Ukraine will have the second-strongest military in NATO on the European continent once it joins the alliance, Latvian Foreign Minister Baiba Braze said on Oct. 1.Speaking at a panel discussion at the Warsaw Security Forum attended by the Kyiv Independe…
Russian forces appear to have shot 16 Ukrainian prisoners of war (POWs) in Donetsk Oblast, the largest recorded case of mass execution of surrendered soldiers on the battlefield, Ukraine’s Prosecutor General’s Office said on Oct. 1.Evidence of the exec…
Tallinn’s planned security tax is “unprecedented,” but “everybody in Estonia understands that we have to do more,” Estonian Defense Minister Hanno Pevkur said on Oct. 1.Speaking at a panel discussion at the Warsaw Security Forum attended by the Kyiv In…
French-German defense company KNDS has opened an office in Kyiv to support Ukraine carry out the domestic maintenance and repair of land systems and produce artillery ammunition, the company announced on Oct. 1. KNDS is one of Europe’s biggest defense …
Ukraine’s new Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha did not discuss territorial compromises with Russia in recent meetings with his Western counterparts, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Heorhii Tykhyi said on Oct. 1, refuting a report by the Financial Times (FT…
Commanders of Ukrainian military units will now be able to directly select soldiers who enlist voluntarily, bypassing the standard process of going through enlistment offices, Defense Minister Rustem Umerov announced on Oct. 1. Ukraine is undertaking a…
Reversing recent rhetoric, Trump says he ‘likes’ Zelensky.
Repeating similar comments made at a joint press conference in advance of their meeting, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump told the Washington Po…
Several Russia-installed proxy officials in occupied Donetsk Oblast have been declared suspected of forcibly deporting 31 Ukrainian children to Russia, Ukraine’s Prosecutor General’s Office announced on Oct. 1. The Prosecutor General’s Office named Den…
U.S. President Joe Biden may agree to advance the status of Ukraine’s NATO membership bid before leaving office in January, the Financial Times (FT) reported on Oct. 1, citing an unnamed Western official. The FT’s source briefed on President Volodymyr …
Barriers put in place to protect the Crimean Bridge from Ukrainian attacks have been washed ashore after a recent storm, it was reported on Sept. 30.According to the Crimean Wind Telegram channel, plastic and metal barrels connected by metal frames wer…