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(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push(["_mgc.load"])})(window,"_mgq"); Russia killed the captain of a Tanzanian-flagged civilian vessel and wounded three crew members in a drone strike in the Black Sea on 17 September, Ukraine’s Ministry for Restoration, Infrastructure and Transport said. The ministry said Russia is “systematically attacking Ukrainian ports, port infrastructure and civilian commercial vessels,” threatening both people and international shipping in the Black Sea. The vessel was heading toward one of Ukraine’s ports when it was attacked. The condition of the ship is still being assessed. Foreign vessels repeatedly targeted The latest attack follows a series of Russian strikes on foreign-flagged vessels serving Ukrainian ports. In July, Russia struck the Turkish-owned bulk carrier GOLDEN LEO with cruise missiles as it left Odesa carrying grain, killing 10 people. Russia also attacked two foreign-flagged cargo ships with drones in June, killing one sailor and injuring five others as the vessels were leaving Ukrainian ports. In August, a Russian strike on port infrastructure in Odesa damaged a Togo-flagged civilian vessel and injured four people. Attacks threaten Ukrai

The crew of the cargo ship Reyhan Sari has asked the ICC to investigate the strike as a possible crime against humanity The crew of a Turkish cargo ship hit by Ukrainian drones has filed a complaint against Kiev with the International Criminal Court (ICC) over the attack, which killed one sailor and injured two others, lawyers said on Wednesday. The plaintiffs include 12 crew members, the family of the deceased sailor, and the ship’s owner. The ICC filing says the vessel was carrying wheat meal from the Russian Black Sea port of Tuapse to Trabzon when it was attacked on July 22, although Turkish media reported at the time that it was carrying coal from Taman, another Russian Black Sea port. Photos and videos taken after the attack show “extensive internal damage” to the ship’s compartments and apparent traces of shrapnel, according to the complaint. The plaintiffs have asked the Hague-based court to investigate the attack as a possible crime against humanity. Ukraine ratified the ICC’s Rome Statute in 2024, becoming a full member of the court on January 1, 2025. Read more Türkiye summons Kiev’s envoy over attacks on Black Sea shipping “There is c

Polish prosecutors are investigating the desecration of a monument and burial site for Ukrainian Insurgent Army The UPA was a nationalist paramilitary organisation that fought for Ukrainian independence during and after World War II, primarily against Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union (UPA) fighters who were killed in a battle with the NKVD ( the Soviet People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs) in 1946 in the village of Białystok in Hrubieszów County, but no charges have been filed against anyone. Source: Polish news portal RMF24 , as reported by European Pravda Details: The Hrubieszów District Prosecutor's Office is investigating the vandalism of a monument and burial site of 41 UPA fighters in the village of Białystok. MEP Grzegorz Braun posted a video showing him and other people striking the stone obelisk with a heavy tool. The preliminary proceedings concern "insulting a group of Ukrainian ethnicity by damaging the resting place of people who died in battle with NKVD officers" in the village of Białystok in the Dołhobyczów municipality. Prosecutor Rafał Kawalec, spokesperson for the Zamość District Prosecutor's Office, said investigators have seized the video recording of th

Grzegorz Braun attacked a monument to UPA fighters responsible for massacring Poles during WWII A Polish MEP has taken an axe to a memorial honoring Nazi-linked Ukrainian nationalist paramilitaries responsible for massacring Polish civilians during World War II. In a video posted on X on Thursday, Grzegorz Braun can be seen repeatedly striking a stone obelisk in Bialystok, near Poland’s border with Ukraine, which commemorates members of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA). The UPA was the armed wing of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), a WWII-era ultranationalist movement led by Stepan Bandera which collaborated with Nazi Germany. UPA fighters massacred tens of thousands of ethnic Polish civilians in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia, now largely in western Ukraine. ”The UPA monument in the Dolhobyczow municipality in Hrubieszow County is to be dismantled,” he wrote. “The obelisk offending the memory of the victims of the Ukrainian genocide against Poles should be removed... immediately after documenting the crime of Banderism,” Braun added. Pomnik UPA w gminie Dołhobyczów w powiecie hrubieszowskim do likwidacji❗️ Obelisk obrażający pamięć of

