🇮🇷🇷🇺 #Iran has begun supplying gas turbines to #Russia, delivering the first advanced MGT-70 unit as part of a deal for 40 turbines, DW reported citing bne Intellinews on September 22. united24media.com/latest-news/...

🇷🇺 #Russia is reviving Soviet-era tactics such as forced psychiatric treatment to silence dissenters and anti-war voices in an increasingly repressive environment, a U.N. expert said on Monday. www.reuters.com/business/med...

💬 Putin said Monday that Moscow will adhere to #nuclear arms limits for one more year after a nuclear pact with the United States expires in February. apnews.com/article/russ... #russia

🇩🇪 Germany's armed forces are planning how to treat a potential 1,000 wounded troops per day should a large-scale conflict between NATO and #Russia break out, and amid long-standing warnings by the alliance that Moscow could be capable of launching an attack from 2029 www.reuters.com/business/aer...

🇪🇺 The EU #cybersecurity agency ENISA confirmed that airport check-in disruptions were caused by a cyberattack. www.reuters.com/business/aer... #europe

🇵🇱 #NATO member #Poland will not hesitate to shoot down objects that violate its airspace and pose a threat, but will take a more cautious approach to situations that are less clear-cut, the prime minister said on Monday. www.reuters.com/world/poland... #russia #ukraine

🇷🇺🇧🇾 #Russia withdrew its troops from Belarus following the Zapad-2025 military exercises, State Border Guard Service spokesperson Andrii Demchenko said on Sept. 22. kyivindependent.com/russian-troo...

🇷🇺 WhatsApp remains Russia’s most widely used messaging app despite government restrictions and the Kremlin’s push to promote the homegrown rival Max, the business newspaper Kommersant reported on Monday. www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/09/22/w...

🇷🇺 #Russia is urging the U.N. civil aviation agency to ease sanctions on spare parts and overflights, dismissing its response to the war in Ukraine as "unlawful coercive measures," Reuters reports. www.reuters.com/business/aer...

🇲🇩 Police carried out over 250 raids this morning across #Moldova, targeting more than 100 people in multiple localities. moldova1.md/p/57782/over... #russia

🇺🇦 🇷🇺 Ukrainian forces destroyed stockpiles of Russian ammunition and drones in two separate attacks in the occupied part of #Ukraine in August and September, Ukraine's General Staff reported on Sept. 22. kyivindependent.com/kyiv-strikes... #Russia

🇷🇺 🇺🇦 Morning Briefing: - NATO to discuss Russian airspace violation on Tuesday - German, Swedish jets intercept Russian military plane over Baltic Sea - 3 Russian Mi-8 helicopters, radar station destroyed in occupied Crimea - Russian-funded fake news network aims to disrupt election in Moldova 1/2

🇺🇦 On a battlefield swarming with deadly Russian drones, Ukrainian soldiers are increasingly turning to nimble, remote-controlled armored vehicles that can perform an array of tasks and spare troops from potentially life-threatening missions. apnews.com/article/russ... #Ukraine

🇺🇦 🇷🇺 For the first time, Ukrainian forces hit two Russian Be-12 Chayka amphibious aircraft in occupied #Crimea, Ukraine's military intelligence reported on Sept. 22. kyivindependent.com/for-first-ti... #russia

🇷🇺 🇺🇦 Russian forces launched overnight strikes on Zaporizhzhia, Sumy, and Kyiv oblasts on Sept. 22, killing at least three people and injuring two others, authorities reported. kyivindependent.com/russia-strik... #Russia #Ukraine

🇺🇦 🇷🇺 Fires broke out an electrical substation in the town of Staroderevyankovskaya in Russia's Krasnodar Krai amid a drone attack overnight on Sept. 22, the regional administration claimed. kyivindependent.com/fire-erupts-... #Ukraine

🇺🇲🇧🇾 The United States is trying to prevent Trump's decision to lift sanctions on Belarusian flag carrier Belavia from opening the floodgate for crucial aviation spare parts to reach Russia's airlines. www.politico.eu/article/us-d... #USA #Belarus

The UN Security Council will hold an emergency meeting on Monday to discuss Russian incursions over Estonia’s airspace, Estonian and UN officials said Sunday. www.cnn.com/2025/09/21/e... #Russia

ISW: 🇷🇺 #Russia has reportedly been forming a strategic reserve from new recruits since July 2025. understandingwar.org/research/rus...

