Odesa flood deaths and a Paralympic vote: 2 October 2025 in review
A look back at two reports that framed the news picture on 2 October 2025, one from Ukraine and one from international sport.
What did the news picture look like on 2 October 2025? Two reports from the preceding days set the tone, one a tragedy in southern Ukraine and the other a decision in international sport.
On 1 October 2025, it was reported that nine people had died in flooding in Odesa, caused by a downpour. The report gave the toll as nine and attributed the flood to the heavy rain. By 2 October 2025, that was the figure on record in the coverage available.
A few days earlier, on 26 September 2025, members of the International Paralympic Committee voted not to maintain sanctions against the National Paralympic Committees of Russia and Belarus. The vote concerned the sanctions on both bodies.
The two reports concerned very different subjects, but both were part of the news that surrounded 2 October 2025: a deadly flood in a Ukrainian port city, and a vote in the Paralympic movement on sanctions against Russian and Belarusian committees.
