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With the far-left and far-right – both holding pro-Russian views – gaining traction in Germany, some worry that the rise of both might diminish Berlin’s support for Ukraine.
The positive results for far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) and left-wing populist Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW) – both holding pro-Russian views – during Sunday’s regional elections might be cause for concern regarding Berlin’s future aid to Ukraine.
AfD won a landmark first regional vote on Sunday in the former East German state of Thuringia, taking between 32.8 percent of the vote, followed by the Christian Democratic Party’s (CDU) 23.6 percent and the BSW’s 15.8 percent.
The illegal crimes of the Wagner Group have spanned the world. Now, they pose a threat to American and European security.
The French judiciary has accused the billionaire, who has Russian and French citizenship, of assisting and complicity in allowing his platform to be used for illicit purposes.
Telegram boss Pavel Durov, who was arrested in Paris, has been released on bail for five million euros, however, he is not allowed to leave France.
The French judiciary has accused the billionaire, who has Russian and French citizenship, of assisting and complicity in serious offences, including child pornography, which were coordinated via Telegram; proceedings against him have been initiated.
The Institute for the Study of War (ISW) said Russia’s goal is likely to push back Ukrainian troops and be within reach to launch artillery strikes into Kharkiv City.
Russian troops have made creeping advances north of Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city in the east, amidst Kyiv’s ongoing offensive inside Russia’s Kursk region that started on Aug. 6.
The Insitute for the Study of War (ISW), citing geolocated footage in its Sept. 1 report, said Russian troops advanced within western Hlyboke, a village 30 kilometers (18.6 miles) north of Kharkiv City and 7 kilometers (4.5 miles) south of the Russian border.
Svitlana Shabalina, a kind teacher, inspired two Paralympians to take up badminton. They were reunited in Paris.
One of the consequences of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has been to scatter Ukrainians all over the world, separating families and friends. But the Paralympics in Paris produced one emotional reunion of a teacher and two orphans.
Badminton duo Oksana Kozyna and Oleksandr Chyrkov left Dnipro soon after the invasion in February 2022, finding sanctuary in France.
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The Grom-E1 is a sophisticated weapon created from the Soviet-era Kh-38 “air-to-surface” missile. It combines the features of both a missile and an aerial bomb.
Kharkiv experienced a new level of attack on Saturday, Aug. 31, as Russian forces deployed the Grom-E1 missile, a hybrid between a rocket and a guided aerial bomb, for the first time during the full-scale invasion, Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov confirmed.
The Grom-E1 is a sophisticated weapon created from the Soviet-era Kh-38 “air-to-surface” missile. It combines the features of both a missile and an aerial bomb, making it particularly lethal.
The Ukrainian Business Leaders: Promoting Innovation and Entrepreneurship (UBL PIE) program is a free exchange program for Ukrainian entrepreneurs.
The Ukrainian Business Leaders: Promoting Innovation and Entrepreneurship (UBL PIE) program is a free exchange program for Ukrainian entrepreneurs focused on developing business sectors, social entrepreneurship, innovation, regional economic growth, and technology in Ukraine. This initiative is fully funded by the U.S. Department of State and administered by the American Councils for International Education.
The fellowship is open to men and women residing in Ukraine who meet the age criteria (21-40 years old), have an upper-intermediate or higher level of English proficiency, and have experience in the private sector.
Chasiv Yar protects a cluster of towns – Kramatorsk, Sloviansk, Druzhkivka, Kostyantynivka. The logistical routes of Ukrainian forces are controlled from this hill.
Russian troops do not have fire control over the town of Chasiv Yar, in the Donetsk region, and they have been unable to establish a bridgehead, Oleh Kalashnikov, press officer of the 26th Artillery Brigade, told Espresso TV.
“The town is indeed under fire, but it cannot be said that the enemy controls Chasiv Yar through fire damage,” Kalashnikov said.
