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Ukraine Invasion
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Ukraine Invasion

• Residents Hold On As Kostyantynivka Faces Relentless Russian Strikes RFE/RL 22 Sep 2025 -- Ukrainians in the city of Kostyantynivka, near the eastern front line in Russia's war on Ukraine, are in constant danger.
• SSU detains FSB agents who supplied ruscists with Ukrainian SIM cards for kamikaze drones Security Service of Ukraine 22 Sep 2025
• UN Commission says Russian drones target civilians and destroy infrastructure, making localities in frontline provinces of Ukraine unliveable OHCHR 22 Sep 2025 -- Russian armed forces have targeted civilians and a wide array of civilian objects using short-range drones in localities stretching over 300 kilometres along the right bank of the Dnipro River, said the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine in its latest update to the Human Rights Council.

Defense Policy / Programs

• Meeting with permanent members of the Security Council President of Russia 22 Sep 2025 -- Vladimir Putin held a meeting with permanent members of the Security Council in the Kremlin.
• Putin Offers To Extend Last Nuclear Arms Pact With US RFE/RL 22 Sep 2025 -- Russian President Vladimir Putin has offered to extend the New START treaty between Moscow and Washington - the last remaining nuclear arms deal between the two countries - which is due to expire in February.

Foreign Policy

• As NATO Mulls Response To Trespassing Russian Warplanes, Can It Shoot Them Down? RFE/RL 22 Sep 2025 -- NATO officials are gathering for a meeting of its North Atlantic Council (NAC) on September 23, called by Estonia in response to an incursion by Russian warplanes into its airspace last week.
• How NATO Is Boosting Eastern Defenses Amid Russian Air Incursions RFE/RL 22 Sep 2025 -- Two days after an unprecedented drone incursion by Russia on Polish territory on September 10, NATO unveiled its response: Operation Eastern Sentry. The mission kicked off immediately on September 12 and was tested a week later by Russian jets entering Estonian airspace.
• Security Council Meets Again on Moscow's Alleged Airspace Violations as Allies Support Estonia UN Security Council 22 Sep 2025 -- On the heels of recently reported incursions into Polish and Romanian airspace by the Russian Federation, the Security Council held another emergency meeting today following Estonia's claim that Russian Federation fighter jets violated its airspace — with most speakers condemning these actions and urging Moscow to end its war of aggression against Ukraine.
• Deputy Prime Minister Radosław Sikorski addresses UN Security Council emergency meeting called at Estonia's request Poland - Ministry of Foreign Affairs 22 Sep 2025
• United Nations Security Council briefing: Threats to international peace and security - Violation of Estonian airspace European External Action Service (EEAS) 22 Sep 2025 -- Transcript of statement by EU HR/VP Kaja KALLAS at the United Nation Security Council on the violation of Estonia's airspace.
• Foreign Minister Tsahkna at the UN Security Council: Russia not only violated Estonian airspace, but also blatantly lied about it Estonia MFA 22 Sep 2025 -- Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna said today, 22 September, at the UN Security Council meeting in New York convened in response to the violation of Estonia's airspace, that Russia not only violated Estonian airspace but also blatantly lied about it, once again revealing its true nature.
• Baiba Braže at the UN Security Council meeting: The world is united in support of Estonia. Russia's threat creates a global security crisis Latvia MFA 22 Sep 2025 -- On 22 September 2025, in New York, at the United Nations Security Council's emergency meeting convened at the requested of Estonia over the violations of Estonian and Polish airspace by Russia, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Latvia, Baiba Braže, delivered a statement on behalf of Latvia and Lithuania.
• Chairman Mast Statement on Russia's Violation of Estonia's Airspace U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs 22 Sep 2025
• NATO Boosts Eastern Flank Defenses After Russian Drone Incursion RFE/RL 22 Sep 2025 -- Two days after an unprecedented drone incursion by Russia on Polish territory on September 10, NATO unveiled its response - Operation Eastern Sentry.
• Nordic statement on Russia's recent violation of Estonian airspace Government Offices of Sweden 22 Sep 2025
• Russia's imperialist warmongering is a threat to international peace and security: UK Statement at the UN Security Council UK FCDO 22 Sep 2025 -- Statement by The Rt Hon Yvette Cooper, Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, at the UN Security Council meeting on Estonia.
• UN Human Rights Council 60: UK Statement for the Interactive Dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in the Russian Federation UK FCDO 22 Sep 2025 -- UK Statement for the Interactive Dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the Russian Federation. Delivered by the UK's Permanent Representative to the WTO and UN, Kumar Iyer.

News Reports

• Human Rights In Russia In 'Seismic Decline' Amid War On Ukraine, UN Expert Says RFE/RL 22 Sep 2025 -- The human rights situation in Russia has "steadily deteriorated" since President Vladimir Putin launched the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, a UN expert said, describing a "seismic decline" that has hit vulnerable groups such as minorities and migrants particularly hard.
• UN Special Rapporteur warns of intensifying repression and widespread torture in Russia aimed at silencing dissent OHCHR 22 Sep 2025 -- There is an alarming escalation in repression targeting human rights defenders, lawyers, journalists, political opponents and anti-war activists and others who express dissent in the Russian Federation, a UN expert said today, warning that the targeting is not incidental but coordinated and central to State policy.