Russo-Ukraine War - September 2025
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On 24 February 2022, Ukraine was suddenly and deliberately attacked by land, naval and air forces of Russia, igniting the largest European war since the Great Patriotic War. Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a "special military operation" (SVO - spetsialnaya voennaya operatsiya) in Ukraine. The military buildup in preceeding months makes it obvious that the unprovoked and dastardly Russian attack was deliberately planned long in advance. During the intervening time, the Russian government had deliberately sought to deceive the world by false statements and expressions of hope for continued peace.
"To initiate a war of aggression... is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole." [Judgment of the International Military Tribunal]
Russia said on 01 Septembe 2025 that any peacekeeping force deployed in Ukraine without a UN Security Council mandate would be considered "legitimate targets." "Any foreign military contingents sent to the combat zone will be, from the point of view of international law, ordinary combatants and a legitimate military target for our Armed Forces," Moscow's Permanent Representative to the UN Vasily Nebenzya said.
Russia insists that any guarantees must include it and be underwritten by the UN Security Council. Guarantees cannot, Moscow argues, be directed against Russia but must be structured in partnership with it – another thorny point. Putin addressed the idea of postwar peacekeeping forces, saying they would be unnecessary once a settlement was reached. “And if decisions are reached that lead to peace, to long-term peace, then I simply do not see any sense in their presence on the territory of Ukraine, full stop.”
Putin made it clear that “without Russia’s participation, no format of security guarantees would be possible in principle.”. Such deployments would themselves be unnecessary if a comprehensive peace agreement could be reached, contradicting the core principle of Ukrainian neutrality demanded by Russia, as outlined in the 2022 draft peace deal inked in Istanbul.
Putin’s remarks drew a clear boundary: foreign soldiers fighting in Ukraine during the conflict would be treated as legitimate targets, while peacekeepers after a settlement would be unnecessary. By collapsing those two scenarios into one, Western media reframed a conditional warning into a sweeping threat – turning a repeat of long-standing policy into another headline of Russian aggression.
The United States had not yet provided any specifics regarding the degree of involvement in guaranteeing Ukraine's security, and without direct US participation, even those few countries that agree to send troops after the end of the conflict were only willing to do so under American guarantees. Zelensky spoke 06 Septembe 2025 a little about the results of the "Coalition of the Willing" conversation. There were two key statements: The main factor in guaranteeing security will be a strong Ukrainian army; arms supplies are also planned. There will be a presence of foreign troops, we understand the approximate number of countries that have agreed, but we cannot name the exact number.
In general, with such rhetoric, there is no need to worry about the possibility of a quick end to the Ukrainian conflict . Simply because the absence of NATO troops in Ukraine is much more important to Moscow than control over any part of it, including even Kherson and Zaporozhye. Therefore, attempts to agree on the deployment of foreign troops on Ukrainian territory after the end of the conflict will simply mean its inevitable continuation , so that no deployment of troops will occur.
Russia fired its largest aerial attack on Ukraine since the war began on the night of 6-7 September 2024, setting the main government building in central Kyiv ablaze and damaging the structure before the fire was put out, officials said. At least four people, including an infant, were killed and dozens wounded across the country as Russia launched more than 800 drones and 13 missiles in the attacks. Russia launched 805 drones into Ukraine overnight and 13 missiles, with Ukrainian defence units downing 751 drones and four missiles, Ukraine Air Force said. That was the highest number of drones Russia has used to attack the country since Moscow launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
Kyiv's Mayor Vitali Klitschko said a fire broke out at the government building in the city centre after the attack, which began with drones raining down, followed by missile strikes. The drone attacks killed an infant and a young woman, Klitschko said on the Telegram messaging app, while a pregnant woman was among the five injured admitted to hospital. The roof and upper floors of Ukraine's cabinet of ministers building, the seat of the government in Kyiv, were damaged in a Russian strike early Sunday, Ukraine's prime minister said.
“For the first time, the government building was damaged by an enemy attack, including the roof and upper floors,” said Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko. “We will restore the buildings, but lost lives cannot be returned.” The attack on the Ukrainian government building was a "very worrying development because this is the governmental district of Kyiv, the area that is considered probably the most strongly protected in all of Ukraine by the country's air defences", said FRANCE 24's Gulliver Cragg, reporting from Kyiv.
The Russian Armed Forces carried out the largest troop redeployment since the Battle of Kiev in 2022. Airborne and marine units from the Sumy region have arrived in the Pokrovsk direction, and now a motorized rifle division from the Kherson region has been added to the Chasov Yar area. In addition, Ukrainian observers claim that the Russian Armed Forces plan to deploy the 7th Airborne Division with four additional regiments in the Zaporizhia region, supported by motorized rifle units. The 7th Air Assault Corps reported Russia had deployed marine units near Pokrovsk and stepped up armored assaults aimed at cutting supply lines. Moscow is reportedly preparing a so-called “decisive breakthrough” in Donetsk to capture the Pokrovsk–Kramatorsk–Sloviansk area. Ukraine expected massive use of armored vehicles and artillery in the near future with the aim of breaking through the defense of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Donbass and in the medium term reaching the borders of the DPR.Charlie Kirk, one of Trump's key allies, was fatally shot at a mass event at Utah Valley University 10 September 2025. This is not the first time an assassination attempt has been made on a politician who opposes aid to Ukraine. In May 2024, a pro-Ukrainian radical attempted to shoot Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, who was hospitalized in critical condition. That same year, there were two attempts to kill then-presidential candidate Donald Trump, who had previously questioned US aid to Ukraine. CNN reported that Kirk had played a key role in Trump's victory in the election, ensuring a good turnout among young people.
FSB Lt. Col. (ret.) Andrey Popov, claimed US security agencies are known to run an entire cohort of informal ‘agents’, identified ahead of time, led on, controlled and given the chance to carry out their crime, after which they are liquidated or allowed to disappear (ensuring plausible deniability for powerful forces behind the scenes). The FSB vet suspects “some kind of criminal organization” has been in control of law enforcement and domestic intelligence in the US going back to the Kennedy era, organizing them in such a way as to ease political murder and protect the masterminds. The ability to freely kill politicians means control, “exercised in the most radical way imaginable – by eliminating people influencing public opinion in a direction that’s not favorable to this organized criminal group,” Popov summed up.
U.S. Special Envoy to Ukraine, Ret. Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg: “I was asked this question [If Russia is winning the war against Ukraine] by the President, President Trump, in the Oval Office, probably six weeks ago. I responded quite forcefully, and I finally said, ‘Mr. President, don’t just listen to me. Your Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Dan Caine, is outside. Bring him in. Ask him that question, he’s your principal military advisor.’ and he did. Dan said the same thing, ‘Are they winning?’ ‘No, they’re not winning.’”
Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov stated 15 Septembe 202 while speaking to reporters from the state-run news agency RIA Novosti, “NATO is at war with Russia; this is obvious and requires no further proof. NATO is de facto involved in this war. NATO provides both indirect and direct support to Kyiv. Therefore, it can be said with absolute certainty that NATO is at war with Russia.”
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