Ukraine is in talks with international partners to increase natural gas imports by about 30% ahead of the heating season, Energy Minister Svitlana Hrynchuk said at a briefing on Tuesday. This follows an uptick in Russian strikes on Ukraine’s gas production facilities, as Moscow systematically targets energy infrastructure ahead ofContinue Reading
Two men were killed and a volunteer injured in separate drone strikes on vehicles in Ukraine’s eastern Kharkiv Oblast, Ukrainian authorities reported. According to the Kharkiv Regional Prosecutor’s Office, around 12:00 local time, a Russian attack drone, reportedly a “Molniya”, struck a car traveling on a road in Kupiansk district.Continue Reading
The oil tanker Boracay, part of Russia’s “shadow fleet,” resumed its voyage towards the Suez Canal on 3 October after being held since 27 September near Saint-Nazaire, France, according to Marine Traffic data. The reasons for allowing the vessel to continue are not publicly known. Russia’s “shadow fleet” is aContinue Reading
Romania is moving to set up joint production of defensive drones with Ukraine for use by NATO and EU allies, Romanian Foreign Minister Oana Toiu told Reuters on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly. The initiative underscores growing concerns among NATO’s eastern flank countries about Russian incursions intoContinue Reading
The Kremlin suggested on Tuesday that residents in Ukraine’s southern Odesa and Mykolaiv regions may want closer ties with Russia, Reuters reports. The claim was made without evidence and underscores Moscow’s continuing ambiguity about its territorial aims in the war. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that “many” in theContinue Reading
The Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant has lost external power for over 72 hours, forcing the facility to rely entirely on emergency diesel generators, The Guardian reports. The 72-hour threshold represents a critical safety benchmark established after Japan’s Fukushima disaster, with the extended outage now pushing Europe’s largest nuclear facility intoContinue Reading
Authorities in Moldova said Monday they detained 74 people suspected of preparing violent unrest ahead of the country’s parliamentary elections on 28 September, Moldovan media outlet NewsMaker reports. The arrests highlight concerns about Russian interference in Eastern Europe’s fragile democracies. Moldova, a small former Soviet republic bordering Ukraine and Romania,Continue Reading
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy promised a “truly global summit” on the issue of returning Ukrainian children abducted by Russia during a week of high-level diplomacy around the United Nations General Assembly. Since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022, thousands of Ukrainian children have been forcibly taken from theirContinue Reading
Austrian energy group OMV has fired an executive over alleged ties to Russian intelligence after meetings with a Russian diplomat suspected of being an FSB agent, Reuters reported, citing news magazine Profil. Austria’s energy sector, given the country’s historical ties to Russian gas and Vienna’s role as a diplomatic hub,Continue Reading
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced on Friday plans to begin controlled exports of certain Ukrainian weapons to help finance domestic arms production. Speaking in his evening address, Zelenskyy said that while priority remains supplying frontline units and maintaining national stockpiles, surplus modern weapons – such as sea drones and someContinue Reading
On 18 September around 10am, Russian forces struck the eastern Ukrainian city of Kostiantynivka with a FAB-250 bomb with a UMPK guiding module, killing 5 civilians, the National Police of Ukraine reported. Kostiantynivka, in Donetsk Oblast, eastern Ukraine, is located near the front line and has been frequently targeted byContinue Reading
Ukraine’s Main Intelligence Directorate (HUR) published a detailed analysis of Russia’s new turbojet attack drone, the Geran-3 “U” series, showing it relies heavily on foreign components. The drone, a localized version of the Iranian Shahed-238, incorporates parts from the US, China, Switzerland, Germany, Britain, and Japan. Despite Western sanctions, RussiaContinue Reading
Russia carried out a large-scale overnight assault on Ukraine on 16 September, striking the eastern city of Zaporizhzhia with multiple rocket salvos. The strikes killed two people and injured 20 others, including four children. The attack also caused widespread destruction to residential areas, according to regional and national officials. Zaporizhzhia,Continue Reading