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The UK sanctioned 31 Russian targets on 1 October, including Marat Kambolov, declared South Ossetia's leader on 19 September, three Arctic LNG carriers and officials accused of torturing civilians and kidnapping Ukrainian children.
A Russian-language document dated August sets out up to 1,000 missiles, drones and bombs to cut power and heat to Kyiv, Kharkiv and Odesa by 90 per cent. Volodymyr Zelensky said Vladimir Putin told his commanders in September that "there are no rules now".
Onodera, a former Japanese defence minister, told RBC-Ukraine in Kyiv he will push for talks inside government on "further steps". RBC-Ukraine reported the talks would cover Patriot interceptors. His published quotes do not mention them. No Japanese ministry has announced a Patriot review yet.
Warehouses, locomotives, internet providers, publishers and now the national science academy have become targets. Ukraine's economy ministry puts the cost at up to $10 billion this year, and growth forecasts have fallen towards zero.
14 Republican and Democratic senators are urging Trump to withdraw his invitation for Vladimir Putin to attend December’s G20 summit at Trump’s Miami golf resort. Putin is wanted by the ICC over Russia’s kidnapping of Ukrainian children.
No food convoy has reached the occupied city since 26 May. Ukrainian drone crews dropped four tonnes of food over one night, bodies are kept in the hospital basement and Russia is stalling the evacuation, keeping around 2,000 people hostage.
Armed police arrested the men in Whelford shortly after midnight on 27 September, about 85 households were moved out and an Army bomb disposal team examined three white vans near the Gloucestershire airfield US bombers have used for strikes on Iran since March.
Polish prosecutors suspect Russian special services of the arson at a Starlink station serving Ukraine's army, as Denmark rates a limited Russian attack on NATO a low but growing risk and NATO, the U.S. and Estonia say none is imminent.
At the UN General Assembly on 23 September 2026, Zelensky said Russia had used more than 2,100 missiles (950 of them ballistic) and 63,000 attack drones against Ukraine this year.
Russia launched 655 drones and 20-plus missiles at Ukraine from 21 to 24 September, terrorising civilians in Dnipro, Kharkiv, Donetsk, Kyiv and Odesa.
Zelenskyy offered to stop hitting Russian refineries if Russia spares Ukraine's grid and asked Trump for Patriots now against German deliveries in 2027.
Trump is preparing sanctions against the International Criminal Court itself, potentially cutting it off from U.S. banking, technology and services. The US has already sanctioned 13 ICC officials and vowed to dismantle the war crimes court “brick by brick.”
The Pentagon is weighing a cut of 25,000 to 40,000 US troops from Europe, the largest since the 1990s, while Poland, France and Lithuania report a rising Russian threat.
European intelligence indicates Russia is planning drone and missile strikes against one or several NATO countries on the eastern flank, potentially disguising them as “accidents” to test whether NATO will invoke Article 5. Officials warned late autumn and winter could be the most critical phase.
Fourteen days of scrambles over Estonia, Poland and Romania, a drone that flew 160 kilometres into Nato airspace minutes before Zelenskyy's aircraft took off, and the first shootdown over Lithuania
