🇪🇺🇺🇸 The new 19th package of EU sanctions against Russia has been agreed with the US, — French MFA Barrot. The EC proposes to accelerate the rejection of Russian LNG by a year, include 118 more tankers of the Russian shadow fleet in the blacklist, and prohibit transactions with Rosneft and Gazprom.

🇺🇦 Zelensky: Rescue operations and clearing of rubble continue after the Russian strike on Zaporizhzhia. 15 high-rise buildings and 10 private houses have been damaged. 3 people have died. Donetsk, Dnipro, Sumy, Kyiv, Kharkiv, and Kherson regions were also hit. In total, more than 140 drones.

🇺🇸❗️Trump's border czar Tom Homan accepted a $50,000 bag of cash from an undercover FBI agent last year in a since-closed U.S. Justice Department bribery investigation, - Reuters Homan promised immigration-related government contracts when he joined the Trump administration in exchange for the money.

‼️ Russia is changing tactics: drones are cutting Ukrainian supply lines, - WSJ Now, strikes on roads and convoys are no longer sporadic, but systematic. Russia is using fiber-optic drones, which are immune to EW, as well as "mother drones" that launch smaller strike UAVs from behind the front.

🇫🇷🇮🇱 Macron: Israel's security strategy against Hamas has failed. They killed all the key leaders. This is a success. But at the beginning of this war, you had more or less 25,000 Hamas fighters. The Israeli army killed probably half, but Hamas managed to recruit the equivalent.

🇺🇦🇪🇪 Ukraine wants to participate in tomorrow's UN Security Council meeting on the incursion of Russian planes into Estonian airspace to present its position, — MFA Sybiha 🗣️"We support Estonia in its call for a decisive and united response to Russia's ongoing destabilization of peace and security."

✈️🚫🇺🇦 No-fly zone could provide additional protection for Ukrainian civilians and infrastructure, restore a sense of security in neighbouring countries. Implementation depends on clear commitments, plans, and coordination at NATO level. Read more 👀⬇️ theukrainianreview.info/back-on-the-...

🇬🇧🇺🇦 The British government is considering funding a new wave of loans to Ukraine with billions of pounds of Russian state assets frozen in the U.K, - Politico Reeves insisted the loans would be in line with international law and would not involve permanently confiscating Russian state assets.

🕊️🇺🇦 SBU: Today the world celebrates the International Day of Peace. We are fighting so that our children do not see fires and destruction from enemy shelling, but grow up under safe sky. While our freedom is under threat, we will stand to the end - defending our native land and fighting for peace.

🇺🇦🇺🇸Ukraine and USA discussed preparation of security guarantees and expansion of cooperation in the military, defense and economic spheres. Yermak: "Together with Rubio, we noted the importance of the upcoming meeting between Zelensky and Trump as part of an ongoing dialogue to achieve a just peace.

🇺🇦 The printing house is printing the 5th issue of the printed magazine @theukrainianreview.bsky.social ❗️The main topic is "Diplomacy during wartime." 20,000 copies! 🤝🌐 If you would like to receive a copy and help distribute in your city, please write in private messages. Thank you!

🇮🇹❗️Russia supplies weapons to the Italian mafia, — Linkiesta This concerns modern small arms from 2010–2020 from the Tula plant. The weapons are hidden in metal containers or wooden barrels filled with lubricants. Their supply is carried out and controlled by state structures of Russia.

✈️🇺🇸🇪🇪 The Pentagon believes the incursion of Russian fighter jets into Estonian airspace was intentional, - Reuters. While the appearance of Russian aircraft near Vaindlo Island (approximately 100 kilometers from Tallinn) is a fairly common occurrence, they typically don't last as long as incident.

💔 Three people were killed in the Russian strikes, — Zelensky. Forty ballistic and cruise missiles were fired at Ukraine. Thirty-one of them were shot down by the Ukrainian Air Force.

💔 Dnipro… Residential building… There are already 26 injured.

🇹🇷🇺🇦 Turkish "Baykar" and Small Academy of Sciences will create a Center for Aviation and Space Technologies for children and youth in Ukraine. It is planned to locate a laboratory, workshop and training facilities and create space for the development of children in technical sciences.

