US President Donald Trump says Ukraine should stop striking Russian diesel supplies as the impact is harming the global economy. Trump's comments come as he continued his two-day visit to Ireland which blend a bit of high-level meetings with personal leisure.
Threat groups linked to Russian intelligence services used Anthropic’s Claude AI tool to execute multi-victim cyber campaigns targeting Ukrainian and Western institutions, according to a threat intelligence report by Anthropic. The US company stated it disrupted operations over the past six months, identifying the Russian SVR-linked group Midnight Blizzard and an operator using the moniker “JackPoterz.” Intrusions targeted Ukrainian government ministries, diplomatic missions, and military drone supply chains, as well as high-ranking officials’ WhatsApp accounts.
Senior economic and financial officials warned at the YES 2026 conference in Kyiv that Ukraine’s state budget faces a “very difficult winter” driven by escalating war costs and systematic Russian strikes on commercial, logistics, and port infrastructure. Economy Minister Oleksandr Kravchenko estimated annual damage to infrastructure and fixed assets at roughly $10 billion, warning state compensation tools cannot meet business needs. Parliament Budget Committee Chair Roksolana Pidlasa reported that defense expenditures have surged to $190 million per day, totaling nearly $42 billion over eight months against $39 billion in domestic revenue.
Russian forces launched approximately 2,100 strike drones, 78 missiles, and 1,700 guided aerial bombs against Ukraine over the past week, President Volodymyr Zelensky announced on Sunday, Sept. 13. Zelensky highlighted that a substantial share consisted of jet-powered Shahed drones designed to batter Ukraine’s economy and life-support networks, citing Sunday strikes on energy, railway, and residential infrastructure across Odesa, Ternopil, and Konotop, as well as an attack near the Polish border in Volyn.
Ukraine’s Defense Intelligence says the Kerch Bridge remains politically symbolic but has lost much of its military value as Russia relies more on land routes through occupied southern Ukraine. Deputy intelligence chief Vadym Skibitsky says Kyiv is now focused on disrupting wider logistics networks, countering Russia’s missile and drone production, and using strikes and sanctions to pressure the supply chains sustaining Moscow’s war effort.
Zelenskyy says ‘Russia wants to kill the Ukrainian economy’ as Moscow steps up attacks on infrastructure. What we know on day 1,663Russian airstrikes killed nine people, injured dozens and damaged buildings and infrastructure across Ukraine on Saturday, as Kyiv braces for a “very difficult” winter amid intensified attacks on the country. The civilian death toll has risen sharply in Ukraine over the past two months as Russia steps up attacks on power plants and other infrastructure. Ukraine has hit energy facilities and warehouses in distant parts of Russia, and both sides have targeted each other’s shipping.Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy, writing on Telegram, said Russia had deployed nearly 500 drones against Ukrainian targets since early morning. “Basically, the Russians have expanded the war away from the front, where they have no success, into the economy, and their tactics are as basic as it gets: destroying every site that could help people cope with the conditions of war,” he wrote. “Russia wants to kill the Ukrainian economy and break our resistance.”The city council in Kramatorsk, one of Ukraine’s frontline “fortress cities” that Russia wants to capture, said Russian forces attacked private cars, killing three people in three incidents over a 90-minute period. Four people were injured. “These are not military targets,” the council said. “They are ordinary civilian cars. People were going about their business.”The governor of Ukraine’s Zhytomyr region, Vitaliy Bunechko, said a Russian strike on a grocery store killed two people in the town of Zviahel, west of Kyiv. Bunechko said two petrol stations also came under attack.Earlier, Zelenskyy reported attacks on the south-eastern city of Zaporizhzhia and Kryvyi Rih, his home town. The governor of Zaporizhzhia region, Ivan Fedorov, said two people were killed and 11 injured in assaults on Zaporizhzhia and other localities.In Odesa region, governor Oleh Kiper said 37 people, including an infant, were injured in a series of overnight attacks, while two people were missing. Russia’s defence ministry said Russian forces have maintained their strikes on Ukrainian ports, hitting a cargo ship in Odesa that it said was carrying goods for military use.Ukrainian officials said the country was bracing for a brutal winter as intensified Russian attacks on infrastructure and key export industries compound a deepening budget crisis. The economy minister, Oleksandr Kravchenko, said damage to infrastructure and fixed assets from Russian airstrikes was estimated at close to $10bn this year, while the broader economic costs of the attacks and the de facto blockage of its ports had cut 1.5 percentage points of GDP. “We anticipate a very difficult winter in terms of both critical infrastructure, which is being destroyed every day by Russian attacks, but also in terms of overall economic conditions in the country,” he said.With fighting on the frontline largely stalled, Russia and Ukraine have increasingly targeted logistics networks and other economic assets in an effort to undermine each other’s war effort. For more than two weeks, Russia has carried out near constant attacks on Kyiv using faster jet-powered drones, disrupting life, business and government operations. Moscow has also effectively blocked Ukraine’s Black Sea ports by intensifying its air attacks on the country’s southern regions. Ukraine’s main exports – agricultural products and iron and steel – are shipped via these ports.In Moldova on Ukraine’s western border, authorities closed national airspace for nearly an hour after a drone was detected near the border. Seven border crossings were temporarily closed.Zelenskyy said he would be willing to meet Putin at the G20 summit in Miami for talks on ending the war, in a media interview released Saturday, but the Kremlin immediately ruled it out. “It is impossible,” Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told AFP in New Delhi on Saturday, repeating Moscow’s demand that a meeting can only take place in the Russian capital. The gathering of world leaders takes place on 14-15 December and there has been no confirmation yet as to whether Putin would attend. Putin has repeatedly rejected offers for a face-to-face meeting with Zelenskyy. Continue reading...
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.
Ukraine’s State Statistics Service revised its second-quarter 2026 GDP estimate down to 0.4% year-on-year, from a 0.6% flash estimate, and to 0.3% quarter-on-quarter, below the National Bank’s earlier 0.8% calculation. Nominal GDP reached just under Hr. 2.31 trillion ($51.8 billion).
"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.