Russia’s war machine and politics: strikes on Ukraine, Ukrainian drone attacks inside Russia, sanctions, the Kremlin and NATO tensions.
Ukraine war update: Kyiv ends its refinery-strike pause as a 10-hour drone assault kills three in Kropyvnytskyi and Starshield service returns.
Information war: UK warns of industrial-scale Russian info assault, Microsoft seizes phishing-kit domains, Maricopa apology claim false.
Russia hits Kyiv and Kharkiv power plants with 39 missiles, cutting power to 600,000, as a Starlink speed cap disrupts Ukrainian missions.
Information war: Yandex bot-strike claim unproven, US charges North Korean IT ring and OpenAI bugging, UK and EU add FIMI defences.
NATO’s SACEUR, Poland’s Tusk and Ukraine’s Zelenskyy on Russia at the 2026 Warsaw Security Forum, with transcript and recording links.
The Navy awarded $743.6 million in SLCM-N prototype OTAs on Sept. 23, 2026, splitting missile and canister work among five firms through Dec. 31, 2027.
Drones sink HS Dignity and hit Chelsea 3 in the Black Sea off Bulgaria, leaving 11 sailors missing as attacks move closer to a NATO coast.
Ballistic missiles hit Kyiv without warning, drones sink a ship off Bulgaria, and Kyiv says it held energy strikes for two days.
Information war: allies attribute Iran at RAF Fairford, Armenia election networks mapped, midterm deepfakes and OSCE snub.
Trump’s Russian diesel agreement: about 4.8M tons, a 180-day sanctions license through April 7, 2027, thin price impact, and sharp reactions.
Trump announces an immediate Russia–Ukraine energy ceasefire; Kyiv says it was news, offers written guarantees, and reports strikes after the post.
EU ministers adopt nearly 1,600 Russia sanctions listings, the largest wave since 2022, with more than half tied to ballistic-missile supply chains.
Trump claims an energy ceasefire, Russia hits Kharkiv’s power plant, and the EU adopts nearly 1,600 new Russia sanctions listings.
Information war: Zelenskyy warns Europe of Russian hybrid ops, CISA flags a China-linked cyber enabler, and deepfake clips of Gates and Iran strikes fall.
Trump tells Kyiv to stop refinery strikes, Russia resumes diesel exports, and the Zaporizhzhia glide-bomb death toll rises to 23.
Information war update: Russian media amplify calls to replace Zelensky, Beijing targets Taiwan’s National Day, and fact-checkers debunk Riyadh airport fakes.
Brazil votes in a runoff on Oct. 25. Here is what officials, OpenAI and reporters have confirmed about Russian influence, and what is still unverified rumor.
OpenAI disrupted Russian and Iranian AI influence operations, Chinese military media warned a Taiwanese host, and fact-checkers debunked recycled war videos.
Ukraine power grid: about 15 GW at the evening peak, 19.6 GW promised by November 1, as Russia strikes Kyiv. What officials, Ukrenergo and experts say.
Washington licenses Russian diesel after a Trump-Putin call, Kyiv says its envoys were used as cover, and glide bombs kill at least 11 in Zaporizhzhia.
Latvia says armed escorts pushed 20 migrants at its troops, then masked men took border cameras; Lithuania put 100 soldiers on its Kaliningrad border.
Kramatorsk bus strike toll rises to 33 as a grid strike darkens Kyiv, Ukraine hits the Omsk and Ukhta refineries, and its envoys meet US mediators.
Kyiv’s three-day pause, the U.S. envoys’ visit, strikes near Poland and Ukraine’s deep drone raids: our dated September timeline, with analysis.
Yandex says a drone fire took its Sasovo data center fully offline; Kyiv has not claimed it, but its General Staff confirmed a strike on a Bashkir refinery.
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