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Reuters: Denmark's Aalborg airport, used for commercial and military flights, was closed due to drones in its airspace, police said early on Thursday, two days after the country's main Copenhagen airport was shut over drone sightings that raised European security concerns.
The Kyiv Independent: Ukrainian forces shot down a Russian Su-34 fighter jet in Zaporizhzhia Oblast in the early hours of Sept. 25, Ukraine's Air Force reported.
CNN: Russian aerial attacks have become larger and more frequent since Moscow scaled up its drone production at the start of the year. But while most of these assaults used to come at night, there have been more daytime threats in recent weeks.
Reuters: The United States' Baltic allies continue to lobby and are hopeful that Washington will keep thousands of its troops in Europe, notably in countries closest to Russia, but they have yet to receive the assurances they seek, ministers said.
ISW: Russia launched a multipronged informational campaign intended to mask Russia’s economic weakness that Trump recently correctly identified.
The Kyiv Independent: Around 50% of gas stations in occupied Crimea and Sevastopol have stopped selling gasoline due to fuel supply disruptions, Russian pro-government media outlet Kommersant reported on Sept. 24.
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Reuters: Slovakia on Wednesday pushed back on pressure it is facing to cut back its purchases of Russian energy, saying it was ready to discuss the issue, but singled out some European states for increasing their gas purchases from Moscow.
The Kyiv Independent: Ukrainian investigative outlet Slidstvo determined the date of Ukrainian journalist Viktoriia Roshchyna's death in Russian captivity to be Sept. 19, 2024, while in custody at a pre-trial detention center in the Russian town of Kizel, Perm Krai.
Reuters: The European Union's "reparations loan" for Ukraine could be up to 130 billion euros, EU officials close to the talks said, with the size to be finalised after the International Monetary Fund's assessment of Ukraine's financing needs in 2026 and 2027.
The Insider: On Sept. 23, at least three vessels with ties to Russia were spotted near Copenhagen at the same time the city’s airport suspended operations due to a drone threat, a report by the Danish outlet TV2 notes.
The Kyiv Independent: Ukraine carried out strikes on multiple targets in Russia linked to oil refining and drone production, Ukraine’s General Staff confirmed on Sept. 24.
The Kyiv Independent: Russia launched an attack on a Ukrainian Ground Forces training ground on Sept. 24, including with two Iskander ballistic missiles, causing casualties among personnel, the military reported.
Reuters: Ukraine will soon hash out the legal details of a joint arms production venture with the U.S., Kyiv's ambassador to Washington said on Wednesday, as part of a critical effort to bolster the Ukrainian defence industry.
The Kyiv Independent: Russia's parliament passed a bill in the first reading on Sept. 24 that would introduce year-round conscription, replacing spring and fall draft cycles, pro-government outlet Kommersant reported.
Sky News: A Spanish military jet with a defence minister on board suffered a GPS "disturbance" while on the way to Lithuania, according to Spanish officials.
The Kyiv Independent: Russian forces took an underage girl hostage to use her as a human shield after murdering her parents in a front-line village in eastern Ukraine, the Ukrainian 3rd Army Corps reported on Sept. 24. The civilians were killed in the area of responsibility of the 3rd Army Corps, in the village of Shandryholove in Donetsk Oblast.
The Kyiv Independent: Ukraine's military intelligence has hacked the servers of Russian proxy authorities in occupied Crimea, obtaining more than 100 terabytes of classified data. Among the most significant findings were records detailing the illegal abductions of Ukrainian children from occupied parts of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia oblasts.
AFP: The Kremlin on Wednesday said it had no choice but to continue its military offensive on Ukraine, as Moscow rejected US President Donald Trump's claim that Russia was a "paper tiger".
Reuters: Russia's finance ministry proposed raising the rate of value-added tax on Wednesday to 22% from 20% in 2026 to fund military spending in what would be the fifth year of the war in Ukraine.
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