The dictator also said his youngest son, Nikolai, was currently serving in the armed forces.

The Russian Central Bank's board of directors on Sept. 11 decided to keep the key rate at 14%, the first time the regulator has opted not to cut it since mid-June 2025.

The Russian troops allegedly executed the Ukrainian servicemen with automatic weapons, prosecutors said.

One emergency responder was among the injured in the Russian attacks on the gas stations, Ukraine's State Emergency Service said.

The attack on an oil refinery owned by Russian energy giant Rosneft sparked a fire at the facility, Ukraine's General Staff said, adding that the extent of the damage was still being assessed.

Oleksandr Yurchenko, then a member of President Volodymyr Zelensky's Servant of the People parliamentary group, was charged in 2020 for soliciting bribes in exchange for legislative amendments.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said Moscow was deliberately targeting places where civilians gather, seeking to inflict maximum casualties, spread fear, and coerce Ukraine into concessions.

Since the start of September, Ukraine has exported 630,000 metric tons of agricultural products, more than half of which was grain — 380,000 tons.

The two leaders met in New Delhi ahead of a BRICS summit held in India's capital between Sept. 12 and 13.

Hennadii Druzenko, a lawyer, civic activist, and co-founder and president of the First Volunteer Mobile Hospital named after Mykola Pyrohov, confirmed in a Facebook post that the incident took place about a month and a half ago.

Since illegally occupying Crimea in 2014, Russia has systematically detained people who oppose its rule, fabricated criminal cases against them, and sent them to pretrial detention centers and prisons across the peninsula and beyond.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said he would resign from office on Sept. 25 or 26 before focusing on his campaign for the upcoming parliamentary elections.

In August President Volodymyr Zelensky’s former Deputy Chief of Staff Iryna Mudra, lawmaker Maksym Mykytas, and Viktor Dubovyk, head of the legal policy department at the President's Office, were also charged as part of the case. The suspects are accused of both corporate raiding and money laundering.

Polish far-right politician Grzegorz Braun published a video of himself damaging a memorial in eastern Poland, which commemorates UPA fighters killed while fighting the Soviet secret police.

"Flamingos paid a little visit to Volgograd last night," Fire Point said in a social media statement. "Ukrainian sanctions, as always, proved to be the most effective."

The European Commission's approval allows Ukraine to use funds from the EU's 90-billion-euro ($104-billion) support loan to purchase U.S.-made PAC-3 Patriot interceptors, one of the few weapons capable of intercepting Russian ballistic missiles.

The Ukrainian Air Force reported that Russia launched 161 attack drones of various types overnight, including jet-powered drones, as well as one S-8000 "Banderol" low-cost cruise missile.

"Speak out about your bottlenecks, components, testing slots, certification, intellectual property, skilled staff. We can only address the obstacles we are able to see," the EU's Defense Commissioner Andrius Kubilius told attendees of the meeting.

"Good morning from Kyiv," Sikorski posted on X. Fifteen minutes later, Kyiv Independent reporters noted explosions in central Kyiv and the air raid sirens began to sound.

The figure includes 1,490 casualties that Russian forces suffered over the past day.

Ukrainian strikes on Russia's energy industry have "turned the tables on the world's once largest oil product exporter," according to a new report by the Center for Research on Energy and Clean Air think tank.

Belgium imported no LNG from Russia in August. Just one month before, 100% of its LNG imports came from Russia.

Eight people were injured in Kyiv’s Dniprovskyi district, where a fire broke out in a nine-story residential building during the Russian attack, according to the Kyiv City Military Administration.

The refinery in Foynes, County Limerick, is owned by Russian aluminum producer Rusal and employs several hundred people.

"Ukrainians helped build Canada, and Canadians will help rebuild Ukraine," Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said on Sept. 10.

Key developments on Sept. 10: * Russia's recruitment of foreign nationals amounts to human trafficking, Amnesty International says * US destroys 5 Iranian oil tankers, 3 linked to Russia's shadow fleet, Ukrainian official says * NATO allies disrupt Russian exercise involving secret weapon targeting subsea cables, Reuters reports * 4 dead after Russian attack on Pavlohrad shopping center * Russian drone attacks hit Kyiv morning and evening, injuring 4 Russia exploits and deceives foreign n

In a post on Instagram, Alyona Gudkova sits with her head in her hands. The founder of Kurazh, a popular Kyiv festival combining a flea market, food, music, dancing, and fundraising, had just announced that the project would suspend operations "until safer times." Another post on Instagram showed a crowd dancing at Kurazh, with Light Dark Light Again by Angie McMahon as the soundtrack — capturing the rhythm of Kyiv in the fifth year of full-scale war, moving between moments of normality and su

Global grain prices are rising steeply as Ukraine and Russia intensify attacks upon one another's main export infrastructure on the Black and Azov seas — leaving both countries struggling to find alternative outlets with the harvest in full swing. Russia and Ukraine are both major grain producers, with the bulk of their exports bound for the Global South — particularly the Middle East and Africa — via the Black Sea, through which around a third of the world's supply passes. The obstruction of

It remains unclear whether the U.S. House of Representatives will vote next week on sweeping legislation that would impose tariffs of up to 100% on countries buying Russian oil and gas, Ukraine's sanctions commissioner Vladyslav Vlasiuk told reporters on Sept. 10. The bill faces a narrow window for consideration before the Nov. 3 midterm elections. The House's final pre-election session begins Sept. 14 and will last only four days. If lawmakers do not take up the legislation next week, its cons

The operation was carried out by Russia's Main Directorate for Deep Sea Research (GUGI), which used deep-sea submersibles to simulate deploying the technology, according to two Western officials who spoke to Reuters on condition of anonymity.

The comments come as a rejection of the latest U.S.-Ukraine proposal for an aerial truce, which was put forward during the visit of U.S. peace envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner to Moscow and Kyiv.

Two injured Azerbaijani citizens were taken to a hospital in southern Odesa Oblast, Azerbaijan’s Foreign Ministry said.