Kremlin says Russia’s victory in warfare with Ukraine is “very close to”
Russia is assured that victory within the battle with Ukraine is “very close to,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov mentioned on Tuesday whereas talking to Indian journalists.
“Sure, we’re assured, and we are certain that victory could be very close to,” Peskov mentioned.
Zelensky hopes to satisfy Trump this month to debate missile defence
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky mentioned Tuesday he hoped to satisfy Donald Trump later in September to debate a package deal of air defence help for Kyiv, the place Russia has intensified its missile and drone strikes over the summer time.
The Ukrainian chief advised journalists he was “relying on a gathering” with the US president after 20 September, at which he would attempt to safe US provides to assist intercept Russian ballistic missiles.
Russia doesn’t search ‘de-dollarisation’, open to cost strategies, Kremlin says
Russia does not search “de-dollarisation” and is open to each acceptable technique of cost, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov mentioned on Tuesday, in a digital interplay with Indian reporters days earlier than the BRICS leaders’ summit in New Delhi.
Some nations are utilizing their nationwide foreign money as a political device, he added, with out naming any nation.
Two killed in Ukrainian assault on Russian-annexed Crimea, Moscow-appointed governor says
Two folks have been killed and one has been wounded in a Ukrainian assault on the Crimean peninsula, which was annexed by Russia in 2014, Sergei Aksyonov, the Moscow-appointed regional governor, mentioned.
Ukraine decries ‘horrific’ Russian assault straight after US talks
Ukraine criticised Russia on Tuesday for launching a significant missile and drone assault shortly after a weekend go to by US envoys to each nations’ capitals, the place they tried to restart stalled talks on ending the warfare.
“The second the US president’s peace envoys left, (Vladimir) Putin launched one other large, horrific assault towards Kyiv, damaging residential areas and killing at the least two folks,” Ukrainian Overseas Minister Andriy Sybiga mentioned on social media, including: “His ballistic missiles communicate louder than his phrases on diplomacy.”
One killed in Ukrainian assault in Russia’s Bryansk area, performing governor says
One particular person has been killed in a Ukrainian assault within the Russian city of Starodub within the border space of Bryansk area, the area’s performing governor, Yegor Kovalchuk, mentioned on Tuesday.
Russia hits crucial infrastructure in Kyiv area, Zelensky says
Russia struck crucial infrastructure in Ukraine’s Kyiv area in an in a single day assault, President Volodymyr Zelensky mentioned on Tuesday.
“It was a fancy assault that the Russians tried to plan to trigger as a lot hurt to life as attainable – ballistic missiles, cruise and anti-ship missiles, and jet-powered ‘shaheds’,” Zelensky mentioned on X.
📸 In footage: Russia hits Kiev with dozens of missiles and drones this morning
Columns of smoke rise in Kyiv on September 8, 2026, after Russian strikes resumed on the Ukrainian capital, which had skilled a three-day pause. © Eugene Kotenko, AFP
A rescue employee extinguishes a fireplace in a constructing destroyed following a Russian missile assault in Kyiv, September 8, 2026. © Efrem Lukatsky, AP
The Russian assault blew out the home windows of buildings across the burned constructing, in Kyiv, on September 8, 2026. © Efrem Lukatsky, AP
After the Russian assault on the morning of September 8, smoke crammed the sky over Kyiv on September 8, 2026. © Efrem Lukatsky, AP
Lublin Airport resumes flights after short-term suspension as a consequence of navy exercise
Polish airport in Lublin has resumed air operations after short-term closure due to operations of navy aviation, the Polish Air Navigation Companies Company (PANSA) mentioned on Tuesday.
Russia launched dozens of missiles, 166 drones at Ukraine in in a single day assault
Russia launched dozens of missiles and 166 drones at Ukraine in an in a single day assault that focused primarily the area surrounding the capital Kyiv and the southern area of Odesa, Ukraine’s air drive mentioned on Tuesday.
The air drive mentioned on Telegram it downed 142 drones, 31 of 32 cruise missiles, and two ballistic missiles. In accordance with current observe, it didn’t disclose what number of ballistic missiles had been used within the assault.
Polish navy prompts plane; Lublin Airport suspends flights
The Polish Air Drive is conducting preventive operations associated to Russian missile assaults on Ukraine, the Polish military mentioned in a submit on Tuesday morning.
