Category: World

Olha Stefanishyna has formally assumed her duties as Ukraine’s ambassador to america on 15 September.

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

Particulars: Stefanishyna mentioned she started her mission as ambassador to the US with a second of silence to honour Ukraine’s fallen defenders.

Quote: "It’s due to their sacrifice that we proceed diplomacy – defending sovereignty, strengthening partnerships, and pursuing a simply and lasting peace."

Background:

• On 27 August, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy appointed Olha Stefanishyna as ambassador to the US.
• Earlier than that, she had served for a month as particular envoy of the President of Ukraine for cooperation with the US, following her departure from the publish of deputy prime minister for European and Euro-Atlantic integration.
• Earlier than Stefanishyna, Oksana Markarova had led Ukraine’s embassy in Washington since February 2021.

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Commander of the Finnish Defence Forces, Normal Janne Jaakkola, has mentioned that his nation is intently monitoring the Zapad-2025 (West-2025) Russian-Belarusian navy workouts.

Supply: Finnish public service media firm Yle, as reported by European Pravda

Particulars: Talking on the opening of the Nationwide Defence Programs, Jaakkola famous that the workouts are going down towards the backdrop of a tense safety scenario: Russia is waging an aggressive battle in Ukraine and seeks to destabilise Western nations as nicely – final week Russian drones violated the airspace of Poland and Romania.

Jaakkola mentioned that conducting workouts is necessary for Russia because it demonstrates its targets and assets.

"The battle in Ukraine shouldn’t be a large-scale strategic operation. Russia has assets for different targets as nicely," the final mentioned.

The earlier Zapad workouts had been held 4 years in the past, additionally involving Russian and Belarusian troops.

"We nicely keep in mind how the Zapad-21 workouts had been used as a foundation for making ready the battle in Ukraine: after the manoeuvres ended, models remained on the coaching grounds," Jaakkola mentioned.

He burdened that Russian workouts could also be accompanied by "surprising turns".

Background:

• The Zapad-2025 workouts started late final week. Based on the Russian Ministry of Defence, the manoeuvres are going down on the territory of Russia and Belarus, in addition to within the Baltic and Barents Seas from 12 to 16 September.
• Poland totally closed its border with Belarus on the night of 11 September because of the Zapad-2025 workouts, a choice made even earlier than the incursion of Russian drones into Polish airspace.
• On 11 September, the Latvian Saeima voted to utterly shut the nation's borders with Russia and Belarus throughout the workouts.

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American navy officers have attended joint Russian-Belarusian navy workout routines Zapad-2025 on Monday 15 September.

Supply: European Pravda citing Reuters

Particulars: Belarusian Defence Minister Viktor Khrenin instructed the visiting US officers that they may take a look at "no matter is of curiosity for you". Khrenin described the presence of the People on the coaching floor in Belarus as a shock.

"Who would have thought how the morning of one other day of the Zapad-2025 train would start?" the Belarusian Defence Ministry mentioned.

The ministry issued a press release that famous the participation of US officers amongst representatives from 23 nations, together with two different NATO members – Türkiye and Hungary.

The ministry launched footage exhibiting two US officers in uniform thanking Khrenin for the invitation and shaking his hand.

"We’ll present no matter is of curiosity for you. No matter you need. You’ll be able to go there and see, discuss to individuals," Khrenin instructed them. The US officers declined to talk to journalists.

The attendance of American officers marks the newest signal of warming relations between Washington and Belarus, a detailed ally of Russia that allowed Moscow to make use of its territory to ship tens of hundreds of troops into Ukraine in February 2022.

Background:

• The USA lifted sanctions on Belarusian state-owned airline Belavia, whereas the regime of Alexander Lukashenko, the self-proclaimed president of Belarus, launched 52 political prisoners, together with an worker of the EU delegation in Minsk.
• The Zapad workout routines in Belarus are going down at coaching grounds positioned deep contained in the nation or in its jap areas. NATO stays on excessive alert over the workout routines launched on 12 September.

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Ukrainian director Valentyn Vasyanovych’s movie To the Victory! has gained the Platform Prize on the Toronto Worldwide Movie Pageant (TIFF).

