In Herdecke, Germany, the newly elected mayor, Iris Stahlzer, was allegedly attacked with a knife near her home. Hagen police have launched a search for the suspect, and a large number of law enforcement officers are working at the scene.
Poltava police found a car with a missing woman and child in a reservoir near the village of Stari Sanzgary, both of whom died. The search for the man, who also disappeared on October 2, 2025, continues.
In Rivne region, a law enforcement officer will be tried for causing a drunk driving accident in May 2025, which resulted in the death of a woman and moderate injuries to her 15-year-old daughter. The indictment has already been sent to court, and the man faces up to 10 years in prison.
The Appeals Chamber of the HACC partially satisfied the appeal of the Ministry of Justice, confiscating the property and corporate rights of former MP Volodymyr Oliynyk. Seven real estate objects, a pleasure boat, and a share in E.S.P. Technologies LLC were seized as state revenue.
The Kyiv Regional TCC and SP denied the involvement of its employees in the theft of a cat near a private house in the Kyiv region, citing inconsistencies in their uniforms. Earlier, a video allegedly recording this incident appeared on social media, and a criminal case against a TCC employee in Kryvyi Rih was also reported.
On the M-30 "Stryi - Izvaryne" highway, a car and a truck collided: a man born in 1988 and a woman born in 2002 died.
A fire broke out in a residential building in the village of Protsiv, Kyiv region. A man born in 1988 and two children born in 2018 and 2019 died.
Electricity supply is being restored in Slavutych, Kyiv Oblast, after the Russian attack. Mykola Kalashnyk, head of the Kyiv Regional Military Administration, announced the connection of facilities and urged people to use electricity sparingly.
In Kyiv region, a Mercedes-Benz driver drove into the oncoming lane and collided with a Volkswagen. As a result of the accident, the 52-year-old Volkswagen driver died, and three passengers, including a 16-year-old girl, were hospitalized.
The state program "eRecovery" has paid over UAH 48 billion in compensation to 140,000 families for destroyed or damaged housing. Over 113,000 families have repaired their homes, and almost 25,000 have received housing certificates.
On the night of October 3, Russia launched 35 missiles and 381 drones at Ukraine; 303 drones and 17 missiles were neutralized. Energy facilities in the Kharkiv and Poltava regions were attacked, and the Sumy, Dnipropetrovsk, Odesa, and Kyiv regions also suffered.
In the first nine months of 2025, 225,046 new individual entrepreneurs were registered in Ukraine, which is almost on par with last year's figures. However, the number of closed businesses increased by 11%, reaching 213,293.
No precipitation is expected in Ukraine on October 3. Daytime temperatures will range from 8-13°C, in some places up to +19°C.
The Security Service of Ukraine released an exclusive video of the prisoner exchange that took place on October 2. 185 servicemen and 20 civilians returned home, most of whom had been in captivity since 2022.
As part of the exchange between Russia and Ukraine, 185 military personnel and 20 civilians returned home. The youngest released is 26 years old, the oldest is 59 years old.
Three residents of Kyiv region organized a professional cannabis plantation with irrigation and cameras. 400 cannabis bushes and 60 kg of drugs worth UAH 15 million were seized.
Due to Russian shelling in Sumy region on October 2, train 143/141 Sumy, Chernihiv - Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk is delayed by 3 hours and 40 minutes. Traffic in Sumy region has been fully restored without the use of reserve locomotives.
A man born in 1973 was injured in the Kyiv region as a result of this morning's Russian drone attack. He sustained first-degree thermal burns and was hospitalized.
Russia launched massive strikes on Odesa, Kyiv region, Dnipropetrovsk region, and Zaporizhzhia. In Odesa, a Ukrzaliznytsia depot was shelled, a train driver was wounded, and railway infrastructure in the North was also damaged.
On the night of October 2, a Russian drone caused a fire in a two-story building of a former sanatorium in Bucha. The fire was extinguished over an area of 600 m², and an injured man born in 1977 was found.
On October 2, cloudy weather with rains is expected in Ukraine, especially in the north, center, and Kharkiv region. Air temperature will range from 5-10°C in most of the territory to 12-17°C in the south and east.
As a result of Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine, 1599 cultural heritage monuments and 2415 cultural infrastructure objects have been destroyed or damaged. The greatest losses were suffered by monuments in Kharkiv, Kherson, and Odesa regions.
Over 1,700 hectares of agricultural land, demined under a state program, have been returned to use in Kharkiv Oblast. This is the largest area where anti-tank mines and unguided aerial missiles were found.
Late in the evening of October 1, a Russian attack on the Kyiv region resulted in the injury of a 50-year-old man. In the Bucha district, he sustained a shrapnel wound to his right shin and was hospitalized.
Power supply at all Chernobyl NPP facilities has been fully restored after the enemy shelling of infrastructure in Slavutych on October 1. Radiation levels are normal, and there are no threats to the population.
President Zelenskyy reported that a Russian strike on an energy substation in Slavutych, carried out by over 20 drones, led to a three-hour blackout at the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant facilities. This affected the new confinement and the spent nuclear fuel storage facility, which holds 80% of the fuel accumulated during the NPP's operation.
Head of the Presidential Office Andriy Yermak stated that Russian shelling of Ukraine's energy infrastructure creates threats to Europe's security and will not go unanswered. The Ministry of Energy reported that due to the shelling of energy infrastructure in the Kyiv region, an emergency situation arose at the facilities of the SSE "Chornobyl NPP" in Slavutych.
As a result of Russian shelling of the energy infrastructure of the Kyiv region, an emergency situation occurred in Slavutych at the facilities of the State Specialized Enterprise "Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant". Due to voltage fluctuations, the New Safe Confinement, which isolates the destroyed fourth power unit of the ChNPP, was left without electricity.
Today, the enemy attacked Slavutych, hitting an energy facility with a drone. About 20 thousand residents were left without electricity, there were no casualties.
Since the beginning of the full-scale war in Ukraine, more than 491,000 cases of missing weapons have been recorded, almost doubling in the last year. Mostly automatic rifles, hunting shotguns, and combat pistols are lost, most of which are foreign-made.
