Opera Creonte, lost for 250 years, revived in Chernivtsi
Olha Kobylianska Chernivtsi Music and Drama Theater has hosted the world premiere of Creonte, an opera by Dmytro Bortniansky that had been considered lost for nearly 250 years.
04 October 2025
Olha Kobylianska Chernivtsi Music and Drama Theater has hosted the world premiere of Creonte, an opera by Dmytro Bortniansky that had been considered lost for nearly 250 years.
The Taliban’s security services are increasing efforts to counter the activities of Russian and Belarusian agents in Afghanistan.
The Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine has recorded evidence of China providing Russia with satellite intelligence data for missile strikes on Ukraine, in particular on foreign investors' facilities.
Over the past day, Russian invading forces attacked several settlements across Kherson region, wounding eight civilians.
In the past 24 hours, Russian forces carried out 596 strikes on 17 settlements across Zaporizhzhia region.
Lawmakers in the upper chamber of the U.S. Congress failed to reach a decision on renewing government funding, leaving the shutdown in effect at least until next week.
A court has sentenced a Kyiv resident to 15 years in prison with confiscation of property after he attempted to infiltrate the headquarters of the Command of the Air Assault Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine under the guise of a chaplain to spy on elite units of the Defense Forces.
03 October 2025
The enemy attacked critical infrastructure in Zlatopol, Kharkiv region, and the city is now without power.
Late on Thursday evening, October 2, Ukrainian drones attacked the Russian city of Sochi, where Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin had just finished his speech at the plenary session of the Valdai Forum shortly before the raid began.
The oppressed indigenous peoples of Russia will continue to insist on creating a separate platform for cooperation with the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). At the same time, they are ready to seek compromise if they are genuinely allocated one-third of the seats on the newly established platform for collaboration with “Russian democratic forces.”
During electricity outages, police officers conduct intensified patrols by car and on foot, deploy additional anti-looting groups, and maintain constant direct communication with citizens.
The Council of the European Union has extended for one year the restrictive measures against individuals and organizations involved in Russia’s destabilizing activities abroad.
Any provocations can be expected from the Russian Federation, and one must be prepared to offer a joint decisive response to the aggressor’s actions
The draft state budget for 2026 calls for allocating funds to support programs for internally displaced persons (IDPs). Priorities include housing, employment, social protection, and assistance for vulnerable groups.
In Slavutych, Kyiv region, after the attack by Russian drones on October 1, work to restore the electricity supply continues around the clock.
The Polish side has ensured that search operations are carried out in the village of Jureczkowa in the Podkarpackie Voivodeship, near the border with Ukraine. The operations will last up to three weeks, and it is too early to talk about their results.
Since the start of the full-scale invasion by the Russian Federation, 1,330 people have been injured by mines and explosive remnants in Ukraine, including 135 children.
In Kyiv, police are investigating two attacks on the Sens bookstore on Arsenalna Street, which took place on Monday and Wednesday.
In the Kherson region, over the past three days, Russian forces have stepped up attempts to storm Ukrainian positions in the areas of the railway bridge on the left bank of the Dnipro River and the Antonivskyi Bridge, using rain and fog as cover.
Ukraine’s Air Forces shot down 320 aerial targets out of 416 launched by Russia in an overnight attack on Ukraine, including 303 drones of various types, 12 Iskander-K cruise missiles, and five guided aviation missiles Kh-59/69.
Russian troops attacked the Dnipropetrovsk region with strike drones at night, causing fires in Dnipro.
During the exchange on October 2, two servicemen of the 12th Special Forces Brigade “Azov” returned to Ukraine from Russian captivity.
During September 2025, the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine approved nearly 110 new models of weapons and military equipment for use by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The Ukrainian delegation to PACE did not vote for a resolution that envisages the creation of a separate platform for dialogue with Russian democratic forces in the Assembly, as it has significant reservations regarding the format of this structure and its potential participants.
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has adopted the resolution ‘Russia: new threats to European democracies’, condemning attacks on civilian infrastructure, cyberattacks, disinformation campaigns, and interference in the elections of European states.
02 October 2025
In Nizhyn, Chernihiv region, all educational institutions are switching to remote learning due to a blackout, and water will be supplied according to a schedule twice a day.
Russia deliberately cut off the electricity supply to the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) from Ukraine’s grid and is preparing to reconnect it to its own energy system.
The more strained relations between Hungary and Ukraine become over the next six months, the better it will be for Orbán.
Since September 23, the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) has been operating on backup diesel generators.
NATO members, primarily the US and France, are pressuring Athens to consider reselling part of its fleet of 25 Mirage 2000-5 fighter jets to intermediaries with the ultimate goal of transferring them to Ukraine.