🇺🇦 🇷🇺 Ukrainian troops destroyed a Russian ІМР-3М engineering and obstacle clearing vehicle, the 412th Nemesis Separate Regiment reported on Sept. 21. kyivindependent.com/ukraine-dest... #russia #ukraine

🇩🇪 Germany's air force on Sunday morning sent two Eurofighters to track a Russian IL-20m military aircraft that had entered neutral airspace over the Baltic Sea, it said, before handing the escort over to #NATO partners in Sweden. www.reuters.com/world/europe... #russia

NATO's North Atlantic Council will meet on Tuesday to discuss Russia's violation of Estonian airspace, two officials familiar with the matter told Reuters on Sunday. www.reuters.com/world/nato-d... #nato #estonia

🇺🇦 🇷🇺 The Prymary (Phantoms) special unit of Defence Intelligence of #Ukraine has released a video showing the destruction of Russian military equipment in occupied #Crimea www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/202...

🇷🇺 🇲🇩 A secret Russian-funded network is attempting to disrupt upcoming democratic elections in an eastern European state, the BBC has found. 1/2 www.bbc.com/news/article... #russia #moldova

🇷🇺 Russia's rights situation has dramatically worsened since its expanded war in Ukraine began, according to a new UN expert report, decrying "endemic" torture and medical professionals participating in the abuse. www.barrons.com/news/rights-...

🇷🇺 🇺🇦 Russian troops have attacked Poltava Oblast, hitting civilian infrastructure in the Myrhorod and Poltava districts. www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/202... #Russia #Ukraine

🇦🇹 Austrian oil, gas and chemicals group OMV has fired an executive over allegations of spying for #Russia and a Russian diplomat has been summoned to the Foreign Ministry in Vienna as a result of the affair, news magazine Profil reported. www.reuters.com/business/ene...

🇺🇦 🇷🇺 Ukrainian long-range drones struck a series of oil pumping stations in #Russia overnight on Sept. 19, resulting in a shutdown of pumping, a source in Ukraine's Security Service told the Kyiv Independent. kyivindependent.com/oil-pumping-...

🇷🇺🇺🇲 Putin has concluded that increasing attacks on #Ukraine will improve his negotiating stance and will not push #Trump to step in or provide additional defenses to Ukraine, Bloomberg reported on Sept. 20. kyivindependent.com/putin-has-co... #Russia #USA

🇺🇦 For the first time in #Ukraine, the American company Shield AI has presented its ViDAR reconnaissance module with artificial intelligence that can be integrated into Ukrainian Mi-8 and Mi-24 aircraft. militarnyi.com/en/news/shie...

💬 When asked if the guarantees would mean European countries were saying they would be ready to engage militarily with #Russia in the case of future aggression against #Ukraine, Stubb said: “That is the idea of security guarantees by definition.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s... #Europe

🇪🇺 🇷🇺 The European Union is considering trade measures to target its remaining Russian oil imports, Bloomberg reports. 1/2 www.bloomberg.com/news/article... Archive: archive.is/f29JG #russia #europe

💬 The G7 is seeking to move from “incremental” to “decisive” actions to end Russia’s invasion of #Ukraine, Canadian Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne said 🤔 www.politico.eu/article/g7-d...

