Daniel Fried told Kyiv Post that Russia’s strike near the Polish border was designed to intimidate Ukraine’s Western backers, but said it would not deter them from returning to the country.
Daniel Fried told Kyiv Post that Russia’s strike near the Polish border was designed to intimidate Ukraine’s Western backers, but said it would not deter them from returning to the country.
Daniel Fried told Kyiv Post that Russia’s strike near the Polish border was designed to intimidate Ukraine’s Western backers, but said it would not deter them from returning to the country.
Moscow would need to commit ‘honestly and on a long-term basis’ to peace before Kyiv would de-escalate. What we know on day 1,665Ukraine will only halt attacks on Russian energy targets if the enemy does likewise and the US guarantees it, Volodymyr Zelenskyy said. The announcement came after Donald Trump’s uncorroborated claim that both sides have agreed to such a ceasefire. Neither Ukraine nor Russia had said so at time of writing. The US president regularly claims to have brokered what turn out to be nonexistent or extremely shortlived deals between foreign adversaries or with his own overseas enemies, such as Iran.Ukraine’s president said: “So far, no one has seen any genuine willingness on Russia’s part to bring the war to an end. But if our American partners can secure Russia’s genuine readiness to end the war aimed at destroying lives, and to do so honestly and on a long-term basis, Ukraine will take its own de-escalatory steps.” Russia would need to stop attacking Ukraine’s critical infrastructure for its intentions to be taken seriously, Zelenskyy suggested.It comes after Trump tried to blame diesel shortages and high prices on Ukraine’s strikes on Russian oil refineries. The main cause is Trump’s own war on Iran – the retaliation for which has crippled the trade in Middle East oil. Russia has banned diesel exports to address dire shortages at home caused by Ukraine’s attacks. But those exports comprise only a fraction of global supply, and the situation most directly affects neighbouring countries such as those in central Asia like Mongolia that rely heavily on supplies from Russian producers.A Nato fighter jet shot down a drone in Lithuania shortly after midnight on Tuesday, the national crisis management centre said. The drone, which likely entered from Belarus, was shot down near Pratkunai village in southern Lithuania, near Kaunas, the second-largest city, the centre’s spokesperson said. Its origin was yet to be determined at time of writing. A drone alert was issued earlier in the capital, Vilnius, and surrounding region.A Russian attack on a farming warehouse killed three people in the town of Pryluky in Ukraine’s northern Chernihiv region, regional police said. Seven others were injured.Prosecutors in Germany have charged a German-Ukrainian woman with acting on behalf of Russian intelligence. The woman, identified as Ilona W in line with German privacy rules, is accused of being in contact with an intelligence officer at the Russian embassy in Berlin since at least October 2023. The defendant ran a marketing agency in Berlin and chaired a lobbying group, using these networks to get the intelligence officer into high-profile events, and to try to recruit German defence officials and industry figures.A member of the UK armed forces was killed in a crash in Ukraine on Saturday, Britain’s defence ministry said. It is understood the incident was not a result of hostile action, writes Priya Bharadia. A small number of British personnel in Ukraine provide security to diplomats and support the Ukrainian armed forces.Volodymyr Zelenskyy has formally dismissed Ukraine’s prosecutor general, Ruslan Kravchenko, whose office is embroiled in a bribery scandal. Zelenskyy announced the sacking in a government decree. Kravchenko – who has denied the allegations, but resigned on 7 September – posted that he is now outside Ukraine and has started legal action against the head of the national anti-corruption bureau, Nabu, accusing him of “falsifying official documents”. Nabu investigators raided the prosecutor general’s offices and said they had uncovered a network that made payments in return for protecting fraudulent call centres that had “laundered fortunes”. Continue reading...
Saudi civil defence issued a brief alert for Najran in southwestern Saudi Arabia without elaborating on the cause for the warning
U.S. diplomatic facilities in four Gulf countries suffered around $184 million in estimated damages from Iranian military strikes, according to a new report from the Pentagon’s watchdog made public on Monday. The posts are located in Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the Pentagon watchdog said in the 44-page report, the first...
NATO chief Rutte insists Western allies will not be intimidated by Russian attacks meant to 'scare' them off.