(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push(["_mgc.load"])})(window,"_mgq"); Ukraine says its forces struck Russia’s Makhachkala port on the Caspian Sea and confirmed damage to three Russian warships in the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk in a series of long-range attacks. Ukraine’s General Staff said the Makhachkala Sea Commercial Port in Russia’s Dagestan was hit overnight on 10 September, with a fire recorded at the site. The extent of the damage is still being assessed. The Special Operations Forces (SSO) said Ukrainian units struck oil infrastructure at the port in a joint operation with other Defense Forces. The port’s oil terminal handles tankers with a capacity of up to 10,000 tonnes, while an oil depot is located nearby, according to the SSO. Makhachkala is Russia’s only ice-free deepwater port on the Caspian Sea and operates year-round. The General Staff said it is an important link in the Russia-Iran logistics corridor, which Moscow uses to bypass Western sanctions. According to the General Staff, the route is used to transport military-related cargo in both directions, including components and Shahed-type attack drones from Iran to Russia, and explosives, drone components, an

The military has released details of its latest overnight barrage targeting the Ukrainian war machine Russia has struck a commercial data center in Kiev and infrastructure in the Ukrainian port of Odessa, the Defense Ministry in Moscow has said. The 4,500-square-meter Be Mobile facility in the Ukrainian capital was among a string of military-linked industrial, logistics, and port targets hit overnight with precision weapons and attack drones, according to the ministry’s morning update on Friday. In Kiev Region, Russian forces struck a site near the town of Gostomel that the ministry said was used to store components for long-range drones. Kiev deploys kamikaze drones for strikes deep inside Russia on a daily basis. Multiple videos circulated by Ukrainian media show a fire reportedly caused by a jet-powered drone strike. Footage shows bright sparks and apparent secondary explosions, fueling speculation that munitions may have been stored at the site. The incident comes amid growing tensions in Ukraine over the military’s use of facilities close to residential areas to store explosives. Read more WATCH Russian drone destroy Ukrainian MiG (MOD VIDEO) In late August, a Russ

(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push(["_mgc.load"])})(window,"_mgq"); The US House of Representatives has approved sweeping new sanctions on Russia and the countries and companies that help finance its war, sending the measure to the president to sign into law, The Hill reported . The vote breaks a nearly two-year stretch in which Congress passed no major measure to back Ukraine. It also hands Washington fresh power to choke the oil money that keeps Moscow's war running. For most of the full-scale war, US backing for Kyiv came through emergency spending battles, not laws built to cut off Moscow's income. Washington's long wager that negotiations would end the fighting kept its sharpest economic tools on the shelf. That bet has now shifted toward squeezing the customers who keep the Kremlin's oil trade alive. The vote and what comes next In the House, 58 Democrats broke from their party's leaders on 16 September to join most Republicans. The bill passed 262-159, with 203 Republicans and one independent also voting yes, and seven Republicans joining 152 Democrats against. Whether the full weight of the bill lands is now Trump's call. A White House official said he planned to sign i

If signed into law, the legislation will allow the president to impose tariffs on countries that buy energy from Russia The US House of Representatives has passed a bill authorizing President Donald Trump to place tariffs on countries that purchase Russian energy and impose tougher sanctions on Moscow over the Ukraine conflict. The legislation was approved on Wednesday by a vote of 262-159. According to The Hill, 203 Republicans and 58 Democrats voted in favor; seven Republicans and 152 Democrats opposed it. The bill passed the US Senate last month. The bill, which also grants Trump the authority to impose additional sanctions on Iran, is named in honor of hawkish Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, who unexpectedly passed away last month. A major Trump ally and vocal supporter of Ukraine, Graham traveled to Kiev ten times after 2022 and co-wrote the original version of the legislation, calling for “bone-crushing” sanctions against Russia. The version adopted by Congress allows Trump to impose additional tariffs of up to 100% on countries importing or reselling Russian oil and gas. The bill is aimed at “the top five countries facilitating Russian oil sanctions evas

