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AFP: Russia attacked Ukraine with 38 drones overnight, Ukraine's air force said Tuesday, saying it had destroyed 26 of them, but that the grain-exporting Danube river port of Izmail was hit again.
Reuters: Moscow and Washington have accused each other of destabilising the South Caucuses region, as thousands of ethnic Armenians fled their homes in Nagorno-Karabakh over ethnic cleansing fears.
BBC News: Russia is seeking to rejoin the United Nations human rights council in an election that will be seen as a key test of its international standing.
The Guardian: Thousands of adults and children may have survived Russian sexual assaults but few have come forward and far fewer have seen any punishment.
ISW: The tactical situation in Verbove remains unclear amid continued Ukrainian offensive operations in western Zaporizhzhia Oblast on September 25.
UK Ministry of Defence: A dynamic, deep strike battle is underway in the Black Sea. This is likely forcing Russia into a reactive posture whilst demonstrating that Ukraine’s military can undermine the Kremlin’s symbolic and strategic power projection from its warm water port in occupied Sevastopol.
The Guardian: The European Union must begin a major wave of change to prepare for the arrival of Ukraine as a member state, the leader of its parliament has said, with “nothing off the table”, including removing trade tariffs and giving Kyiv access to internal markets before full membership.
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UN Commission: There is continuous evidence that Russian armed forces are committing war crimes in Ukraine, including unlawful attacks with explosive weapons, attacks harming civilians, torture, sexual and gender-based violence, and attacks on energy infrastructure.
POLITICO: Serbia has turned to its longtime ally Russia after Kosovo accused it of orchestrating an attack in an ethnic Serbian-majority region of northern Kosovo on Sunday.
Reuters: Russian air defence units repelled several Ukraine drone attacks over the Belgorod and Kursk regions late on Monday, destroying at least 11 drones in total, Russia's defence ministry said.
AFP: Russian air defences shot down a missile over Crimea on Monday, said the Moscow-installed head of Sevastopol city in the Russian-annexed Black Sea peninsula.
AP News: The Biden administration announced Monday that it is offering a $2 billion loan to Poland, which has been a hub for weapons going into Ukraine, to support the ally’s defense modernization.
Reuters: U.S. President Joe Biden's administration on Monday imposed new trade restrictions on 11 Chinese and five Russian companies, accusing some of supplying components to make drones for Russia's war effort in Ukraine.
CNN: Ukraine has claimed it killed the commander of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet, in one of Kyiv’s boldest attacks yet on the occupied peninsula of Crimea. The Ukrainian Special Operations Forces said in an update that Friday’s attack killed Viktor Sokolov along with 33 other officers.
Reuters: U.S.-made Abrams tanks have arrived in Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday.
Meduza: Meet Dialog, an innocuous-sounding nonprofit that produces fake news about the Ukraine war for the benefit of Russia’s Defense Ministry.
Mediazona: As the Russian Army retreated from Kherson in the autumn of 2022, they took with them inmates from local prisons, about two thousand of them. The reasons remain elusive. After enduring extended, grueling periods of hunger, humiliation, and beatings, they found themselves in Russian prisons.
The Kyiv Independent: A Russian attack on Kherson has killed three civilians and injured three others, Governor Oleksandr Prokudin reported on Sept. 25. Two men and one woman were killed when a Russian artillery strike targeted a residential area of the city.
Reuters: Russia plans to secure additional budget revenues by raising gas prices for domestic industrial consumers and a subsequent increase in mineral extraction tax, a source familiar with the plans told Reuters on Monday.
Meduza: During an attack in Russia’s Kursk region, a drone hit the Russian Interior Ministry building, say sources in Ukraine’s Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR). RBC Ukraine's source said this was a continuation of attacks on facilities in Kursk. On September 24, The GUR reported hitting a Kursk Federal Security Service administrative building and an oil refinery.
Reuters: The heads of Russian energy giants Gazprom and Rosneft, Alexei Miller and Igor Sechin, will join Putin's retinue during his visit to China next month, sources familiar with the plans told Reuters.
BBC Sport: Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva's doping case will be heard by the Court of Arbitration for Sport on Tuesday. Details of a failed drugs test emerged after she won team gold at the 2022 Winter Olympics.
Reuters: Ukraine and the United States have signed a memorandum of understanding under which Kyiv will receive up to $522 million for strengthening the resilience of the Ukrainian energy system, the U.S. embassy in Ukraine said.
Reuters: Ukrainian grain exports over Sept. 1-24 totalled 1.57 million metric tons, down sharply from the 3.21 million tons in the corresponding period last year, agriculture ministry data showed on Monday.
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