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A car was targeted by a Russian drone on Saturday, announced Oleh Hryhorov, head of the regional military administration. Furthermore, a shopping center in Dnipro was largely destroyed by a fire that broke out following the shots by the Russian army, resulting in four injuries.
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Ukraine and Russia have "difficult to reconcile" positions on ending attacks on merchant ships in the Black Sea, stated the Turkish foreign minister Hakan Fidan during a televised interview on Saturday. "We have put forward a proposal to both parties on this point. (...) We have also already received responses from both sides. (...) We see that both parties have demands and positions that are difficult to reconcile," said the Turkish foreign policy chief.
Four people were injured after a shopping center in Dnipro was largely destroyed by a fire that broke out following shots by the Russian army, according to a new report relayed by Oleksandr Hanja, head of the military administration of the Dnipropetrovsk region.
The German Carsten Breuer was elected, on Saturday, president of the NATO military committee and will succeed Italian Giuseppe Cavo Dragone in mid-2027, announced Berlin, stressing that he will be tasked with facing the Russian "threat" which is "increasing".
"The chiefs and heads of staff of the member countries of NATO elected today the Inspector General of the Bundeswehr, General Carsten Breuer, to the post of future president of the NATO military committee," said the German Ministry of Defense in a statement.
Elected for three years, this military advisor to the Secretary General of the organization, the Dutch Mark Rutte, is traditionally a European or a Canadian, while the Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR), appointed by the President of the United States, is currently an American officer.
At the helm of the highest military body of NATO, General Breuer will have the mandate "a clear line: the threat, mainly from Russia, is increasing," commented the German Minister of Defense, Boris Pistorius, in the same statement. The Europeans "will have to invest even more in their own security and conventional deterrence, while the United States will also extend its attention to other regions," he added.
A shopping center in Dnipro was largely destroyed by a fire that broke out following shots by the Russian army, announced Oleksandr Hanja, head of the military administration of the Dnipropetrovsk region, who reported two injuries. Two other civilians were also hospitalized in the Nikopol region, where a gas station was particularly affected, he added.
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Four people were killed on Saturday aboard a car targeted by a Russian FPV drone in the Soumy region, announced Oleh Hryhorov, head of the regional military administration. The victims are two women aged 56 and 76, and two men aged 45 and 58, he specified.
Two thousand twenty-two drones were detected during the past week near the Russian capital, wrote Sergey Sobianine on Telegram. "Most of them were neutralized by the air defense forces at a considerable distance [and] 186 were destroyed near Moscow," he stated. Sixteen were intercepted, according to him, on Saturday.
The Russian authorities generally only report interceptions, suggesting that no drone escapes air defenses. When they report damage, they usually attribute it to debris.
"Classified assessments from US intelligence services from these last months have allowed to determine that the Kremlin has again authorized a digital influence campaign aimed at disseminating content on social networks in the hope of sowing or amplifying internal divisions ahead of the elections," wrote the New York Times, citing unidentified members of the US administration.
No attempt to hack voting material likely to compromise the electoral process was identified, the daily continues, but "Russian disinformation specialists have spotted over the last few weeks social media campaigns using artificial intelligence to create fake videos of Hollywood celebrities commenting on key parliamentary elections."
However, this disinformation campaign seems less extensive and less coordinated than some of the previous Russian interference attempts in US elections, it judges, noting that Russian influence operations have taken place in every federal election cycle since 2016.
"According to some officials, the main objective of Russian influence operations seems to be sowing chaos rather than helping a particular party, even if the examples that independent disinformation researchers have attributed to Russia in recent weeks have exclusively targeted Democratic candidates in undecided states," adds the NYT.
Over several months, everything is accelerating. Warehouses, railway hubs, fuel plants, and energy infrastructures are methodically targeted and destroyed by the Russian army in Ukraine. The data collected by the organization Acled, which works on armed conflicts, and analyzed by Le Monde, shows that between January and August 2026, more than 1,900 sites were destroyed by the Kremlin. Nearly 17 times more than in the entire year 2023.
