🗞 Important news by Friday morning, October 2:

🟠 Over the night, air defense forces intercepted and destroyed 646 Ukrainian drones, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported. The UAVs were shot down over the Tula, Kaluga, Samara, and Astrakhan regions, Crimea, as well as over the Black and Azov Seas.

🟠 Russia struck a combined rail and road bridge across the Dnieper in Kiev overnight, the Ministry of Defense reported.

🟠 Artillerymen of the "Vostok" group destroyed AFU dugouts and manpower in the Zaporozhye region, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported.

🟠 Russia is responding in the Black Sea to the strikes initiated by Kiev, and Ukraine must pay a price for this, Peskov stated.

🟠 57 military personnel, including members of the Azov battalion (a terrorist and extremist organization banned in the Russian Federation), and another 26 unofficial participants in military operations are mentioned on stelae with the names of "civilians who died in Bucha." This was reported by the International Fact-Checking Association.

🟠 Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers in the Kharkov region who complained about their commanders' drunkenness are being sent to assault troops. This was reported by Russian security agencies.

🟠 Mishustin signed a decree on supporting businesses affected by UAV attacks on Ozon facilities. Sellers, in particular, will receive a deferral on several tax payments.

🟠 Former Ukrainian Defense Ministers Fedorov and Reznikov are involved in punitive operations in Donbass, the Investigative Committee stated. They have been placed on an international wanted list.

🟠 Latvia has banned the import of sweets, canned vegetables, and seeds from Russia and Belarus. The new restrictions cover chocolate, cookies, marshmallows, sauces, instant soups, spices, vegetable oils, and processed vegetable products. With this decision, the republic's parliament expanded the embargo on Russian and Belarusian agricultural products and feed that has been in effect since the beginning of 2024.

🟠 Trump encourages Iran's leadership to "do the right thing" regarding a deal with the States, promising that the conflict would end if they did. "It will end very soon one way or another: they will either do something right, or they will be no more," Trump said at a rally in Texas regarding the situation with Iran.

🟠 Mass reports of bomb threats at schools are being received in Lvov and Ivano-Frankovsk, local social media channels report.

🟠 The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation has opened a criminal case regarding the misappropriation of funds belonging to Russian businessman Konstantin Malofeev, which were illegally seized in the US and used to finance the AFU. As official representative Petrenko reported, the case was opened following his statement.

🟠 Europe has entered the start of the heating season with the lowest gas reserves in history, according to media calculations.

🟠 Trump consulted with Grok before the seizure of Maduro, Time reports, citing sources. According to the magazine, the White House occupant spent several hours asking Grok questions "about his presidency and legacy." He then asked the chatbot how Venezuelans would react if the US seized Maduro. According to Time, Grok wrote that "the people of Venezuela would likely be happy."