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September 11, 2025 3:32 PM

Baltics ask US congress to defy Trump and uphold military support

Lawmakers from three Baltic nations bordering Russia urged the U.S. Congress on Thursday to reject a proposal by President Donald Trump that would slash about $200 million a year in defence support for the region. "In this region, if America goes out, Russia comes in," said Lithuania's former ambassador to the United States, Zygimantas Pavilionis, one of 36 legislators from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania to sign a joint letter asking for the Baltic Security Initiative (BSI) programme to be maint...

September 11, 2025 1:41 PM

UN Security Council to meet over violation of Polish airspace, Poland says

The U.N. Security Council will hold an emergency meeting at Poland's request to discuss this week's violation of Polish airspace, the Polish Foreign Ministry said on Thursday. The announcement follows an unprecedented operation in which European Union and NATO member state Poland, backed by NATO allies, shot down suspected Russian drones that violated its airspace on Wednesday. "(We are) drawing the world’s attention to this unprecedented Russian drone attack on a member of the UN, EU, and N...

September 11, 2025 12:45 PM

‘Stay away from any offers’: India warns citizens against joining Russian Army

India on Thursday issued an advisory cautioning its citizens against joining the Russian Army, following reports that several Indians who had travelled to Moscow were being pushed into combat roles in the ongoing war in Ukraine. “We have seen reports about Indian nationals having been recruited recently into the Russian Army. The Government has, on several occasions over the past year, underlined the risks and dangers inherent in such actions and cautioned Indian citizens accordingly,” the ...

September 10, 2025 10:53 AM

Poland shoots down drones in its airspace during Russian attack on Ukraine

Poland said it scrambled its own and NATO air defences to shoot down drones on Wednesday after a Russian air attack on western Ukraine, the first time in the Ukraine war that Warsaw has engaged assets in its airspace. Poland's military command said drones repeatedly violated Polish airspace during the Russian attack across the border in Ukraine, and the defence minister said NATO command had been briefed. Radars tracked more than 10 objects and those that could pose a threat were "neutralised,...

September 8, 2025 3:35 PM

Kremlin says sanctions will never force Russia to change course

The Kremlin said on Monday that no sanctions will ever be able to force Russia to change course on Ukraine, just hours after both the United States and European Union indicated they were considering additional sanctions. The West has imposed thousands of different sanctions on Russia over the 2022 war in Ukraine and the 2014 annexation of Crimea in a bid to sink Russia's $2.2 trillion economy and undermine support for President Vladimir Putin. Putin says the Russian economy, which has grown fa...

September 8, 2025 10:14 AM

Trump says European leaders will visit US this week to discuss Russia-Ukraine war

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday that individual European leaders would visit the United States on Monday or Tuesday to discuss how to resolve the Russian-Ukraine war. Speaking to reporters after returning from the U.S. Open in New York City, Trump also said he would speak to Russian President Vladimir Putin soon. "Certain European leaders are coming over to our country on Monday or Tuesday individually," Trump said. It was not clear to whom Trump was referring, and the White House d...

September 7, 2025 12:22 PM

Russia’s largest air attack on Ukraine sets fire to main government building

Russia's largest overnight air attack of the war set the main building of the Ukrainian government in Kyiv on fire and left three people dead, including an infant, whose body was pulled from the rubble, Ukrainian officials said on Sunday. "For the first time, the Government building was damaged by an enemy strike — its roof and upper floors," Ukraine's Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko said on the Telegram messaging app. "Rescuers are extinguishing the fire." Reuters' witnesses saw the top fl...

September 4, 2025 11:19 AM

Putin tells Ukraine: End war via talks or I will end it by force

Russian President Vladimir Putin told Kyiv on Wednesday there was a chance to end the war in Ukraine via negotiations “if common sense prevails”, an option he said he preferred, but that he was ready to end it by force if that was the only way. Speaking in Beijing at the end of a visit that resulted in an agreement on a new gas pipeline to China, Putin said he perceived “a certain light at the end of the tunnel”, given what he said were sincere efforts by the United States to f...

September 4, 2025 11:17 AM

Putin tells Ukraine: End war via talks or I will end it by force

Russian President Vladimir Putin told Kyiv on Wednesday there was a chance to end the war in Ukraine via negotiations "if common sense prevails", an option he said he preferred, but that he was ready to end it by force if that was the only way. Speaking in Beijing at the end of a visit that resulted in an agreement on a new gas pipeline to China, Putin said he perceived "a certain light at the end of the tunnel", given what he said were sincere efforts by the United States to find a settlement ...

September 4, 2025 11:13 AM

Ukraine’s allies meet amid doubts over guarantees, US backing

Some 30 leaders will hold talks on Thursday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy over future security guarantees to Kyiv if there is a ceasefire with Russia, hoping they have done enough to persuade the United States to back their efforts. The summit, both in person and virtually, of the "coalition of the willing" brings together leaders mostly from Europe, but also Turkey, Australia and Canada. The countries have talked for months at various levels to define their military contributio...