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🎤Journalist: “If there is no statement about Putin and Zelensky meeting, what are the consequences?” 🇺🇸Trump: “We’ll see what they do and what happens next. I’m watching this very closely. Last week they lost 7,313 troops for no reason. They’re they’re soldiers. I want this to end.”
🇺🇦 Zelensky: Now we see another accumulation of Russian forces on some parts of the front. But it does not want to force peace. Russia continues to strike. Of course, we will respond to this. Respond, including asymmetrically, so that Russia definitely feels the consequences of its impudence.
Ukraine is also banking on its booming domestic defense industry. European countries, already struggling with budget constraints, may have trouble maintaining the necessary levels of funding. But Ukraine has no choice but to shore up its own defenses.
🇺🇦 Ukraine Seeks Arms Buildup Because It’s More Reliable Than Any Security Guarantee, - NYT Ukraine believes that a well-armed military is a stronger deterrent to Moscow than any Western promises to protect it. It is working to raise billions to buy more weapons.
☠️🥩 A veteran of "SVO" group claims that only 17 of his 189-strong unit remained due to the brutal assaults near Kupyansk. 😵💫 This occupier is also an assistant to a deputy and coordinator of "SVO" veterans' association in Moscow.
🇩🇪🧐 AfD party has recorded six deaths among its politicians in a short period of time ahead of upcoming local elections in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, — Welt
🇨🇳 The talks between Putin and Xi Jinping took place in Beijing…. Xi publicly called China and Russia the main winners of World War II. This is a clear signal that these two intend to rewrite the results of World War II and change the order that emerged as a result of the Allied victory.
The cryptocurrency called WLFI can now be freely bought and sold on the market like the shares of a public company. Before this, people who had purchased WLFI directly from the Trump family’s crypto project, World Liberty Financial, were unable to exchange their tokens.
🇺🇸 The Trump family has amassed a $6 billion fortune following the launch of their cryptocurrency — WSJ. The value of the WLFI token, which entered open trading, surged far beyond its previous level, delivering the president and his sons a massive profit — at least on paper.
👀🇸🇰🇺🇦 Slovak PM Fico: "After returning from Beijing on Thursday evening, I will travel to eastern Slovakia to hold a bilateral meeting with Zelensky on Friday."
"The heads of state and government will discuss the work done in recent weeks to ensure Ukraine's security and analyze the consequences that follow from the position of Russia, which stubbornly refuses peace," the Elysee Palace reported.
🇫🇷🇬🇧🇺🇦 Macron and Starmer will hold a meeting of the "coalition of the willing" at the Elysee Palace on Thursday, - Le Monde ❗️Zelensky will also take part in the meeting, which will be held in a hybrid format.
🇪🇺🇺🇦 Zelensky to meet with European leaders in Paris on September 4, – Suspilne ❗️The topic of the meeting is to discuss next steps and increase pressure on Russia.
Yet at that moment the aggressor could still have been stopped relatively easily — and even more so in 1938 or 1936. But instead of decisiveness, the world chose fear and the illusion that a few territorial gifts would pacify Führer. The result was world war that claimed tens of millions of lives.
September 1939 exposed the weakness of the great powers: Britain and France formally declared war but refrained from real action. The United States pretended it was “not their war.” At the same time, the Soviet Union was dividing spheres of influence with Hitler.
‼️Eighty-six years ago, the world entered the bloodiest war in history. Its outbreak became possible because for too long the dictator was not confronted with force. Instead, attempts were made to appease him with concessions and negotiations.
❗️😧 Russian special services blackmailed the suspect in the murder of Andriy Parubiy for a year with information about the whereabouts of the body of his son who died in the war, - Channel 5
🕯️ Kyiv bids farewell to two-year-old Angelina and her mother, whose lives were cut short by a Russian missile on August 28.
🇪🇺🇺🇦 Europe is developing "quite precise plans" for a possible deployment of troops in Ukraine as part of post-war security guarantees, — Ursula von der Leyen 🇺🇸 Security guarantees are absolutely crucial. Trump assured us that the American presence will be part of the support.
▪️Hungary will not succumb to pressure and will protect the Hungarian people from the negative consequences of war and sanctions. ▪️Brussels does not prioritize Hungary's energy security and whether Hungarians can be provided with sufficient energy sources.
🇪🇺😅🇭🇺 The European Commission has not yet responded to the letter to take action regarding the Ukrainian attacks on the Druzhba oil pipeline, — Hungarian MFA Szijjártó. ▪️Brussels and most EU member states are not interested in peace, but in the “long-term continuation of the war in Ukraine”.
