Regional security<\/p>\n
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- The number of Polish airspace violations by Russian drones this week may be higher than previously reported, with further analysis revealing that there may have been 21 incursions over Poland, the country\u2019s defence chief said.<\/li>\n
- Polish Secretary of State Marcin Bosacki urged the United Nations Security Council to issue a strong response to Russia over drones violating Poland\u2019s airspace.<\/li>\n
- More than 40 nations, including the United States, participated in a joint statement at the UN for stronger international action over Russia\u2019s drone incursion into Polish airspace.<\/li>\n
- Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk contradicted US President Donald Trump\u2019s assessment that the incursion of Russian drones into Polish airspace may have been a mistake.<\/li>\n
- Writing on X, Tusk said: \u201cWe would also wish that the drone attack on Poland was a mistake. But it wasn\u2019t. And we know it.\u201d<\/li>\n
- NATO is preparing a new operation, dubbed Eastern Sentry, to add military equipment from France, Denmark, Germany and the United Kingdom to its existing air and ground-based defences on its eastern European flank bordering Belarus, Russia and Ukraine, NATO Supreme Commander General Alexus Grynkewich said.<\/li>\n
- Ukrainian Defence Minister Denys Shmyhal said he met with US presidential envoy Keith Kellogg in Kyiv. The pair discussed \u201cthe possibility of Ukraine\u2019s Defence Forces receiving new Patriot systems and ammunition for them\u201d, he wrote on X.<\/li>\n
- Russian and Belarusian armed forces kicked off their large-scale, joint military exercises known as \u201cZapad 2025\u201d on Friday, as German forces in neighbouring Lithuania led their own military drills.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte attends a joint news conference at NATO\u2019s headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, on September 12, 2025 [Omar Havana\/Reuters]Military aid<\/p>\n- \n
- President Zelenskyy said that many details on post-war security guarantees for Ukraine were already on paper as US special envoy Kellogg and national security advisers from Britain, Germany, France and Italy are in Kyiv, Ukraine.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Sanctions<\/p>\n
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- Group of Seven (G7) finance ministers discussed the possibility of imposing sanctions and trade measures, such as tariffs, on countries they consider to be \u201cenabling\u201d Russia\u2019s war on Ukraine, while exploring other mechanisms to further increase financial support to Ukraine.<\/li>\n
- Japan, the UK and New Zealand imposed new sanctions on Russia, including lowering the price cap on Russian oil and enforcing sanctions against companies linked to Russia\u2019s weapons industry, including a producer of the Iskander missiles, as well as shadow naval fleet operators and suppliers.<\/li>\n
- The European Union could phase out use of Russian gas within six to 12 months by replacing it with US liquefied natural gas, US Energy Secretary Chris Wright told the Reuters news agency on Friday.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Politics and diplomacy<\/p>\n
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- US President Donald Trump said his patience with Putin is \u201crunning out and running out fast\u201d, but blamed the \u201ctremendous hatred between [Putin] and Zelenskyy\u201d for the prolonging of the war.<\/li>\n
- President Zelenskyy said his country\u2019s allies should encourage China to use its leverage with Russia to halt Moscow\u2019s invasion of Ukraine.<\/li>\n
- Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan emphasised that diplomacy is the only viable path to ending the Ukraine-Russia war and that the US must change its stance from neutrality, which had left a leadership gap.<\/li>\n
- US Secretary of State Marco Rubio is set to join President Trump on a state visit to the UK, where he and British Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper are due to discuss US-British cooperation on \u201cending the Russia-Ukraine war\u201d, the US State Department said.<\/li>\n
- Denmark is launching a 375-million-euro ($439m) programme to support Ukraine\u2019s integration with the EU, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Economy<\/p>\n
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- Russia\u2019s central bank cut its benchmark interest rate on Friday to 17 percent as growth has slowed and spending on the war against Ukraine increases the budget deficit.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Peace talks<\/p>\n
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- Russia said peace talks with Ukraine were on \u201cpause\u201d as the NATO alliance said it would bolster its eastern front, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Friday.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Charity<\/p>\n
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- Britain\u2019s Prince Harry arrived in Kyiv on Friday with a team from his Invictus Games Foundation to detail his charity\u2019s plans to help rehabilitate wounded Ukrainian soldiers, his office said in a statement.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published On 13 Sep 202513 Sep 2025 Click here to share on social media share2 Share Here is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420160,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[6178,2000,299,2597,12,332,7661,657,49],"class_list":{"0":"post-420159","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-conflict","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-military","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-russia","14":"tag-russia-ukraine-war","15":"tag-ukraine","16":"tag-united-states"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115195006448785713","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
- Russia said peace talks with Ukraine were on \u201cpause\u201d as the NATO alliance said it would bolster its eastern front, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Friday.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
- Russia\u2019s central bank cut its benchmark interest rate on Friday to 17 percent as growth has slowed and spending on the war against Ukraine increases the budget deficit.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
- President Zelenskyy said that many details on post-war security guarantees for Ukraine were already on paper as US special envoy Kellogg and national security advisers from Britain, Germany, France and Italy are in Kyiv, Ukraine.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n