Ukraine's General Staff confirmed a strike on Russia's Ilsky oil refinery overnight, as Kyiv's toll from Russian drone attacks on September 25 rose to seven killed and 59 injured.
The EBRD has cut its 2026 growth forecast for Ukraine to 1.5% from 2.2% in June, as stepped-up Russian attacks on businesses, energy infrastructure and Black Sea ports push the economy close to stagnation.
Ukraine has won another package of Patriot interceptors, but Kyiv will not say from whom or how many, and the arithmetic of Russia's ballistic barrages says it will not last the winter.
Ukrainian drones forced an oil products plant in Novoshakhtinsk, in Russia's Rostov region, to suspend work overnight, as industrial sites in Perm and Ulyanovsk were hit.
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The European Central Bank will examine connecting the eurozone's homegrown instant payments platform with Brazil's Pix, a move that would join two of the world's largest publicly run payment networks.
A fire that damaged a Starlink ground station near Warsaw on September 23 was most likely an act of sabotage, Polish officials said.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called Vladimir Putin the "patient zero" of war and warned Russia it will also suffer this winter if it keeps hitting Ukraine's heating and power.
Russia struck Kyiv with ballistic missiles overnight, killing two people. Hours earlier, a daylong drone barrage killed two more and set the capital's Shayba railway market ablaze.
The EBRD has cut its 2026 growth forecast for its regions to 2.5% from 3.1% as Iraq's oil export collapse, European drought and a renewed Black Sea blockade hit output.
Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski has laid in rice, keeps a hand pump at home and has made jam from his own garden fruit in case of war, he told the tabloid Fakt on September 22.
Russian drones struck a warehouse and a petrol station in Kyiv overnight, the city military administration said, a day after jet-powered drones hit fuel storage tanks in the capital.
Europe has gone from funding Ukraine's war to building its weapons, and Moscow has started saying that makes Europe a party to the fighting.
Europe's energy crisis has moved out of the gas tanks and into pump prices, power bills and freight, with German winter power trading above €180 a megawatt-hour.
Rating agency lowered Poland’s long-term sovereign rating from A2 to A3 and changed the outlook from negative to stable, citing a sustained weakening of public finances.
Ukraine has launched a new regional grouping bringing together eight countries around the Carpathian region, seeking to turn wartime trade links and security cooperation into a longer-term framework.
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico said he did not want his country drawn into a war “because of some Article 5”, questioning Nato’s mutual defence clause, STVR reported on September 18.
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk warned that Russia was about to step up hybrid attacks against Ukraine's supporters with ostensibly accidental drone or missile strikes.
EU regions bordering Russia, Belarus and Ukraine are facing a combination of security threats, disrupted trade, falling investment, labour shortages and population decline that has compounded longstanding economic weaknesses.
Iuliia Mendel, the former press secretary to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, was barred from entering the European Parliament on September 16, preventing her from delivering a speech calling for ending the war in Ukraine.
The speech Iuliia Mendel was supposed to deliver at the European Parliament on September 16 was less a peace plan than an indictment of the assumptions underpinning Ukraine’s current war strategy.