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The EU condemned Russia’s parliamentary elections in occupied parts of Ukraine as a violation of international law and pledged sanctions against those involved in staging the vote.

The US Army awarded Skyeton $10.64 million for Raybird reconnaissance drones, Ukraine’s first major military-drone export to the US.

The highway served as an artery between Kyiv and the country’s western border, with both gas stations hit on the section within the Zhytomyr region west of Kyiv.

Moscow’s CHP-8 power plant is being surrounded with concrete blocks that could support anti-drone netting, according to eyewitnesses cited by ASTRA.

Germany’s CDU suffered major losses in state elections in Berlin and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, while Die Linke and AfD gained ground.

Ukraine is proposing that European countries transfer Patriot missiles from existing stockpiles and replace them later with newly produced interceptors.

Drones reportedly attacked Ufa in Russia’s Bashkortostan region on Monday, potentially targeting oil infrastructure belonging to Bashneft, one of Russia’s largest refining complexes.

Russia’s campaign against Ukrainian books has a long history – from bans on publishing to modern attacks on the country’s publishing infrastructure.

EU ambassadors again failed to agree on extending individual sanctions against nearly 3,000 people and entities linked to Russia’s aggression against Ukraine.

Combat medics from Ukraine’s 1st Separate Medical Battalion took their MAUL armored unmanned ground vehicle to Sweden where they shared their techniques for using the technology to rescue casualties from within the “kill zone” on the modern battlefield.

An overnight Russian attack on southern Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia burned down Building 3 of the city’s main university.

Ukraine’s foreign minister said Russia uses rape and sexual violence as weapons of war, citing a UN report that documented 892 violations by Russian forces since February 2022.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said there had been no progress in negotiations to end Russia’s war against Ukraine, but Moscow hoped trilateral talks involving the US would resume.

The front line has moved in Ukraine’s favor in the northern Lyman sector, whereas the southern city of Orikhiv, in the Zaporizhzhia region, is bracing itself for an expected Russian push.

Russia is expanding a Rosatom carbon-fiber plant in Tatarstan that could enable production of an additional 28,000 Shahed-type attack drones annually.

Romanian investigators stopped pro-Russian former presidential candidate Călin Georgescu in traffic and took him in for questioning in an organized crime and fraud investigation.

Zelensky and Trump agreed to meet in New York, as per the Ukrainian president.

The AfD led Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania with 38.2% in exit polls, ahead of the Social Democrats at 35.5%.

Russia launched 172 drones across Ukraine overnight, killing 2 people and injuring at least 11 in several regions.

Exit polls put United Russia at 49.4% to 52.8% in Russia’s State Duma elections, well ahead of the Communist Party.

War in Ukraine - Latest update, key takeaways and map from the Institute for the Study of War on September 20, 2026.

Russian authorities are responsible for 89 percent of more than 1,000 documented cases of sexual violence during Moscow’s full-scale war against Ukraine, according to a UN Human Rights Office report.

The Lindsey Graham Sanctions Bill may look like a lifeline for Ukraine, but sweeping presidential waiver powers could turn sanctions into leverage for Donald Trump rather than tangible protection for Kyiv.

Russia has been attacking Ukrainian ports since the start of the full-scale invasion, with strikes intensifying in recent months.

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French National Rally leaders Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella issued a joint statement rejecting Russian intimidation and clandestine operations, asserting that Moscow will not influence French policy or facilitate its war aims in Ukraine.

Concentrated Russian ballistic missile strikes have knocked out Ukraine’s last three operational steel mills across the Zaporizhzhia and Dnipropetrovsk regions, idling facilities that generate 90% of national steel production, according to Metinvest and A…

President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed that Ukraine deployed the new domestically-produced Pelican missile alongside cruise missiles and strike drones during a mass overnight assault on the Moscow and Voronezh regions.

Naftogaz and Hungarian energy group MOL signed a memorandum of understanding during the inaugural Carpathian Eight summit to construct petroleum storage facilities in Hungary near the Ukrainian border.

Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiha has officially urged governments worldwide to shut down the Kremlin’s network of “Russian House” cultural centers, characterizing them as hubs for state-sponsored disinformation, destabilization, and espionage.

A self-taught Ukrainian helped the Americans land on the Moon and Soviet scientists were left kicking themselves.

Borys Gudziak, Metropolitan Archbishop, Archeparchy of Philadelphia, Ukrainian Catholic Church.

The All-Ukrainian Council of Churches and Religious Organizations has appealed to Pope Leo XIV and international humanitarian organizations to intervene and prevent mass starvation in Russian-occupied Oleshky in Kherson region.

Reconnaissance fighters from the HUR’s Tymur Special Operations Unit conducted field trials of domestically developed quad bikes equipped with remote-control capabilities.

As Russian jet-powered drone attacks intensify, Kyiv residents increasingly ignore air-raid warnings to preserve a semblance of normal life.

Ukrainian forces struck a Russian Buk-M3 air defense complex, a Nebo-U radar station, a drone production site in Severodonetsk, and command posts across occupied Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk, and Luhansk regions, the General Staff reported.

Voters in Berlin and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania have cast ballots in two crucial state elections testing Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s federal government.

Russian forces carried out a targeted drone strike against a mobile post office vehicle belonging to Ukraine’s national postal operator, Ukrposhta, in the Sumy region, severely wounding postal workers delivering pensions, medication, and food to border co…

The inaugural Carpathian Eight Summit in Bukovel united eight nations around a shared vision for turning the Carpathian region into an integrated economic and security corridor linking Ukraine with the EU.

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico accused Western leaders of seeking to provoke a direct military conflict between NATO and Russia following what he termed a failed strategy to defeat Moscow through support for Ukraine.

Russian forces launched over 2,000 strike drones, 1,700 guided aerial bombs, and 19 missiles of various types against Ukraine over the past week, President Volodymyr Zelensky announced on Sunday, Sept. 20.

Poland ordered residents in the eastern Lubelskie and Podkarpackie regions to seek shelter amid a Russian air attack on western Ukraine.

The first batch of decommissioned Polish city buses is en route to Vinnytsia following a crowdfunding campaign that raised over 620,000 zloty ($163,200), state news agency PAP reported on Friday.

Ukrainian forces liberated the settlements of Shandryholove and Derylove in the Lyman district of Donetsk region while taking full control of Drobysheve, the 3rd Army Corps reported on Sept. 20.

A Russian FPV drone struck a monastery in the village of Chervonyi Mayak in Kherson region on Saturday, killing a 71-year-old priest and wounding four other clergymen, regional Governor Oleksandr Prokudin reported.

Russian Central Election Commission head Ella Pamfilova claimed that Moscow’s remote electronic voting system suffered a “massive and intense” cyberattack during parliamentary elections on Sept. 19.

The US is working with NATO allies to locate available Patriot interceptor missiles for Ukraine while exploring joint production options, US Permanent Representative to NATO Matthew Whitaker said.

European officials and security analysts are warning governments against categorizing Russian sabotage as mere “hybrid” incidents, arguing the actions constitute a coordinated kinetic campaign designed to test NATO’s Article 5.

Ukrainian defense forces struck the Moscow Oil Refinery and a major logistics facility during overnight long-range operations, President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed on Sept. 20.

NATO is prepared to respond to potential Russian military escalation along its eastern flank, Chair of the NATO Military Committee Admiral Giuseppe Cavo Dragone announced following a meeting of 32 allied defense chiefs in Copenhagen.