris Nemtsov’s daughter is now a ‘foreign agent’ in Russia. So are social media accounts run by Alexey Navalny’s team.Russia’s Justice Ministry has added Zhanna Nemtsova, the daughter of murdered politician Boris Nemtsov, and Team Navalny, a group of social media accounts run by Anti-Corruption Foundation staff, to its registry of “foreign agents.”Meduza [en]
POLITICSOct 2Russian political researcher Alexander Finiarel has lived in Spain without papers for two years. But soon he (and half a million other refugees) will be able to get documents. This is his story.In 2026, Spain is granting legal status to large numbers of undocumented migrants. The authorities initially planned to grant status to about 500,000 people, but nearly 1.2 million applied. Russian political researcher and journalist Alexander Finiarel is among those seeking legal status in Spain. He has lived there without it for two years and closely follows migration policy in Europe’s most attractive destination for migrants. At Meduza’s request, Finiarel explains how undocumented migrants live in Spain, what Spaniards think about migration, and how the mass legalization process works fromMeduza [en]
CONFLICTOct 2Four more children returned from temporarily occupied part of Kherson regionFour more children have been returned from the temporarily occupied territory of the Kherson region to territory controlled by Ukraine.Ukrinform [en]
CONFLICTBREAKINGOct 2Russians attack Dnipro, apartment building catches fireUkrinform [en]
POLITICSOct 2Russian supermarket workers say they were fired over a viral reel about post-election grocery price hikesSochi bloggers Svetlana Izhilenko and Alisa Kunyashova said they were fired from a local Pyaterochka grocery store after posting a video about rising grocery prices the day after the elections.Meduza [en]
CONFLICTOct 2The Telegraph identifies Russian biker Oleg Levushkin as suspected organizer of Leipzig airport sabotage. It links the operation to a GRU unit whose officers are accused in the Skripal poisoning.Meduza [en]
CONFLICTOct 2Warehouses catch fire in Kyiv region following Russian attackUkrinform [en]
POLITICSOct 2The U.S. seized $5.4 million from ‘Orthodox oligarch’ Konstantin Malofeyev and sent it to support Ukrainian veterans. Russia has now opened a criminal case over the confiscation.Russia’s Investigative Committee, the country’s main federal investigative agency, said it has opened a criminal case over U.S. authorities’ “misappropriation” of funds belonging to Russian businessman Konstantin Malofeyev, founder of the Tsargrad channel. The “Orthodox oligarch” himself filed the complaint seeking an investigation.Meduza [en]
CONFLICTOct 2Russians attack Shevchenkove in Kharkiv region with drones: Three injured, houses catch fireUkrinform [en]
CONFLICTOct 2Russians attack Shevchenkove in Kharkiv region with drones: Three injured, houses catch fireukrinform · ukraine
MILITARYOct 2« Our ambition is to be sovereign over the entire technological cycle »: Ukraine acquires ballistic strike capabilityDÉCRYPTAGE - L’armée ukrainienne a utilisé pour la première fois en opération un missile balistique de courte portée FP-7.Le Figaro International
HEALTHOct 2Hospital in Russia’s Irkutsk region quarantined amid reports that a patient died of pneumonic plagueMeduza [en]
POLITICSOct 2A Ukrainian grandmother came to Kazakhstan to collect her grandson. Instead, she was detained at Russia’s request.Ukrainian citizen Liubov Rozhanska was detained at Astana’s airport after arriving from Istanbul. She is now being held in a pretrial detention center, and a court hearing is expected within three days. Russia requested her detention through the Collective Security Treaty Organization, her lawyers told DW. Rozhanska could be extradited to Russia, where she is being investigated for child abduction.Meduza [en]
WORLDOct 2Russian ‘anti-feminist’ blogger Alexey Podnebesny is sentenced to three years for indecent acts with a 15-year-old girlA St. Petersburg court sentenced blogger Alexey Podnebesny to three years in a penal colony for indecent acts involving a minor, Mediazona reported.Meduza [en]
CONFLICTOct 2Russian drone attacks Kyiv's South Bridge againIn Kyiv, a Russian drone has struck the South Bridge again.Ukrinform [en]
CONFLICTOct 2Zelensky says Putin ordered Russia’s military chiefs to abandon rules of war in airstrikes on UkraineMeduza [en]
CONFLICTOct 2Russian drone attacks gas workers' vehicle in Kharkiv regionUkrinform [en]
POLITICSOct 2Pashinyan Confronts the Karabakh CauseA crackdown on refugees pits peace against democracy in Armenia.Foreign Policy
CONFLICTOct 2Russian forces strike Kharkiv with guided aerial bombs: Two killed, injury toll rises to 33Ukrinform [en]
CONFLICTBREAKINGOct 2Russian forces strike Kharkiv with guided aerial bombs: Two killed, injury toll rises to 33ukrinform · ukraine
POLITICSOct 2Trump diverts Ukraine aid to conservative-led countries in Latin AmericaThe Independent World
POLITICSOct 2Ukraine war fatigue fuels defense-spending downgrade plan in ItalyItalian military planners risk losing out on billions in funding as government and opposition parties seek to cut defense spending and Ukraine support.Defense News
CONFLICTBREAKINGOct 2Intensified Russian strikes are tearing Kyiv apart, warns mayorBBC World