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After refusing even a temporary ceasefire or a leader-level meeting in a noncombatant country, Lavrov went on to emphasize the level of "goodwill" Moscow was displaying in the peace process.

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euromaidanpress.com | 24 min. ago NEW

Fast kill but also long game: Russia is using AI-generated women and long conversations to lure Ukrainian soldiers to their deaths

#AI #deaths #killed #Russia #SBU #soldiers #Ukrainian #women

The fake profiles are one of three versions of a honey-trap scheme that has killed six soldiers, the SBU says,

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kyivpost.com | 40 min. ago NEW

Russia’s War in Ukraine Has Cost Poland’s Economy More than €100 bln, Estimate Shows

#defense #Poland #Russia #Ukraine #war

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.

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euromaidanpress.com | 41 min. ago NEW

Russia is working to modernize its weapons on every front. This month, its drones are expected to carry 20-element anti-jam antennas to outpace Ukraine’s jamming

#Drone #Front #Russia #Ukraine #weapon

Russia's new drones and cruise weapons navigate rather than fly, so Ukraine has to jam GPS, not the operator link.

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nytimes.com | 44 min. ago NEW

Moldova Has to Choose Between Russia and Europe

#Europe #Moldova #Russia

Moldova is a fault line in a new geopolitical reality.

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nytimes.com | 50 min. ago NEW

Moldova Has to Choose Between Russia and Europe

#fault #Moldova #Russia

Moldova is a fault line in a new geopolitical reality.

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kyivpost.com | 2 hrs. 1 min. ago

Russian Court Disqualifies Liberal Yabloko Party List in Tomsk

#block #Court #run #Russia

A court in western Siberia’s Tomsk region disqualified the liberal Yabloko party’s candidate list ahead of upcoming regional elections, upholding a lawsuit filed by the LDPR. The ruling leaves the northwestern Novgorod region as the only Russian territory where Yabloko candidates remain eligible to run, as regional authorities have now blocked or denied list registration across seven regions.

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defence-blog.com | 2 hrs. 19 min. ago

Ukraine combat experience shapes Redwire’s new drone

#combat #drone #electronic warfare #Russia #threats #Ukraine #war #War against Ukraine #warfare

Russia’s war against Ukraine has turned unmanned aircraft from a supporting capability into one of the central elements of modern battlefield operations. It has also forced drone manufacturers to confront a problem that peacetime testing cannot fully reproduce: how to keep an aircraft useful when tactics, electronic warfare threats and operational requirements can change within […]

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kyivindependent.com | 2 hrs. 22 min. ago

Russian strikes hit 2 major Ukrainian steel plants, killing 2 and injuring 6

#Russia #six #strike

Russian missile strikes hit two major Ukrainian metallurgical plants overnight on Sept. 12, killing two people and injuring six others, according to statements from Zaporizhstal operator Metinvest and ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih.

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kyivpost.com | 2 hrs. 39 min. ago

Russian Military Slang Reveals the Reality of Life on the Front Line

#Fed #Russia

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.”

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defence-blog.com | 2 hrs. 42 min. ago

New Russian tanks arrive with upgraded protection

#crew #Russia

Russia’s state-owned tank manufacturer Uralvagonzavod has delivered another batch of T-90M “Proryv” and T-72B3M tanks to the Russian Army, the company said, timed to coincide with Russia’s Tank Crew Day. As with previous shipments, Uralvagonzavod did not disclose how many tanks were included in the batch or where they are headed. The company said the […]

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kyivpost.com | 2 hrs. 46 min. ago

AFU Gains Ground, Kuban Gets Pounded, NATO Trains Hard and Gives Russian Drone Free Pass

#battle #Black Sea #Bomb #counteroffensive #defeat #Drone #Lyman #military #NATO #Russia #Ukraine #Witkoff

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.

