Next Ukraine-US-Russia peace talks may take place in October, Budanov says
The statement follows a renewed U.S. diplomatic push to restart negotiations.
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The statement follows a renewed U.S. diplomatic push to restart negotiations.
Canada, Ukraine and Norway will host an international conference in Toronto focused on returning Ukrainian children, detained civilians and prisoners of war.
Russia continued to pound the Ukrainian civilian population, killing at least nine people in attacks throughout the country, while Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy repeated he'd be willing to meet Russia’s Vladimir Putin at the upcoming G20 summit -- something the Kremlin called “impossible.”
"Five hundred Shahed drones per day is certainly not the right time to even begin a discussion about easing sanctions," President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Sept. 12, after France reportedly joined Slovakia in calling to delist Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov.
The Russian drone was destroyed by a Ukrainian Sargan 3000 unmanned boat, equipped with a 12.7-mm Protector remote weapons station, according to the Navy, marking a historic first battle between marine drones.
The 942-year-old Kherson city has spent months cut off, its aid convoys shelled.
Vladimir Putin made it clear that Russia would see the sending of a peacekeeping force to Ukraine as meaning war, with some European leaders pledging their commitment to the plan
Ukrainian forces struck multiple Russian military command posts, drone storage sites, and equipment depots on Sept. 11 and early Sept. 12. Precision strikes hit UAV command posts in Polohy and Zaliznyi Port, as well as drone warehouses in Donetsk, Selydove, Kurakhivka, and Malyi Kermenchyk. In occupied Alchevsk, forces targeted a logistics warehouse and weapons depot.
The latest incident comes amid broader concern over fires, explosions, and suspected sabotage at European defense facilities supplying Ukraine.
BUND says letting Russia's Rosatom help make fuel at the Lingen plant, amid the war and sabotage in Germany, hands Moscow critical infrastructure.
A dedicated fund is opening to pay for more trips, more often.
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.
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 new drones and cruise weapons navigate rather than fly, so Ukraine has to jam GPS, not the operator link.
Fire from an ammunition depot storage of the EMCO company near Tsareva Livada, Bulgaria, Saturday, Sept. 12, 2026 as Bulgarian authorities launched investigations in an explosion at a weapons storage site in central Bulgaria overnight, which came in the wake…
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.
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 Russian lawmaker separately warned that a fourth Oreshnik missile strike is coming.
The country's interior minister has ordered every ammunition depot in the country inspected and says outside interference cannot be excluded.
The G20 leaders' summit is scheduled to take place in Miami in December.
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The figure includes 1,500 casualties that Russian forces suffered over the past day.
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'
The money comes from Europe's existing loan to Kyiv, and the decision finally lets Ukraine place orders for the American interceptors it cannot build itself.
The closures are triggered by Russia's own emergency protocol every time a drone nears.
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.
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.
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.
A survey by the Rating Group found that 51% of Ukrainian refugees in Poland plan to return to Ukraine, though 43% of these respondents plan to wait until after the war ends and only 8% plan an imminent return. Security and stability remain the primary condition for 71% of respondents. Meanwhile, 44% expressed a preference to stay abroad permanently.
Russia's Defence Ministry says its forces have struck several industrial facilities across Ukraine
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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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.
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
This year's summit comes amid the US-Israel war on Iran, Russia's war on Ukraine and global economic challenges.
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.
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.
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.
The presidents of Iran and Russia have criticised US dollar dominance ahead of the BRICS summit in India.
UK intelligence said the number of Russian casualties, meaning killed, wounded, and missing, is thought to be 1.5 million since February 2022, matching Ukrainian estimates.
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.