Russian drone strikes hit near Polish border in western Ukraine

Russian drones struck transport infrastructure just 800 meters from the Polish border on Saturday morning, damaging a truck and a passenger train locomotive without causing casualties, officials said.

German broadcaster RTL uncovers Russian disposable agent network

German broadcaster RTL exposed a suspected Russian intelligence network employing recruited “disposable agents” for surveillance and espionage across Germany following a year-long undercover journalistic sting, independent network TV Rain reported.

Russia eyes major FSB shake-up as Bortnikov prepares to exit

Russia's Federal Security Service faces a sweeping leadership reshuffle in the coming months, with veteran director Aleksandr Bortnikov poised to step down, according to investigative outlet iStories.

Zelensky urges EU to maintain sanctions on Russian oligarchs

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged the European Union to maintain sanctions against Russian oligarchs Alisher Usmanov and Mikhail Fridman on Friday, warning that Kremlin-linked business magnates must not escape accountability.

UK intel: Russian war casualties reach 1.5 million in Ukraine

Nearly 500,000 Russian troops have died fighting in Ukraine as total casualties topped 1.5 million, British intelligence officials announced, describing Moscow’s grinding war as a devastating strategic failure.

IEA cuts 2026 oil outlook as Iran and Ukraine wars strain refiners

The International Energy Agency slashed its 2026 global oil outlook on Friday as escalating wars in Iran and Ukraine pushed global refining capacity to its limits and depleted emergency stockpiles.

Fire erupts at Bulgarian arms depot after explosion

An explosion sparked a blaze at a Bulgarian arms depot overnight, local officials said, marking the second such incident at a weapons facility in recent weeks.

Saudi Arabia shuts East-West oil pipeline after drone strikes

Saudi Arabia shut its critical East-West crude pipeline following repeated drone strikes launched from Iraq, as Houthi forces seized Yemen's coastline, threatening European supplies and pushing oil above $108 a barrel.

Tusk: New challenges may arise on the Polish-Ukrainian border following recent Moldovan border attacks

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk is warning about potential new Russian provocations along the Polish-Ukrainian border, referencing recent incidents targeting border crossings in the Republic of Moldova.

Air alert in Romania after Russian attack on Ukraine

On the morning of Friday, September 11, authorities issued a new RO-Alert message for residents of northern Tulcea county, Romania. This alert came after the Ministry of Defense's radars in Bucharest detected air targets near the border with Ukraine. In response, the Ministry of Defence dispatched two F-16 aircraft from the 86th Air Base in Borcea to monitor the situation.

Food shortages in Kiev due to Russian attacks are terrible

In August and September, the Russian military targeted and damaged the warehouses and logistics centers of all major supermarket chains in Ukraine, including Silpo, ATB, Novus, and Fora, according to Taras Vysotsky, the Ukrainian Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food, in an interview with The Guardian. He emphasized that this recent wave of attacks is “the most massive since the beginning of the large-scale invasion.” Additionally, warehouses for medicines, including some owned by the World Health Organization (WHO), have also been affected, as reported by The Moscow Times.

Putin and Trump hold phone call on Ukraine war, Kremlin says

Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump held extensive telephone talks on Tuesday to discuss diplomatic efforts to resolve the war in Ukraine, following an exploratory mission by US envoys to Moscow and Kyiv.