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kyivpost.com | 2 hrs. 46 min. ago

Russian Military Slang Reveals the Reality of Life on the Front Line

#combat #combat zone #Front #front line #military #military operation #military personnel #Putin #Russia

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euromaidanpress.com | 2 hrs. 48 min. ago

Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1661: Ukraine’s Neptune missile reaches a Russian warship at its own pier

#Missile #missile strike #Neptune #Oreshnik #Russia #strike #Ukraine #war

A Russian lawmaker separately warned that a fourth Oreshnik missile strike is coming.

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defence-blog.com | 2 hrs. 49 min. ago

New Russian tanks arrive with upgraded protection

#Russia #Russian #Russian army #Russian tanks #tanks

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kyivpost.com | 3 hrs. 36 min. ago

Russia’s Deployed Nuclear Warheads Hit Post-2017 High

#Force #nuclear #Nuclear warheads #Russia #strike #Ukrainian

Russia has increased its number of deployed nuclear warheads for the fourth consecutive year, reaching 1,796 operational warheads as of January 2026 – the highest level since 2017, according to SIPRI’s annual World Nuclear Forces report. Russia’s total stockpile stands at 5,420 warheads, with 2,604 in storage and 1,020 retired. Ground-based ICBMs account for roughly 892 deployed warheads, while strategic bombers were dispersed to remote airfields following Ukrainian strikes in 2025.

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kyivpost.com | 3 hrs. 42 min. ago

Russia’s War in Ukraine Has Cost Poland’s Economy More than €100 bln, Estimate Shows

#economic output #economy #growth #Inflation #loss #Poland #real #real wage #Russia #Ukraine

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kyivindependent.com | 4 hrs. 41 min. ago

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,505,380 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022

#casualties #General #general staff #Russia #Ukraine

The figure includes 1,500 casualties that Russian forces suffered over the past day.

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mirror.co.uk | 4 hrs. 53 min. ago

Putin's chilling response when asked about striking Britain after WW3 warning

#Aggression #Putin #Russia #strike #threat #war

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'

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euromaidanpress.com | 4 hrs. 54 min. ago

Ukraine is closing Russia’s skies without hitting single airliner: Russia shut its airports 993 times in August, worst month for civil aviation since war began

#aviation #Drone #Russia #Ukraine #war

The closures are triggered by Russia's own emergency protocol every time a drone nears.

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rferl.org | 5 hrs. 5 min. ago

Latest Russian Strikes On Ukraine Kill 2 In Zaporizhzhia, Wound At Least 17 In Odesa

#killed #Odesa #Region #Russia #strike #Ukraine #wounded #Zaporizhzhia

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.

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euromaidanpress.com | 5 hrs. 5 min. ago

From Russian classrooms to Iran’s defense industry: how Moscow trains Iranian specialists

#Field #Iran #Russia

Almost 10,000 Iranians studied at Russian universities in 2025, 42% more than two years earlier, by the Russian science ministry's count, with medicine still the most popular field.

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euromaidanpress.com | 5 hrs. 58 min. ago

EU sanctions rollover stalls over Russian oligarch Usmanov as Paris backs Bratislava’s demand to delist him

#over #run #Russia

Ambassadors broke up with no agreement on renewing the measures, and they have one sitting left before every restriction on the list runs out on its own.

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kyivpost.com | 6 hrs. 21 min. ago

Zelensky Ready to Meet Putin at Miami G20 if Russian Leader Attends

#direct talks #G20 #Putin #Russia #Zelensky

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.

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dw.com | 6 hrs. 28 min. ago

Russia's drone war comes to Moldova and Romania

#airspace #attack #Chisinau #drone #Moldova #plane #President #Romania #Russia #Russian #Ukrainian #war

Incursions by Russian drones into Moldovan and Romanian airspace are increasingly common. This week the Ukrainian president's plane was stopped from taking off from Chisinau. Observers suspect the attacks are deliberate.

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dailymail.com | 6 hrs. 58 min. ago

Putin boosts his stock of nuclear warheads to nine-year high as he threatens West that putting troops into Ukraine 'means war with Russia'

#Bomber #Missile #missiles #Nuclear warhead #Putin #Russia #Ukraine #war #Warhead

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.