Due to the navy operations, Lublin Airport has quickly suspended flights, the Polish Air Navigation Companies Company (PANSA) mentioned.
Britain to commit £100 million to air defence package deal for Ukraine
Britain will commit £100 million ($135 million) to an air defence package deal, together with Patriot missiles to assist Ukraine, the authorities mentioned on Tuesday.
Russia hits Ukraine’s Kyiv, Chornomorsk, Russian newswires report
Russia hit navy and logistic targets in Ukraine’s Kyiv and the area surrounding the capital, as properly as within the port of Chornomorsk, Russian newswires quoted its defence ministry as saying on Tuesday.
Poland begins navy aviation operations to guard its airspace
As explosions have been heard in Kyiv, neighbouring Poland, a NATO and European Union member, started navy aviation operations to guard its airspace towards a danger of violation, its armed forces mentioned on X.
US negotiators see Russian ‘willingness’ for Ukraine talks, says France
US negotiators advised European representatives throughout talks in Kyiv on the weekend that Russia was exhibiting a “new willingness” to barter over the Ukraine warfare, the French presidency mentioned Monday.
The evaluation got here after US negotiators Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner met with Russian chief Vladimir Putin in Moscow and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv in a bid to revive diplomacy aimed toward ending the four-and-a-half-year warfare.
“The People advised us that there was a brand new willingness on the a part of Russia to barter following the Duma elections, and we should always put together for a recent begin to the negotiations”, an aide to President Emmanuel Macron advised journalists.
Russia to strip contract troopers of one-off cost if legal guidelines violated at house
Russia’s defence ministry needs to say again a part of a one-off payout from contract service personnel discovered responsible of felony offences at house, a doc confirmed, amid growing instances of home violence amongst these preventing Russia’s warfare on Ukraine.
Russia supplies a minimal one-off cost of 400,000 roubles ($4,640) for troopers signing at the least a one-year contract to combat within the warfare with Ukraine that Moscow calls “a particular navy operation”. Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022.
In observe, one-off payouts could attain a couple of million roubles per soldier, relying on the area, in addition to a month-to-month wage. Russia can also be decreasing sentences for these serving time in jail in alternate for signing up for the warfare, amongst different advantages, because it seeks to bolster military numbers.
Angelina Jolie visits boxing membership in Ukraine’s northeast
Hollywood star and humanitarian Angelina Jolie made a shock go to to a boxing membership within the heavily-shelled Ukrainian metropolis of Kharkiv throughout her newest journey to the nation, the nation’s boxing federation and the membership’s proprietor mentioned Monday.
The movie star, who up to now served as a UN particular envoy for refugees, had visited the war-torn nation at the least twice since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
A photograph posted by the Boxing Federation of Ukraine exhibits Jolie and her son, Knox, posing at a boxing fitness center.
“The well-known actress Angelina Jolie visited the Spadkoyemets boxing membership in Kharkiv,” the federation mentioned in a submit on Instagram.
“Her son Knox, along with Ukrainian defenders, held a Muay Thai coaching session on the membership,” it added.
Ukraine’s prosecutor basic submits resignation citing political battle
Ukraine’s prosecutor basic mentioned on Monday he had supplied his resignation citing political causes, within the newest signal of disunity within the senior ranks of the Ukrainian ruling elite.
“This can be a political resolution, and I’ve made it consciously. I do not need the place of Prosecutor Common for use as an instrument of political confrontation,” Ruslan Kravchenko mentioned in a assertion on Telegram late on Monday, with out elaborating.
Kravchenko thanked President Volodymyr Zelensky and Ukraine’s parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, and requested them to just accept his resignation.
Drones hit civilian infrastructure in Russia’s Saratov, governor says
A Ukraine drone assault has hit civilian infrastructure within the Russian metropolis of Saratov on the Volga river and injured some folks, regional governor Roman Busargin mentioned on the Telegram messaging app on Tuesday.
The Saratov area is house to a big oil refinery run by state oil firm Rosneft, as properly as numerous
different industrial and navy services.
Collection of explosions heard in Kyiv
A sequence of “sturdy” explosions rang out in Kyiv, AFP journalists mentioned early Tuesday, as Russia resumed strikes on the Ukrainian capital after a three-day halt.
The explosions triggered automobile alarms within the metropolis centre, the journalists mentioned, after the Kyiv metropolis navy declared an air raid alert.