(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push(["_mgc.load"])})(window,"_mgq"); Zelenskyy responded to the "win-win" framing in a CBC interview published on 16 September during his visit to Canada, saying the war's human losses made such an outcome impossible from the first day of the full-scale invasion. The US and Ukraine are framing a possible end to the war differently. Washington has pushed for a negotiated settlement in which both sides could gain something, while Kyiv has rejected territorial concessions and pressed for security guarantees. The US approach was to "think about things in the context of win-win" and "create opportunities for both sides," Jared Kushner told reporters after visiting Kyiv on 6 September alongside US special envoy Steve Witkoff, following a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow. Zelenskyy argued that Russia's aims could not be reduced to a territorial claim. "He has the biggest territory in the world and you need, I don't know, some kilometers. For what?" Zelenskyy said. "That's why it's very strange when some partners say, look, he needs just this part of Ukraine, just these kilometers and that's all. No, it's a crazy idea." "No, he does

Moscow and Kiev remain divided over territory despite progress on security and ceasefire mechanisms, Jared Kushner has said The territorial dispute between Moscow and Kiev remains the main obstacle to ending the Ukraine conflict, Jared Kushner, US special envoy and President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, has said. His comments came after he and fellow envoy Steve Witkoff traveled to Moscow and Kiev for high-level talks on ending hostilities. Speaking via video link at the annual YES 2026 conference in Kiev on Friday, Kushner said that Moscow “wants to discuss a way to resolve” the conflict, but “the hardest issue is still territory,” partly because the question is to a degree dictated by a battlefield situation that remains highly dynamic. “Seeing the advancement in the technology and the way that the battlefield has happened is, I think, beyond the expectation of both sides. And I think one thing I’ve learned in politics is [that] any expert you talk to will give you a ton of ideas, but nobody has any idea what’s actually going to happen,” Kushner said. Read more View from Russia: Experts on why Kushner and Witkoff came to Moscow

(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push(["_mgc.load"])})(window,"_mgq"); Exclusives One Russian drone held up seven flights in Moldova, Zelenskyy’s trip to Norway for King Harald V’s funeral among them . The drone crossed Moldova twice that afternoon, and controllers shut the airspace over the center of the country for more than an hour, until after it came down in the north. Military Ukraine hits key Russia-Iran logistics hub in Caspian Sea, damages three Russian warships . A fire broke out at the Makhachkala port after Ukrainian forces struck its oil infrastructure, while separate attacks damaged Russian vessels in Novorossiysk. Can't intercept the missiles? Hit the factories—Ukraine's other way to stop Russia's ballistic missiles . Kyiv's US Patriots are all but gone as Russia builds ~100 of its deadliest missiles a month. Ukraine's fix: a $700,000 homemade interceptor. Ukraine says drones hit Russia's gas heartland over 3,000 km from its border—a wartime record . Manufacturer Fire Point identified the drones as FP-1s. Ukrainian analysts said one strike hit equipment used in plastics production. Ukraine downed a record 24,000 Russian copter drones in August—one per 1.5 km of fron

The latest wave of strikes targeted a shipping hub, railway infrastructure, and power substations, the Defense Ministry has said Russian forces have struck logistics and energy facilities supporting Ukraine’s army, the Defense Ministry in Moscow has said, adding that some attacks hit railroads used to bring military cargo from the EU. In a statement on Sunday, the ministry said that a group strike involving high-precision weapons and drones attacked “logistics centers through which military cargo is supplied and distributed.” Among the targets was a Nova Poshta logistics center in Odessa Region used for military purposes and two power substations in Odessa and Nikolaev regions that supported local port logistics. The ministry added that railway facilities in western Ukraine were also struck, noting that they were used as routes to move military cargo from European countries. Ukrainian officials claimed that the overnight raid involved more than 450 drones across the country. Odessa Region Governor Oleg Kiper confirmed the barrage, saying that it had damaged warehouses, as well as a residential building and several private homes, with fires breaking out at several

(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push(["_mgc.load"])})(window,"_mgq"); Russia launched a large-scale missile and drone attack on Ukraine overnight on 17 September, striking Kyiv, Zaporizhzhia, and Odesa Oblast, among other regions. The attack damaged civilian infrastructure in Kyiv, including apartment buildings and educational facilities, while water infrastructure was also affected. Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko reported 20 people injured, including at least two children. Water infrastructure hit as winter concerns grow The overnight strikes affected Kyiv’s water infrastructure, temporarily disrupting water supply on the left bank and reducing pressure in some areas on the right bank. Kyivvodokanal said its specialists restored operations and that water supply is now fully functioning across the capital. The damage comes as Ukrainian authorities have warned that Russia could target critical water infrastructure as winter approaches, potentially adding another major threat to civilians alongside attacks on Ukraine’s electricity and heating systems. Russia has repeatedly used winter strikes to target Ukraine’s critical infrastructure, particularly electricity and heating, leaving ci

The disruption comes as the escalating conflict in Yemen threatens the kingdom’s alternative export routes Saudi Arabia has cancelled some oil shipments to Europe in the wake of a series of drone attacks which forced the shutdown of its key East-West pipeline, Reuters reported on Tuesday, adding to mounting pressure on global crude supplies as instability threatens energy infrastructure across the Middle East and North Africa. Riyadh reportedly informed European customers that some crude cargoes scheduled for loading later in September will be cancelled, while loadings at the Red Sea port of Yanbu have been suspended, oil trading and shipping sources told the news agency. Saudi Aramco has declined to comment. The disruption follows drone attacks that damaged the East-West pipeline, which crosses Saudi Arabia from its main oil-producing areas in the east to Yanbu on the Red Sea. Riyadh has blamed the strikes on an Iraqi militia. The route had become particularly important over the past six months because it allowed Saudi crude to bypass the Strait of Hormuz, where shipping has been severely disrupted by the conflict with Iran. Its loss leaves Riyadh increasingly dependent on exports

(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push(["_mgc.load"])})(window,"_mgq"); German security services can now name two suspects in the drone attack on Leipzig/Halle airport with high probability, one of them attributed to Russian military intelligence , Welt am Sonntag reported , citing secret investigation files it obtained. The paper says that evidence is what allowed Berlin to blame Russia publicly a week and a half ago. Russia has denied any involvement. Western officials have attributed roughly 200 acts of arson, surveillance, cyberattack, and attempted killing across Europe to Russia since the full-scale invasion, carried out largely by locally recruited civilians rather than by intelligence officers in person. German authorities have unpicked that pattern before, including the plot against a Bavarian drone manufacturer supplying Ukraine, and a Bundeswehr colonel has said his country was late to read these incidents as a single campaign. The two men The main suspects are a Belarusian citizen, Andrei Ka., and a Russian, Oleg Le. , according to security sources cited by the paper. German investigators believe Le. was responsible for the preparation and logistics of the attack, and a

Pentagon investigators reportedly found that flawed intelligence, rushed targeting procedures, and staff cuts contributed to the attack that killed 123 children Heavy reliance on AI, staff cuts, and rushed targeting procedures contributed to a US missile strike on an Iranian girls’ school in Minab, Bloomberg reported on Friday, citing officials involved in a Pentagon investigation. On February 28, two Tomahawk missiles hit the Shajarah Tayyebeh Elementary School in southern Iran, killing at least 157 people, including 123 children. The strike took place during the opening wave of US and Israeli attacks across the country. The school stood across from a naval base, which was likely the intended target. Some US Central Command (CENTCOM) personnel reportedly expected Palantir’s Maven Smart System to flag stale or inconsistent intelligence when selecting potential targets. Previous reports suggested that the military relied on outdated satellite imagery that depicted the school as part of the base. According to Bloomberg, Maven allowed the process of assembling target lists to be condensed to just several minutes. A Palantir spokesperson told Bloomberg that the company was