🇩🇪🇺🇦 Merz: All efforts of the past weeks have been answered with an even more aggressive approach by this regime in Moscow against the population in Ukraine. This will also not stop until we ensure together that Russia, at least for economic reasons, and perhaps also for military reasons…
🕯️ Kyiv bids farewell to two-year-old Angelina and her mother, whose lives were cut short by a Russian missile on August 28.
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💣⚠️ Sea mines are floating off the coast of Odessa. A strong explosion near the coast is also reported - probably a cargo ship was blown up by such a mine.
🇺🇦🇺🇸 Both American and European negotiators have received a clear demand from the Kremlin: Moscow categorically rejects any clause that would allow the transfer of frozen Russian state assets to finance Ukraine’s reconstruction. Read more ⬇️ theukrainianreview.info/behind-the-s...
🤬 While Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko shows the body of a murdered child who died as a result of a Russian attack during the UN Security Council, the Russian representative demonstratively looks at her phone…
You have a kid and there’s another kid on the playground, and they hate each other, and they start waving their arms and waving and waving, and you want them to stop, and they keep going. After a while, they’re happy to stop. You know? Sometimes they have to fight a little bit before they can stop.”
🇺🇸🇺🇦 Full quote from Donald Trump on a possible trilateral meeting between the US, Russia and Ukraine: “A trilateral will happen. A bilateral, I don’t know, but a trilateral will happen. But, you know, sometimes people aren’t ready for that. I give you an analogy. I’ve used it a couple of times.
🇺🇸🚫🇺🇦 Trump is seriously considering stepping back from the diplomatic efforts regarding Ukraine until one or both parties begin to show more flexibility, - Axios
• The scheme resulted in the purchase of hundreds of thousands of dollars in electronics, including analog-to-digital converters used in aviation, missile weapons, and EW. • US Department of Commerce had previously added him to a special list that prohibits purchases without official permission.
🇪🇪🇺🇸 Estonian extradited to the US for helping Russia acquire American electronics, — Militarnyi • He is suspected of years of attempts to circumvent US export controls. • He created shell companies and misled American suppliers in order to purchase technology for Russian defense contractors.
The Trump administration has vacillated between insisting Putin is ready to negotiate in good faith and resignation that the war will continue for some time. Moscow has backtracked on a peace summit and ruled out several proposals to fortify Ukraine’s future security.
🇺🇸🇪🇺🇺🇦 US administration’s neutral response to the Russian attack comes despite the public pleas from European allies who insisted that Russia’s onslaught is more than tit-for-tat, - Politico There is a clear disconnect about the prospects for peace in the near term.
The only way to reopen the window of opportunity for diplomacy is tough tariffs against all those who pump money into the Russian army, and effective sanctions against Moscow itself - banking and energy.
🇺🇦 Zelensky: We saw the world's reaction to the previous shelling. But now, when Russia is once again showing that it doesn't care about words, we are counting on real action. It is clear that Moscow has used the time allocated for the preparation of the meeting to prepare new massive strikes.
🛢️🔥 Russian refinery downtime hits historic record after latest Ukrainian drone attacks, — Reuters The volume of downtime at Russian oil refineries in August hit a historic record — 6.4 million tons. Since the beginning of the month, an average of 23% of primary oil refining capacity has been idle.
🇪🇺 A new geopolitical strategy could include different versions of the EU and non-US NATO. There is talk of an Asian defence union, consisting of Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Indonesia and others. @theukrainianreview.bsky.social Read more 👀⬇️ theukrainianreview.info/a-new-world-...
😡🇭🇺 Hungary did not support the EU statement condemning the massive Russian strike on Kyiv. The statement was supported by 26 EU member states - all except the official Budapest. It states that Russia carried out another large-scale attack, killing dozens of Ukrainian civilians.
▪️Olena. She received shrapnel wounds as a result of a missile strike when she was going to shelter. ▪️Vira – a member of Folk Song and Dance Ensemble. ▪️Yana – mother of a 10-year-old boy. ▪️Oksana – a doctor of physical and rehabilitation medicine, neurologist. ▪️14-year-old Nazariy – schoolboy.
💔 The Russians killed 23 people during a missile strike on Kyiv on August 28, including two-year-old Angelina. ❗️The first names of Ukrainians whose lives were cut short: ▪️2-year-old Angelina and her 24-year-old mother Nadiya. ▪️17-year-old Maryna – a student at the Kyiv Energy Vocational College.
😢The youngest person killed in the Russian strike on Kyiv was not even three years old, she died in the house with her mother. In the photo 24-year-old Nadiya and her two-year-old daughter Angelina. She was born under Russian shelling in October 2022 and died from Russian shelling in August 2025.
