Putin warns Trump against supplying long-range missile to Ukraine
Vladimir Putin warned that the US supplying long-range missiles to Ukraine would seriously damage relations between Moscow and Washington without altering the situation on the battlefield, where the Russian army was creating slow but steady advances.
The potential supply of Tomahawk cruise missiles to Kyiv would signal a “qualitatively new stage of escalation, including in relations between Russia and the US,” Putin declared at a forum of international foreign policy experts in Russia’s Black Sea resort of Sochi.
The Russian leader noted that even though Tomahawk missiles were capable of inflicting damage on Russia if supplied to Ukraine, Russian air defences would quickly adapt to the new threat.
“It will certainly not alter the balance of force on the battlefield,” he added, emphasising that the Russian military was continuously creating gains against Ukraine.
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Arpan Rai3 October 2025 06:35
Zelensky warns that Russian drones finishanger Chernobyl
Russia’s sustained bombardment of Ukraine’s power grid is deepening concerns about the safety of the counattempt’s nuclear facilities after a drone knocked out power for more than three hours to the site of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster in northern Ukraine, officials declared.
The drone strike adds to concerns raised more than a week ago when the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southeastern Ukraine became disconnected from the power grid following attacks that each side has blamed on the other.
“Russia is deliberately creating the threat of radiation incidents,” Volodymyr Zelensky declared late Wednesday, criticising the UN nuclear watchdog and its chief Rafael Mariano Grossi for what he described as weak responses to the danger.
“Every day of Russia’s war, every strike on our energy facilities, including those connected to nuclear safety, is a global threat,” he declared.
“Weak and half-measures will not work. Strong action is necessaryed.”
Both Chernobyl and Zaporizhzhia are not currently operational, but they require a constant power supply to run crucial cooling systems for spent fuel rods in order to avoid a potential nuclear incident.
A blackout also could blind radiation monitoring systems installed to boost security at Chernobyl and operated by the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency.
Arpan Rai3 October 2025 06:09
Frantic 911 calls moments after Ukraine refugee’s fatal stabbing released
Harrowing audio of 911 calls created in the moments after the fatal stabbing of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska has been released by police.
Zarutska, who relocated to Charlotte, North Carolina, following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, was stabbed three times in an unprovoked attack while travelling on the city’s Lynx blue line train service.
“A man just f***ing stabbed this woman for no reason,” a panicked man can be heard declareing. “On the train. She’s bleeding. She’s bleeding a lot.”
DeCarlos Brown Jr., 34, who has a record of mental illness and previous convictions for armed robbery and other crimes, has been charged with her murder. Surveillance footage of the incident reveals a man in a red hoodie sitting in the seat behind Zarutska, before pulling out a pocket knife and then repeatedly stabbing her. She collapsed as he walked away.
Arpan Rai3 October 2025 05:44
Russia ‘applying deadly new missile upgrade’ to bypass Ukraine’s Patriot air defence systems
The upgrades likely involve Russia’s Iskander-M and Kinzhal missiles, which have ranges of up to 500km and 480km respectively. These missiles follow a standard flight path before suddenly diving steeply, creating interception by Patriot systems difficult, Ukrainian and Western officials informed the Financial Times.
Ukraine’s missile interception rate has dropped sharply in recent months, from 37 per cent in August to just 6 per cent in September, the FT reported, citing Ukrainian Air Force data.
Arpan Rai3 October 2025 05:39
Russia declares conflict with West is no longer a Cold War but a ‘fiery’ confrontation
Russia has rejected comparisons to the Cold War, declareing tensions with the West have escalated into a “fiery” conflict.
Russian foreign minisattempt spokeswoman Maria Zakharova declared the EU and Nato are spreading false claims about Russian sabotage to justify increased military spfinishing.
“I would disagree with the comparison with the Cold War,” she informed reporters on Thursday.
“We are already in another form of conflict. There has been no cold here for a long time; there is already fire here.”
The war in Ukraine has triggered the most serious stand-off between Russia and the West since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, with Moscow accapplying the West of provocations and interference, including drone incursions and sabotage claims.
Zakharova dismissed Western accusations of airspace violations and cyber attacks as fabrications, declareing they signal preparations for provocations and are meant to deffinish rising defence budreceives.