"Russia is waging a global battle to win minds through a complete network of tools and channels, including (...) cultural centers called 'Russian Houses'. These actually serve as tools for disinformation, destabilization, and espionage," wrote Andrii Sybiha on X.
Welcoming the measures taken in Europe to dismantle them, particularly in Germany, where the Russian House of Berlin was closed yesterday, the foreign policy chief regrets that "these disinformation centers continue to operate in at least seven European countries".
"Ukraine has officially addressed the governments of the entire world to make them aware of the threat that this network poses to their national security. We have provided arguments in favor of limiting their activities and their total closure," he adds.
China condemned, on Saturday, "unilateral" measures, not authorized by the UN and "without basis" in international law, following the promulgation of a new set of US sanctions that authorizes the US president to impose tariffs on major Russian hydrocarbon importers.
"We will closely follow the future steps of the United States and reserve the right to take all necessary measures to firmly defend national sovereignty and the development interests of China, as well as the legitimate and just rights and interests of Chinese companies," wrote the Chinese Ministry of Commerce in a statement.
A Russian Molniya drone caused the death of a 62-year-old woman in Lvivski Otrouby, in the Kherson region, announced Oleksandr Prokudin, head of the regional military administration. He had previously reported the death of a Novovorontsovka resident, killed by artillery fire.
Military exercises of "strictly defensive" nature took place from Tuesday to Friday in western Belarus, announced the Ministry of Defense in Minsk. These maneuvers aimed to "strengthen the troops' capacity to protect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the State," he explained, without specifying the number of soldiers involved.
They were aimed, according to him, at defending the border, destroying sabotage groups, and fighting drones, he added. "The units operated on a wide front, accomplishing their missions in accordance with the exercise scenario in a complex and constantly evolving context, and successfully carried out the tasks entrusted to them," affirmed General Vadim Sourov, quoted by the ministry.
The Belarusian army conducts at least two major exercises each year with the participation of its allies, including Russia, and dozens of others on a regional level, like the latest one. In September 2025, the Russian-Belarusian Zapad maneuvers involved nearly 100,000 military personnel, including on the borders of the EU. The member states of NATO have also conducted military exercises on the borders of Belarus and Russia in recent years.
Moldova condemned Saturday a possible violation of its airspace following an explosion and the discovery of debris likely from a drone near Chisinau, the capital.
This incident "represents a new serious consequence of the act of aggression waged by Russia against Ukraine," wrote the foreign ministry in a statement. "Any unauthorized entry into Moldovan airspace is unacceptable and constitutes a serious violation of our country's sovereignty," he added.
The explosion occurred on Friday in Colonita, a commune near the capital, and the police announced that they found debris "within a 100-meter radius" of the impact point. "No other explosive device was found," they specified, as the blast was heard even in the vicinity of the capital, according to the mayor of Chisinau, Ion Ceban, who spoke of a "worrying situation".
Several unidentified aircraft also penetrated Moldovan airspace on Saturday morning, and one of them crashed on Ukrainian territory, according to the Moldovan border police. Last week, an alert caused by the presence of drones had already delayed the takeoff of the Ukrainian president's plane, while he was visiting Moldova, a neighboring country of Ukraine and Romania.
Russia cannot "hope to directly or indirectly dictate the policy" of France "by intimidation, threat, destabilization or psychological pressure," state the presidential candidate and the president of the National Rally in a statement released on Saturday.
"No provocation, no clandestine operation, and no destabilizing action can lead France to facilitate Russia's achievement of its war aims in Ukraine," add Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella, condemning "hostile" acts.
Emmanuel Macron had gathered the leaders of the parties, including Jordan Bardella, the day before at the Élysée, to inform them of the geopolitical crises facing France.
The tone of the statement is firm, as the frontrunner for the presidency is regularly blamed for positions judged conciliatory towards the Russian president, Vladimir Putin. Louis Aliot, the RN vice-president, also provoked a fierce criticism at the beginning of the month by wanting to "turn off the tap" of aid to Kyiv.
The democratic debate "must be about" "the level of financial support given to Ukraine and the conditions for this support," write Ms. Le Pen and Mr. Bardella, but they stress that "while these debates are legitimate, foreign pressures are not,".