Of these, 157,000 tons per day, or 17% of the country's total refinery capacity, were shut down due to attacks by Ukrainian drones that hit at least 10 plants and disabled at least five of them.
🛢️🔥 Russian refinery downtime hits historic record after latest Ukrainian drone attacks, — Reuters The volume of downtime at Russian oil refineries in August hit a historic record — 6.4 million tons. Since the beginning of the month, an average of 23% of primary oil refining capacity has been idle.
When Russia chooses ballistics instead of diplomacy, continues to modernize its “Shaheds” for assassinations, and develops interaction with entities like North Korea, it means that the world must respond accordingly.
🇺🇦 Zelensky: In total, the Russians killed 23 people in Kyiv. The fate of 8 people still remains unknown. Another 53 were injured. Russia must be responsible for this strike.
🤡 Putin demanded "de jure" recognition of Russian control over Crimea and Donbas in exchange for renouncing legal claims to Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions. But the issue of presence of Russian troops was not raised, — Atlantic Kremlin's demands have changed little since the beginning of the war.
🇮🇹🇺🇦 The latest Russian strike on Kyiv shows that Russia has no intention of negotiating an end to the war, — Italian PM Meloni ❗️The country's Foreign Minister also spoke on this topic, stating that he does not see the end of the war in Ukraine by the end of this year.
🇬🇧🇺🇦 My thoughts are with all those affected by the senseless Russian strikes on Kyiv which have damaged the British Council building, — Starmer. Putin is killing children and civilians, and sabotaging hopes of peace. This bloodshed must end.
🇪🇺❗️Russia struck the building of the diplomatic mission of the EU in Kyiv!
🕯️ Already 12 dead in Kyiv, including three children — 2, 17 and 14 years old, — Kyiv Mayor Klitschko 💔🇺🇦 Dog and hedgehog rescued from rubble. ❗️ 9 people may be under the rubble of a high-rise building.
‼️ More footage after Russian attack on Kyiv! ⚠️ Russian troops carried out a targeted strike on civilian passenger train. Intercity+ high-speed train fleet was hit, in particular.
📉 Russian oil exports have fallen by about 20% since the Ukrainian strikes on the Druzhba pipeline, down 600,000 barrels a day, - The Moscow Times While the pipeline is primarily associated with oil exports to Hungary and Slovakia, it also supplies Russia's key oil port of Ust-Luga.
In total, since the start of the full-scale invasion, businesses from abroad have already transferred more than $60 billion. • Raiffeisen Bank ($402M); • Chery Automobile ($222M); • Philip Morris International ($220M) and Japan Tobacco International ($182M); • Retailer Leroy Merlin ($128M).
💸❗️Foreign companies paid at least $20 billion in taxes to the Russian budget in 2024, according to the KSE Institute and B4Ukraine, — Newsweek. These funds would be enough to pay the salaries of 1 million Russian soldiers.
👀🇪🇺 Europe is restoring bogs on its eastern borders to stop Russian tanks, – Politico ▪️Bogs are natural obstacle that gets stuck in tanks and heavy equipment. ▪️Bogs, by absorbing carbon dioxide, help fight global warming. 🇵🇱Poland, 🇫🇮Finland, 🇱🇹Lithuania are already developing such a plan.
In August, Ukrainian troops repeatedly struck the Druzhba pipeline and the Unecha pumping station in the Bryansk region, which further limited Russia's export capabilities.
🛢️👀 Russia to increase crude oil exports by 200,000 barrels per day in August due to Ukrainian strikes on refineries — Reuters. Such a decision will affect the western Russian ports of Primorsk, Novorossiysk and Ust-Luga. Instead of the planned 1.8 million barrels per day, it will reach 2 million.
📌Mine-related incidents happen so often that some residents do not even bother to report them. 📌Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, just under 1,000 people have been injured by mines and explosives, 359 people have died, including at least 18 children.
📌As noted, mines and shells kill hundreds of people and make roads, parks and forests dangerous. In the Sumy region and in the south of the country, families died right on civilian highways, where Russians planted new explosive devices, including from drones.
⚠️🇺🇦 More than the size of England: about a quarter of Ukraine's territory is mined. 📌The UN estimates that there are already more than 1 million mines and unexploded ordnance in the country. According to experts, a quarter of the territory is contaminated, writes The Guardian.
