Category: World

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has known as for a deeper studying of US President Donald Trump’s feedback on Ukraine regaining Russian-occupied territories, claiming that many have missed an uncomfortable fact.

Supply: Tusk on X (Twitter), as reported by European Pravda

Quote: "President Trump has mentioned that Ukraine, with the assist of the European Union, can regain all its territories. But beneath this sudden optimism lies a warning of diminished US involvement and a switch of duty for ending the struggle to Europe. Reality is best than illusions."

Prezydent Trump stwierdził, że Ukraina może, ze wsparciem Unii Europejskiej, odzyskać całe swoje terytorium. Za tym zaskakującym optymizmem kryje się zapowiedź mniejszego zaangażowania USA i przerzucenie odpowiedzialności za zakończenie wojny na Europę. Lepsza prawda niż iluzje.

— Donald Tusk (@donaldtusk) September 25, 2025

Background:

• Trump unexpectedly mentioned Ukraine can regain all territories and "possibly even go additional".
• French President Emmanuel Macron described the assertion as a optimistic sign and proof of Trump's new imaginative and prescient concerning Ukraine.
• Media studies indicated that European officers have acquired the US president’s publish with very cautious optimism.
• German Overseas Minister Johann Wadephul later mentioned Europe should "develop up" and improve assist for Ukraine.

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Cyber consultants from Defence Intelligence of Ukraine (DIU) have paralysed Russia’s nationwide Quicker Cost System SBP, extensively used for transfers to Russian "charitable and volunteer organisations" supporting the struggle towards Ukraine.

Supply: Ukrainska Pravda supply in Defence Intelligence of Ukraine

Particulars: The supply informed Ukrainska Pravda {that a} Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) assault on the SBP fee system and the supplier TransTeleCom has prevented many Russians from making prompt transfers or on-line funds.

Screenshot exhibiting experiences from DownDetector.su, a Russian real-time drawback and outage monitoring service

Social media in Yekaterinburg has been flooded with complaints after on-line funds for buses and petrol stations stopped working.

Screenshot: Yekaterinburg native information, reporting in regards to the SBP fee system’s failure

The cyber operation has additionally lower web and interactive tv providers for tons of of 1000’s of subscribers of native suppliers throughout a number of Russian oblasts.

The supply has mentioned that estimated financial losses from the DDOS assault on the SBP system might attain as much as US$30 million.

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Drones have attacked a chemical plant within the Belorechensk district of Russia’s Krasnodar Krai, inflicting a hearth and prompting the evacuation of personnel.

Supply: Operational Headquarters – Krasnodar Krai on Telegram; Russian media outlet Astra

Quote from the Operational Headquarters: "Drone particles fell within the space of one of many municipality's giant corporations on the night time of 24-25 September. About 140 folks – staff of the corporate – had been evacuated to a shelter."

Particulars: In accordance with the Operational Headquarters, a hearth had damaged out on the firm’s premises over space of fifty sq m, though it had shortly been extinguished.

The drones had attacked EuroChem-Belorechensk Fertilisers in Belorechensk, Astra stated, citing native residents.

Вибухи і пожежа у російському місті Бєлорєченськ. За даними російських Telegram-каналів, дрони атакували підприємство "ЄвроХім", яке постачає хімікати для заводів з виробництва вибухових речовин. Відео з Telegram-каналу Exilenova+ pic.twitter.com/xwUKFZjyI9

— Українська правда ✌️ (@ukrpravda_news) September 25, 2025

Roads across the chemical plant had been closed to visitors.

Background:

• In late 2024, Reuters reported that for the reason that begin of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, 5 giant Russian chemical corporations had provided greater than 75% of the important thing chemical substances delivered by rail to factories producing explosives and gunpowder.
• The companies in query had been EuroChem, UralChem, UGMK, Lukoil and Evraz, that are linked to well-known Russian billionaires resembling Roman Abramovich, Vagit Alekperov and Dmitry Mazepin.

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Ukraine's Air Power has reported that they’ve destroyed a Russian Su-34 fighter-bomber that was attacking the town of Zaporizhzhia.

Supply: Ukraine's Air Power

Quote: "An enemy Su-34 has been downed!"

Particulars: This occurred on the Zaporizhzhia entrance at round 04:00.

The Air Power reported that the Su-34 in query had been launching terrorist assaults on the town of Zaporizhzhia utilizing guided bombs.

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An investigation has revealed that the Ukrainian journalist Viktoriia Roshchyna died on 19 September 2024 in a pre-trial detention centre within the city of Kizel, Perm Krai, Russia. Beforehand, she was recognized to have been held within the occupied territories and in Taganrog, however the place of her demise had remained unknown.

Supply: an investigation by Slidstvo.Data, an unbiased Ukrainian workforce of investigative journalists

Particulars: The journalists discovered Roshchyna’s demise certificates in closed Russian databases. It was issued by the Leninsky division of the registry workplace of Perm Metropolis Administration. The date of demise was recorded as 19 September 2024.

Roshchyna’s demise certificates Picture: Slidstvo.Data

Ukrainian prosecutor Taras Semkiv stated that Roshchyna’s demise occurred within the detention centre in Kizel. The official reason for demise has not but been established, as her physique was introduced again to Ukraine in a situation that didn’t enable a full forensic examination to be carried out.

