“Ukraine – Russia”

The Polish government has called upon other European nations to halt welfare benefits to Ukrainian men of military age. “Stop paying those social security payments for people who are eligible for the Ukrainian draft. There should be no financial incentives for avoiding the draft in Ukraine,” Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski said on Friday, September 13th, at a conference in Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv.

Around 970,000 Ukrainian refugees have fled to neighbouring Poland since the start of Russia’s invasion two-and-a-half years ago. About a third of them—300,000 people—are men of military age, according to Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiha, who added that there are an estimated one million men in total who have left Ukraine.

Pentagon officials say US can’t supply many more long-range missiles to Ukraine because it needs to keep a ‘healthy reserve’

Britain and the US fear Russia may have shared nuclear secrets with Iran in exchange for missiles to use in its war against Ukraine.

At their summit in Washington DC, Sir Keir Starmer and Joe Biden discussed the threat from the strengthening military cooperation from two of the West’s biggest adversaries.

It comes days after it was revealed Iran has accumulated four “significant quantities” of enriched uranium which could each be used to make a nuclear bomb.

No worries Ukraine! Canadian military Second World War pistols slated for destruction will instead be sent to Ukraine

Volodymyr Zelensky accused the West of emboldening Vladimir Putin as the United States put off a decision to arm Ukraine with long-range missiles amid escalating tensions.

The Ukrainian president questioned Britain and America’s commitment to supporting Ukraine’s defence against Russia, expressing frustration at the time it was taking for them to authorise the use of western-supplied missiles to strike targets across the border.

Citing security concerns, organizers of the Toronto International Film Festival have paused the upcoming North American premiere of the new documentary Russians at War, which has been heavily criticized by members of the Ukrainian community.

The decision, which affects the three public screenings of the film set for Friday, Saturday and Sunday, arrives one day after TIFF issued a statement standing firm on its decision to screen the film following a storm of controversy over the production, including the decision by Ontario’s public broadcaster TVO, which helped fund the documentary, to pull its support.

Vladimir Putin has warned that Nato would be “at war” with Russia if the West gives Kyiv a green-light to use longer-range weapons to strike targets inside his country.

“This would in a significant way change the very nature of the conflict… It would mean that Nato countries are at war with Russia,” the Russian president told a state television reporter on Thursday afternoon.

The United States may allow Ukraine to use British and French missiles but not its own longer-range weapons inside Russia, according to two sources familiar with discussions that have taken place.

Britain and the United States are on the verge of allowing Ukraine to use long-range missiles against targets in Russia after accusing President Putin of “escalating” the conflict by accepting ballistic missiles from Iran.

David Lammy, the foreign secretary, and Anthony Blinken, the US secretary of state, said they would return to their respective countries to inform their leaders of the “operational details” surrounding Ukraine’s use of weapons such as Storm Shadow missiles after meeting President Zelensky in Kyiv.

A Russian missile attack in central Ukraine has killed 51 people and injured more than 200, Ukrainian officials have said.

President Zelensky said that Russian forces struck “an educational institution and a neighbouring hospital” with two ballistic missiles in the city of Poltava. The educational facility in question is understood to be the Poltava Military Institute of Communications.

Video from the scene showed destroyed buildings and the wounded being treated on the street. The death toll is expected to rise.

Things are starting to heat up on the Ukrainian front line once more. After a long period of attrition warfare and static front lines, we are starting to see movement that could bring the war to its next phase. The Russians are now advancing on Pokrovsk, a key transport and logistics hub in Donetsk. Some analysts think that if Pokrovsk falls, the entire Ukrainian front line in the Donbas will start to collapse.

On Friday evening, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced his decision to replace the commander of the country’s air forces, Lt Gen Mykola Oleshchuk. Lt Gen Anatolii Kryvonozhko has been appointed interim commander and, while Zelensky did not provide any explanation for the change, he stressed his responsibility to “take care of all our warriors”.