🛢️🔥 Russia could soon face a severe fuel crisis that may paralyze the country and send prices skyrocketing. This development underscores Ukraine’s ability to pressure Russia not just militarily, but also affecting ordinary citizens. Read more 👀⬇️ theukrainianreview.info/symbolic-vis...
🇺🇸👀 Steve Witkoff: Russia, Ukraine, Iran, Israel, Hamas - we're meeting this week on all three of those conflicts and we hope to resolve them by the end of the year.
📍In territories such as the Kuril Islands, the population has limited sales to 10 liters per person, fuel is a priority for special transport. 📍The introduction of coupons is being discussed in other regions — 20 liters per car per day.
📍Ukrainian attacks in recent weeks have damaged at least 10 large oil refineries. 📍In regions — from the Far East to Crimea and the Kuril Islands — gas stations remain without gasoline, long lines have formed, and sales are carried out only by coupons or cards.
👀❗️Gasoline coupons are being introduced in a number of Russian regions: primarily in European and border regions, - Russian media 📍Ukrainian drone attacks on refineries have significantly reduced gasoline production, causing a shortage in the domestic market.
🇩🇪 If the meeting between Putin and Zelensky does not take place in the near future, then "the ball will be in the court of the Europeans and Americans again," — Chancellor Merz
🙏🇺🇦 Zelensky: Every day of work of our rescuers proves that they are real heroes. Our people do titanic work and always work to help as soon as possible, to save as many lives as possible. After shelling, under repeated blows, in frontline regions and in the rear, they always save.
🥔😅 Belarus is in no hurry to help Russia with gasoline due to the fuel crisis. Minsk considers it better to sell fuel to other countries, — Foreign Intelligence Service.
🇺🇦❗️Russia now has an existential threat on its border in the form of Ukraine. There may be freeze for several months or years, but then only the first stage of the war will end, and everyone will have time to prepare for the second stage… Read more ⬇️ theukrainianreview.info/putin-is-afr...
‼️🇺🇦 Putin is afraid of Zelenskyy. Will there be a fateful meeting? 🤔 If Putin does come to summit, it will only strengthen Zelenskyy’s power and dispel all the propaganda that he has been pouring into the ears of the Russians… Read more 👀⬇️ theukrainianreview.info/putin-is-afr...
🇺🇸🇺🇦 Symbolic Visit of Keith Kellogg: A Signal of U.S. Support for Ukraine from the Trump Administration. 🇪🇺🇬🇧 Kellogg’s visit was directly tied to discussions over a joint U.S.–European security guarantees package for Ukraine. Read more 👀⬇️ theukrainianreview.info/symbolic-vis...
🇺🇸🇺🇦👀 Donald Trump, answering a question about a possible meeting between Putin and Zelensky, stressed that holding it depends on the readiness of both sides. ❗️Such a meeting should precede his own with the leaders in order to facilitate the conclusion of a peace agreement.
By taking part in a festival that brings together Putin’s supporters and voices, Allen chooses to turn a blind eye to the atrocities Russia commits in Ukraine every single day for 11 years now. Culture must never be used to whitewash crimes or serve as a propaganda tool.
🇺🇦❗️MFA of Ukraine: Woody Allen’s participation in the Moscow International Film Week is a disgrace and an insult to the sacrifice of Ukrainian actors and filmmakers who have been killed or injured by Russian war criminals in their ongoing war against Ukraine.
Meanwhile, a fire at the Novoshakhtinsk oil refinery, also caused by a Ukrainian drone strike, continued for a fourth day. The refinery, which mainly produces fuel for export, has an annual capacity of 5 million metric tons of oil — about 100,000 barrels per day.
Brent crude futures rose 6 cents, or 0.09%, to $67.79 a barrel, while West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures gained 9 cents, or 0.14%, to $63.75 a barrel. On Sunday, Ukraine launched a drone attack on Russia, causing a large fire at a fuel export terminal in Ust-Luga.
🛢️ Oil prices rose slightly on Monday after intensified attacks on Russian energy facilities, - Reuters. The strikes have raised concerns about possible disruptions to Russian oil supplies, while expectations of lower U.S. interest rates have improved the outlook for global growth and fuel demand.
🇵🇱❗️🇺🇦 Veto on law providing social benefits and free medical care to unemployed Ukrainian citizens, — Polish President
He said that during peace talks, people cannot be allowed to die every day from Russian attacks. “Therefore, a ceasefire must be declared. In addition, reliable security guarantees are needed that will ensure lasting peace for Ukraine. Germany will fulfill its obligations.”
🇩🇪🇺🇦 German Vice Chancellor and Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil arrived in Kyiv. “Putin must have no illusions that our support for Ukraine can waver. On the contrary: we remain the second largest supporter of Ukraine in the world and the largest in Europe. Ukraine can continue to rely on Germany.”
