Category: World

Germany has shifted its stance and now helps increasing using frozen Russian property to fund Ukraine following new strain from US president Donald Trump.

Supply: Bloomberg, as reported by European Pravda

Particulars: European governments and their G7 allies are exploring methods to make additional use of Russia's frozen property to lift extra funds for Ukraine, in accordance with individuals knowledgeable on the matter.

Most of about US$300 billion in frozen Russian property is held in Europe. European Fee president Ursula von der Leyen mentioned in a speech earlier this month that the EU wanted to seek out new methods to make Russia pay for the conflict it’s waging.

Extra particulars: Germany, which has lengthy taken a cautious strategy to safeguarding Europe's monetary centre and respecting sovereign immunity, has now grow to be a robust advocate of maximising the returns from these funds, insiders mentioned on situation of anonymity.

Berlin's shift follows considerations that if US help underneath Trump diminishes, the burden of supporting Ukraine would fall closely on Germany's economic system, the most important in Europe, presumably rising help for German far-right events.

EU finance ministers are anticipated to lift the difficulty at a gathering in Copenhagen this week, with EU leaders to debate it in October, the sources mentioned.

Background: Final week it emerged that the European Fee is getting ready to suggest a brand new mechanism for utilizing frozen Russian property. The strategy can be to switch the frozen property with EU bonds and direct the proceeds to Ukraine as an alternative of direct confiscation of the capital. This strategy might supply an answer for the EU and Ukraine by avoiding authorized dangers related to direct expropriation whereas sending a robust political sign that Russia is starting to pay for the conflict now.

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Russian troops are starting to depart the coaching grounds in Belarus the place the joint Zapad-2025 (West-2025) workouts, held from 12 to 16 September, happened.

Supply: Colonel Andrii Demchenko, spokesperson for the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine, in a remark to Ukrainska Pravda

Quote: "Russian troops (and this time their quantity was not as important as, for instance, in 2021) are beginning to go away coaching areas within the Republic of Belarus. Their actions are being monitored. I can’t say proper now that they’ve all left Belarus, however I hope they are going to be transferring in the proper route."

Particulars: Previous to this, the Zapad-2025 workouts, which had drawn worldwide consideration, formally concluded on the coaching floor in Mulino, Russia’s Nizhny Novgorod Oblast. Russian ruler Vladimir Putin, wearing army uniform, noticed the ultimate part of the workouts, which Russian media retailers reported ended with the "defeat of a hypothetical enemy and an advance to the road of a hypothetical state border".

Putin on the Zapad-2025 workouts Picture: RIA Novosti

Demchenko pressured that there had been no exercise within the route of the Ukrainian border throughout this yr’s Russo-Belarusian workouts.

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Three adults and a three-year-old baby have been injured in a Russian guided bomb strike on the village of Inhulets in Kherson Oblast on the morning of 17 September.

Supply: Oleksandr Prokudin, Head of Kherson Oblast Navy Administration, on Telegram

Quote: "Russian occupiers carried out an airstrike on Inhulets within the Darivka hromada this morning. Three adults and a toddler have been injured on account of a strike by a guided bomb." [A hromada is an administrative unit designating a village, several villages, or a town, and their adjacent territories – ed.]

Particulars: The individuals have been at residence in the mean time of the assault.

The ladies, aged 69, 35 and 64, and the three-year-old woman have suffered concussion, in addition to blast and closed traumatic mind accidents. All of them have been hospitalised in a reasonable situation.

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Russia has misplaced 1,020 troopers killed and wounded and 5 tanks over the previous day.

Supply: Common Workers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Fb

Particulars: The overall fight losses of the Russian forces between 24 February 2022 and 17 September 2025 are estimated to be as follows [figures in parentheses represent the latest losses – ed.]:

• roughly 1,097,450 (+1,020) army personnel
• 11,189 (+5) tanks
• 23,277 (+3) armoured fight automobiles
• 32,846 (+36) artillery methods
• 1,490 (+0) multiple-launch rocket methods
• 1,217 (+0) air defence methods
• 422 (+0) fixed-wing plane
• 341 (+0) helicopters
• 60,079 (+360) operational-tactical UAVs
• 3,718 (+0) cruise missiles
• 28 (+0) ships/boats
• 1 (+0) submarine
• 61,878 (+108) automobiles and gasoline tankers
• 3,965 (+0) particular automobiles and different tools.

The data is being confirmed.

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The American TV channel CBS confirmed a map of Ukraine with out occupied Crimea on 9 September, though it included different Russian-occupied territories within the south and east.

Supply: Ukrainian public broadcaster Suspilne, as reported by European Pravda

Particulars: The map appeared on air throughout The Late Present with Stephen Colbert on 9 September, however it didn’t draw consideration till later.

In a section marking his tenth anniversary internet hosting the present, famend American presenter Stephen Colbert appeared again at occasions which have formed Individuals’ lives since 2015. One a part of the programme targeted on Ukraine, highlighting the heroism of Ukrainians in resisting Russian aggression.