🇪🇺✈️ A cyberattack at a service provider for check-in and boarding systems has disrupted operations at several major European airports including London's Heathrow, Brussels and Berlin, causing flight delays and cancellations on Saturday. www.reuters.com/en/cyberatta... #europe #cybersecurity

#UPDATE 🇷🇺 🇺🇦 #Russia launched a major drone and missile attack on #Ukraine overnight, killing three people and injuring dozens, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Saturday. www.reuters.com/world/europe...

🇷🇺 🇺🇦 #Russia launched a large-scale missile and drone attack on Ukrainian cities overnight on Sept. 20, killing at least one person and injuring 13 others, officials reported. kyivindependent.com/russia-launc... #Ukraine

🇺🇦 🇷🇺 Ukrainian drones reportedly struck oil refineries overnight on Sept. 20 in Russia's Saratov and Samara oblasts, Russian Telegram media channels reported, citing resident accounts. kyivindependent.com/ukraine-repo... #Ukraine

🇺🇦 🇷🇺 Ukrainian troops pressed on with a frontline counteroffensive around two cities in the east of the country on Friday, with President Volodymyr Zelenskiy saying heavy losses were being inflicted on Russian forces. www.reuters.com/world/zelens... #Ukraine #Russia

🇷🇺 🇺🇦 The Ukrainian Kherson Oblast Prosecutor’s Office reported on Sept. 19 that Russian soldiers executed three civilians in occupied Kozachi Laheri (east of Kherson City) on the night of Sept. 17 to 18. understandingwar.org/research/rus... #Ukraine #Russia #RussianWarCrimes

💬 President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Friday that #Ukraine would present a strategy for "guided", or managed, arms exports within the next two weeks and saw the United States, Europe and other countries as potential buyers. www.reuters.com/world/zelens...

🇺🇦 Four Western companies pledged to invest more than $100 million in Ukraine's defense technology sector at a conference in Lviv this week, the Digital Transformation Ministry said on Sept. 19. kyivindependent.com/ukraine-secu...

💬 The outgoing head of MI6 has issued a damning indictment of Russia’s invasion of #Ukraine, saying that Putin has “bitten off more than he can chew”. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

🇺🇸 An amendment passed by the U.S. House of Representatives last week could bar the U.S. military from purchasing digital display technologies made by state-backed firms in China or #Russia 1/2 www.reuters.com/world/us/us-... #usa

🇷🇸🇭🇺🇷🇺 #Serbia is a candidate for European Union membership and #Hungary has been a full member since 2004, but that hasn’t prevented them from joining with Russia to undermine EU cohesion and meddle with efforts to break Europe’s dependency on Russian energy. eurasianet.org/serbia-pairi... #russia

🇷🇺 🇵🇱 Two Russian fighter jets violated the safety zone of the Petrobaltic drilling platform in the Baltic sea, Polish Border Guards said on Friday, adding that the Armed Forces and other services had been notified. www.reuters.com/business/aer... #russia #poland

🇷🇺 Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has appointed his 17-year-old son to supervise property tax payments by municipal organizations in the North Caucasus republic. Adam Kadyrov has now assumed at least seven official positions in the past two years. www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/09/19/k... #Russia

🇷🇺 The International Olympic Committee announced Friday that athletes from #Russia will be allowed to compete at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy under a neutral banner if they meet strict conditions. www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/09/19/r...

🇷🇺 Russian police have begun summoning citizens who remotely obtained bank cards in neighboring Kazakhstan, media outlets reported on Friday. www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/09/19/r... #Russia

🇨🇳🇷🇺 New research shows leading Chinese universities linked to the country’s defense sector have significantly increased their research partnerships with Russian institutions, providing Moscow with access to new technology and expertise that can help counteract sanctions www.rferl.org/a/china-russ...

🇺🇸 A bipartisan group of U.S. senators plans to introduce legislation on Sept. 19 to tighten sanctions on Russia's so-called "shadow fleet" of oil tankers, the Financial Times reports. kyivindependent.com/us-senators-... #USA