Norway’s civil and military support program for Ukraine, known as the Nansen program, will be extended until 2030 and will be increased by a further 5 billion kroner ($475 million) this year, Oslo announced on Sept. 20. The Nansen program will now have…
Austria-headquartered Raiffeisen Bank International (RBI) agreed to sell its stake in its Belarusian subsidiary Priorbank, marking the first step toward fully withdrawing from the Belarusian market, RBI announced on Sept. 20.RBI has come under heavy cr…
The first cohort of Ukrainian pilots have completed Alpha Jet training in France, the French Armed Forces announced on Sept. 20. The French Air Force has been training Ukrainian pilots since March 2024 as part of the international coalition to provide …
‘They attack with quantity:’ With Ukrainian soldiers desperately defending PokrovskEditor’s note: In accordance with the security protocols of the Ukrainian military, soldiers featured in this story are identified by first names and callsigns only. POK…
Ukraine’s Defense Ministry has authorized the use of the all-terrain amphibious vehicle Takha for the Ukrainian Armed Forces, according to its Sept. 20 statement.The vehicle developed by Ukrainian engineers is already being used at the front line for e…
Russian President Vladimir Putin will not fly to Mexico for the inauguration of President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum, a Russian Foreign Ministry official said in an interview with RTVI channel on Sept. 20.The director of the ministry’s Latin American Depa…
Margarita Simonyan, one of Russia’s foremost propagandists, has gone AWOL.
“She’s vanished from view,” Julia Davis, creator of the Russian Media Monitor, told the Kyiv Independent, adding: “She’s barely posting on social media and she’s not appearing …
Ukraine’s National Coordination Center for Cybersecurity on Sept. 20 restricted the use of the Telegram messenger app for government agencies, military, and critical infrastructure facilities.Telegram remains one of the most popular social media platfo…
Russia tried to establish ties with China and India in an effort to decouple from the West but faced new challenges along the way, The Wall Street Journal’s (WSJ) analysis published on Sept. 20 said.As the full-scale invasion continues, Western countri…
Russell Bentley, a pro-Kremlin American man who fought against Ukraine in 2014 and was killed under previously unknown circumstances in April, was tortured to death by Russian soldiers, Russia’s Investigative Committee said on Sept. 20.Concluding a pre…