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"Better to stand an hour in a field than risk never seeing the next hour." A Reuters camera crew traveled on an overnight passenger train between Odesa& Dnipro, documenting how Russian drone attacks are disrupting everyday life in Ukraine.On the round-trip journey, Reuters logged nine evacuations

There are travel books that describe places, and there are books that manage to turn a city into a character. Odessa. Seduction and passion, signed by Tino Neacșu, belongs to the second category. Although the author is primarily known as an engineer and less as a writer, his travel experiences and passion for history blend in a volume that exceeds the limits of a simple vacation journal. https://www.litera13.ro/2026/10/odesa-seductie-si-pasiune-cu-tino.html (translated)

Regina Laska criticized Elon Musk for showing compassion for Russian soldiers, whom he portrays as people without choice, lamenting their deaths caused by Ukrainian drones. Laska disagreed with this portrayal: Russia predominantly employs contract soldiers and recruits them with high bonuses; some are pressured or deceived, while others come from prisons to the front lines. The Russian army has the option to retreat, she wrote, referring to their withdrawal from Kyiv in the spring of 2022. Laska accused Musk of directing his compassion towards the aggressors, rather than Ukrainian children whom Russia has abducted, or the people in Kharkiv, Dnipro, and Odesa, who are exposed to Russian drone attacks. The drones are a response to the Russian army and not the cause of the war, she wrote. Additionally, Laska reminded that Musk claimed in 2022 he did not activate Starlink over Sevastopol to support a Ukrainian attack on the Russian fleet because he did not want to enable a "major act of war." Laska also criticized Musk for portraying Ukrainians and Russians as equally affected by the war, even though he only sympathizes with the Russians. Ukrainians have been attacked and are defending their own country; a retreat would expose them to Russian occupation, she wrote. #ElonMusk #Krieg #Ukraine (translated)

How much suffering and pain Russia brings us ▪️5 people were injured, including a child,in Zaporizhzhia region ▪️Russians attacked Sumy region with guided aerial bombs.A residential area was hit,at least 2people were injured.A man was killed ▪️In Odesa region 4people were injured 📹Suspilne,Zaporizhzhia

Addressing the Russian attack with a Shahed-type drone on a regular store in the Odesa region. Russia continues its bloody terror, these words were used by Volodymyr Zelensky to describe the attack on the supermarket in Odesa on Wednesday. #RatUKrajini #Odesa #Zelenski (translated)

Nacho Montes de Oca stated that Ukraine attacked the Russian airbase in Borisoglebsk, in the Voronezh region, and that at least four Su-34 fighter-bombers were destroyed and two others were severely damaged. He also said that Russia responded with an attack on a supermarket in Odesa during peak hours. https://t.co/JokxCMEUEI #Ucrania #Rusia #Conflicto (translated)

Ukraine carried out an attack against the third data center of Yandex, while Russia responded by attacking a Ukrainian data center in Odesa and a ship in the port of Chornomorsk, amid the intensification of the conflict between the two countries. #Ucrania #Yandex #Guerra (translated)

Regina Laska wrote that Donald Trump promised hundreds of thousands of tons of Russian diesel after a phone call with Vladimir Putin. The U.S. Treasury then allowed an exemption from the sanctions. Given the midterms in four weeks and a diesel price at record levels, Laska interpreted the move as a possible campaign maneuver. In mid-September, Trump publicly called on Volodymyr Zelensky to stop attacks on Russian refineries. According to a Reuters report led by Laska, at that time three of the six largest Russian diesel refineries were shut down or operating at limited capacity. She also pointed to a Russian export ban on diesel until the end of October and noted that Russia imported almost seven times as much diesel from Belarus from January to July as in the same period of the previous year. Deputy Prime Minister Novak is now talking about surpluses, she wrote; however, it is unclear whether the announced delivery quantities and deadlines will actually be met. Zelensky offered to stop Ukrainian attacks on Russian refineries if Russia ends its attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure. Laska referred to this as a symmetrical de-escalation offer that is on the table for the Americans. She also cited rocket attacks on a residential building in Pryluky, glide bombs on city buses in Kramatorsk, and shelling of the energy supply in Kyiv, Dnipro, Kharkiv, and Odesa. She warned that Russia would respond to the diesel with terrorism. The EU also criticized Laska: On September 22, Usmanov and Fridman were removed from the sanctions list under pressure from France, Slovakia, and Luxembourg. According to Laska, Zelensky pointed out that the attacks had since increased. At the same time, the EU extended the remaining personal sanctions from six months to three years. Latvia had long resisted the compromise and ultimately paved the way for it by abstaining. Laska compared Trump's diesel concession to Russia with the European compromise in favor of unanimity. In her view, the costs of such agreements are borne not by their authors but by the people in Pryluky, Kramatorsk, Zaporizhzhia, and Oleshkiv. #Trump #Putin #Dieselpreise (translated)

Until Tuesday, a Russian attack on a commercial vessel under the flag of the Marshall Islands in the Black Sea resulted in the death of at least one crew member and injured several others, according to the governor of the Odesa region, Oleh Kiper, as reported by The Kyiv Independent. #MareaNeagră #AtacPetrolier #Rusia (translated)