Donald Trump is considering a deal with Vladimir Putin to reopen the Nord Stream gas pipelines.
Jared Kushner, Mr Trump’s special envoy, reportedly held talks with Russian officials to discuss American investment in the pipeline to profit from energy flows to Europe once the war ends.
The pipelines delivered gas to Germany from Russia before it invaded Ukraine.
As Ukraine’s European backers deal with myriad challenges at home — violent student protests in France, the rise of right-wing forces in Germany and a mounting fuel crisis across the continent — Russian President Vladimir Putin is counting on a collapse of European support for Kyiv in the coming months, Russian and European officials and analysts say.
Brussels and Kyiv speak gushingly of their bond in public, but rhetoric can’t change increasingly harsh financial realities. On Wednesday, it was reported that the European Union had rebuffed Ukraine’s request for additional financial support for 2027 on top of loans agreed earlier this year. As Kyiv struggles even to obtain money already pledged by the EU, cracks are emerging in Ukraine’s key international alliance.
It’s history’s first robotic airborne landing operation. Last week, Ukraine dropped grenade- and machine gun-firing robots behind Russian lines to assault logistics and command bunkers for ground troops moving quickly against positions at the front, threatening the fortress belt city of Sloviansk, dealing what some analysts interpret as a major blow to Putin’s strategy to take eastern Ukraine.
South Korea’s President Lee Jae Myung has threatened to take unspecified “further action” if Ukraine does not issue a public apology for revealing that two North Korean prisoners of war had been sent to the South.
Ukraine’s leader Volodymyr Zelensky made the disclosure to the UN general assembly last week, angering Seoul, who said the move was meant to stay secret.
Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha on Thursday described the situation as a “diplomatic misunderstanding”, adding that Kyiv was “working” to resolve it.
Odd. But probably not an accident.
BOROVE, Ukraine—This summer, a small crowd gathered around six freshly exhumed human skeletons protruding from the ground on the edge of a sunflower field in Ukraine.
They didn’t belong to victims of Russia’s war on Ukraine, but to Poles massacred by Ukrainian ultranationalists who briefly allied with Nazi forces in World War II.
The discovery of burial sites like the one here has long eaten away at relations between the neighbors. Kyiv has lionized the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, known in Ukraine as the UPA, as freedom fighters who fought both the Soviets and Germans, but they are remembered in Poland for the slaughter of tens of thousands of Poles near the two countries’ modern-day borders.
It felt like the last day of summer. On a Sunday afternoon in late September, people in Kyiv strolled through the city’s botanical gardens, admiring the late-flowering dahlias. Later, the terraces in the Podil area – a neighbourhood full of bars, patisseries and bookshops – filled up with customers in search of a cocktail.
The idyll was an illusion. As the day darkened, the air defence began its rumble and boom. When a projectile fell with an explosive smack on a bar table, the drinkers flinched and then laughed. It was only a conker from the chestnut tree overhead. Nursing a glass of rosé, writer Myroslav Laiuk talked about the picnic he and his wife had had the previous evening, in a park in the Obolon district – prosecco in proper glasses, cheese and charcuterie. Then a drone was shot down above their heads. Very pretty, he said, with a smile. Shooting stars. Time to make a wish.
Western governments and technology firms have spent four years pouring targeting software, combat data, and cheap autonomous drones into Ukraine. The war has made the country the world’s largest live laboratory for military artificial intelligence. That is not a metaphor Kyiv rejects. Mykhailo Fedorov, then a senior digital and defense official, said the mission was to make Ukraine “the world’s tech R&D lab.”
The resulting risk is real. The evidence supports a proliferation problem: systems, data, and know-how moving faster than the rules meant to contain them.
DAUDZEVA, Latvia—Wearing strips of red tape on their helmets, Danish soldiers stealthily moved through the pine forest and then, unleashing a firestorm, overran a position held by Spanish troops.
“Todos muertos”—“everyone is dead”—quipped one of the Spanish soldiers, relaxing under an armored vehicle that raised its cannon to signify it had been destroyed.
The Danish mechanized infantry company role-played the enemy in this month’s exercise by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s brigade that has been deployed to protect Latvia from nearby Russia.
Well kids, they won't let you save your own country but you'll be allowed to save someone else's.
White people are useful, sometimes. https://t.co/ux3ZloQaFQ
— Kellie-Jay Keen (@ThePosieParker) September 22, 2026
Donald Trump is expected to confront Volodymyr Zelensky over strikes on Russian oil refineries in New York on Tuesday.
The US president reportedly warned the Ukrainian leader on Sunday that the attacks were exacerbating a global diesel shortage and causing prices to surge.
Diesel prices, which on Monday hit $6.51 (£4.80) a gallon, up 76 per cent from a year ago, have spiked dramatically since the US and Israel began bombing Iran on Feb 28
WASHINGTON — President Trump publicly called Monday for an end to Russia’s war on Ukraine after a series of attacks by Kyiv on Moscow’s energy holdings triggered another spike in diesel fuel prices.
“Russia has unfortunately lost control of its Diesel Oil Industry due to its War with Ukraine,” the president posted on Truth Social.
BREAKING: Zelensky confirms Ukraine launched a massive drone attack on Russia, targeting a major oil refinery among other sites in Moscow region pic.twitter.com/XiDEp6Ca0F
— Insider Paper (@TheInsiderPaper) September 20, 2026
Ukraine has targeted Moscow and the surrounding region in a large-scale attack that involved hundreds of drones.
The attack killed at least three people and damaged what Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said was one of Russia’s “key oil industry facilities” on the final day of the country’s parliamentary elections, authorities said on Sunday.
Zelenskyy said that among the weapons used in the attack was the Pelican, initially thought to be a short-range ballistic missile, but which sources said later was a winged drone.
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump on Friday signed into law a sweeping sanctions package targeting Russian officials and key pillars of its economy that is meant to punish and pressure Moscow for its ongoing war against Ukraine.
The measure was a final legacy item for the late Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., a close ally and friend of the president who had just returned from Ukraine when he unexpectedly died in July. In the works for more than a year, the bill passed with large bipartisan margins: 86-11 in the Senate and 262-159 in the House.
Canada’s inclusion will allow Ukraine to buy weapons from Canadian defence companies and bypass the “Made in Europe” requirements. In turn, Ottawa will have to pay a proportional share of the annual interest.
Canada is seeking to join the European Union’s €90 billion support loan for Ukraine, the European Commission said on Friday.
Gee that’s swell we’re not even Euro Graft Members yet and we have the privilege of giving them our money.
🇨🇦🇺🇦 The Canadian government has applied for a $841mil loan from the World Bank to Ukraine.
In events Kiev can't pay back this loan, Canada will be forced to pay as the guarantor. pic.twitter.com/X2N7CsR3A9
— Spetsnaℤ 007 🇷🇺 (@Alex_Oloyede2) September 14, 2026
h/t Mauser
An airstrike on a train line that endangered the lives of former European leaders and CIA officers.
Armed drones in Moldova suspected of stalking the plane of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
A clandestine effort to assemble an international network of assassins, including plans to “eliminate” a Kremlin critic in Washington.
