Western diplomats in Kyiv are privately discussing contingency plans in case the situation sharply worsens because of Russian strikes on Ukraine’s civilian infrastructure in the capital, including a possible relocation of embassies to Lviv or eastern Poland. According to two senior diplomats, such a scenario is being considered in case Russia begins deliberately attacking foreign missions.

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The American-Ukrainian investment fund has closed its first deal in the mineral extraction sector. It involves about $30 million in investments in a joint platform with BGV Group in Ukraine.

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At Astana Airport, the capital of Kazakhstan, Ukrainian citizen Lyubov Rozhanskaya was detained at Russia’s request after arriving from Istanbul, Turkey, to pick up her grandson. She is now being held in pretrial detention in Astana, and a court hearing on extradition is expected within three days.

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The European Union did not speed up the allocation of part of the €90 billion loan to Ukraine, despite Kyiv’s request to send the funds in advance to cover the shortfall in military financing this year. Bloomberg sources say that instead, the EU is proposing that Canada, Norway, and Japan join the financing.

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Several members of the Finnish Parliament have complained about intrusions into their homes and apartments while the owners were away. There have already been more than 10 such cases, and the Helsinki police and the Finnish National Bureau of Investigation have launched a preliminary investigation.

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A survey by Active Group for the Future Research Foundation showed that 51.7% of Ukrainians allow a territorial compromise to end the war with Russia. 41.3% of respondents opposed this option.

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The American startup Powerus, which is going public through a merger with Aureus Greenway Holdings, backed by Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, said it wants to bring Ukrainian and other foreign military developments to the US for the Pentagon. The company’s president, Brett Velicovich, said Powerus is in talks with Ukrainian defense firms and expects to set up production of long-range strike drones.

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced the first combat use of the FP-7 tactical ballistic missile. He also said that Ukraine will produce such missiles serially, but did not disclose details of the strike.

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On October 1, Vladimir Putin spoke at the plenary session of the XXIII annual meeting of the Valdai Club. At the opening of the session, moderator Fyodor Lukyanov said that the club’s annual report is called «No Panic», and Putin replied that the pressing problems have not gone away.

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In August, Russian exports to Turkey fell to $1.93 billion, almost 41% compared with July and to the lowest level since 2022. This follows from a Turkstat report; the decline came amid Ukraine’s de facto blockade of ports in southern Russia.

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The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe adopted two resolutions — on the elections in Russia and on the ECHR’s refusal to consider 879 applications from Russians. In the elections document, PACE proposes not recognizing the new State Duma as the democratically elected and legitimate representative of Russian citizens.

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Moscow sent NATO a diplomatic note warning of its readiness to use nuclear weapons if the alliance tries to isolate the Kaliningrad region from the rest of Russia. Reuters saw the document; in it, the Russian side also accused NATO of a «dangerous and reckless course» and of risking a direct armed conflict.

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Bulgarian Prime Minister Rumen Radev said that Europe should reconsider the balance of military, economic, and diplomatic tools and give priority to diplomacy in relations with Russia. Otherwise, he said, the situation could lead to a Russian nuclear strike.

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Russian forces attacked Ukraine’s energy sector on September 30 with drones carrying a special warhead that, according to Ukrainian presidential adviser and military technology expert Serhii Flash, was developed to destroy high-voltage pylons and metal bridge structures. According to the authorities, the strikes hit major power lines near Kyiv and energy facilities in the Chernihiv and Zhytomyr regions, after which emergency blackouts were introduced in several regions.

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Each hour of air raid alert, during which Ukrainian enterprises stop working, costs the country’s economy about $45 million. Ukraine’s Minister of Economy and Environment, Alexander Kravchenko, told The Guardian about this.

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By the start of the autumn session, chicken Kyiv was renamed in the State Duma cafeteria. The dish is now called «cutlet with butter» and costs 270 rubles.

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Ukraine returned 14 children from the part of Kherson region controlled by the Russian army, said the head of the Kherson Regional Military Administration, Oleksandr Prokudin. Among them were four boys and 10 girls aged six to 17.

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Five of the eight leaders of the Russian army’s 6th Motor Rifle Division, accused in a case involving the murder, torture, and desecration of the bodies of their subordinates, have again gone to war in Ukraine. The criminal case continues to be heard against the former division commander, Major General Marat Ospanov, and on September 18 the Military Appeals Court left him in pretrial detention.

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Donald Trump approved the idea of easing American sanctions against Russia in exchange for the release of some Russian political prisoners, The Atlantic пишет. The initiative is at an early stage: the specific individuals involved and the list of possible sanctions concessions have not yet been disclosed.

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The German Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reported that CIA Director John Ratcliffe unexpectedly arrived in Moscow at the end of August and delivered a grim warning to the Russian leadership about the state of the economy. According to the publication, he argued to the Kremlin that Russia would not be able to win the war in Ukraine economically and risked repeating the collapse of the USSR because of military spending.

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