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aljazeera.com | 7 hrs. 11 min. ago

Russia strikes cargo vessels, steel plants across Ukraine

#Russia #strike #Ukraine

Russia's Defence Ministry says its forces have struck several industrial facilities across Ukraine

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kyivpost.com | 7 hrs. 35 min. ago

Medvedev Dismisses Rumors of Imminent Russian Mobilization

#elections #Medvedev #military #mobilization #provocation #Russia

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.

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kyivpost.com | 7 hrs. 44 min. ago

Medvedev Dismisses Rumors of Imminent Russian Mobilization

#election #Li #lies #Medvedev #Military #mobilization #Moscow #population #Russia #Russian #security #Security Council

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dailymail.com | 7 hrs. 47 min. ago

Putin boosts his stock of nuclear warheads to nine-year high as he threatens West that putting troops into Ukraine 'means war with Russia'

#missiles #nuclear #Nuclear warheads #past #Putin #Russia #stock #Ukraine #war

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.

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kyivpost.com | 8 hrs. 12 min. ago

Russia Is Hunting Civilians in Kramatorsk

#Bomb #Drone #FPV #FPV drone #glide bombs #Kramatorsk #military #Russia #strike

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.

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kyivpost.com | 8 hrs. 49 min. ago

US House to Vote Next Week on Graham’s Russia Sanctions Bill

#bill #Gas #Graham #natural gas #Russia #sanctions #sanctions evasion #Trump

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

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aljazeera.com | 9 hrs. 2 min. ago

BRICS meets in India: What’s on the agenda, why it matters

#Iran #Russia #Ukraine #war

This year's summit comes amid the US-Israel war on Iran, Russia's war on Ukraine and global economic challenges.

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bbc.co.uk | 9 hrs. 27 min. ago

Ukraine faces 'toughest winter' since Russia's full-scale invasion, UN official tells BBC

#BBC #Invasion #power #race #Russia #Ukraine #UN #water

A senior UN official tells the BBC there is a race against the clock to ensure access to power and water through winter.

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kyivpost.com | 10 hrs. 1 min. ago

Zelensky Warns of Reciprocal Strikes if Russia Targets Power Grid

#attack #Black Sea #Blackout #corridor #infrastructure #Russia #strategy #strike #target #targets #Ukraine #Zelensky

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.

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kyivindependent.com | 10 hrs. 37 min. ago

Russia strikes multi-story apartment building in Odesa, injuring at least 12

#injured #Russia #strike #victim #victims

Odesa's emergency response teams were deployed to assist the affected people at the scene. All of the injured victims have been hospitalized.

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kyivpost.com | 11 hrs. 12 min. ago

Russian Official to Attend G20 Energy Talks in Houston Despite Previous EU Protests

#G20 #Russia #Ukraine #war

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.

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kyivpost.com | 11 hrs. 42 min. ago

Putin Admits Russia Is World’s Biggest Sanctions Target, Ramps Up Anti-West Rhetoric

#attack #BRICS #G7 #journalist #leader #NATO #Putin #rhetoric #Russia #Russian #sanction #target #western

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.

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kyivpost.com | 13 hrs. 19 min. ago

Putin Threatens Europe Over Possible Troop Deployment in Ukraine

#Putin #Russia #threat #troop deployment #Ukraine #war

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.

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Putin boosts his stock of nuclear warheads to nine-year high as he threatens West that putting troops into Ukraine 'means war with Russia'

Russia Is Hunting Civilians in Kramatorsk

US House to Vote Next Week on Graham’s Russia Sanctions Bill

BRICS meets in India: What’s on the agenda, why it matters

Ukraine faces 'toughest winter' since Russia's full-scale invasion, UN official tells BBC

Zelensky Warns of Reciprocal Strikes if Russia Targets Power Grid

Russia strikes multi-story apartment building in Odesa, injuring at least 12

Russian Official to Attend G20 Energy Talks in Houston Despite Previous EU Protests

Putin Admits Russia Is World’s Biggest Sanctions Target, Ramps Up Anti-West Rhetoric

Putin Threatens Europe Over Possible Troop Deployment in Ukraine