They also "firmly condemn" Moscow's decision to take control of assets of European companies still established in Russia, such as Nestlé and Auchan, calling it a "hostile act" that "directly affects the interests and rights of" European companies.
A new drone designed for intercepting Russian jet drones was developed and "is already successfully used," the Ukrainian president rejoices on social networks. His message is accompanied by a video showing the interception of what appears to be a Russian Gueran-5 drone.
Volodymyr Zelensky had announced at the beginning of the month that 67 companies were capable of producing jet drone interceptors and that "three to five" of them had obtained concrete results.
The Ukrainian army does not actually communicate its losses, but the president, Volodymyr Zelensky, reported in July "about 50,000 soldiers killed", "400,000 wounded", and a "large number" of missing.
In a report published on July 2, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), an American think tank, estimates the Ukrainian losses between 525,000 and 625,000 killed, wounded, or missing, of which 125,000 to 150,000 are dead. The Russian forces have, according to him, lost about 1.4 million soldiers, of whom 400,000 to 450,000 were killed. Their losses, in the order of 30,000 to 34,000 men per month, would therefore be about three times greater than those of the Ukrainian forces.
According to the Polish prime minister, Donald Tusk, who spoke on Thursday in the Sejm, the situation seems to have evolved recently. "Our partners in Ukraine have informed me that they currently count 27,000 dead and wounded per month. This is, unfortunately and in the most tragic sense of the word, records in this conflict. With this trend, winter in Ukraine could indeed be disastrous," he lamented.
At the end of last month, Kyrylo Boudanov, Volodymyr Zelensky's chief of staff, had estimated that the army could not "mobilize less than 30,000 people per month," stating that this number was the "minimum necessary to support the existing structures".
Despite the military secrecy surrounding the losses on both sides and the difficulties in accounting for civilian victims, particularly in occupied areas, off-field efforts and public data cross-references allow for an assessment of the colossal human toll, as we explained in the article below, published in February.
Ukrainian and Russian officials are increasingly critical of Steve Witkoff, Donald Trump's envoy in charge of negotiations on Ukraine, stated the Kyiv Independent.
Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, the US president's son-in-law, went to Moscow and then Kyiv at the beginning of September to try to revive negotiations, without notable progress. Ukrainian officials particularly reproach Mr. Witkoff for his understanding of the conflict and the lack of new American proposals, according to the Kyiv Independent.
On the Russian side, officials would estimate that the American envoy sometimes misrepresented Vladimir Putin's positions to Donald Trump, especially before their summit in Alaska in 2025, according to the Ukrainian media.
The Financial Times reported that Donald Trump was considering entrusting an increased role in the negotiations to CIA Director John Ratcliffe, while reducing that of Mr. Witkoff and Kushner. The CIA chief had made a visit to Moscow at the end of August, the first known by a sitting director of the agency since the Russian invasion of 2022, and met with high-ranking Russian intelligence officials.
The White House rejected the investigation by the Kyiv Independent and denied the information from the Financial Times. The CIA also denied any change in role.
The United Nations (UN) has documented more than 1,000 cases of sexual violence related to the war in Ukraine since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 until July 2026, of which 89% are attributed to Russian authorities, according to a report by the High Commissioner for Human Rights.
Out of the 1,004 verified cases, 11% are attributed to Ukrainian authorities. The UN warns, however, that these figures probably underestimate the scope of the phenomenon, as sexual violence is largely underreported.
For the occupied territories and Russia, the report reports violence against prisoners of war and Ukrainian civilians, including rape, sometimes collective acts, genital mutilations, and electric shocks inflicted on genital organs. The majority of victims recorded in detention are men.
On the Ukrainian side, nearly half of the documented violations concerned threats of sexual violence and blows to the genitals of prisoners. The UN states that it has not recorded any rape of Russian prisoners of war by Ukrainian forces.
According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Kyiv has taken certain measures to prevent these abuses and has cooperated with investigators, even if efforts to bring those responsible to justice remain limited. "I am deeply alarmed by the prevalence of these abominable acts," the high commissioner for human rights, Volker Türk, said, fearing that they will continue.