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Perspectives from around Europe on Ursula von der Leyen’s choices for the new EU Commission.
After a few hiccups and a lot of grumbling in the selection process, Ursula von der Leyen announced on Tuesday her list of 27 commissioners-designate for the new EU Commission. The next step is for the EU Parliament to approve her candidates. Each member state has been assigned a post, but a glance at the commentary sections shows that not everyone is satisfied with their portfolio, and opinions also differ on the overall lineup.
Many women and Spain gets a top portfolio
Ukraine’s Kursk operation is different, and it ain’t over
Reports from both sides tell of combat taking place between mobile formations. Engagements are often quick and deadly with the advantage going to the ambushers.
Azerbaijani military observer Agil Rustamzade said in an interview: “The peculiarity of the Kursk operation is… approximately 1,200 square kilometers [of Russian territory] are a free fire zone, that is, there was no fixed front line and no concentration of forces and resources typical of linear defense. This is what distinguishes this [Kursk] operation from all the others that were carried out in this war.”
Operator Starsky, the well-known Ukrainian veteran, reservist, blogger, and co-founder of the Propaganda Study Institute, says that Russia is already at war with the West.
Atesh claims that military commissariat employees in one Samara region city are operating from underground offices to avoid sabotage while preparing troops for deployment against Ukraine.
The Atesh partisan movement has reported that men from Russia’s Samara region are currently being mobilized and sent to the front lines in the Kursk region.
Its members have investigated the activities of the military commissariat in the city of Syzran in Russia’s Samara region, where they obtained information indicating intensified mobilization efforts.
Nine European countries protested against the IMF’s plans to resume missions to Russia, arguing that engaging with Russia would damage the Fund's reputation.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has indefinitely postponed its scheduled consultation mission with Russia due to technical issues, as reported by the TASS news agency on Wednesday, Sept. 18.
Alexei Mozhin, Russia’s representative at the IMF, stated that the Fund's management had informed both the Russian side and the board of directors about the postponement.
The exact reason for the arrest remains unclear at present, though the boxer later called it a “misunderstanding” in a social media announcement following his release.
Ukrainian unified heavyweight boxing champion Oleksandr Usyk was detained and subsequently released at the Krakow airport in Poland on Tuesday evening while attempting to board a plane to Valencia in Spain.
The arrest was made public when Ukrainian lawmaker and Olympic wrestler Zhan Beleniuk posted videos of Usyk’s arrest.
Yuri Kokhovets, 38, accused Russian soldiers of shooting civilians in Bucha “for no reason at all” in a spontaneous interview he gave to US-funded news outlet Radio Liberty in July 2022.
A Russian man convicted of criticising the Ukraine conflict in a street interview had his sentence toughened on Tuesday from five years' hard labour to five years' prison, state media reported.
Yuri Kokhovets, 38, accused Russian soldiers of shooting civilians in the Kyiv suburb of Bucha "for no reason at all" in a spontaneous interview he gave to US-funded news outlet Radio Liberty in July 2022.
A false claim circulating on social media that Kamala Harris left a 13-year-old girl paralysed after a hit-and-run in San Francisco in 2011 is the work of a covert Russian disinformation operation.
A false claim circulating on social media that Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris left a 13-year-old girl paralysed after an alleged hit-and-run in San Francisco in 2011 is the work of a covert Russian disinformation operation, according to new research by Microsoft.
Researchers found that the operation created a video, paid an actor to appear as the alleged victim, and spread the claim through a fake website for a non-existent San Francisco news outlet named “KBSF-TV”. The Russian group responsible, which Microsoft dubs Storm-1516, is described as a Kremlin-aligned troll farm.
According to initial accounts the warehouse, which stored 122-mm rockets for BM-21 Grad systems and 82-mm mortars among other munitions, was effectively destroyed.
Ukrainian drones targeted an ammunition storage depot in Russia's Tver region early on the morning of Wednesday, Sept. 18, causing fires and explosions in the city of Toropets, according to the region's governor, Igor Rudenya.
Kyiv Post's sources in Ukraine's Special Services said that it was a joint operation by Ukraine's Military Intelligence (HUR), Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) and Special Operations Forces (SSO).
Almost a quarter of Ukrainian territory is contaminated with landmines, cluster munitions and other explosive remnants of war (ERW) because of the war that started in February 2022.
The Swiss government formally announced it was to host an international “Ukraine Mine Action Conference (UMAC2024)” in cooperation with Ukraine at the EHL Hospitality Business School in Lausanne, on Oct 17 and 18.
The conference aims to address the wide scale contamination from explosive remnants of war (ERW) focusing on the critical role that humanitarian demining will play in the country’s social and economic recovery. The event, is expected to bring together representatives from national governments, international organizations, humanitarian demining agencies, and civil society.
As Moscow's war on Ukraine grinds on through a third year, some of Kyiv's staunchest supporters have risen up the pecking order as Brussels has reshuffled its deck.
After claiming key posts, including EU foreign policy and defence in Ursula von der Leyen's new commission, eastern European countries most wary of Russia look set to carry more sway.
As Moscow's war on Ukraine grinds on through a third year, some of Kyiv's staunchest supporters have risen up the pecking order as Brussels has reshuffled its deck.
“In this war between the West and Russian autocracy, leaders should give real support rather than words.” Kyiv Post speaks to one of Poland’s most influential senators.
The 20th edition of the YES (Yalta European Strategy) conference has concluded in Kyiv. Among the guests were delegations from many countries, the heads of Polish and Lithuanian diplomacy, Radek Sikorski and Gabrielius Landsbergis, former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and many others.
On Sept. 14, Kyiv Post had the opportunity to discuss the topics raised at the conference with Maciej Kopiec, a Polish senator and vice-chairman of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee from the New Left.
With enough shells and rockets, Ukraine could change the course of the war.
In the pitch-black night along the Ukrainian front, soldiers from the 23rd Mechanized Brigade's drone unit, Clear Eyes, engage in a high-stakes game of cat and mouse. Their weapon of choice is a first-person view (FPV) drone, used to hunt Russian soldiers who dare to venture into the open around Chasiv Yar, a besieged town in eastern Ukraine that straddles the front line since Russian forces captured Bakhmut last year.
As dusk settles, intelligence gathered by DJI Mavic drones and reconnaissance drones helps guide the night bombing missions. These aerial scouts have tracked Russian troop movements, pinpointing their attempts to establish new positions and dig protective trenches. With nightfall, the Russians hide in their dugouts, unaware that shortly, Ukrainian drones will drop bombs on their positions.
Latest from the Institute for the Study of War.
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Central Asia proposes oil route for Europe to bypass Russia; US says it has reviewed Zelensky’s new peace plan; Rome apologizes for delay of air defense system arrival, scheduled for end of the month.
On Tuesday, a consortium of Central Asian countries proposed that Germany, in particular, invest in an oil corridor to Europe that would bypass Russian-controlled pipelines and supply.
Kicking off a visit by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to Kazakhstan this week, Kazakh leader Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said that the “further integration of transport and logistics systems between Central Asia and Europe is an urgent task,” AFP reported. “We are counting on Germany’s help to connect this route to the trans-European transport network,” Tokayev said.
