Revealed On 13 Sep 2025
Right here is how issues stand on Saturday, September 13:
Combating
- An early morning Russian assault on Friday killed three folks in northern Ukraine’s Sumy area, a regional official reported.
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated Moscow’s makes an attempt to advance within the Sumy space had failed with heavy losses, and Russian operations within the area had been being “fully foiled by our forces”.
- A Ukrainian drone assault on Russia’s northwestern port of Primorsk has, for the primary time, compelled the suspension of loading on the key western oil terminal, in accordance with two business sources and Ukraine’s army.
- An tried Ukrainian assault on the Smolensk nuclear energy station in western Russia was carried out in a single day, however the drone was downed and no injury or casualties had been reported, officers stated.
Regional safety
- The variety of Polish airspace violations by Russian drones this week could also be larger than beforehand reported, with additional evaluation revealing that there might have been 21 incursions over Poland, the nation’s defence chief stated.
- Polish Secretary of State Marcin Bosacki urged the United Nations Safety Council to problem a robust response to Russia over drones violating Poland’s airspace.
- Greater than 40 nations, together with the US, participated in a joint assertion on the UN for stronger worldwide motion over Russia’s drone incursion into Polish airspace.
- Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk contradicted US President Donald Trump’s evaluation that the incursion of Russian drones into Polish airspace might have been a mistake.
- Writing on X, Tusk stated: “We might additionally want that the drone assault on Poland was a mistake. Nevertheless it wasn’t. And we all know it.”
- NATO is getting ready a brand new operation, dubbed Jap Sentry, so as to add army gear from France, Denmark, Germany and the UK to its current air and ground-based defences on its jap European flank bordering Belarus, Russia and Ukraine, NATO Supreme Commander Common Alexus Grynkewich stated.
- Ukrainian Defence Minister Denys Shmyhal stated he met with US presidential envoy Keith Kellogg in Kyiv. The pair mentioned “the opportunity of Ukraine’s Defence Forces receiving new Patriot techniques and ammunition for them”, he wrote on X.
- Russian and Belarusian armed forces kicked off their large-scale, joint army workouts referred to as “Zapad 2025” on Friday, as German forces in neighbouring Lithuania led their very own army drills.
Navy help
- President Zelenskyy stated that many particulars on post-war safety ensures for Ukraine had been already on paper as US particular envoy Kellogg and nationwide safety advisers from Britain, Germany, France and Italy are in Kyiv, Ukraine.
Sanctions
- Group of Seven (G7) finance ministers mentioned the opportunity of imposing sanctions and commerce measures, similar to tariffs, on nations they contemplate to be “enabling” Russia’s struggle on Ukraine, whereas exploring different mechanisms to additional improve monetary help to Ukraine.
- Japan, the UK and New Zealand imposed new sanctions on Russia, together with decreasing the value cap on Russian oil and imposing sanctions towards corporations linked to Russia’s weapons business, together with a producer of the Iskander missiles, in addition to shadow naval fleet operators and suppliers.
- The European Union might section out use of Russian fuel inside six to 12 months by changing it with US liquefied pure fuel, US Vitality Secretary Chris Wright instructed the Reuters information company on Friday.
Politics and diplomacy
- US President Donald Trump stated his endurance with Putin is “operating out and operating out quick”, however blamed the “large hatred between [Putin] and Zelenskyy” for the prolonging of the struggle.
- President Zelenskyy stated his nation’s allies ought to encourage China to make use of its leverage with Russia to halt Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.
- Turkish Overseas Minister Hakan Fidan emphasised that diplomacy is the one viable path to ending the Ukraine-Russia struggle and that the US should change its stance from neutrality, which had left a management hole.
- US Secretary of State Marco Rubio is about to hitch President Trump on a state go to to the UK, the place he and British Overseas Secretary Yvette Cooper are as a consequence of focus on US-British cooperation on “ending the Russia-Ukraine struggle”, the US State Division stated.
- Denmark is launching a 375-million-euro ($439m) programme to help Ukraine’s integration with the EU, Ukrainian Overseas Minister Andrii Sybiha stated.
Economic system
- Russia’s central financial institution lower its benchmark rate of interest on Friday to 17 % as progress has slowed and spending on the struggle towards Ukraine will increase the funds deficit.
Peace talks
- Russia stated peace talks with Ukraine had been on “pause” because the NATO alliance stated it could bolster its jap entrance, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov instructed reporters on Friday.
Charity
- Britain’s Prince Harry arrived in Kyiv on Friday with a group from his Invictus Video games Basis to element his charity’s plans to assist rehabilitate wounded Ukrainian troopers, his workplace stated in an announcement.
