Tusk's statement comes a day after Russia launched drones overnight at western Ukraine, striking a gas station near the Yahodyn-Dorohusk border crossing and a Kyiv-Warsaw passenger train just 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) from the Polish border.
Experts, including a former CIA chief, warn that security in Asia is under threat as the three powers work ever more closely on missiles, drones and other tech in the war on Ukraine.
Western officials including ex-UK PM Boris Johnson were nearby when Russia hit a train at the Poland-Ukraine border.
The former Prime Minister was on a charter train from Kyiv when it received a drone alert as it approached the Polish border.
Ukrainian forces hit energy infrastructure in the occupied city of Mariupol late on Sept. 13 as fires continued to burn in southern Russia's Taganrog following an earlier attack, monitoring channels reported.
Train struck on route used by David Petraeus, Boris Johnson, Carl Bildt and other senior officials
The US president says Ukraine's attacks on Russian diesel infrastructure are contributing to global fuel shortages.
Incredibly fast and destructive, ballistic missiles have become a key feature of Russia's continuing long-range assault against Ukrainian cities. And while Kyiv has built world-leading drone technology, when it comes to producing ballistic missiles, a key capability in modern warfare, Ukraine still decisively lags behind Russia.This could
Editorial | The Kremlin’s clumsy efforts to engineer the outcome reveal growing anxiety about the public mood and a war that is failingVladimir Putin’s authoritarian powers are not constrained by elections, but he is alert to the danger that his rule would look illegitimate without them. That creates a tension, which is resolved through “managed democracy” – a euphemism for fraud and repression camouflaged with ritual ballots, held under a constitution that notionally guarantees political freedoms but in reality serves only the president.Russians are invited to elect a new Duma, the lower chamber of parliament, later this week, but they know in advance that United Russia, the official party of Putinism, will win a majority. Continue reading...
President Donald Trump told reporters he wants Volodymyr Zelensky to stop hitting Russian diesel refineries, saying the strikes are causing a global fuel shortage.
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov claimed Russia had previously avoided indiscriminate strikes but changed its approach after Ukraine began targeting Russian economic and strategic infrastructure.
"I anticipated the possibility of sanctions. This does not change my position," Iulia Mendel said.
In Sloviansk, a city in Donestk Oblast that has faced Russian attacks since 2014, residents continue to seek spiritual support as the threat of occupation and further destruction draws closer.
Ukraine has for months been targeting Russia’s oil and gas industry with long-range strikes, prompting fuel rationing across the country.
Jonathan Powell said the continent's people must continue to 'swallow' the impact of sanctions on Moscow, adding that now was not the time for its leaders to take their 'foot off the gas'.
Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski argued that NATO should conduct aggressive military exercises near Russia’s Kaliningrad exclave to exploit Moscow’s localized vulnerabilities and force Vladimir Putin to redeploy troops away from Ukraine. Sikorski noted that Kaliningrad currently holds “practically no troops” because the Kremlin assumes NATO will not act, suggesting decisive allied maneuvers would inject strategic ambiguity.
German defense officials are considering steps to block regional state governments from accessing confidential national and NATO defense plans if the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) enters government. Following state elections in Saxony-Anhalt where the AfD won 44% of the vote and 39 of 83 seats, Defense Minister Boris Pistorius moved to ensure that a state government led by the pro-Russian party cannot compromise sensitive operational data to Moscow.
Russia’s attacks on railways and border crossings are putting civilian travel at growing risk. Poland’s Donald Tusk warned days earlier that Moscow could target Ukraine’s crossings with Poland.
Prominent Russian charity leader and children’s hospice founder Lida Moniava has been placed under supervised curfew and fitted with an ankle monitor pending trial on charges of spreading “false information” about the Russian army. The charges against the 38-year-old founder of the “House with the Lighthouse” foundation stem from a 2023 Telegram post citing UN civilian casualty statistics and calling for aid to Ukrainian refugees. In 2025, her foundation raised 1.2 billion rubles ($14 million) for palliative care, while assisting roughly 17,000 Ukrainian refugees in Russia.
US special envoy Jared Kushner stated at the YES 2026 conference in Kyiv that territorial disputes remain the chief obstacle preventing a peace agreement between Ukraine and Russia. Kushner explained that while Vladimir Putin outlined Moscow’s territorial demands, Ukraine firmly refuses to retreat, leaving mediators to craft a creative formula that satisfies Kyiv while compelling Russia to end hostilities. Kushner noted that trilateral discussions in Abu Dhabi finalized a military-backed monitoring mechanism to enforce any eventual frontline settlement, while promoting post-war economic investment as a lasting peace incentive.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed at the BRICS summit in New Delhi that Russia’s economy expanded 10.3% from 2023 to 2025, outpacing global benchmarks despite 30,000 sanctions, while alleging an 8% drop in EU industrial output. IMF data shows global economic growth reached 10.7% over the same timeframe, while Eurostat records an EU industrial decline of just 0.6%.
A Russian strike targeted a civilian car moving through the center of Kramatorsk in Donetsk region on Sunday morning, Sept. 13, killing two people and injuring four others, according to Donetsk Regional Military Administration Head Vadym Filashkin. Emergency services deployed to the scene as authorities worked to determine the full extent of the damage. Filashkin condemned the deliberate assault on civilians and renewed urgent appeals for residents, particularly families with children, to evacuate the region amid escalating frontline dangers and heavy nationwide bombardments.
Dayana Yastremska's 22nd floor flat in Odesa was reduced to rubble when it was struck by a Russian cruise missile on Friday night.
"Ukraine right now does not want to do that," U.S. President Donald Trump's envoy and son-in-law Jared Kushner said.
Prime Minister Serhii Koretskyi announced that Ukraine is testing an automated early warning system to alert filling station networks of approaching drones following intensified Russian strikes. The software predicts drone trajectories to trigger preemptive safety measures, with plans to expand the platform to other industrial sectors. The government also agreed to reinforce physical blast barriers at stations, fast-track customs for fuel tankers, and prioritize rail deliveries amid rising global oil prices.
"This is (Russian President Vladimir) Putin's terror, 'knocking' directly on the doors of the EU and NATO. Russian barbarians are at your gate, dear partners," Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said.
Russian forces struck southern Ukraine overnight Saturday-Sunday, hitting a residential high-rise in Odesa and striking a Nova Poshta logistics branch with a jet-powered drone, injuring two people. Concurrently, a Russian strike on energy infrastructure in Mykolaiv caused localized blackouts across several city districts.
Russian President Vladimir Putin rejected President Volodymyr Zelensky’s proposal to hold direct talks on ending the war at the G20 summit in Miami, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said. Peskov described a Florida meeting as “impossible,” stating Putin is willing to meet Zelensky exclusively in Moscow. Zelensky had stated that he was prepared to attend the Dec. 14-15 summit in Miami if Putin attended, stressing the need for concrete diplomatic results rather than rhetoric.
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The statement follows a renewed U.S. diplomatic push to restart negotiations.
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.