Russia is seeking to intimidate Poles and weaken support for Ukraine through airstrikes near the Polish-Ukrainian border, while further provocations of this kind could take place on Polish territory, including under a “false flag.”
Russia is attempting to offset its battlefield losses by systematically recruiting foreign mercenaries. According to the estimates by the Defense Intelligence of Ukraine (DIU), the aggressor state has already recruited more than 28,000 foreigners to fight in its war of aggression.
Russia is turning the industrial and operational experience gained in the war against Ukraine into an increasingly competitive portfolio of defense products for export.
Sanctions against Russia must be imposed now, and they must be strong enough to deprive Russia of the ability to finance its war against Ukraine on a daily basis.
A bill to tighten sanctions against Russia, which the U.S. Senate approved by an overwhelming majority last month, will be brought to a vote in the House of Representatives next week.
Ukraine’s Defense Forces struck an oil refinery in Russia’s Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Region and a commercial seaport in Dagestan during the past 24 hours.
Claims by Russian propaganda and Russian officials that Russia is allegedly “close to victory” in the war against Ukraine actually indicate the opposite and are an attempt to conceal the aggressor country’s growing internal problems.
The appointment of Anna Ponomaryova as Russia’s new ambassador to Czechia signals the Kremlin’s efforts to restore lost ties and reactivate its agent networks in the EU country.
Russia’s total combat losses since the start of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, from February 24, 2022, to September 9, 2026, stand at approximately 1,500,870 personnel, including 1,480 over the past 24 hours.
Russia is using schools in Ukraine’s temporarily occupied territories as a direct tool for the militarization and ideological indoctrination of children.
France and South Korea share concerns about Pyongyang’s increasingly active support for Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine and the military assistance North Korea receives from Moscow in return.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha has called for stronger export controls on foreign components and technologies at every possible point along the supply chains through which they reach Russia for weapons production.
Until the end of the elections to Russia's State Duma, Russia will try not to show any signs of mobilization, but afterward it may change its rhetoric.