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🇺🇦 Earlier this year, investigators from the Security Service of #Ukraine sought full access to the internal document-management system of the High Anti-Corruption Court, a key part of Ukraine's anti-corruption infrastructure that completes the chain from investigation and prosecution to conviction or exoneration. https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-sbu-anti-corruption-court-database-access-schemes-investigation/33892471.html
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🗣️ Ukrainian journalists on Nov. 2 appealed to their international colleagues to keep Russian aggression in the spotlight and to urge their leaders not to appease Moscow. https://kyivindependent.com/ukrainian-journalists-urge-global-media-not-to-look-away-from-russian-aggression/ #ukraine #russia #russianwarcrimes
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🇷🇺🇮🇷 Senior Kremlin officials reaffirmed Russian support for #Iran and explicitly defined the United States as Russia’s long-term adversary, despite the recent unilateral US concession to Moscow – offering #Russia a diesel export waiver. https://understandingwar.org/research/russia-ukraine/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-october-20-2026/
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🇩🇰 A coalition of civil society organizations protested against Danish shipyard Fayard's continued servicing of vessels transporting Russian liquefied natural gas, at a rally held in Copenhagen on Oct. 1. https://kyivindependent.com/protesters-in-denmark-rally-against-last-eu-shipyard-servicing-russia-linked-tankers/ #denmark #russia
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🇭🇺 #Hungary’s OTP Bank is considering a complete exit from #Russia, Bloomberg reported. The bank has continued operating there since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, but its Russian business could hinder approval of its planned purchase of Baltic lender Luminor Bank. https://meduza.io/en/news/2026/09/28/bloomberg-hungary-s-otp-bank-considers-a-full-russia-exit-as-regulators-review-its-purchase-of-baltic-lender-luminor
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🇷🇺📉 The number of schools in #Russia has fallen by 45% since the start of the century, with rural communities losing the most, according to a report by the Higher School of Economics published this month. https://www.euronews.com/2026/09/28/russia-under-putin-lost-nearly-half-its-schools-war-propaganda-fills-the-rest
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🇺🇦 🇷🇺 #Ukraine's military has recaptured more territory from Russian forces in the north of the Donetsk region, a senior military commander said on Monday, in an operation aimed at complicating Moscow's assault on Ukraine's key eastern strongholds. https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukrainian-forces-advance-key-eastern-battlefield-senior-commander-says-2026-09-28/
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🇷🇺 🇺🇦 Two people were killed, including a 16-year-old girl, and five others were injured, as a result of a Russian guided aerial bomb strike on Sumy on Sunday 27 September. https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2026/09/27/8055253/index.amp #russia #ukraine
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🇨🇭 Swiss voters appear to have rejected a proposal to introduce a more rigid enforcement of the country's neutrality principle — repudiating an idea which would have made imposing sanctions against Moscow more difficult. https://www.politico.eu/article/swiss-reject-stricter-neutrality-principle-safeguarding-santions-against-russia/
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🇺🇦🎾 Elina Svitolina and Anhelina Kalinina secured a historic first appearance for #Ukraine in the Billie Jean King Cup final by knocking out two-time defending champions Italy in dominant style in Shenzhen, China, on Saturday. https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20260926-ukraine-crush-holders-italy-to-reach-first-bjk-cup-final
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🇺🇦🇵🇱 #Ukraine and #Poland are preparing an agreement that could allow Ukrainian border and customs officials to operate on Polish territory, Kyiv has said amid increasing Russian attacks near border infrastructure. https://tvpworld.com/95600322/ukraine-poland-prepareborder-control-dealamid-russian-strikes
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🇺🇦 🇷🇺 A drone attack reportedly targeted the Ilsky Oil Refinery in #Russia's Krasnodar Krai overnight on Sept. 26, with footage and local reports shared online indicating a large fire at the facility. https://kyivindependent.com/drone-attack-reportedly-hits-russias-ilsky-oil-refinery-sparks-fire/ #ukraine
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ISW: 🇷🇺 🇺🇦 Russian strikes against data centers and telecommunications infrastructure can cause temporary internet outages but are unlikely to lead to a complete internet shutdown. https://understandingwar.org/research/russia-ukraine/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-september-25-2026/ #russia #ukraine
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UPDATE: 🇵🇱 A blaze at a Starlink station in #Poland that engulfed its power system and backup generator on Wednesday evening was an act of sabotage aimed at disrupting internet services, including for Ukraine's military, a government minister said. https://www.reuters.com/world/poland-suspects-fire-starlink-station-was-act-sabotage-2026-09-24/
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ISW Special Report: 🇷🇺 🇺🇦 The Russian occupation apparatus has employed a diverse range of tactics since 2025 to execute the election management toolkit and manufacture United Russia’s parliamentary victory in occupied #Ukraine https://understandingwar.org/research/russia-ukraine/the-kremlins-sham-elections-manufacture-legitimacy-in-occupied-ukraine/