The Polish top diplomat's remarks come a week after the NATO country's airspace was breached by what the army said was likely a drone after Russia pummelled neighbouring Ukraine with deadly strikes.
Warsaw has a "constitutional duty" to shoot down Russian missiles over Ukraine that are on course to hit Polish territory, Poland's foreign minister told the Financial Times in an interview published Monday.
The Polish top diplomat's remarks come a week after the NATO country's airspace was breached by what the army said was likely a drone after Russia pummelled neighbouring Ukraine with deadly strikes.
The Kremlin artillery and armor attacks are pounding one of Ukraine’s most seasoned combat units and the “fortress city” of Vuhledar. The pace of Russian assaults is near an all-time high.
Russian forces have opened a new attack axis in the Kremlin’s ongoing and so-far relentless Donbas offensive, launching assaults at the industrial city of Vuhledar and hitting Ukrainian defenses there with air strikes, artillery bombardments and massed armored assaults.
Ukrainian troops holding fortifications first built around the coal-mining center in mid-2022 and continuously improved since, on Monday reported being hit with a hurricane of carpet bombing strikes followed by frontal attacks by infantry riding armored transporters.
Israel has sent officials to Moscow to seek the Kremlin’s assistance in facilitating the Gaza hostage deal as ongoing efforts involving the West have shown little progress.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had sent his military aide to Moscow to seek assistance from the Kremlin in facilitating a deal to free hostages held by Hamas.
“During the conversation, it was revealed that the Prime Minister’s Military Secretary, Maj.-Gen. Roman Gofman returned this morning from a visit to Moscow, the goal of which was to advance the hostages deal and during which he discussed Alexander Lobanov and the other hostages,” reads an official statement on social media published on Sept. 1.
58.5 percent of Poles support shooting down Russian aerial objects that violate Polish airspace, with women more likely to support air defense action than men, 60.8 to 55 percent.
The majority of Poles (58.5 percent) favor the Polish military shooting down Russian aerial objects, including missiles and drones, that violate Poland’s airspace, according to a survey conducted by SW Research for Rzeczpospolita.
These airborne weapons frequently fly through Polish sovereign airspace during Russian attacks on Ukraine.
Some military analysts in Russia have advised Putin to lower the threshold for nuclear use in order to "sober up" Russia's enemies in the West.
Russia will make changes to its doctrine on the use of nuclear weapons in response to what it regards as Western escalation in the war in Ukraine, state media quoted Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov as saying on Sunday (1 September).
The existing nuclear doctrine, set out in a decree by President Vladimir Putin in 2020, says Russia may use nuclear weapons in the event of a nuclear attack by an enemy or a conventional attack that threatens the existence of the state.
American and Ukrainian investigators are exploring other potential causes, including technical malfunction and pilot error.
The Pentagon believes it is unlikely that the F-16 fighter jet that recently crashed in Ukraine was shot down by friendly fire, according to two senior US military officials speaking to The New York Times.
American and Ukrainian investigators are exploring other potential causes, including technical malfunction and pilot error.
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The head of Israel's biggest labour union called for a general strike on Monday to pressure Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government to bring back Israeli hostages still held by Hamas in Gaza, as thousands of protesters took to the streets. Earlier, Israel recovered the bodies of six hostages from a tunnel in southern Gaza where they were apparently killed not long before Israeli troops reached them, according to the military, prompting fury and grief among Israelis. The call for a one-day general strike by Arnon Bar-David, whose Histadrut union represents hundreds of thousands of workers, was backed by Israel's main manufacturers and entrepreneurs in the high-tech sector. The alliance of some of the most powerful voices in Israel's economy reflected the scale of public anger over the deaths of the six hostages, who were among some 250 people seized by Hamas militants on Oct. 7 last year. "We must reach a deal (on the return of the surviving hostages). A deal is more important than anything else," Bar-David told a press conference. "We are getting body bags instead of a deal." Ben Gurion Airport, Israel's main air transport hub, will be closed from 8 a.m. (0500 GMT) on Monday, he said. Municipal services in Israel's economic hub Tel-Aviv will also be shut for part of Monday - Reuters
Meanwhile in Gaza, the Hamas-run health ministry says medical teams successfully vaccinated 72,611 children against polio yesterday. Sunday saw the first in a series of "humanitarian pauses" in fighting, to allow children to be vaccinated against the virus. The drive comes after UN officials said a 10-month-old baby is partially paralysed after contracting polio - Gaza's first recorded case in 25 years. Humanitarian groups say the virus has re-emerged as the war between Israel and Hamas has disrupted child vaccination programmes and caused damage to water and sanitation systems - BBC
Ukraine's surprise August 6 incursion into Russia has displaced around 130,000 people and seen Kyiv hold on to parts of the border Kursk region.