🇺🇦 "It’s important to remember — helping Ukraine is not charity. It is an investment in shared security," — D. Kuleba, MFA (2020–2024) It is crucial to continue supporting Ukraine — with weapons, financially, diplomatically, politically… Read more 👀⬇️ theukrainianreview.info/the-war-is-n...
🇨🇦🇺🇦 Ukraine and Canada are negotiating an agreement on subsoil, — Svyrydenko Ukraine is open to capital and needs 1-2 landmark agreements that will become a signal for the private sector, in particular in the field of LNG, gas infrastructure or the development of new deposits, geo-exploration.
🇺🇸🤔 Trump has put more economic pressure on the Russians to stop this war than Biden has in three years, — Vance. Russians don’t want a ceasefire for a variety of complex reasons. Trump still has a lot of leverage to push and try to end this conflict, and that’s what we’re going to do.
▪️Russian Foreign Ministry stated that the Kremlin's position on peace talks remains unchanged, emphasizing the demands on Ukraine, in particular, a ban on joining NATO and restrictions on military assistance from the West.
‼️ Putin is an obstacle to peace, — ISW on the Kremlin's unwillingness to hold talks with Zelensky. ▪️Putin is not interested in serious peace talks with Ukraine and refuses to meet with Zelensky.
🇨🇦🇺🇦 Over $1 billion to be spent on drones, ammunition and armored vehicles for Ukraine, — Carney The weapons will arrive next month. Canada will also strengthen its cooperation within the Child Return Coalition to bring all Ukrainian children home.
One day the distance between Ukrainians will disappear, and we will again be together as one family, as one country. Ukraine will be able to achieve peace. Ukraine is capable of this.
🇺🇦 Ukraine will never again in history be forced into the shame that the Russians call compromise. We are building a Ukraine that will have enough strength and power to live in security and peace, — Zelensky congratulated Ukrainians on Independence Day
We thank our military, who stand on the defense of the independence of our state, who protect and defend everyone at the cost of life, at the cost of health! We are Ukrainians, strong, independent, we will stand and win! Happy Independence Day!
🇺🇦 Independence Day of Ukraine was officially proclaimed on August 24, 1991 by the Act of Independence, which was adopted by the session of the Verkhovna Rada. From that moment on, the history of our country changed forever.
🇺🇦❗️Even in the event of a “frozen” conflict, we will face a situation similar to the divided Koreas: constant tension and no final resolution. Russia, in any case, will return to aggression in a few years… Read article from TUR team 👀⬇️ theukrainianreview.info/peace-talks-...
🇳🇱🇺🇦 Zelensky: I spoke with PM of The Netherlands, Dick Schoof. We discussed security guarantees. We also spoke about how the Netherlands can increase its involvement in this process and help ensure security guarantees. We also talked about our joint projects and investments in defense production.
However, there are concerns that China could use the mission for reconnaissance and take a pro-Russian position if the conflict escalates, a senior EU diplomat notes.
🇨🇳🤔🇺🇦 China ready for UN-mandated peacekeeping mission in Ukraine, — Welt Beijing's initiative has caused mixed reactions in Brussels. The participation of the "global South" countries, in particular China, could speed up the deployment of international forces to monitor the peace process.
They were severely beaten, subjected to simulated drowning and threatened with execution. These recorded cases represent only a small part of the “extensive, well-documented” practice of sexualized assaults by the Russian military — including rapes and threats of rape.
🤬 Russian soldiers systematically use “sexualized torture” in occupied territories of Ukraine — experts from UN Human Rights Council documented cases of torture of ten civilians. UN: four women and six men were repeatedly beaten with electric shocks by Russian soldiers, including on the genitals.
🇺🇸🇷🇺🇪🇺🇺🇦 All sides are simply trying to politically outlive Trump. Russia is not interested in negotiations. Europe needs another 1.5-2 years to rearm, and Ukraine plays a key role here, because it is a barrier and buys time for partners. Read more 👀⬇️ theukrainianreview.info/peace-talks-...
🔥 Russia has lost more than 13% of its refining capacity due to Ukrainian drone strikes. In total, in just under three weeks, the oil industry lost 44.3 million tons of annual refining capacity, or 13.5% of the country’s total of 328 million tons per year.
"Trump has long believed that Russia has the advantage in the war itself and should be persuaded to negotiate peace," said former administration officials. "Ukraine is heavily dependent on the US for weapons and intelligence supplies. Therefore, there is more room for pressure."