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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.

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.

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.

Sweden began voting on Sunday, Sept. 13, in a closely contested general election that will determine whether the far-right enters government for the first time or the left-wing opposition reclaims power.

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.

China warned the US that it intends to cancel a planned leaders’ summit this month if Washington approves new arms transfers to Taiwan beforehand, Kyodo reported.

Russian forces are facing disruptions in supplies of Chinese-manufactured jet engines for long-range strike drones due to coordinated measures by Ukraine and international partners, HUR Deputy Head Vadym Skibitsky said.

Over 700 leaders, diplomats, and veterans from 28 countries convened in Kyiv for the 22nd Annual Meeting of the Yalta European Strategy (YES), held Sept. 11-12 under the motto “Peace Through Strength NOW!”

Russian forces launched approximately 2,100 strike drones, 78 missiles, and 1,700 guided aerial bombs against Ukraine over the past week, President Volodymyr Zelensky announced on Sunday, Sept. 13.

Senior economic and financial officials warned at the YES 2026 conference in Kyiv that Ukraine’s state budget faces a “very difficult winter” driven by escalating war costs and systematic Russian strikes on commercial, logistics, and port infrastructure.

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Administrator Alexander De Croo warned in an interview with the BBC that Ukraine could face its most difficult winter since the 2022 invasion due to systematic Russian strikes on civilian and energy infrastructu…

Ukraine’s Defense Intelligence says the Kerch Bridge remains politically symbolic but has lost much of its military value as Russia relies more on land routes through occupied southern Ukraine.

Unmanned aerial vehicles struck key Russian petroleum and chemical production hubs early Sunday morning, Sept. 13, targeting the industrial cluster in Nizhnekamsk, Republic of Tatarstan, and igniting a fire at an oil refinery in Slavyansk-on-Kuban, Krasno…

Russian forces struck near the Yahodyn-Dorohusk checkpoint on the Ukrainian-Polish border on Sunday morning, Sept. 13, damaging a gas station, igniting several trucks, and striking the locomotive of a Kyiv-Warsaw passenger train two kilometers from the bo…

Head of the Office of the President Kyrylo Budanov announced at the YES 2026 conference in Kyiv that a renewed round of trilateral peace negotiations could take place in early October, focusing on practical measures to curb aerial strikes against critical…

Russian forces launched widespread missile and drone strikes across Ukraine on Sunday morning, Sept. 13, injuring at least 23 people.

Marking the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, European newspapers evaluated the long-term consequences for global security, international law, and Western democratic cohesion.

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.

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.

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.

War in Ukraine - Latest update, key takeaways and map from the Institute for the Study of War on September 12, 2026.

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.

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A Sept. 10 Russian attack damaged part of the US agribusiness giant Bunge’s production in Dnipro, forcing the facility to suspend operations.

A court in western Siberia’s Tomsk region disqualified the liberal Yabloko party’s candidate list ahead of upcoming regional elections, upholding a lawsuit filed by the LDPR.

US President Trump and his special envoys appear unable to break out of the businessman’s transactional mindset.

An attempted drone attack on a Ukrainian Antonov cargo aircraft at Germany’s Leipzig/Halle Airport on Aug. 4 failed only because a detonator wire snapped, leaving 1.8 kilograms of Semtex concealed inside a vegetable tin can unexploded, Welt am Sonntag rep…

Irregular crossings along the EU’s Eastern Land Border route dropped 47% in the first eight months of 2026, with Frontex recording just over 4,000 detections.