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Turkish neutrality: How Erdogan manages ties with Russia, Ukraine amid war
‘The West is reliable, Russia is equally reliable,’ the Turkish president recently said, reflecting his balancing act.
Published On 28 Sep 2023
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Russia set for ‘necessary’ increase in defence spending: Moscow
Moscow says it is ‘absolutely necessary’ to increase defence spending in 2024 due to a continuing ‘state of hybrid war’.
Published On 28 Sep 2023
Russia says Ukraine’s Western allies assisted in Black Sea Fleet HQ attack
Moscow says US, UK had role in planning and executing attack by providing spy plane, satellite intelligence to Kyiv.
Published On 28 Sep 2023
Czech gov’t plans to buy 24 F-35 stealth fighters in $6.5bn defence spend
Czech PM Petr Fiala says purchase of US-made F-35 fighter jets tells military allies ‘that they can count on us’.
Published On 28 Sep 2023

As the war enters its 582nd day, these are the main developments.

A woman walks past a shelled house in a Russian-occupied part of Donetsk. She is holding a white dog.

Ukraine dealt a crippling blow to the Black Sea Fleet leadership, reportedly killing many officers at their HQ.

Britain’s assessment comes as Russia deploys new forces on the front line.

Ukrainian army from the 43rd Heavy Artillery Brigade fire the German howitzer Panzerhaubitze 2000, called Tina by the unit, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, near Bakhmut, in Donetsk region, Ukraine, February 5, 2023

As the war enters its 581st day, these are the main developments.

People paying their respects to a Ukrainian soldier killed in the war. There are flowers on the coffin. People are standing around it. Many are weeping. One woman has bent over to put her face to the coffin

The ruling against Putin’s most prominent opponent is on top of an 11-and-a-half-year sentence he is already serving.

Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny and his lawyers Olga Mikhailova, Vadim Kobzev and Alexander Fedulov appear on a screen via video link during an external hearing of the Moscow City Court in the criminal case against Navalny

All the updates from September 26 as they happened.

an industrial building damaged after a Russian attack in the Odesa region

Viktor Solokov, Moscow’s top admiral in Crimea, was shown in a Russian defence ministry video conference.

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu

These are the main developments as the war enters its 580th day.

A destroyed tank seen through the windscreen of an armoured vehicle near the front line in Klishchiivka

Some rhetoric disseminated by Russian media could amount to incitement to genocide, the Human Rights Council probe says.

Demonstrators protest against Russia's war on Ukraine, in front of the UN headquarters in New York.

Ukrainian Economy Minister Yulia Svyrydenko says attack destroyed Black Sea port and grain storage facilities.

In this photo provided by the Odesa Region Administration, firefighters work to extinguish a fire in a hotel at the seaport after a Russian rocket attack in Odesa, Ukraine