Local authorities have partially evacuated residents of Toropets in Russia’s Tver Oblast after a mass drone attack overnight caused a large fire, Tver Oblast Governor Igor Rudenya claimed on Sept. 18.Photos and videos shared on Russian Telegram channel…
Georgia’s parliament passed a package of anti-LGBTQ laws on Sept. 17 in its third reading. The bills will still need to be signed by pro-Western President Salome Zourabichvili to become law — but a veto by the president can still be overcome by a subse…
Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha will visit Romania on Sept. 18, paying his first official visit to a foreign state since entering office earlier this month, Ukraine’s foreign ministry announced. Sybiha, a career diplomat, replaced Dmytro Kuleba as Forei…
Editor’s note: This is issue 73 of Ukrainian lawmaker Yaroslav Zhelezniak’s weekly “Ukrainian Economy in Brief” newsletter, covering events from Sept. 9- Sept. 15, 2024. The digest highlights steps taken in the Ukrainian parliament related to business,…
Italy will deliver a second SAMP/T air defense battery to Ukraine by the end of September, Italian Defense Minister Guido Crosetto said on Sept. 17.Italy promised in June to send Kyiv another SAMP/T system, the only European-made air defense system tha…
Editor’s Note: This is issue 147 of Ukrainian State-Owned Enterprises Weekly, covering events from Sept. 8-14, 2024. The Kyiv Independent is reposting it with permission.Corporate governance of SOEsFormer Ukrenergo’s CEO Kudrytskyi interviewed. Volodym…
The suspect in the second assassination attempt on former President and Republican nominee Donald Trump has no ties to Ukrainian institutions, Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Heorhii Tykhyi said at a briefing on Sept. 17.The U.S. Secret Service…
Donald Trump Jr. and former U.S. presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. opposed permitting Ukraine to strike Russian territory with Western-supplied long-range missiles, calling on the Biden-Harris administration to negotiate with Moscow.In a joi…
The Russian Defense Ministry claimed on Sept. 17 that it had repelled Ukraine’s new attempts to cross into Russia’s Kursk Oblast west of the currently controlled territories.Ukraine launched a cross-border incursion into Kursk Oblast in early August, r…
None of the plans Ukraine is developing to end Russia’s war envisages a ceasefire or ceding territory to Moscow, Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to the Presidential Office, told Current Time on Sept. 17.Podolyak’s statement echoed a recent comment of Dmy…