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🇫🇮🇺🇦 #Finland and #Ukraine have signed an Agreement on Enhanced Defence and Security Cooperation under the Drone Deal format. It will enable defence materiel cooperation between the two countries. https://valtioneuvosto.fi/en/-/236553176/finland-and-ukraine-sign-drone-deal-to-boost-their-defence-and-security-cooperation
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🇷🇺 🇺🇦 #Russia is rapidly increasing its use of jet-powered drones for attacks on #Ukraine While Russian forces used 350 such UAVs in June, the figure rose to 2,850 in August. https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/4167071-russia-increases-its-use-of-jetpowered-drones-eightfold-in-three-months-ihnat.html
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🇷🇺 🇪🇺 ChatGPT, Grok and Claude provided full news summaries drawing on EU-sanctioned Russian state media outlets — including RT and Sputnik — sharing links and quotes without warning users that the content came from banned sources, according to a study by Reporters Without Borders published this month. https://www.euronews.com/2026/09/23/ai-chatbots-serve-up-content-from-russias-sanctioned-state-run-outlets-rsf-finds #russia #europe #ai #propaganda #disinformation
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🇺🇲🇷🇺 Billionaire Todd Boehly secured the backing of the US government and Gulf power brokers with ties to the #Trump family to bid for Russian oil giant Lukoil's international assets, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday. https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-government-gulf-billionaires-back-boehly-bid-lukoil-assets-ft-reports-2026-09-22/ #usa #russia
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🇷🇺 #Russia has intensified surveillance, intimidation and reprisals against critics overseas since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, a UN expert said on Monday. https://www.reuters.com/world/russia-has-intensified-repression-critics-overseas-un-expert-says-2026-09-21/
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💬 Russian assault tactics have changed over the past year, with troops now attacking in groups of just a few soldiers, or sometimes individually, in an effort to get through the "kill zone," Joint Forces Task Force spokesperson Viktor Trehubov said on Sept. 20. https://kyivindependent.com/no-tanks-lone-soldiers-ukraine-details-new-russian-assault-tactics/ #russia #ukraine
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🇷🇺 🇺🇦 #Ukraine has accused #Russia of “deliberately creating a humanitarian catastrophe” in the occupied town of Oleshky, where residents have been left starving after months without food deliveries. https://tvpworld.com/95491873/oleshky-ukraine-warns-russia-is-blocking-evacuation-of-starving-residents
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🇪🇺 🇷🇺 All of the EU's 3,000 sanctions against individuals helping #Russia's war effort could be extinguished overnight if Brussels, Paris, and Azerbaijan fail to find a compromise by Sept. 21, EU diplomats told the Kyiv Independent. https://kyivindependent.com/all-eu-sanctions-linked-to-russias-war-may-expire-as-france-slovakia-seek-to-delist-oligarchs/
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🇫🇷 🇷🇺 #France has called on Moscow to "reverse" its decision to take control of assets belonging to European companies still operating in #Russia, including Swiss food giant Nestle and three French groups. https://www.rfi.fr/en/france/20260919-france-calls-on-moscow-to-reverse-takeover-of-european-assets-auchan
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What a coward 🤦🏻♂️ 🇺🇸 #Trump said Friday that he was banning CNN, MSNOW and Politico from the White House due to what he called unfavorable coverage, and threatened that more such prohibitions of media outlets could follow. https://apnews.com/article/trump-cnn-msnow-politico-media-bans-bb675679fb10738a51bef90bde6c525a #censorship #usa
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🇷🇺⚽️ #Russia is making a partial return to international soccer after being included in the draw for the boys’ Under-15 World Cup festival announced Friday by FIFA. https://apnews.com/article/fifa-under15-world-cup-azerbaijan-russia-10c0384e06cc1bea8c66190e76027dbf
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🇩🇰🇺🇦 #Denmark is speeding up a donation to #Ukraine in response to a recent incident in which a Russian warship fired flares towards a Danish military helicopter, narrowly missing the aircraft, the Nordic country's government said on Friday. https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/denmark-speeds-up-ukraine-aid-package-after-russian-warship-fires-flares-2026-09-18/
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🇷🇺 🇬🇧 The Russian Foreign Ministry summoned #Britain's charge d'affaires in Moscow, Danae Dholakia, on Friday to issue a formal protest about what it called London's "further increase" in weapons supplies to #Ukraine https://www.reuters.com/world/russia-summons-uk-envoy-over-londons-weapons-supplies-ukraine-2026-09-18/ #russia
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UPDATE: 🇷🇺 🇺🇦 #Russia launched a drone and missile attack on #Kyiv on the night of Sept. 16-17, damaging an education facility and injuring at least 16 people in #Ukraine's capital, officials reported. https://kyivindependent.com/russian-attack-damages-education-facility-in-ukraines-capital-targets-kyiv-oblast-infrastructure/
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🇺🇦 🇷🇺 Ukrainian forces reportedly struck a military airfield in #Russia’s Rostov Oblast overnight on Sept. 16, while a fire broke out at the Yaroslavl oil refinery following reports of a drone attack. https://kyivindependent.com/ukrainian-forces-reportedly-strike-russian-oil-refinery-military-airfield/ #ukraine