29.09.2024

The Kyiv Independent: Ukrainian forces struck the Kotluban military arsenal in Russia's Volgograd Oblast, the General Staff reported on Sept. 29. The military arsenal was used to store and modernize missiles and artillery. Iranian-made Shahed missiles had also been transported to the facility shortly before the attack took place.

Reuters: A senior government minister urged Moldovans on Sunday to shun "thieves, fugitives and bandits" after an exiled pro-Russian business magnate pledged to pay voters to vote "no" in a referendum on joining the European Union.

POLITICO: Russia is open to a compromise that could see its troops leave Georgia’s Moscow-backed breakaway regions, the country’s top diplomat has claimed.

Ukrainska Pravda: Denmark and Ukraine have reached an agreement on investment of 4.2 billion Danish kroner (approx. US$628 million) in the Ukrainian defence industry.

AP News: Norway may put a fence along part or all of the 198-kilometer (123-mile) border it shares with Russia, a minister said, a move inspired by a similar project in its Nordic neighbor Finland.

The Kyiv Independent: Russia attacked the city of Zaporizhzhia with guided bombs overnight on Sept. 29, injuring at least 16 civilians, local authorities reported.

Reuters: Switzerland's foreign affairs ministry voiced support for a Chinese-led peace plan to end the Ukraine war, saying on Saturday that its view on such efforts had significantly changed, a position Kyiv said was disappointing and illogical.

The Hill: The bipartisan committee charged with supporting democracy and human rights in post-Soviet states is pushing for the United States to dump the post-Cold War status quo in its relations with Russia and label Moscow as a “persistent” threat to global security.

28.09.2024

The Kyiv Independent: Explosions on a railway bridge in Russia's Samara Oblast have damaged the concrete structures supporting the track, the Russian Telegram news channel Baza reported on Sept. 28.

Reuters: Two Russian attacks in Ukraine's northeastern Kharkiv region killed four people on Saturday including a Supreme Court judge who was delivering aid to local residents in a civilian car, Ukrainian officials said.

The Kyiv Independent: Aleksey Kolomeitsev, a Russian colonel who trained specialists in the use of attack drones, was killed in the city of Kolomna in Moscow Oblast, Ukraine's military intelligence reported on Sept. 28.

AP News: NATO members Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland will seek European Union funding to build a network of bunkers, barriers, distribution lines and military warehouses along their borders with Russia and Belarus, Estonia’s officials said Saturday.

The Kyiv Independent: Russian troops appear to be preparing for assault operations in the southeastern Zaporizhzhia Oblast, where "the enemy is amassing personnel," the Ukrainian military's Southern Command spokesman Vladyslav Voloshyn said on Sept. 28.

Reuters: Russia attacked a hospital in Sumy in northeastern Ukraine early on Saturday, killing 10 people and injuring at least 22 others, Ukrainian officials said.

The Guardian: The ABC has rejected Russian claims two of its journalists acted illegally after they entered the Ukraine-occupied Kursk region.

Reuters: South Korea's Foreign Minister said Russia is engaging in illegal arms trade with North Korea, reiterating statements by the United States, Ukraine and independent analysts that Pyongyang is supplying rockets and missiles in return for economic and other military assistance from Moscow.

ISW: Ukrainian forces repelled a reinforced battalion-size Russian mechanized assault in the Kupyansk direction on September 26 — the first large Russian mechanized assault along the Kupyansk-Svatove-Kreminna line since Winter 2024.

27.09.2024

The Times: A new report obtained by allies points to a Chinese company sending a range of purpose-built military drones to Russia for testing, with the ultimate destination being Ukraine, The Times understands (archive).

Reuters: China and Brazil on Friday pressed ahead with an effort to gather developing countries behind a plan to end Russia's war in Ukraine, despite Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's dismissal of the initiative as serving Moscow's interests.

RFE/RL: A week after Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian said his country is nearing the "point of no return" with the Russian-led Collective Security Treaty, Yerevan has boycotted a key meeting of foreign ministers of the alliance and its troops in the latest training exercises.

The Moscow Times: Finland will place a key NATO base less than 200 kilometers (125 miles) from its eastern border with Russia, a move that Helsinki says will "send a message" to Moscow, the Finnish Defense Ministry said Friday.

The Kyiv Independent: A Russian assault near the village of Pishchane in Kharkiv Oblast was repelled, and dozens of vehicles damaged and destroyed, the Achilles drone strike battalion of Ukraine's 92nd Separate Special Forces Brigade claimed on Sept. 27.

Reuters: A Russian drone attack on the southern town of Izmail killed three people and injured 14, including three children, Odesa regional prosecutors said on Friday.

POLITICO: Romania's Defense Ministry deployed two Romanian F-16 jets and two Spanish F-18 jets on Friday after Russian drones targeted Ukrainian civilian infrastructure close to the border.

Reuters: Georgia's president and opposition leaders have expressed anger and disgust at advertisements unveiled a month before an election by the ruling party, which used pictures of devastation in Ukraine to argue that it alone could keep peace with Russia.

POLITICO: Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said Thursday that Budapest is keen to strengthen economic ties with Moscow, despite ongoing European Union sanctions against Russia.

Reuters: India will not buy liquefied natural gas produced from Russia's Arctic LNG 2 project, which is sanctioned by Western countries, Oil Secretary Pankaj Jain said on Friday.

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