Ukraine, NATO launches operation 'Eastern sentry' to strengthen the eastern flank

With Vladimir Putin, patience is running out 'quickly'. This was reiterated by Donald Trump interviewed by Fox and Friends, responding to a question about the Russian president. "It's running out quickly, but it takes two to tango.... When Putin wants to do it, Zelensky doesn't. When Zelensky wants to do it, Putin doesn't do it.... We will have to be very, very strong."

New US measures against Russia? 'They will hit very hard, with sanctions against banks and in the oil sector, and also tariffs,' Donald Trump anticipated. Trump also claimed that he 'has already' hit Russia, with measures such as tariffs seconded to India for the purchase of Russian oil.

On the war front, Ukrainian drones hit the main oil export terminal on the Baltic. Fires developed on a ship and a pumping station at the port of Primorsk in the Leningrad region, Governor Alexander Drozdenko reported. The Defence Ministry in Moscow reported the shooting down of 28 drones in the Leningrad region.

No other country, apart from the UK, France and the Baltic States, is eager to send its troops to Ukraine, aware of the consequences of such actions, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said today.

"In reality, no one except London and Paris, the Baltic Russophobes gathered in Paris, are eager to send their documents to the NATO interventionist body. I think this is because they understand what will happen to them,' Zakharova said in a briefing.

Apparently, the meeting of the so-called 'Coalition of the Willing' failed to achieve any progress on the issue of sending a military contingent to Ukraine, the Russian spokeswoman added.

Britain's newly appointed Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper, after the reshuffle of the Starmer government, is in Kiev for her first official visit and announced a new package of anti-Moscow sanctions against 100 entities and individuals for the conflict in Ukraine: Russia's military supplies and the so-called 'shadow fleet' with another 70 vessels transporting oil and gas circumventing the Western-imposed embargo that ended up on London's blacklist are in the crosshairs. "

Turin, 12 Sep. (LaPresse) - Two people died and five others were injured in a Russian missile attack in Bytytskyi, Sumy region. This was reported by the Sumy authorities, quoted by Ukrainska Pravda.

The governor of the Russian region of Belgorod, Viaceslav Gladkov, accuses the Ukrainian armed forces of causing the death of a woman in a drone attack in Belgorod. This was reported by the Interfax news agency.

The Polish Foreign Minister, Radosław Sikorski, has arrived in Kiev. This was announced in a post on X by his Ukrainian counterpart, Andrii Sybiha. "In the face of the escalation of Russian terror against Ukraine and provocations against Poland, we remain firmly united," the Kiev diplomacy chief said, referring to the intrusion into Polish airspace of dozens of drones attributed to Russia on the night of Tuesday to Wednesday. "Today we will hold in-depth talks on our common security, Ukraine's EU and NATO membership and pressure on Moscow," Sybiha added, thanking Poland for its leadership and support.

Prince Harry arrived in Kiev today for a surprise visit to help thousands of Ukrainian soldiers injured in more than three years of armed conflict with Russia. The Guardian reported this.

According to the newspaper, the Duke of Sussex and a team from his Invictus Games Foundation will 'outline new initiatives to support the rehabilitation of the injured', estimated at around 130,000 earlier this year.

"We too wished that the drone attack on Poland had been a mistake. But it was not. And we know that very well." Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk wrote this on X in response to US President Donald Trump's statements that the Russian drone raid on Poland may have been "a mistake".

French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot announced the summoning of Moscow's ambassador to Paris this morning in connection with the Russian drone raid in Poland. Paris to Russian ambassador, 'we will not be intimidated'

"We will tell the Russian ambassador that we will not be intimidated". This was said by French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot, announcing at the microphones of France Inter the summoning of Moscow's diplomatic representative. "We will tell him," he continued, "that NATO and its allies have the most powerful defensive and deterrent vocation in the world and that we must stop testing and trying to intimidate us. Judged deliberate by Warsaw, the intrusion of 19 presumed Russian drones into Polish airspace in the night between Tuesday and Wednesday caused alarm among European allies. Last night the president, Emmanuel Macron, announced that France would deploy three Rafale fighter jets with the "mission to detect and, if necessary, destroy drone vectors that threaten Polish territory".

Denmark will invest around 58 billion kroner (EUR 7.76 billion) in new air and missile defence systems. This was stated by the Ministry of Defence, adding that it will purchase them from France, Italy, Germany and Norway. "The current political security situation implies that land-based air defence is a top priority in the development of the armed forces," Minister Troels Lund Poulsen said in a note, emphasising the experience of the war in Ukraine.

The joint military exercises between Russia and Belarus Zapad 2025 have begun. This was announced by the Moscow army, pointing out thatthe exercises are taking place in Belarus from today until Tuesday.

Minsk reacts calmly to the closure of the border by Poland, as these actions are mainly directed against Warsaw itself, Belarusian Foreign Minister Maxim Ryzhenkov said today.

On Tuesday, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced the complete closure of the border with Belarus in connection with the Belarusian-Russian Zapad 2025 military exercises that began today.

The Japanese government has decided to introduce new sanctions on Russian entities as part of similar measures taken by G7 allied countries for Moscow's involvement in the conflict in Ukraine. The measures affect the activities of 14 Russian nationals and 51 companies from the Russian Federation. The decision - which is the first of its kind since January this year by Tokyo - aligns with the Trump administration's call for increased pressure on President Putin.

Ukrainian armed forces hit a minibus in the Bryansk region, injuring the driver, four passengers and two fighters of the Bars-Bryansk brigade. This was reported by the governor of the region, Alexander Bogomaz, on his Telegram channel.

"The Ukrainian Armed Forces carried out several attacks against a passenger minibus carrying company employees on the Pogar-Gremyach highway in the Pogar district. As a result of the terrorist actions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, unfortunately, the driver and four passengers of the bus and two fighters of the Bars-Bryansk brigade were injured. All were transported to hospital, where they received the necessary medical treatment,' the governor wrote.

Russia announced that it had shot down 221 Ukrainian drones overnight, one of the highest numbers since the beginning of the war. The Moscow Defence Ministry said its warning systems had 'intercepted and destroyed' the drones, more than half of which were flying over the Bryansk and Smolensk regions. Twenty-eight drones were shot down in the Leningrad region, where St. Petersburg is located, and nine in the Moscow region. The governor of Leningrad, Aleksandr Drozdenko, said that a fire broke out on a ship in the port of Primorsk, an important facility on the Baltic Sea, but that the flames had been extinguished and there was no risk of an oil spill.

In the last 24 hours, Russian forces carried out 440 attacks on 16 settlements in the Zaporizhzhia region. Ukrinform reports this.

The Ukrainian Air Force reported in its daily report on Russian night attacks that 40 Shahed and other types of drones were launched from Kursk, Primorsko-Akhtarsk and Millerovo. "More than 20 were Shahed drones," the statement read. Thirty-three of these drones were shot down or disabled 'in the north, east and centre' of Ukraine. Six drones hit three sites, according to the same source.