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Reuters: Poland shot down drones that entered its airspace during a widespread Russian attack in western Ukraine on Wednesday, with the NATO member calling the incursion "an act of aggression".
BBC: Trump has called on the European Union to hit China and India with tariffs of up to 100% as part of his efforts to force Putin to end the war in Ukraine.
FT: Belgium has signalled its openness to riskier ways to maximise the profits arising from €190bn worth of Russian assets immobilised on its soil in order to help Ukraine, provided the EU shares the legal risks (archive).
ISW: Russian territorial gains have become less costly over the last four months compared to Spring 2025 as Russian forces are sustaining a lower casualty rate per square kilometer seized.
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Euractiv: France and Germany want the EU to widen sanctions on Russia to include major oil producers in addition to targeting third countries that keep Moscow's oil flowing around the world (archive).
Reuters: Poland has arrested a Belarusian spy and will expel a diplomat who "supported the aggressive action of the Belarusian state against Poland", Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Tuesday.
Politico: Poland will shut its border with Belarus at midnight on Thursday in response to a major Russian military exercise, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Tuesday.
Business Insider: As the tech war moves forward amid fighting in Ukraine, Russia's Black Sea Fleet is testing new jamming-resistant naval drones guided by fiber-optic cables.
Axios: AI tools are helping Russia scale up its disinformation campaign against Ukraine, according new PeakMetrics data shared first with Axios.
Reuters: France's minister for European affairs said on Tuesday that French military support for Ukraine would continue despite political turbulence in Paris.
The Kyiv Independent: The United Kingdom will finance thousands of long-range, one-way attack drones for Ukraine as part of its military aid, U.K. Defense Minister John Healey said on Sept. 9 at a meeting of the Ramstein Ukraine Defense Contact Group in London.
Ukrainska Pravda: German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius has stated that Berlin, in partnership with Ukrainian manufacturers, is launching a project to procure long-range drones worth €300 million.
United24 Media: Germany’s Rheinmetall has confirmed that it will deliver Skyranger short-range air-defense systems to Ukraine before the end of 2025.
The Moscow Times: Syrian leader Ahmed al-Sharaa is to visit Moscow next month, Russia's Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak announced in Damascus on Tuesday.
The Kyiv Independent: Ukraine's military intelligence targeted two radar stations belonging to Russia's air defense system in occupied Crimea, the agency said on Sept. 9.
The Kyiv Independent: Three oil and gas pipelines in Russia were knocked out of service in a series of explosions on Sept. 8, a Ukrainian military intelligence source told the Kyiv Independent. The main oil pipeline in Penza, with a capacity of 2 million barrels per day, and a regional gas pipeline in the same location were taken out of service.
CNN: A Russian aerial bomb attack has killed at least 24 people and wounded 19 more in the rural Ukrainian village of Yarova in the eastern Donetsk region, Ukrainian officials said Tuesday.
FT: Ukraine is at risk of shortages of air defence weapons after a US defence department review of military aid resulted in slower deliveries just as Moscow intensifies air attacks (archive).
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