Russia’s full-scale war in Ukraine cost Poland an estimated €113.4 billion between 2022 and 2025, according to Statistics Poland. The losses include reduced economic output, higher inflation, lower real wage growth, and increased defense and Ukraine-related spending.
Russia's new drones and cruise weapons navigate rather than fly, so Ukraine has to jam GPS, not the operator link.
A roundup of the weeks biggest military and political events in Ukraine. The AFU finally announces the results of its somewhat secret Lyman counteroffensive. Ukraine is poised to defeat Russia’s Black Sea Fleet – again. The air battle continues with tit-for-tat barrages. And the Kushner-Witkoff vaudeville show bombs.
A 250-page study of almost 7,000 communications between Russian military personnel and their relatives in 2025 illustrated the reality of life in the combat zone for those fed into the “meat grinder” that is Putin’s “special military operation.”
A Russian lawmaker separately warned that a fourth Oreshnik missile strike is coming.
The figure includes 1,500 casualties that Russian forces suffered over the past day.
Russia this week insisted that threats of nuclear strikes were 'not a scare tactic' and accused the West of 'acts of aggression capable of triggering a Third World War'
The closures are triggered by Russia's own emergency protocol every time a drone nears.
A fresh round of overnight Russian strikes on Ukraine killed two people in the southeastern Zaporizhzhia region and wounded at least 17 in the southern Odesa region, Ukrainian officials said on September 12.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said that he is ready to travel to Miami for the G20 summit in December to hold direct talks with Vladimir Putin if the Russian leader attends. Zelensky stressed that the focus must be on achieving concrete results rather than exchanging rhetoric.
Over the past year, Russia has increased its stock of nuclear warheads deployed on missiles and bombers by 78 to 1,796, marking a nine-year high.
Russia's Defence Ministry says its forces have struck several industrial facilities across Ukraine
Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev dismissed assertions that Moscow is preparing a new military mobilization, calling the reports lies and provocations ahead of State Duma elections. Medvedev claimed Russia has no need for a draft, asserting that claims of an impending call-up are intended to rattle the domestic population.
FPV drones, glide bombs and strikes on marked humanitarian vehicles are emptying a city – and that is the point. Unable to conquer Ukrainian cities and land through sheer military force, Russia resorts to dehumanizing the places and turning them into wastelands.
The US House of Representatives will vote next week on a bipartisan Russia sanctions bill championed by Senator Lindsey Graham. Considered under simple-majority rules, the legislation authorizes US President Donald Trump to impose 100% tariffs on the five largest purchasers of Russian crude oil and natural gas, as well as on five nations facilitating sanctions evasion
This year's summit comes amid the US-Israel war on Iran, Russia's war on Ukraine and global economic challenges.
President Volodymyr Zelensky warned that Ukraine will strike back symmetrically if Russia attacks its power grid this winter, pledging to respond in kind if Moscow induces blackouts. Speaking to Fareed Zakaria and at the Yalta European Strategy summit on Friday, Sept. 11, Zelensky advocated for a mutual “energy truce” to protect energy infrastructure on both sides alongside unblocking the Black Sea food corridor.
A Russian official will attend G20 energy talks in Houston weeks after Moscow’s return to an in-person G20 meeting drew protests from European officials over the war in Ukraine.
Putin issued another threat to Europe, warning that deploying troops to Ukraine would mean war with Russia while simultaneously claiming Moscow poses no threat to the continent.
The presidents of Iran and Russia have criticised US dollar dominance ahead of the BRICS summit in India.
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UK intelligence said the number of Russian casualties, meaning killed, wounded, and missing, is thought to be 1.5 million since February 2022, matching Ukrainian estimates.
In a BRICS speech and Q&A with Russian journalists, Putin attacked the G7, NATO and European leaders while portraying BRICS as a rising alternative to Western influence.
The 3rd Army Corps attacked on 22 May and nobody outside the army reported it until late August. Whether it changes the war is the one thing the analysts do not agree on.
A Russian drone destroyed a private home in Zaporizhzhia, killing a woman as Moscow continued aerial attacks across Ukrainian cities.
"A common theme of the targeting was Ukraine and military drone technology providers and supply chains," Anthropic wrote in a report on countering AI misuse.
"Strong decisions from the U.S. President's administration are crucial. Personal decisions from President Trump are also very much desired," President Volodymyr Zelensky said.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said Friday, Sept. 11, that Ukraine will not run out of food despite the Black Sea blockade. He, however, warned other nations could face severe shortages and urged for immediate US sanctions on Russia.
The US House of Representatives is preparing to take up legislation next week that is intended to impose tougher economic pressure on Russia, setting up what could be a heated fight between Republicans and Democrats over how far Congress should go in expanding President Donald Trump's tariff powers.
The European Court of Justice has dismissed Hungary’s lawsuit challenging the use of frozen Russian asset revenues for Ukraine’s military aid. The tribunal ruled it lacks jurisdiction over the matter. Hungary was excluded from allocation votes after constructively abstaining from initial decisions.
Dmitry Medvedev, former President and current Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council, threatened Lithuania would “disappear from the map of the world” in case of a conflict linked to Vilnius' nuclear weapons ban lift. He also claimed NATO would not invoke Article 5 to defend the country as that would mean a “global catastrophe.”
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explicare.deRussian forces launched a sweeping wave of strikes across Ukraine on Friday, Sept. 11, killing at least six people and injuring 33 others, including children. Drones, artillery and guided aerial bombs (KABs) struck Kyiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Kirovohrad and several other regions.
A Ukrainian ground robot that usually hauls ammunition and supplies to the front carried a different load out…
EU ambassadors failed to agree on extending sanctions against Russia for a second time on Friday, Sept. 11, after France joined Slovakia in demanding the delisting of Russian-Uzbek oligarch Alisher Usmanov. The bloc will continue discussions on Monday, Sept. 14, just one day before the sanctions expire.
Two new Russian pretrial detention centers in occupied Crimea form part of a system in which Ukrainian civilians are held for months without formal charges, access to lawyers, or family contact, and detainees report torture and abuse under the watch of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), a new
The furious Putin regime has pledged to return the Cosmonaut suit (pictured) to Russia, it is understood.
The sanctioned individuals include Russian officials, youth movement leaders, and occupation officials accused of facilitating the removal of Ukrainian children from Russian-occupied territories and their integration into Russia's education system.
The legislation passed with overwhelming support in the Senate in August but is expected to face stronger opposition in the House, with some House Democrats fearing it would grant U.S. President Donald Trump too much authority over tariffs.
Chuck Pfarrer takes apart Russia’s newest weapon of desperation: the modified 48N6 variant of the premier S-400 anti-aircraft system.
The Witkoff-Kushner visit to Moscow was immediately followed by Russian attacks on Kyiv.
He cast it as revenge for a naval drone strike on Sochi.