A massive Russian attack on Ukraine killed 25 people and injured around 100, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. He also voiced regret over signals suggesting the war is being treated as normal.
German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul warned at the 8th German-Ukrainian Conference of Municipal Partnerships in Berlin that targeted Russian attacks on Ukrainian ports are threatening to ruin a third of the harvest. According to Ukrinform, global food security and the stability of entire regions depend on these exports.
The German government's Commissioner for Eastern Germany, Elisabeth Kaiser (SPD), has presented her 2026 report titled "In Bewegung bleiben" (Staying on the Move). It was submitted to the Bundestag as an official government briefing paper.
Bundestag's Sports Committee met on Wednesday to discuss the next steps in Germany's Olympic bid, with sports officials and politicians calling for close coordination between sport, politics and society.
The Green parliamentary group wants to close the gap between child benefit and the maximum tax relief from child allowances. Under its motion, child benefit would rise from the current 259 euros to 267 euros per child per month in 2027 and to 272 euros in 2028.
The European Union has settled on a sweeping new sanctions package against Russia, adding 1,646 entries to its list. Ambassadors from the member states sealed the deal in Brussels on Wednesday.
The German government has presented a draft law to modernise cooperative law and make the legal form more attractive, with digital procedures and practical proposals at its core.
Ukraine has received another 1.2 billion euros from the European Union for defense purposes, according to Prime Minister Serhiy Koretsky. Total aid under the program now stands at nearly 13 billion euros.
Ukraine's General Staff has confirmed that oil tanks were damaged in a strike on the Samara linear production and dispatch station in Russia's Samara region on October 2.
The German cabinet has approved a bill from Federal Justice Minister Stefanie Hubig (SPD) aimed at better protecting people from digital violence. Bundestag now has to decide on the plan.
High earners will pay more into Germany's statutory health and pension insurance from 1 January 2027. The cabinet has approved the 2027 Social Insurance Calculation Figures Ordinance.
For the first time in eight years, a delegation from the NATO Military Committee is officially back in Kyiv. According to Ukrinform, the talks with the leadership of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were led by committee chairman Admiral Giuseppe Cavo Dragone.
The expert panel on care reform will not meet this Wednesday as planned. The launch of the second commission on long-term care insurance reform has been pushed to next week because the coalition still needs to sort things out with the Social Democrats.
A Russian strike on the city of Pryluky in Ukraine's Chernihiv region has killed nine people, according to the regional police. The bodies of three children were pulled from the rubble of a high-rise building, Ukrinform reports.
AfD politician Tobias Rausch was elected president of the Saxony-Anhalt state parliament, the SPD's national leadership is demanding that coalition partner CDU explain how it happened. The SPD parliamentary group also staged a protest in Berlin at a highly symbolic location.
Russian forces hit Ukraine in multiple waves of ballistic and cruise missiles and attack drones overnight into 7 October. Two people were killed in Kyiv.