Supply: TIFF web site

Particulars: The Platform Award jury described To the Victory! as their unanimous alternative from a powerful slate of contenders, praising the movie’s daring cinematic language and emotional resonance.

Quote: "To the Victory! is the unanimous alternative for this yr’s Platform Award amongst a really robust choice. Bringing cinematic language to its roots and, on the identical time, masterfully enjoying with viewers expectations, this movie dismantles conference to disclose deeply resonant common feelings."

Particulars: The Platform programme celebrates filmmakers with a powerful director’s imaginative and prescient and distinctive narrative type on the worldwide stage, highlighting artistic approaches to cinema. That is the primary time a Ukrainian movie has been included within the Platform part.

A nonetheless from the movie To the Victory!

To the Victory! is a dystopian story set in Ukraine’s postwar future. The plot centres on a movie director unable to grasp his creative imaginative and prescient at house in Ukraine, whereas his household refuses to return because of the tough financial scenario.

Though Ukraine has gained the warfare in opposition to Russia, the society portrayed within the movie has misplaced the battle in opposition to corruption and elite apathy. The principle character finds himself unable to affix his household overseas, as he can not thrive outdoors Ukraine. On the identical time, he watches the disintegration of his shut buddy’s household – a manufacturing designer who labored on all his movies. The characters wrestle to search out that means within the new actuality and cling to hope that they are going to sooner or later return to their craft.

Director Valentyn Vasyanovych, identified for Atlantis and Reflection, additionally performed a task within the movie. Many of the crew members additionally appeared as themselves.

In a current interview with UP.Tradition, Vasyanovych defined his choice to set his tales sooner or later.

Quote: "I can’t make movies about what is occurring proper now. How can one generalise or reorder occasions that everybody sees with their very own eyes? I can’t do this. That’s why it’s extra snug for me to deceive myself by putting issues sooner or later."

Extra particulars: Vasyanovych is a Ukrainian director, screenwriter and producer. He graduated from the Karpenko-Karyi Nationwide College of Theatre, Cinema and Tv with a level in documentary movie route. He usually acts as director and cinematographer on his personal movies (Black Stage, Atlantis, Reflection), and has additionally labored with different administrators, together with filming Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi’s The Tribe.

Vasyanovych’s movies have twice been submitted as Ukraine’s entry for the Academy Awards: Black Stage (2017) and Atlantis (2019). He’s a winner of the Venice Movie Pageant’s Horizons award and was nominated for the competition’s high prize, the Golden Lion. He obtained the Shevchenko Nationwide Prize for Atlantis.

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Twelve individuals have been injured in a Russian missile strike on an agricultural enterprise in Sumy Oblast late within the night on 14 September.

Supply: Sumy Oblast Prosecutor's Workplace

Quote: "Early experiences indicated that the enemy had used two missiles to assault premises belonging to an agricultural enterprise within the Boromlia hromada of the Okhtyrka district in Sumy Oblast on 14 September at round 23:00. Twelve individuals concerned within the harvest had been injured within the assault." [A hromada is an administrative unit designating a village, several villages, or a town, and their adjacent territories – ed.]

Tractors that got here underneath the assault Photograph: Sumy Oblast Prosecutor's Workplace

Particulars: Round 30 items of agricultural equipment had been broken

Photograph: Sumy Oblast Prosecutor's Workplace Broken lorry

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US President Donald Trump has expressed doubt about the potential of direct talks between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Russian chief Vladimir Putin due to their deep private hostility.

Supply: Trump chatting with journalists earlier than boarding the presidential plane Air Power One

Particulars: Trump as soon as once more boasted that he had managed to cease seven wars, but in addition admitted that ending Russia's conflict in opposition to Ukraine has turned out to be rather more tough than he anticipated.

"I assumed this was going to be a straightforward one for me, however this has turned out to be a troublesome," he stated.

He described the deep private animosity between the 2 leaders as the important thing impediment to peace.

"The hatred between Zelenskyy and Putin is unfathomable," Trump stated.