Workers and retirees in the French energy sector pay discounted rates, which their unions view as a core part of their compensation package; strike is expected to go through the day on September 15, suggesting the outages could be renewed or increased
In his statement, U.S. President Trump said the two sides had agreed not to hit each other’s energy targets
"Ukraine has agreed not to hit Russian Energy Targets. Russia has agreed to do, likewise!" Trump said in a Truth Social post on Sept. 14.
Partisan group says Russian Gen. Sergey Milchakov was likely killed in a Ukrainian strike on a Donetsk headquarters. The claim has not been confirmed, while Russian media disputed separate reports that "Rusich" commander Alexei Milchakov had been killed.
“With great determination, professionalism and hard work, we completed the mission of destroying them,” IDF Col. Omri Mashiah previously said about destroying a tunnel network.
Polish Interior Minister Marcin Kierwinski said Poland was treating the incident with the "utmost seriousness."
Talks with the major education unions are largely stalled as the Ontario Labour Relations Board is looking at the issue of which topics should be bargained centrally.
Polish Interior Minister Marcin Kierwinski said Poland was treating the incident with the "utmost seriousness."
"Ukraine has agreed not to hit Russian Energy Targets. Russia has agreed to do, likewise!" Trump said in a Truth Social post on Sept. 14.
Everything on the combat-proven FLYCAT but the engines is made in Ukraine, and Octava Defence says the new long-range version can stay airborne for more than two and a half hours.
An attack that Saudi Arabia blamed on drones from Iranian-backed militias in Iraq forced the shutdown of the pipeline on Thursday (September 10, 2026).
Saudi-backed Yemeni Armed Forces released video on September 12 showing what they said were strikes against Houthi forces in Mocha, a Red Sea port city. The reported strikes came as Houthi forces advanced south along Yemen’s Red Sea coast, including an alleged seizure of Perim island in the strategic Bab el-Mandeb Strait.
The reported death has been linked to a Ukrainian strike on Aug. 26 against Russian command posts in occupied Donetsk.
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The reported death has been linked to a Ukrainian strike on Aug. 26 against Russian command posts in occupied Donetsk.
Kaja Kallas calls drone attack that narrowly missed Boris Johnson and David Petraeus ‘a message to the western world’Europe live – latest updatesEurope needs to show it will not be “scared off” in supporting Ukraine, the EU’s chief diplomat said, after a Russian drone hit a passenger train on the country’s border with Poland shortly after a convoy of high-level diplomats and former leaders had passed through.The earlier train, which was carrying the former UK prime minister Boris Johnson and the former CIA chief David Petraeus and running ahead of schedule, may have been the target of the Russian drone strike, Ukrainian Railways has said. Continue reading...
Kyiv is answering with compensation and cheap credit, aimed at the companies losing warehouses fastest.
Everything on the combat-proven FLYCAT but the engines is made in Ukraine, and Octava Defence says the new long-range version can stay airborne for more than two and a half hours.
The Air Force said Russia attacked Ukraine with 108 drones. Air defenses shot down or intercepted 85 drones, while strikes were recorded at seven locations.
Germany’s Defense Ministry plans to earmark nearly €3.4 billion for US-made Tomahawk cruise missiles and mobile Typhon launchers, POLITICO reported. The acquisition would give the Bundeswehr its first ground-based long-range strike capability, though the amount may change and the purchase still requires budgetary and parliamentary approval.
The strike hit a Warsaw-bound train near to the border a short time after another train carrying various foreign dignitaries passed through the same track.
The strategic Strait of Hormuz remains the conflict's primary flashpoint.
Germany’s Defense Ministry plans to earmark nearly €3.4 billion for US-made Tomahawk cruise missiles and mobile Typhon launchers, POLITICO reported. The acquisition would give the Bundeswehr its first ground-based long-range strike capability, though the amount may change and the purchase still requires budgetary and parliamentary approval.
At least two people were killed and 13 others wounded on Sunday, 13 September, when an Israeli airstrike hit a car in Gaza City's Tel al-Hawa neighbourhood, according to local medical sources cited by news agencies. Israel said the strike targeted two Hamas engineers involved in weapons production.