President Vladimir Putin said Monday Kyiv's incursion into Russia's Kursk region will not stop Moscow's advance in east Ukraine and vowed to deal with Ukrainian "bandits" there.
Ukraine's surprise August 6 incursion into Russia has displaced around 130,000 people and seen Kyiv hold on to parts of the border Kursk region.
Latest from the British Defence Intelligence.
Russian air strikes on Sumy targeted a children's rehabilitation center and an orphanage, injuring 13 people, including two children.
Among Moscow’s targets during its relentless Sunday air strike on Ukraine’s northeast were a center for the rehabilitation of children and an orphanage, both in the Sumy region. Thirteen people have been reported injured in those attacks, including two children.
The head of the city of Sumy’s Military Administration Oleksii Drozdenko reported that on Sunday night, “the enemy launched a missile attack on the premises of a Sumy educational institution where the Centre for the Social and Psychological Rehabilitation of Children and an orphanage are located. The building is located in the middle of a residential area.”
The AfD is unlikely to come to power in either state because other parties have ruled out working with the far right to form a government.
Germany's far-right AfD won a landmark first regional vote on Sunday in the former East German state of Thuringia, exit polls showed, in a blow to Chancellor Olaf Scholz ahead of national elections in 2025.
The AfD took between 30.5 and 33.5 percent of the vote in Thuringia, according to exit polls, with the conservative CDU in second place at around 24.5 percent.
As Vice President Harris looks to strengthen US-NATO relations, former President Trump has called the Alliance obsolete.
In July, dozens of defense ministers, world leaders, and foreign dignitaries gathered in Washington, D.C. to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. During the event, NATO members and their partners discussed the significance of the organization, the future of the Alliance, and current global challenges.
The summit came at an essential time as dozens of European countries and the US are holding elections this year. Throughout the 32 member states, various political parties have emerged calling for their countries to ease relations with NATO.
The assault included Kh-101 missiles launched from seven Tu-95MS bombers in Russia's Saratov region airspace, as well as KN-24/Iskander-M missiles.
Early Monday morning, Sept. 2, the Ukrainian capital came under a massive combined attack from Russian cruise and ballistic missiles. According to preliminary information, the assault included Kh-101 missiles launched from seven Tu-95MS bombers, as well as KN-24/Iskander-M ballistic missiles.
In addition to the missile strikes, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) also targeted the city.
War in Ukraine - Latest update, key takeaways and map from the Institute for the Study of War on September 1, 2024
Key Takeaways from the ISW:
Children’s center, orphanage, targets of Russian strikes that injured 50-plus; Kremlin spins news of Kyiv’s successful drone attacks on power plants; Recent Harris interview ignores Ukrainian topic.
Among Moscow’s targets during its relentless Sunday air strike on Ukraine’s northeast were a center for the rehabilitation of children and an orphanage, both in the Sumy region. Thirteen people have been reported injured in those attacks, including two children.
The head of the city of Sumy’s Military Administration Oleksii Drozdenko reported that on Sunday night, “the enemy launched a missile attack on the premises of a Sumy educational institution where the Centre for the Social and Psychological Rehabilitation of Children and an orphanage are located. The building is located in the middle of a residential area.”