This evaluation led him to query the effectiveness of direct talks between Kyiv and Moscow. Requested whether or not he believed such negotiations had been doable, Trump replied: "I don't know. I feel I'm going to must do all of the speaking."

When requested when such a dialog may happen, the US president gave a obscure reply, saying it would occur "comparatively quickly".

Pressed additional on whether or not the following step might be a trilateral summit, Trump stated the format doesn’t matter.

"There'll be talks, whether or not you name it a summit or only a get-together, it doesn't matter, however I'll in all probability must get [involved]. They hate one another a lot they nearly can't discuss. They're incapable of speaking to one another," he concluded.

Background:

• On 4 September, Trump introduced his intention to talk with Putin within the close to future.
• On 12 September, Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov "acknowledged" a pause in talks between Ukraine and Russia. He stated that "one can’t put on rose-tinted glasses and anticipate lightning-fast outcomes from talks on Ukraine."

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Polish Overseas Minister Radosław Sikorski has recommended that Western allies ought to think about intercepting Russian drones and missiles in Ukraine’s airspace after Russian UAVs violated Polish airspace.

Supply: German TV information service Tagesschau, citing Sikorski in a remark to German media, as reported by European Pravda

Particulars: Sikorski stated that it’s "value contemplating" the interception of Russian drones and missiles over Ukraine.

"Technically, we, as NATO and the EU, could be able to doing this, however it isn’t a choice that Poland could make alone – solely along with our allies," he famous.

Sikorski additionally proposed coordinated motion in opposition to Russia’s so-called shadow fleet within the Baltic Sea.

He recommended that Germany or NATO set up a maritime management zone within the North Sea and thus monitor the entry of the Russian vessels into the Baltic Sea.

Sikorski defined that if even one among these Russian vessels – two of which have sunk within the Sea of Azov – have been to sink within the Baltic Sea, the EU would face "an environmental catastrophe of unprecedented scale".

Background:

• Norbert Röttgen, deputy head of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group within the Bundestag, additionally referred to as for the implementation of a defence drone procurement programme following the Russian UAV incursion into Polish airspace.
• The most recent knowledge indicated that wreckage of Russian drones had been present in 17 settlements throughout 5 Polish voivodeships, most of them – 10 – in Lublin Voivodeship.
• In opposition to this backdrop, the North Atlantic Alliance determined to launch an operation referred to as Jap Sentry to strengthen its jap flank.
• On 14 September, Polish President Karol Nawrocki signed a decree permitting international navy forces to stay on Polish territory as a part of Jap Sentry.

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One civilian was killed and two had been injured in Russian assaults on Kherson Oblast on 14 September.

Supply: Kherson Oblast Army Administration

Particulars: A neighborhood man was immediately killed within the settlement of Bilozerka after sustaining deadly accidents in a Russian assault.

A 47-year-old resident of the village of Inhulets sought medical look after a blast harm and a leg wound sustained in an airstrike. He acquired medical care and was prescribed outpatient therapy.

A 59-year-old lady from Bilozerka was taken to hospital after being injured by a Russian drone strike. She sustained a blast harm, concussion and a mind contusion.

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President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has reported "good outcomes" achieved by Ukrainian forces within the border space of Sumy Oblast.

Supply: Zelenskyy in his night tackle

Quote: "There was a report from Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi. There are good ends in the border space of Sumy Oblast. Our items are persevering with to advance in the direction of the state border of Ukraine. I thank troopers from the 225th Separate Assault Regiment and the 71st Jaeger Brigade."

Particulars: Zelenskyy additionally acknowledged that Russian forces have suffered "vital losses" in Kupiansk and Donetsk Oblast.

Quote: "We proceed working on the Dobropillia entrance. It is crucial that our guys are repelling Russian assaults. Particular because of troopers from the first, 225th and 425th Separate Assault Regiments and the 79th and 82nd Air Assault Brigades. Nicely executed, guys. We’re additionally taking motion in step with the scenario in Zaporizhzhia."

Background: DeepState, a Ukrainian group of navy analysts, has reported that Ukrainian forces have pushed the Russians again close to the border villages of Kostiantynivka and Novokostiantynivka in Sumy Oblast.

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