Russia ignored a proposed ceasefire timed to US envoys' visits to Moscow and Kyiv, Presidential Office head Budanov said.
While drone strikes persist, he expects Moscow will likely avoid hitting Kyiv during their arrival.
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Deze week, Oekraïne🇺🇦, de traditionele back-to-school vieringen. Een goede opleiding vraagt een veilige opleiding. In een escalerende drone-oorlog betekent dat: ondergronds gaan. In Oekraïne opereren 74 scholen volledig ondergronds en 200 volledig online.
Skyshield is nu nodig!
“Berlin will burn!” “We will kill you all.”
Russian state media has long fueled anti-West hate and normalized nuclear threats, not just targeting Ukraine.
EDITORIAL: As US envoys arrive in Kyiv via Moscow, Ukraine owes them no false warmth.
Washington must offer Patriot systems and real sanctions, not treat national survival like a real estate deal.
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"Conosco bene Putin, capisce solo la forza. Il mio messaggio è: vattene dall'Ucraina! Restituisci agli Ucraini quello che è loro e ferma questa guerra che sta uccidendo oltre 30mila persone al mese della tua gente".
Il premier canadese non le manda a dire a Nonno.
This Odesa coffee place was damaged by Russian attack this night, still makes coffee, even with broken windows . ‘Do you take cards?’ you can hear man asks. Barista nods . Because it’s Ukraine : even is store is half ruined by Russian attack, you will still get coffee, and
In Odesa, emergency services continue working at the site of a drone strike on an apartment building. Damage to apartments from the 10th through the 17th floors left 17 people injured, including three children. Efforts are also ongoing to deal with the aftermath of the strikes in Obukhiv and Boryspil districts. The necessary number of State Emergency Service rescuers are fighting fire at a pharmaceutical company’s warehouse. There were also strikes on Nikopol, Kherson, Sumy, Zaporizhzhia, and Khmelnytskyi. Overall, 13 regions sustained damage last night alone.
In many cities and communities, air raid alerts practically do not stop because of the threat of Russian jet-powered drone attacks. The enemy has not gone on vacation – the Russians have found a new way to escalate, and they have no intention of slowing down. We need a stronger response, more countermeasures, and faster defense production with Europe – above all, air defense against missiles and drones. Europe can be self-sufficient and strong – much has already been done toward this in recent years – and only by being this way can it protect itself and its way of life. Every day, we work with our partners on new defense packages. Thank you to everyone working for our common defense. Thank you to everyone helping Ukraine.
Russia is escalating attacks on Ukrainian civilians.
July and August were the deadliest months since the war started.
But Ukrainians are standing strong. We must stand with them.
That’s why air defence is our top priority.
Some countries have interceptors that will soon expire. Those could be sent to Ukraine to help protect Ukrainian lives.
My press remarks ahead of the meeting of Defence Ministers ↓
Let me introduce you to a brave hero from my country, Iran.
She was 16 years old. Just a girl. And on the streets of Iran, she did something braver than most people do in a lifetime: she took off her hijab and burned it in public. Right in front of the regime. Right in front of the world.
That was her crime: civil disobedience. A teenage girl refusing to obey men who claimed authority over her hair, her body, her life.
Her message spoke for millions of Iranian women:
To every man who rules over women in the name of religion, honor, or culture: We do not obey you. Your laws were never made for us.
This is what real power looks like: unarmed, unafraid, unbowed.
For that defiance, she was arrested. Her family says she was tortured and killed after falling into the hands of security forces. The Iranian authorities denied responsibility and gave a different account of her death.
Her name was Nika Shakarami. She was 16.
Now ask yourself: How many women in the West know her name? How many know what she risked for a freedom they have never had to fight for?
Say her name: Nika Shakarami.
321 suspected cases of sabotage, over 1,000 suspicious drone flights, and more than 200,000 cybercrime incidents in Germany - in 2025 alone - with the majority of terror attacks likely attributable to Russia.
And then, a Russian explosive-laden drone at Leipzig/Halle Airport—carrying the potential for catastrophe.
Germany’s response? We are closing the Russian consulate in Bonn and the Russian House in Berlin.
Merz appears even weaker than Olaf Scholz, and he is too cowardly to even announce the laughable measures against Russia himself.
The collective West is helping create this threat - and its own enemy - with its own hands.
These days, russians have chosen a tactic of openly trying to exhaust Ukrainian civilians, knowing that the Ukrainian nation is a united force standing behind the resistance to russian occupation.
The question is: why is no one talking about international law, human rights, and all the norms established since World War II? By failing to respond decisively to russian aggression, the Western world has effectively granted the Kremlin unique powers and privileges that no other state should have. As a result, it also emboldens its allies and partners, such as Iran, North Korea, and China.
PHOTO: State Emergency Service, Aug. 31. Rescuers are responding to fires at warehouse facilities in the Brovary and Boryspil districts of Kyiv region following russian attacks.