#russia-ukraine-war

#russia-ukraine-war

Volodymyr Zelenskyy has again urged the international community to act decisively to cut off Russia's energy revenues that fund its Ukraine war after Moscow carried out one of its worst attacks on Kyiv of the war. The time for decisive action is long overdue, and we count on a strong response from the United States, Europe, the G7 and the G20, the Ukrainian president said on Telegram.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says the world is in the most destructive arms race in history as he calls on the international community to act against Russia now, asserting in his address to the United Nations General Assembly that President Vladimir Putin wants to expand his war in Europe. Ukraine is only the first, and now Russian drones are already flying across Europe, and Russian operations are already spreading across countries, and Putin wants to continue this war by expanding it, Zelenskyy said on Wednesday at UN headquarters in New York.

We are continuing our special military operation to ensure our interests and achieve the goals set by Russian president Vladimir Putin, Kremlin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov told RBC radio, using Moscow's term for its assault on Ukraine. The Kremlin also claimed that Russian troops were advancing on all fronts in Ukraine, rejecting Trump's suggestions that Ukraine could regain all its captured territory, Reuters said.

I mean, this I am sure in my people, in my army, and I am sure in strengthening of the in support of the United States. But President Trump was more positive in it and he showed that he wants to support Ukraine to the very end, so we understand now that we are ready to finish this war as quick as possible, and he wants and I want and our people want,

This is a great concern for our countries. I mean if you want closer ties with us then why participate in exercises that are an existential threat to us?

The charges stem from an April 2024 protest at Munich's Pinakothek der Moderne museum, where Pussy Riot members Maria Alyokhina, Alina Petrova, and Anastasia "Taso" Pletner condemned Russia's invasion of Ukraine. During their performance, the group called Vladimir Putin a war criminal, and Pletner urinated on a portrait of the Russian president. Meanwhile, prosecutors claimed Alyokhina, Pletner, Olga Borisova, Diana Burkot, and Alina Petrova spread "false information" about Russian soldiers killing Ukrainian civilians in their "Mama, Don't Watch TV" video.

He was only 11 when Russia launched its full-scale invasion of his homeland in 2022. After the storming of Mariupol, Russian soldiers took him and his mother to a "filtration camp." Russia has set up such camps in the territories it occupies to subject Ukrainians to ideological screening before transferring them to Russia. Sasha was separated from his mother in the camp and taken to occupied Donetsk.

The commission is the EU's executive arm. It proposes laws that impact the lives of around 450 million people across 27 countries, and monitors whether those rules are respected. In recent years, it has helped Europe to survive fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic, break its dependency on Russian energy supplies and cope with a trade war launched by a traditional ally like the U.S.

Volodymyr Zelenskiy spoke with French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday, discussing measures to bolster Ukraine's defenses hours after a massive Russian air assault that included a strike on a key government building in Kyiv. The drone and missile barrage on the capital and other cities left at least four people dead and more than 44 injured, Zelenskiy said in the Telegram post on Sunday. Ukraine's president and Macron discussed coordinated diplomatic efforts and next steps with partners to ensure an appropriate response, according to his post. Together with France, Ukraine is preparing new measures to strengthen its defenses, Zelenskiy said.

A suspected GPS sabotage forced European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen's plane to divert from its course and in Russia, the incident quickly made her the focus of mockery and smear campaigns. The politician had flown to Bulgaria on August 31. The GPS disruption of the aircraft resulted in an unscheduled landing in the city of Plovdiv. Authorities in Bulgaria suspect that Moscow was behind the attack and link it to Russia's war against Ukraine.

If any [Western] troops appear there, especially now during military operations, we proceed from the fact that these will be legitimate targets for their destruction. And if decisions are reached that will lead to peace, to long-term peace, then I simply do not see any sense in their presence on the territory of Ukraine. That's all. Because if these agreements are reached, let no one doubt that Russia will implement them in full.

On Wednesday morning, the three men led a group of more than 20 world leaders as they strode towards a rostrum in Tiananmen Square in Beijing to watch a victory day parade marking the end, eight decades ago, of a global conflict that would soon usher in the first cold war. When Wednesday's celebrations end, however, the regimes in Beijing, Moscow and Pyongyang will be left to confront significant domestic challenges that might yet shift their focus from global power politics.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has said Europe was preparing 'pretty precise plans' to send troops to Ukraine as part of post-conflict security guarantees Russian President Vladimir Putin has repeated his claims that Ukraine and the West provoked the war Chancellor Friedrich Merz has said Germany is preparing for a long war in Ukraine Below is a roundup of the key events in Russia's war in Ukraine on Monday, September 1: