9+ hour, 39+ min ago   (329+ words) Donald Trump has said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky must stop “knocking out diesel fuel in Russia,” as Kyiv continues a campaign of long-range drone strikes against Russian oil and energy infrastructure. “He [Zelensky] has to do one thing. He has…...

10+ hour, 22+ min ago   (630+ words) In brief: A near-miss Russian drone strike at Yahodyn station has cast fresh light on Vladimir Putin’s long-running hostility toward Boris Johnson. The former British prime minister has stood near the top of the Kremlin’s list of Western adversaries because…...

12+ hour, 59+ min ago   (795+ words) In brief: Ukraine and Poland say the Russian drone strike near the border may have been aimed at the diplomatic train carrying Boris Johnson and other senior Western officials, which had passed through Yahodyn shortly before the attack. A Russian…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (390+ words) A Russian morning strike targeted a civilian automobile traveling through the center of Kramatorsk in Donetsk region on Sunday, Sept. 13, killing two people and injuring four others, regional authorities reported. Head of the Donetsk Regional Military Administration Vadym Filashkin announced…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (597+ words) Territorial disputes remain the central obstacle preventing Ukraine and Russia from reaching an agreement to end the war, US presidential special envoy Jared Kushner said on Sunday during the Yalta European Strategy (YES 2026) forum in Kyiv. Addressing conference participants, Kushner…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (508+ words) Drones targeted the major petrochemical and oil refining cluster of Nizhnekamsk in Russia’s Republic of Tatarstan and sparked a fire at an oil refinery in Slavyansk-on-Kuban, Krasnodar Krai. In Nizhnekamsk, situated roughly 1,200 kilometers from the Ukrainian frontier, residents reported low-flying…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (494+ words) In brief: Prime Minister Serhiy Koretskyi announced at the YES 2026 conference in Kyiv that Ukraine is significantly better prepared for Russian attacks on its power grid than last winter, though fully protecting every facility remains impossible. Koretskyi noted that the…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago   (850+ words) In brief: US President Trump and his special envoys appear unable to break out of the businessman’s transactional mindset. But in geopolitics there are too many unquantifiable factors to consider, which inevitably sabotage any “dealmaking” approach based on assets and…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago   (772+ words) In brief: 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 research…...

2+ day, 2+ hour ago   (385+ words) In brief: 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 war in Ukraine…...