👀❗️ Rosvoenkor was declared a foreign agent after his quarrel with the propagandist Solovyov. This is about "Alyokhin", who served in "Akhmat", and now he is called a traitor and an enemy. According to the Russian laws, he will now not be able to collect funds for the occupiers.

🇪🇺 The European Commission, within the framework of the 19th package of sanctions, proposes to ban the import of Russian liquefied natural gas to European markets, - EC President Ursula von der Leyen The European Commission also proposes to impose sanctions against:

🇺🇸📞🇨🇳 A phone call between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping will take place today at 16:00 Kyiv time, - Bloomberg. One of the central topics of discussion will reportedly be the transfer of control of TikTok from its Chinese parent company to a consortium of American investors.

👀❗️A man disguised as a woman tried to plant explosives in a car in Moscow. He and two other women were planning to eliminate one of the key industrialists in Russia, FSB claims. The group came into the field of view of Russian special services during the preparation stage of the action.

🤬 Russian Armed Forces' offensive on Kupyansk is being commanded by former Ukrainian brigade commander Sergei Storozhenko, - BBC ❗️He defected to Russia after the annexation of Crimea in 2014, when he commanded the 36th Separate Coastal Defense Brigade. A week later, he received a Russian passport.

🇦🇱🇦🇲👀 Trump again confuses Albania with Armenia: "To think that we have resolved the issue of Azerbaijan and Albania, it has been going on for years. It was never supposed to be finally resolved. If you remember, the prime minister and the presidents have been working on this for many years."

‼️🇺🇦 Please spread the word and share! Unfortunately, despite the full-scale war, construction continues in Ukraine with violations… Illegal construction in Odesa blocks the sea view from the Memorial to the Unknown Sailor — a place honoring the soldiers of the Black Sea Fleet who died in WWII.

🇩🇰 Denmark has decided to buy precision weapons to deter Russia. Russian ambassador calls it "madness" — BBC. Danish PM said that for the country would buy long-range precision weapons, explaining this by the need to deter the threat from Russia, which will remain "for years to come."

🇺🇸🇮🇱👀 New Pentagon budget documents reveal that the US spent nearly $500M on THAAD interceptor missiles to defend Israel from hundreds of Iranian ballistic missiles during the June conflict, - Business Insider Each THAAD missile costs $12.7M, with 100–150 missiles reportedly used.

🇺🇸 Some Pentagon lawyers and defense officials are voicing concerns over legality of Trump’s expanded military campaign targeting Latin American drug cartels, - WSJ The concerns focus on whether the strikes are legally justified and whether US service members involved could face personal liability.

✈️🇬🇧🇺🇸 The Royal Air Force’s Red Arrows squadron flew over Windsor Castle in honor of President Trump’s state visit. The US President has already held talks with King Charles III and visited St. George’s Chapel, where he listened to a choir performance.

🇺🇸🇺🇦 American TV channel CBS showed a map of Ukraine without Crimea. The episode of “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” recalled the events of 2015. The host spoke about the heroic resistance of Ukrainians to Russian aggression, but at that time a map without Ukrainian peninsula appeared on screen.

🇺🇸⚠️ FBI Director Patel stated that since the beginning of the year, there has been a 30% increase in counterintelligence arrests related to North Korea, Russia, Iran, and China. 🗣️"There is a lot of work being done in this area, work we simply cannot report, but they are not stopping," he said.

🇵🇱🇺🇦 After recent incursions by Russian drones into Poland and Romania, Warsaw has renewed talks about establishing a no-fly zone over Ukraine to protect against further provocations. But political indecision and military shortcomings pose obvious obstacles, — NYT.

🇪🇺🤔🇺🇸 Politico: EU diplomats are worried Trump is setting a trap for them. They fear Trump's demands announced over the weekend, especially the call for tariffs that the EU considers unfeasible, could be a ploy to slow down action against Russia and shift blame to NATO allies.

🇬🇧❗️🇺🇸 Four people were arrested after projecting images of Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein onto Windsor Castle ahead of Trump’s state visit to Britain.

🇵🇱🇷🇴 UAVs in Poland and Romania are a signal from the Russians: “Don’t even think about giving Ukraine additional air defense, you might need it yourself,” – Zelensky. “We’ll see if the planned air defense systems will come to us.”

