"Reviewing nearly 600,000 job postings from 1,200 military enterprises on job platform hh.ru, Novaya Gazeta Europe found that advertised salaries in the defense sector were down 10% in in August 2025 compared to the same month of 2024. www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/09/22/r...

"The EU continues to import Russian slabs, causing growing discontent among MEPs and European steel companies. Despite 18 sanctions packages, the EU remains dependent on Russian semi-finished products. In particular, in 2024 63% of slabs imports were from Russia." gmk.center/en/posts/eur...

"it must be stressed that the responses were very good, i.e. allied solidarity in reaction, as well as the decision to launch Operation Eastern Sentry to strengthen the defence of the eastern flank. In this case the signal is: the Alliance responds." defence24.com/geopolitics/...

"NATO has begun NEPTUNE STRIKE 25-3, a large-scale multinational Vigilance Activity taking place from 22 to 26 September 2025. The exercise spans the Mediterranean, Adriatic, North and Baltic Seas, involving more than 10,000 personnel from 13 Allied nations." defence-industry.eu/nato-launche...

"The drills combine naval, land, air and special forces elements in some of the most challenging conditions faced by Allied militaries. Denmark has deployed the frigate Niels Juel, F-16 fighter aircraft, helicopters, transport planes and Home Guard units." ukdefencejournal.org.uk/danish-led-m...

"Ukraine can count on extensive financial support from abroad, while Russia must rely solely on its own economic resources. This gives Ukraine a more solid foundation for economic stability." www.pravda.com.ua/eng/articles...

"The country is also eyeing a place in the G20 group of the world’s leading economies, having surpassed Switzerland last month with a GDP now exceeding one trillion dollars." tvpworld.com/88884940/pol...

“It’s about where the Czech Republic will go. Whether we remain a strong democracy, with full freedom, with prosperity, a country that is firmly part of the West … or whether we drift somewhere to the East,” www.politico.eu/article/russ...

“Investigators said the suspects traveled regularly to Serbia, where they were trained by Russian intelligence services in use of firearms, special equipment, and tactics to provoke violence during protests. Participants were reportedly paid about 400 euros.” kyivindependent.com/74-people-de...

"Russia has repeatedly suppressed to varying degrees the local languages and cultures of the more than 190 ethnic groups that call the country home." kyivindependent.com/by-reviving-...

"The Druzhba pipeline is one of the world's largest oil pipeline networks and remains a lifeline for Hungary and Slovakia, the only EU countries still importing Russian crude through the system." kyivindependent.com/19th-eu-sanc...

"Nationwide, according to an internal briefing analyzed by Frontelligence Insight and InformNapalm, 50,554 cases of refusal to serve were documented in 2024,

"Brave1 has signed a memorandum with TNO, the Netherlands’ largest research institute." odessa-journal.com/ukraine-team...

"Extending for kilometers, tulips nets sent by the Netherlands are protecting Ukraine from drone attacks. The aerial attackers get caught in the durable meshing, saving lives." www.dw.com/en/dutch-tul...

Addressing the Russian Federation, Radosław Sikorski — Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs of Poland — said: “We know you don’t care for international law and you are incapable of living in peace with your neighbours.

"Ukrainian defense companies face an absurd situation: they can build more weapons than their government can afford, but export rules won’t let them sell surplus to NATO allies scrambling for exactly these battle-tested systems." euromaidanpress.com/2025/09/22/u...

Shameful: "Confiscating frozen Russian assets would constitute a violation of international law, French President Emmanuel Macron said in an interview with CBS News aired on Sept. 21" kyivindependent.com/macron-oppos...

"n June 2025, the EC postponed the publication of proposals to ban EU countries from importing nuclear fuel from Russia. According to Eurostat, Russia currently supplies 38% of all enriched uranium imported into the EU." caliber.az/en/post/eu-r...

"After the war, Moscow will begin cutting defense spending. As a result, millions employed in the defense industry will lose their jobs, and entire regions where defense enterprises are concentrated will be left without an economic base.

"As for the next budget year, Marchenko noted that, given the war, the Ukrainian government continues to direct all internal financial resources to defence spending, and to cover social expenditures the state counts on help from international partners." odessa-journal.com/ukraine-rece...

"Latvia took the unusual step... of summoning the Chargé d’Affaires of the Russian Embassy in Latvia to deliver them a note and lodge a categorical protest concerning incursion by the Russian fighter aircraft into the airspace of Estonia on 19 September." eng.lsm.lv/article/poli...

"Moscow, moreover, is shedding unreliable European customers. In 2021, 80 percent of Russian pipeline gas and 40 percent of LNG exports went to Europe, about 150 bcm in total. That market is nearly lost.

"The European Union has intensified its economic actions against Russia by including cryptocurrency services in its 19th round of sanctions, signaling a significant change in the role of digital currencies amid global disputes.

"According to the research firm S&P Global Market Intelligence, at the start of the year about 17% of all active oil tankers in the world belong to the Russian “shadow fleet”. The total number is estimated at 940 vessels, which is 45% higher than in the previous period." mezha.net/eng/bukvy/ru...

