• Zelensky refutes Wall Street Journal's report on Ukrainian casualties, cites lower figures

    Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has labeled a recent report by The Wall Street Journal, claiming that Ukraine has suffered 80,000 losses on the front, as false. A day earlier, WSJ journalists had asserted that total casualties for Ukraine and Russia purportedly reach 1 million people. Zelensky emphasized that the media highly overestimated the defense forces' losses.

    According to Interfax-Ukraine, Zelensky stated that the casualty figure for Ukraine in the war, cited by The Wall Street …

  • Baltic States and Poland call for immediate EU ban on Russian LNG to safeguard unity and security

    In a joint statement, the chairpersons of the EU affairs committees of the Baltic States and Poland have called on the European Union to urgently cease importing liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Russia. As reported by Postimees, the joint appeal highlights the security risks and the undermining of EU unity posed by continued Russian energy purchases.

    "By continuing to purchase LNG from Russia, the European Union remains dependent on a state that uses energy as a hybrid weapon and a means of …

  • EU to provide Ukraine with €35 billion loan funded by frozen Russian assets

    The European Union plans to extend a loan of up to €35 billion to Ukraine, which will be financed through revenues from frozen Russian assets, according to details revealed at a joint press conference involving European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv on September 20.

    "We are confident that we can swiftly provide this loan to Ukraine, covered by the unforeseen revenues from the frozen Russian assets," von der Leyen declared.

    In her …

  • EU steps up support for Ukraine's energy sector ahead of winter

    The European Union is stepping up efforts to help Ukraine brace for the upcoming winter, amidst significant damage to its thermal and power generation facilities from Russian strikes. In a remarkable display of solidarity, Lithuania is currently dismantling its own thermal power plant to ship the components to Ukraine, according to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.

    In a press briefing, President von der Leyen revealed that Lithuania is disassembling the entire thermal power …

  • Putin declines to attend Sheinbaum's inauguration in Mexico amidst ICC arrest warrant concerns

    Russian President Vladimir Putin will not travel to Mexico for the inauguration of President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum. Instead, a representative appointed by Putin will attend the event, said Alexander Shchetinin, Director of the Latin American Department of Russia's Foreign Ministry, in an interview with RTVI on Friday, September 20.

    The inauguration ceremony is set for October 1. Putin received an official invitation for the event back in August. "We are grateful to the Mexican side for this …