Nato says it is working to counter Russia’s GPS jamming after EU leader’s plane incident
Nato is working to thwart Russian jamming of civilian flights, said the alliance’s chief, two days after a jet carrying European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen lost its ability to use GPS navigation midair in Bulgarian airspace.
The plane landed safely on Sunday, but Bulgarian authorities said they suspected Russia was behind the interference.
“It is taken very seriously,” said Nato secretary-general Mark Rutte during a news conference in Luxembourg with the duchy’s prime minister and defense minister. “I can assure you that we are working day and night to counter this, to prevent it, and to make sure that they will not do it again.” He did not elaborate.
Arpan Rai3 September 2025 07:05
Trump accuses Xi, Putin and Kim of conspiring against US
Donald Trump has accused the Chinese president Xi Jinping of conspiring against the US with Russian president Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
“May President Xi and the wonderful people of China have a great and lasting day of celebration. Please give my warmest regards to Vladimir Putin, and (North Korean leader) Kim Jong Un, as you conspire against The United States of America,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social.
Last night as he made an appearance in the Oval Office, Trump was also asked in the interview if he was concerned “about an axis forming against the United States with China and Russia.”
“I am not concerned at all… We have the strongest military in the world, by far. They would never use their military on us. Believe me,” he said.
US president Donald Trump replies to a question during an event to announce that the Space Force Command will move from Colorado to Alabama in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, DC (Reuters)
Arpan Rai3 September 2025 06:46
As Putin attends China parade, Russia pounds Ukraine with drones
Russia launched a sweeping overnight air attack on Ukraine, injuring at least four railway workers and prompting Poland to scramble defence aircraft, Ukrainian and Polish authorities said today.
The attacks came as Russian president Vladimir Putin attended a military parade in Beijing to mark the end of the Second World War, at which Chinese president Xi Jinping warned that the world faces a choice between peace and war.
Air raid alerts sounded for hours across Ukraine, with explosions heard in nine of its 24 regions, from Kyiv to Lviv and Volyn in the west, Ukrainian officials and media said.
Ukraine’s western neighbour and Nato member Poland activated its own and allied aircraft to ensure safety, its armed forces command said.
“The Russian Federation once again is carrying out strikes on targets located on the territory of Ukraine,” the operational command said in a post on X.
Russian president Vladimir Putin, Chinese president Xi Jinping and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un arrive to attend a reception marking the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War in Beijing (Reuters)
Arpan Rai3 September 2025 06:32
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Arpan Rai3 September 2025 06:14
Five injured as Russian drone attacks disrupt Ukraine’s roads and rail services
Four railway workers in Ukraine’s central region of Kirovohrad were in hospital after the Russian attack, Ukraine’s state-owned railway said on the Telegram messaging app, warning of delays to scores of services caused by damage to rail facilities.
Five people were injured and 28 houses damaged in a Russian attack on the Znamianka community in the region of Kirovohrad, Ukraine’s emergency services said on Telegram.
Public transport in the western city of Khmelnytskyi faced “significant schedule disruptions” after the attack, its administration said on Telegram, with the regional governor flagging fires and damage to residential buildings among others.
There was no immediate comment from Russia.
Arpan Rai3 September 2025 05:50
Poland scrambles aircraft after Ukraine warns of Russian attacks
Polish and allied aircraft were activated in the early hours today to ensure the safety of Polish airspace after Russia launched airstrikes targeting Western Ukraine, near the border with Poland, the operational command of the Polish armed forces said.
“The Russian Federation once again is carrying out strikes on targets located on the territory of Ukraine,” the operational command said in a post on X.
“In order to ensure the safety of Polish airspace… Polish and allied aircraft are operating intensively in our airspace, while ground-based air defence and radar reconnaissance systems have reached the highest state of readiness.”
At 0140 GMT, all of Ukraine was under air raid alerts following Ukrainian Air Force warnings of Russian missile and drone attacks.
File: F-16 fighter jets fly in the sky over Poland’s capital Warsaw (AP)
Arpan Rai3 September 2025 05:44
Ukraine rejects legalisation of Russian occupation of Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant
Ukraine will never agree to legalise the Russian occupation of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant and an immediate withdrawal of Russian troops is the only way to guarantee safety there, the Ukrainian foreign ministry said yesterday.
A ministry statement made no direct reference to Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin’s statement during a visit to China that Moscow was ready to cooperate with the United States at the plant, seized in the first weeks after Moscow’s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
“The Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant is and will remain an integral part of the sovereign territory of Ukraine. Any attempts by Russia to question this fact are legally null and void and politically pointless,” the ministry said.
“The only way to restore nuclear safety is the immediate and complete withdrawal of Russian military and other personnel from the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant,” it said.
A view shows the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant from the bank of Kakhovka Reservoir near the town of Nikopol amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine (Reuters)
Arpan Rai3 September 2025 05:34
Lavrov says Russia expects ongoing Ukraine talks with territorial changes considered
Moscow expects talks between Russia and Ukraine to continue but “new territorial realities” must be recognised and new systems of security guarantees formed, Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov said in remarks published today.
Russia has occupied around 20 per cent of Ukraine since its invasion in 2022, and illegally annexed the Crimea peninsula in 2014.
“For peace to be durable, the new territorial realities … must be recognised and formalised in international legal terms,” Lavrov said in an interview with Indonesia’s Kompas newspaper, according to a transcript provided on the website of Russia’s foreign ministry.
“A new system of security guarantees for Russia and Ukraine must be formed as an integral element of a pan-continental architecture of equal and indivisible security in Eurasia,” he said.
Lavrov said that “Ukraine should be guaranteed a neutral, non-aligned, and non-nuclear status,” in an indirect reference to Moscow’s continued opposition to Ukraine joining Nato.
Ukraine says it is not for Russia to decide what Kyiv can or cannot join, while Nato says that Russia can have no veto over membership of the alliance which was formed in 1949 to counter the threat from the Soviet Union.
Russia’s foreign minister Sergei Lavrov speaks during a meeting with Turkmenistan’s foreign minister Rashid Meredov in Moscow (Reuters)
Arpan Rai3 September 2025 05:24
Russia launches air attack on Kyiv, Ukraine’s military says
Ukraine’s air defence units were engaged in repelling a Russian air attack on Kyiv, the city’s military administration said today, as nationwide air raid alerts followed warnings from Ukraine’s air force of missile and drone strikes.
“Air defence is operating in Kyiv! Stay in shelters until the all-clear is given!” Timur Tkachenko, head of Kyiv’s military administration, said on the Telegram messaging app.
Arpan Rai3 September 2025 04:58
Russia and US in process of co-ordinating date and venue of next round of talks
Russia and the United States are in the process of coordinating the next round of bilateral talks, Russia’s RIA state news agency reported today, citing the Russian foreign ministry’s spokesperson, Maria Zakharova, as saying.
Arpan Rai3 September 2025 04:45