"there is no cause for panic. Despite appearances – carefully cultivated by Moscow – this was a cautious infringement. The Russians deviated only slightly from their usual route, left themselves the excuse of a navigational error,

"The aircraft was identified as a Russian Il-20M reconnaissance plane." www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/202...

"Ukrainian intelligence estimates the Russian “Gerbera” drones used in the incident cost about $10,000 each. By contrast, NATO scrambled advanced aircraft and air defense systems worth millions of dollars to intercept them." united24media.com/latest-news/...

“ Russia has absolutely no say in the sovereign decisions of an independent nation state … So for me it’s not an issue [of] will Russia agree or not. Of course they won’t, but that’s not the point." www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/202...

“NATO is functioning very efficiently... even to the point that if we were truly forced to use the last resort, which is the use of force, then there was a readiness for that as well,". kyivindependent.com/nato-was-rea...

"Defence secretary John Healey said the use of British fighter planes sent “a clear signal: Nato airspace will be defended”. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

"The reasons for this are the high key rate set by the central bank, which remained at 21% per annum for six months, and the tightening of tax control." www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/202...

Impotence within: "Russian enterprises are already experiencing a labor shortage, and vocational and technical education institutions are lacking students." newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/russia-...

"The 2024 report noted that 63 percent of Russia’s population are women, while only 37 percent are men. Experts cite one of the main reasons for this situation as the ongoing war with Ukraine since 2022 and the losses suffered in it." zamin.uz/en/world/161...

"If Russia admits and retains as many immigrants as it currently does for the rest of this century, its population will decline by 44 percent to 81 million people; but if it blocks immigration, then the population will decline by 54 percent to 68 million" www.eurasiareview.com/21092025-if-...

"To show that not all Russians support the war, and that there are many of them. This is necessary “for the international community, and first and foremost for the Ukrainians,” whom she calls on to support by making donations wherever possible." www.liberation.fr/internationa...

"Beyond military innovations, Baykar, together with the National Center “Minor Academy of Sciences of Ukraine”, will create a modern educational center for children and young people." euromaidanpress.com/2025/09/20/t...

"The timing matters. Ukrainian medics are getting picked off by cheap suicide drones while trying to evacuate wounded soldiers from trenches. The VCC-1’s extra armor plating can stop drone fragments and small arms fire that punch through standard M-113 aluminum—

"Kulpa believes that Russia's goal is to involve the U.S., so that they would place a hand on the strategic weapons, making it impossible to use them without Washington's consent." global.espreso.tv/russia-ukrai...

"In France, the imperialist war of aggression waged by Putin's Russia against the martyred and dismembered Ukraine is unfortunately receiving less and less coverage in the media that is fixated on French domestic policy." www.marianne.net/agora/tribun...

"France should be somewhere between €10 and €20 billion to be proportionate," said Ancel. "So at €8 billion, we're below what would be expected of France in the coalition of willing countries that have really supported Ukraine." www.france24.com/en/europe/20...

"What is important is the health of your children, your husband, and the happiness in your family,” she says. To a state that seeks hatred and radicalisation, such talk is more dangerous than political speech.

"But for Kallberg, Russia’s recent display of Iskander missiles is less about signaling to NATO or Ukraine, and more about preserving its status in its relationship with China." kyivindependent.com/russia-saber...

"Last year, roughly 140,000 people from Moldova – representing around 10 percent of the normal electorate – received Russian bank cards, and many of them were paid through these cards in order to vote as instructed by Russia." www.rfi.fr/en/internati...

"the threat of mass energy attacks looms again after Russia hit a thermal power facility in Kyiv Oblast on Sept. 8, triggering power outages in the region and parts of the capital... energy companies only expect the attacks to increase as temperatures drop." kyivindependent.com/ukraine-brac...

"As a result of the shelling, power lines were damaged, so part of the Kovpakivskyi district’s residents are without power.” mezha.net/eng/bukvy/ru...

Against the backdrop of Russian jets violating the airspace of Estonia and Poland earlier today, I find it odd that so many sensible people, including Lithuania’s Defence Minister, invoke Turkey’s response to a Russian attack aircraft in 2015. 1/7

"To date, in 2025, CopyCop has widened its target languages to include Turkish, Ukrainian, and Swahili, and its geographic scope to include Moldova, Canada, and Armenia while sustaining influence operations targeting the US and France." www.recordedfuture.com/research/cop...

"The R-FBI (Foundation to Battle Injustice) Operation Overload is running separate campaigns aimed at undermining international and domestic support for EU integration and reducing trust in Sandu and the PAS." www.gazetaexpress.com/en/Moldova-u...

"The Kremlin is running a coordinated information operation against Finland that is aimed at discrediting the government and creating the perception of internal instability," www.ukrainianworldcongress.org/isw-moscows-...

“The more political will the West has in putting this together, the cheaper it is.” euromaidanpress.com/2025/09/19/u...