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explicare.deKYIV, Ukraine — U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday called on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to halt strikes on Russian oil refineries and other infrastructure used to produce and distribute diesel, saying the attacks are causing a global shortage. He spoke after diesel prices in the U.S. hit a record on Friday, soaring past $6 a gallon on average. Ukraine has for months been targeting Russia’s oil and gas industry with long-range strikes, prompting fuel rationing across the country and causing Moscow to ban diesel exports in July, removing supplies from the already tight global market. But the global crunch also came after the war on Iran curtailed oil shipments through the Strait of Hormuz. Fuel prices are weighing on Americans as they prepare to vote in midterm elections in November. Trump was asked by a reporter if he had spoken with Zelenskyy following his recent conversation with Russia’s Vladimir Putin. He responded by calling on Zelenskyy to halt strikes against Russia. “Mr. Zelenskyy has to do one thing. He has to stop knocking out diesel fuel in Russia,” Tru
A blogger has allegedly been sentenced to death for 'insulting Iran 's supreme leader' after sharing a chilling final Instagram post.
Former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson was among the officials returning from a security conference in Kyiv on a "special train" when there was a warning of drone strikes by the Polish border
Photos published by military observer Massimo Frantarelli show a Russian Navy corvette in Kronstadt painted to resemble a waterfront building, with outlines suggesting windows and doors on its hull, alongside netting rigged over the deck to blunt drone strikes. The image, credited to M. Mishin and dated August 22, shows the ship at the Leningrad […]
We visited the idyllic Swiss lakeside town of Vevey for its 10th Biennale of photography. Global head of photography Fiona Shields picks out some of her favourite projects on displayDiscover the 50 artworks on display at the 10th edition of the Biennale Images Vevey, 5-27 September 2026Every two years, on the shores of Lake Geneva at the foot of the Swiss Alps, the town of Vevey transforms its public spaces and buildings with 50 installations of artistic projects from 21 countries, which are free and open to the public. With such a breathtaking natural setting as its backdrop, the photography displayed at Images Vevey has to strike its own particular note of magnificence to hold the gaze.Rising six storeys high, Sian Davey’s portrait of the renowned photographer Martin Parr, who died at the end of last year, sets the tone for this year’s festival. Taken in a splendid garden that seems to have flourished straight from Eden, the monumental portrait overlooks the town. Continue reading...
The US president downplayed reports that Chinese entities had given Iran satellite imagery before a strike on a military base in Jordan that killed three American soldiers.
Poland’s prime minister convened an emergency security meeting after a Russian strike hit a Kyiv-Warsaw train near the Ukrainian border, as Donald Tusk warned Moscow’s escalating actions could eventually threaten Polish territory.
BEIJING — Oil prices rose more than $3 a barrel at the market open on Monday, after new strikes on Saudi Arabia and on ships in the Gulf on Sunday. Brent crude futures rose $3.62, or 3.46 percent, to $108.23 per barrel as of 2214 GMT (Sunday). WTI futures rose $3.15, or 3.15 percent, to $103.20 per barrel. Saudi Arabian state media on Sunday released video footage of damage to homes and a mosque from what it said was a Houthi attack on the country's southern Jazan province. The Houthis said they had also struck a Saudi military base in a neighbouring province. A vessel in the Strait of Hormuz was struck by a projectile, causing a fire and forcing the crew to be evacuated, the British maritime security agency UKMTO said on Sunday. Iran said one person was killed and four crew wounded aboard an Iranian commercial vessel struck off its coast. Oil prices had been expected to rise on Monday amid growing concerns about risks to supply from Saudi Arabia, the world's largest oil exporter, whose East-West oil pipeline was shut last week by a drone strike that originated in Iraq. "Looking ahead, u
Purchase by owner of Stanlow refinery comes as BP and Shell retreat from forecourts globally
The Seoul metropolitan government said Monday it plans to operate up to 1,500 free shuttle buses this week if unionized workers of the capital's intracity buses press ahead with their planned strike. Unionized city bus workers voted Friday to go on strike beginning Wednesday if they fail to reach a deal with the management, raising concerns of major traffic disruptions and delays. As part of response plans to the potential strike, the city government said it will operate around 200 free shuttle buses between city wards, while 1,300 others will connect key city hubs and residential areas to subway stations. It marks an increase from around 700 free shuttle buses operated during the previous strike in January. The city said it also plans to extend subway morning rush-hour operations by two hours so that it runs from 7 a.m. to 11 a.m., while extending late-night operations so that the last train runs until 2 a.m. It also plans to offer the city's public bike service, Ttareungi, for free during the strike period. Unionized bus workers and bus operators have been locked in a dispute over the ca