Quote from Semkiv: "She had been there for lower than two weeks, and it was there that she died. It occurred within the pre-trial detention centre within the city of Kizel."

Particulars: The journalists additionally spoke with a witness who travelled on the identical jail practice as Roshchyna throughout her switch to Kizel.

Former prisoner of warfare Danylo stated that on 11 September 2024, eight days earlier than her demise, Roshchyna was transferred from the Taganrog detention centre to detention centre No. 3 in Kizel, Perm Krai.

The switch took three days, from 9 to 11 September. Danylo stated: "She walked previous a few instances, they have been escorting her to the bathroom. She was very skinny, nothing however bones."

The prisoners have been subjected to extreme abuse in the course of the so-called consumption course of on the Kizel detention centre on 11 September.

"I used to be crushed for an hour or two. They’d give me a minute to catch my breath after which begin once more. Throughout the consumption I misplaced consciousness twice. The ladies’s heads have been shaved, you may hear them crying," Danylo recalled.

Semkiv famous that all through your entire interval of Viktoriya Roshchyna’s captivity – since August 2023 – Russia by no means formally acknowledged that she was being held in detention.

Learn extra: The Viktoriia Project: the story of the captivity and torture endured by journalist Viktoriia Roshchyna and thousands of Ukrainians imprisoned by Russia

Background:

• In March 2022, Roshchyna was captured by Russian forces and held for 10 days within the quickly occupied metropolis of Berdiansk.
• In 2022, Roshchyna wrote a sequence of articles for Ukrainska Pravda from the quickly occupied territories. Her work included tales about life in occupied Crimea in the course of the warfare, the sham referendum in occupied Donetsk Oblast, and a photograph report from the devastated metropolis of Mariupol.
• On 25 July 2023, Roshchyna left Ukraine for Poland, planning to make the three-day journey by way of Russia to the occupied a part of Ukraine's east.
• On 3 August 2023, Roshchyna went lacking in Russian-occupied territory.
• It was not till Might 2024 that Russia admitted to having detained Roshchyna. The Russian Ministry of Defence despatched a letter confirming this to her father, Volodymyr Roshchyn.
• Russia delayed the repatriation of Roshchyna’s physique, which was solely returned in February 2025.
• The Workplace of the Prosecutor Basic reported that Roshchyna’s physique bore a number of indicators of torture and ill-treatment: abrasions, bruises, a damaged rib and proof of electrocution.
• The investigative workforce conducting the inquiry confirmed that the physique was introduced again to Ukraine after an post-mortem carried out in Russia. Journalists realized from regulation enforcement sources that the physique was lacking a number of inside organs – the mind, the eyeballs and a part of the trachea. A world forensic pathologist believes this may increasingly have been an try to hide the true reason for demise, together with potential suffocation.
• Viktoria’s funeral was held in Kyiv on 8 August.

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Russian forces have launched greater than 50 assaults on Dnipropetrovsk Oblast utilizing missiles, artillery and drones. One civilian has been killed and 10 others have been injured.

Supply: Serhii Lysak, Head of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Navy Administration

Quote: "Throughout the day, Russian forces launched a missile on town of Dnipro. 4 folks have been injured and all obtained medical help.

The aggressor struck the Synelnykove district with drones. A 61-year-old man was killed within the Mezhova hromada. My condolences to his household. There have been additionally strikes within the Pokrovske and Mykolaivka hromadas. Infrastructure was broken and dry grass caught fireplace." [A hromada is an administrative unit designating a village, several villages, or a town, and their adjacent territories – ed.]

Particulars: Within the Nikopol district, 5 folks have been injured in Russian assaults.

Within the Kamianske district, one man was injured.

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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Russian International Minister Sergei Lavrov have begun a gathering on the sidelines of the eightieth session of the UN Common Meeting.

Supply: European Pravda; Russian International Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova

Particulars: Zakharova posted two images of the "assembly of the heads of the overseas ministries of Russia and the US" on her Telegram channel with out additional remark.

In keeping with Kremlin-aligned Russian information company TASS, the assembly started with out opening remarks from the delegations and is being held behind closed doorways.

Background:

• Rubio has spoken with Lavrov a number of occasions on the telephone because the Trump administration took workplace.
• In July 2025, Rubio and Lavrov additionally met on the sidelines of the Affiliation of Southeast Asian Nations summit in Malaysia. Their bilateral assembly lasted about an hour.

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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, throughout a gathering with Russian International Minister Sergei Lavrov on Wednesday 24 September, conveyed President Donald Trump’s name for Moscow to take the mandatory steps in direction of a peaceable settlement of the conflict in Ukraine.

Supply: press service for US Division of State, as reported by European Pravda

Particulars: In the course of the assembly with Lavrov, Rubio "reiterated President Trump’s name for the killing to cease and the necessity for Moscow to take significant steps in direction of a sturdy decision of the Russia-Ukraine conflict".

Background:

• The assembly between the Russian and US international ministers passed off on the sidelines of the UN Normal Meeting behind closed doorways and lasted lower than an hour.
• The talks adopted an surprising shift in rhetoric from Trump, who just lately instructed that Ukraine might be able to regain the territories seized by Russia.

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