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Reuters: Russia launched a sweeping overnight air attack on Ukraine, injuring at least four railway workers and prompting Poland to scramble defence aircraft, Ukrainian and Polish authorities said on Wednesday.
Ukrinform: Putin is a war criminal who has no interest in ending the war, and who can only be forced into peace through economic measures, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said.
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Reuters: Ukraine will never agree to legalise the Russian occupation of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant and an immediate withdrawal of Russian troops is the only way to guarantee safety there, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday.
AFP: Kyiv's European allies are ready to contribute to security guarantees for Ukraine after any peace deal with Russia, and are now awaiting tangible American support, President Emmanuel Macron's office said Tuesday.
Reuters: Trump said on Tuesday he was "very disappointed" in Putin and added without elaborating that his administration was planning to take some actions to bring down deaths in Russia's war in Ukraine.
The Guardian: Italy is considering keeping state flights secret after the satellite signal of the aircraft carrying the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, was allegedly jammed by Russia.
AFP: German authorities launched a campaign Tuesday warning against Russian efforts to recruit "disposable agents" via social media to carry out acts of espionage and sabotage.
The Moscow Times: Nearly one in three of Russia’s largest companies posted losses in the first half of 2025, the highest share since the Covid-19 pandemic, underscoring the toll of war and sanctions on the country’s economy.
Bloomberg: Russia will eventually need to cut some spending as a budget gap threatens to surpass official plans and reserves continue to dwindle, the central bank said (archive).
The Kyiv Independent: Across occupied Ukraine on Sept. 1, children spent the first day of the new school year being brainwashed into idolizing Russia and waging war.
The Moscow Times: China will allow Russian citizens to visit without a visa for up to 30 days during a one-year trial period starting later this month, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman said Tuesday.
The Kyiv Independent: Ukrainian forces cleared out Russian troops from the Donetsk Oblast village of Udachne and raised the Ukrainian flag in the settlement, the General Staff of Ukraine's Armed Forces reported on Sept. 2.
Euronews: Sanctions against Russia, North Korea, and Iran will continue to fail unless the global maritime flagging system is structurally reformed, according to a new report from the Royal United Services Institute.
The Kyiv Independent: A new NATO command center began operations in Finland on Sept. 1, situated roughly 250 kilometers (150 miles) from the Russian city of St. Petersburg.
Bloomberg: Russian crude is getting even cheaper for India buyers as New Delhi faces sustained US pressure to cut its oil trade with Moscow. The price of Urals crude has dipped to a discount of $3 to $4 a barrel to Brent on a delivered basis (archive).
worth mentioning
Poland signs $1.6 billion deal with PGZ-Narew for 46 radars
WSJ: AI-powered drone swarms have now entered the battlefield
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