❗TASS News Roundup, October 2:

▪Russian President Vladimir Putin met with military attaches from other countries at the Chebarkulsky training ground, where the Center-2026 strategic command-and-staff exercises are being held

▪The US Marine Corps will be deployed to the Baltic Sea to take part in NATO drills, the Pentagon reported

▪A Tu-22M3 bomber carried out an airstrike on a simulated enemy target during the Center-2026 drills, the Russian Defense Ministry reported

▪Israel is investigating who may be behind the actions of the Flydubai pilot who attempted to crash the plane, in order to make them pay a “very heavy price,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated

▪Japan has unveiled new anti-Russian sanctions, according to a document released

▪The European Union fully rejects any ban on diesel exports by the United States, European Commission representative Anna-Kaisa Itkonen said

▪Russia is open to dialogue on security in the Black Sea but currently is not engaged in any talks on bilateral agreements, Russian Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov said

▪Hostilities in northern Ethiopia have forced tens of thousands of residents to leave their homes, with 480 injured people taken to hospitals in the towns of Korem and Alamata in the Tigray Region, the UN reported

▪Protests broke out in the German city of Munster as NATO was awarded the Westphalian Peace Prize, the WDR broadcaster reported