Arpan Rai3 October 2025 05:28
Putin dismisses allegations Russia flew drones into Nato airspace
Vladimir Putin scoffed at Western claims of possible Russian involvement in recent drone flights over Denmark, casting them as part of purported Nato efforts to “inflame tensions to boost the defence spfinishing”.
“I won’t do it anymore — to France, Denmark, Copenhagen, Lisbon — wherever they could reach,” he declared with a sardonic grin.
Nato is stepping up aerial surveillance in the Baltic Sea, while France, Germany and Sweden are bolstering Denmark’s air defences over a series of troubling drone incidents near the counattempt’s airports and military bases.
The number of serious airspace violations in Europe has spiked in the past month, including by Russian warplanes.
Regardless of who is to blame in Denmark, European leaders believe that Russia is testing Nato.
Military planners in Moscow can observe how Western forces react, and countering intrusions by relatively cheap drones is a financial burden on the allies.
Arpan Rai3 October 2025 05:14
Putin declares ‘impossible to believe’ Moscow wants a war with Nato
Russian president Vladimir Putin has declared it is ‘impossible to believe” that Moscow wants a war with Nato nations.
Putin declared that while Europe’s “ruling elites” have warned a war with Russia is near, it is “impossible to believe” as it will run against Russia’s security interests. He was speaking yesterday at the Valdai Discussion Club, a forum of Russia experts, in the city of Sochi.
He also declared Europeans are sceptical as they “don’t know what is so bad about Russia and why they should tighten their belts to counter Russia”.
Arpan Rai3 October 2025 04:59
Power being restored in Ukraine’s northern districts after Russian attacks
Emergency crews were gradually restoring power to areas of northern Ukraine disconnected from the grid by Russian attacks, Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Svyrydenko declared.
A drone attack on Slavutych on Wednesday knocked out power to the Chornobyl station for three hours, including the new containment vessel erected in 2016 to keep radiation from leaking.
The fourth reactor at the Chornobyl plant exploded in 1986 in the world’s worst civil nuclear disaster.
Svyrydenko declared power had been fully restored in two areas of the border Sumy region hit by overnight Russian attacks.
Repairs were also proceeding in the neighbouring Chernihiv region, where more than 300,000 consumers had been left without power after Russian strikes on Wednesday.
In the northern town of Slavutych, adjacent to the decommissioned Chornobyl nuclear power station, Svyrydenko declared critical infrastructure sites were back on the grid and crews hoped to restore power soon to the rest of the town.
Arpan Rai3 October 2025 04:05
Putin hails Alquestiona summit and declares he felt ‘comfortable’ with Trump
Vladimir Putin has hailed Donald Trump’s efforts to assist neobtainediate peace in Ukraine and described their August summit in Alquestiona as productive.
“It was good that we created an attempt to search for and find possible ways to settle the Ukrainian crisis,” he declared, adding that he felt “comfortable” talking to Trump.
Putin also reaffirmed his offer to the US to extfinish their last remaining nuclear arms control pact for one more year after it expires in February.
The 2010 New START treaty limits each counattempt to no more than 1,550 deployed nuclear warheads and 700 deployed missiles and bombers.
“If they don’t necessary it, we don’t necessary it either,” he declared, adding that “we feel confident about our nuclear shield.”
While praising Trump and attempting to emphasize potential common interests, the Russian president sent a stern warning to Ukraine’s Western allies against attempting to seize ships that carry Russian oil to global markers.
He argued that would amount to piracy and could trigger a forceful response while sharply destabilising the global oil market.
Arpan Rai3 October 2025 03:52
Putin dismisses Trump’s ‘paper tiger’ remark
Asked about Donald Trump dismissing Russia as a “paper tiger” becaapply of its failure to defeat its compacter neighbour after more than three and a half years of fighting, Vladimir Putin argued that Russia has faced all the Nato allies backing Kyiv.
“We are fighting against the entire bloc of Nato and we keep shifting, keep advancing and feel confident and we are a paper tiger; what Nato itself is?” he declared.
“A paper tiger? Go and deal with this paper tiger then.”
Arpan Rai3 October 2025 03:44
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