- The General Prosecutor’s office has accused fugitive ex-Prime Minister Mykola Azarov of accepting a $17.5 million bribe in return for appointing Andriy Klyuev as deputy prime minister.
- The U.S. Senate recognized Holodomor, a Joseph Stalin made famine of 1932-33, as a genocide of Ukrainian people.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger, an Austrian-American actor and former California Governor, will appear at Olerom Forum One in Kyiv on Oct. 13.
- Cybercriminals sell scans of Ukrainian passports online for $11 apiece on the secret internet, called dark web.
- A part of the Kerch railway bridge collapsed into the water as it was being put in place on Oct. 4. The bridge is an illegal link between Russia and Ukraine’s Russian-occupied Crimea.
- Read Illia Ponomarenko story from Jerusalem, the city with its 5,000 years of history that has been riven in half by the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
- Sergiy Gusovsky, Kyiv City Council member, was beaten and assaulted with green antiseptic on Oct. 4. He received an eye burn.
- The National Bank of Ukraine is trying to convince the population to invest more in hryvnia-denominated bonds issued by the Finance Ministry.