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Reuters: Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday that the situation on the front line of the more than 2 1/2-year-old war against Russia was "very, very difficult," and Ukraine's forces had to do everything they could over the autumn period.

The Telegraph: Hundreds of Ukrainian soldiers could be trapped in a besieged town as Russian forces complete their encirclement and close in (archive).

United24 Media: More than 14,000 Ukrainian civilians are currently imprisoned in Russian detention facilities, according to estimates from the International Society for Human Rights.

Reuters: The U.S. military on Monday released video of what it said was an unsafe maneuver by a Russian fighter jet near Alaska during an intercept by the U.S. military last week.

AFP: Ukraine detained two people Monday in the western city of Ivano-Frankivsk accused of being paid by Russia to set a vehicle on fire, with Kyiv suspecting a wider sabotage operation.

POLITICO: Sweden’s incoming defense chief called Russia "strategically erratic" and said the Kremlin posed “a variety of different types of threats,” including “conventional military violence" and hybrid warfare, which he described as “exploiting vulnerabilities in society.”

Reuters: Putin ordered the conscription of 133,000 new servicemen in Russia's autumn draft that starts Oct. 1 and goes until the end of the year, according to a Kremlin decree published on Monday.

Bloomberg: The US is concerned Russia may supply missiles to the Houthis in Yemen, an American official said, a move that could stoke further Middle East unrest by strengthening one of the militant groups fighting Israel (archive).

POLITICO: NATO countries should fully back Ukraine's own plan for its future, the alliance's outgoing boss Jens Stoltenberg said, in response to Turkey's decision to support a new Chinese initiative.

Reuters: NATO members should not be deterred from giving more military aid to Ukraine by Putin's "reckless Russian nuclear rhetoric", outgoing NATO boss Jens Stoltenberg told Reuters in an interview on Monday.

Meduza: Even amid a nationwide labor shortage, the Russian authorities are ramping up anti-migrant rhetoric. Kremlin insiders told Meduza it's all a way to distract the public from the war in Ukraine and rising prices at home.

The Kyiv Independent: Russian troops are using "the maximum range of weapons" to attack the recently recaptured aggregate plant in the town of Vovchansk in Kharkiv Oblast, Kharkiv Group of Forces spokesperson Vitalii Sarantsev said on Sept. 30.

Reuters: The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) will end cooperation with up to 500 scientists affiliated with Russian institutions, it said on Monday, because of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

AP News: A Russian court on Monday sentenced a man convicted over a car bomb that seriously wounded nationalist writer Zakhar Prilepin to life in prison.

Reuters: The International Criminal Court chief prosecutor said on Monday he would launch a preliminary inquiry against Belarus over alleged crimes against humanity under the rule of authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko.

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