A video of this on YouTube has obtained over 230,000 views in every week and the same variety of feedback, some stating the problematic map that depicts Crimea as Russian.

The UNITED24 initiative wrote on Instagram: "Whereas Ukraine is grateful for the assist and a spotlight, even small errors like this matter. Russia systematically makes use of such ‘maps with out Crimea’ as a part of its propaganda."

Background:

• In 2018, The Occasions apologised for publishing a map that confirmed Crimea as Russian.
• In 2021, after requests from Ukraine, Apple corrected maps in its Apple Music for Artists app, the place occupied Crimea was marked as territory of the Russian Federation.
• In 2023, the Hungarian authorities used the same map in a video.

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US President Donald Trump’s administration has authorised the primary navy help packages for Ukraine below a brand new mechanism via which US weapons are paid for by NATO members.

Supply: Reuters, citing two knowledgeable sources, as reported by European Pravda

Particulars: The sources mentioned that US Undersecretary of Protection for Coverage Elbridge Colby has authorised two US$500 million arms shipments to Ukraine below the Prioritised Ukraine Necessities Listing (PURL) mechanism.

"That is the primary use of a brand new mechanism developed by the US and allies to produce Ukraine with weapons from US shares utilizing funds from NATO nations," Reuters mentioned.

Background:

• America and NATO launched the PURL mechanism, via which US weapons are funded by NATO member states, in early August.
• Since then, European nations have pledged round US$2 billion to the mechanism. NATO allies hope to supply Ukraine with US$10 billion price of weapons via this strategy.

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Russian oil manufacturing could need to be lowered following Ukrainian drone strikes on key oil infrastructure.

Supply: Reuters, citing three trade sources

Particulars: One supply stated this situation has change into practical after drones in latest weeks struck the Baltic ports of Ust-Luga and Primorsk, in addition to a number of main refineries – the Kirishi refinery in Leningrad Oblast, and refineries in Ryazan and Saratov operated by Russian vitality big Rosneft.

Two trade sources advised Reuters that Transneft, an organization chargeable for pumping over 80% of the oil extracted throughout Russia, "has in latest days restricted oil companies' means to retailer oil in its pipeline system" and "warned producers it could have to simply accept much less oil if its infrastructure sustains additional injury".

Final week, Ukrainian drones broken the Baltic port of Primorsk for the primary time because the begin of the battle. The port’s capability is about a million barrels per day, which accounts for over 10% of Russia’s whole oil manufacturing.

Reuters beforehand stated, citing sources, that two oil tankers, the Kusto and Cai Yun, had been broken within the assault, and the port has solely partially resumed operations.

One other Baltic port, Ust-Luga, has nonetheless not totally restored its capability after an August drone strike on the pipeline feeding it. Business sources advised Reuters that the port is simply half-loaded this month.

Background: The Kirishi refinery in Leningrad Oblast suspended oil processing at considered one of its models after a hearth attributable to a Ukrainian drone assault on 14 September.

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Self-proclaimed Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko is insisting that Minsk had nothing to do with Russian drones that violated Polish and Lithuanian airspace.

Supply: BelTA, a Belarusian state-owned information outlet, as reported by European Pravda

Particulars: Lukashenko claimed that Belarus had no involvement in incidents during which Russian Shahed-type loitering munitions entered the airspace of Poland and Lithuania, including that Belarus’ neighbours had been overreacting.

"We’ve nothing to do with all the things that occurs to fly into Poland and Lithuania right now. And if we wailed as exhausting as they do after each time drones fly into Belarus from Ukraine, Russia, through Poland, Lithuania… We’ve by no means completed it. We calmly reply through acceptable communication channels," he mentioned.

Lukashenko didn’t specify when in the middle of the full-scale struggle the circumstances he referred to of "Ukrainian UAVs coming into Belarus through Poland or Lithuania" had occurred; there have been no stories of this occurring. Nonetheless, circumstances have been reported of Russian Shahed drones veering off track and ending up in Belarus as a result of Ukrainian countermeasures.

Background: Final week, Russian Shahed-type drones entered Polish airspace in giant numbers for the primary time and had been shot down, additionally for the primary time. One other Russian UAV remained in Romanian airspace for nearly an hour, monitored by fighter jets.

The incidents occurred in opposition to the backdrop of the Russo-Belarusian Zapad-2025 (West-2025) army workouts. Belarus has claimed that it gave its neighbours advance warning of the strategy of Russian drones to the border; Poland has confirmed this.

These occasions adopted a sequence of remoted incidents during which stray drones have entered the airspace of Moldova, Romania, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. Within the case of Estonia, it was recommended that the UAV might have been Ukrainian.

Belarus has additionally reported that its forces practised deploying Russia’s Oreshnik missile system through the Zapad-2025 workouts.

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