Charles Michel, President of the European Council, has taken part in a session of the UN Security Council, calling on China to persuade Russia to stop the war against Ukraine.

At the moment, public hearings in the case of Russia violating the Convention on Prohibition of Genocide are ongoing in the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Hague. On the third day of hearings, 32 states testify in court.

An explosion occurred on board a cargo ship near the Romanian port of Sulina on Wednesday morning.

Jens Stoltenberg, NATO Secretary General, has stated that Ukraine needs its air defence to be strengthened with projectiles, components and technical maintenance for the already existing systems.

Szymon Szynkowski vel Sęk, Polish Minister for EU Affairs, has suggested that Poland's support for Ukraine may be reduced amid the crisis over Ukrainian agricultural imports.

Poland will likely cut financial support for Ukrainians who fled Russia's aggression against Ukraine.

Kyiv officially insists that the Russian side has lied in its address to the UN Court of Justice when it "retracted" its previous statements about the sham "genocide in Donbas" as the basis for its invasion of Ukraine.

Lloyd Austin, Head of the Pentagon, said on Tuesday, 19 September, that Ukraine will receive M1 Abrams tanks from the US soon.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said that he trusts Russia as much as he does the West.

Annalena Baerbock, German Foreign Minister, demands a strong signal against Russian President Vladimir Putin over his war of aggression against Ukraine.

The Security Council of Belarus has stated that opponents of the Lukashenko regime should not check whether Belarusians can use nuclear weapons in practice.

Former Slovak populist Prime Minister Robert Fico, whose party is expected to win early parliamentary elections in Slovakia, plans to withdraw military and political support for Ukraine.

Residents of Tulcea, a Romanian county bordering Ukraine, have been notified via the RO-Alert alert system that "objects may fall from the airspace".

Ukraine has received industrial-level 3D printers from the US that are capable of printing spare parts for military equipment.

The UK has officially recognised the Wagner Group (Wagner Private Military Company) as a terrorist organisation.

A representative of the Belgian government expects the G7 countries to announce an indirect ban on trade in Russian diamonds. 

The US Senate Armed Services Committee has begun studying national security issues caused by billionaire Elon Musk's decision to block his private Starlink satellite network near occupied Crimea.

Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry has drawn attention to a Hungarian video in which Peter Szijjártó, Hungary’s Foreign Minister, complains that the world is suffering from the consequences of the war not because of Russia but because of the European Union.

The Lithuanian Citizenship Commission has recommended stripping Russian-born ice dancer Margarita Drobiazko of her Lithuanian citizenship as she continues to perform in Russia.

A year ago, a Russian Su-27 aircraft pilot tried to shoot down a UK Royal Armed Forces (RAF) surveillance plane above the Black Sea and launched two missiles thinking he was given permission to fire, even though officially Moscow and London provided a different version of events.

The National Assembly of Bulgaria on Thursday has decided to support the lifting of the ban on Ukrainian agricultural imports after September 15. The vote took place after a little over two hours of debate in the plenary hall.

The first-ever fuelling of Ukrainian nuclear power plants with non-Russian nuclear fuel in the history of Ukraine is an important stage in Ukraine's long-term separation from Russia, the UK Ministry of Defence believes.

Bulgaria is negotiating with its NATO allies on how to respond to Russian provocations in the Black Sea, in particular to Russia's partial blockade of its Black Sea exclusive economic zone.

The European Parliament has called for finding legal ways to seize the assets of the Belarusian leadership and use them to rebuild Ukraine.

NATO has said that it has no information about a deliberate attack by Russia after the third time that Romania has reported the identification of pieces of drones on its territory.

Germany has handed over a new package of military aid to Ukraine, including two Wisent 1 demining tanks and 20 Marder 1A3 infantry fighting vehicles.