‼️ If Russian soldiers are so violent at home toward their neighbours, friends or loved ones, the scale of atrocities committed against Ukrainian civilians and prisoners of war is far greater — ignoring such behaviour means tolerating evil. Read more 👀⬇️ theukrainianreview.info/from-crime-t...

🇺🇦 Today, Russia struck Kharkiv. Two months ago, you announced 17 (launchers) for Patriot... 🇺🇸 Trump: Where are you from? 🇺🇦 From Ukraine. 🇺🇸 Trump: Good. 🇺🇦 Do you know when they will arrive in Ukraine?

🇺🇸🤔 Trump: “Both the drugs that come into our country and the fact that 300 million people died last year from them, that's what's illegal.”

‼️ Russia warned it would go after any European state that sought to take its assets, - Reuters 😵‍💫 "If this happens, Russia will pursue the EU states, as well as European degenerates from Brussels and individual EU countries who try to seize our property, until the end of the century," — Medvedev

🇺🇸🇺🇦 Trump and Zelensky may meet next week in New York, — Rubio. What do you expect? 👀

🇮🇳‼️ India has sent troops to join Russian-led "Zapad-2025" drills, - The Times The Indian defence ministry said it had dispatched 65 personnel, including elements of the Kumaon Regiment, one of the army’s most revered units,

🇺🇦👀 Zelensky: Now, a week before the General Assembly, President Trump will be in Europe. Our work with the leaders of European countries is very active, so that we are all coordinated and really reach decisions to put pressure on Russia - decisions that will still have to be made.

🛤️🇺🇦‼️Russia has a new target: the occupiers are trying to paralyze the work of railway junctions, — Ukrzaliznytsia Key junctions have been targeted, without which the movement of trains across the country could be significantly complicated.

🔥🛢️ Oil prices increased following the Ukrainian attacks on oil refineries. Reuters highlighted rising U.S. fuel demand. ❗️The frequency of strikes in August-September set new records; previously, the last comparable activity was in January. Read more ⬇️ theukrainianreview.info/attacks-on-o...

❗️Putin has created a drone empire: Russia is capable of producing about 30,000 strike drones per year. By 2026, this figure could double, — NYT Since the beginning of 2025, Russian troops have used more than 34,000 strike and false targets — nine times more than last year.

🇺🇸 Kellogg: We had a discussion in the Oval; they were talking about the "primacy" of the Russian military. I said, "we would kick their ass." They are not as good as Putin says they are; for that, I give credit to the Ukrainian military.

🇻🇪Reporter: Do you think you will start with strikes on mainland Venezuela? 🇺🇸Trump: Well, we will see what happens. 🇮🇱Reporter: What is your message to Netanyahu about strikes on Qatar? 🇺🇸Trump: They have to be very careful and to do something about Hamas. But Qatar has been a great ally to the US.

🇺🇸 "Putin doesn't care about sanctions - he's bypassing them," — Senator Lindsey Graham ‼️ The new US bill will be directed not directly against Putin, but against China, India, Brazil and other states that help the Kremlin by buying cheap oil and gas.

🧊💲Each new legal mechanism is a Pandora’s box for European policymakers. 🇪🇺 The EU is now developing a new method of channelling frozen Russian assets to Ukraine. Read more 👀⬇️ @theukrainianreview.bsky.social theukrainianreview.info/frozen-russi...

🇻🇦 Pope Leo XIV called Vatican mediation between Ukraine and Russia unrealistic "I would distinguish between the voice of the Holy See in its advocacy for peace and the role of mediator, which, in my opinion, is very different and not as realistic as the the 1st one."

🇩🇰🇺🇦 Denmark will bypass more than 20 laws and regulations to allow Ukrainian company Fire Point to build a solid rocket fuel plant near Skridstrup air base, — DR. The government will use a special law that allows it to ignore environmental and building codes for defense needs.

🇺🇸 The US will not impose sanctions against Russia due to Trump's unrealistic demands, — NYT. Hungary and Turkey continue to cooperate with Moscow and buy its energy resources without problems. Although most NATO members have reduced imports, some states are still heavily dependent on Russian gas.