Putin shifts Russia to year-round conscription after 346,000 losses in 2025

Moscow does not plan to slow its aggression against Ukraine. On the contrary, it is taking steps to accelerate mobilization. According to a new law, Russia will no longer have breaks between conscription campaigns, UNIAN reports.  Mobilization in Russia is not stopping. It has simply been shifted to a contract-based form. In addition, Russian President Vladimir Putin is trying to recruit more prisoners, residents of temporarily occupied territories, soldiers from North Korea, and foreign mercenaries into his army. Under the new legislation, the selection process and medical…

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1,300 km deep into Russia, Ukraine’s drone hits Gazprom’s Salavat refinery, setting it ablaze (video)

Unspecified infrastructure facilities in Kirovohrad and Cherkasy oblasts sustained hits from the drone and missile Russian barrage on the night of 17 September.

Russian strikes target energy infrastructure causing loss of electricity for civilians and delayed trains

Illustration of Russia’s Geran-3 attack drone.

Russia’s new attack drone full of American, European, Chinese components – Ukrainian intelligence

Firefighters spray water on burning buildings in Zaporizhzhia following overnight Russian strikes on 16 September.

“Deliberately terrorizing our people” – Russian strike on Zaporizhzhia kills 2, injures 20

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Ukraine says it struck Russia’s Saratov oil refinery; sources claim Kstovo refinery hit too

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Russians disguised as civilians stormed Yampil — Ukrainian forces turned their ambush into a trap

Thermal camera view from a Ukrainian interceptor drone moments before it strikes Russia’s Orion heavy drone near Totikino in Kursk Oblast. Source: 414th Separate Drone Systems Brigade of Ukraine.

Ukraine downs Russia’s rare cruise missile-capable heavy drone Orion in Kursk Oblast using interceptor UAV (video)

US President Donald Trump

Trump’s Poland drones response alarms NATO allies. They question US defense commitments —Reuters

Ukrainian drones hit Russian explosives component factory 1,600 kilometers from Ukraine's border on 13 September.

Ukraine hits Forbes-ranked Russian chemical giant 1,600-km away. It produces explosives for military

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Ukraine’s drones hit deep—St Petersburg’s main fuel plant engulfed in flames (video)

Before and after satellite imagery shows damage to the 184th Research Experimental Base in Sevastopol following the 11 September Ukrainian strike on the Russian Black Sea Fleet communication facility.

Ukrainian navy hits Russian Black Sea fleet communications hub in occupied Crimea

A Romanian F-16 fighter jet in the sky.

“A deliberate expansion of the war by Russia”: Romania scrambles jets after Russian drone enters NATO airspace for the 2nd time this week

US President Donald Trump at the 2025 NATO summit.

“Major sanctions”: Trump doubts his ability to influence Putin, so he shifts responsibility onto Europe

ukraine quietly hits key russian fuel node—twice one week (video) moment liutyi drone strike vtorovo pumping station vladimir oblast russia 12 2025 earlier goes boom has struck same facility second

Ukraine quietly hits key Russian fuel node—twice in one week (video)

Primorsk oil port in Leningrad Oblast, Russia. Illustrative photo via Astra

Ukraine’s long arm: 1000 km deep, a drone ignites Russia’s Baltic Sea oil terminal near Finland

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A Shahed found its victim in Sumy—Russia’s second strike erased any chance of rescue from the rubble

Captain Roman Goroshkov and the Spasatel Ilyin vessel, reportedly part of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet. Source: Astra

Spasatel Ilyin was the Russian ship hit near Novorossiysk by aerial drone—captain injured, ship disabled

The Russian text reads: "Alexander Pokryshkin - Soviet military commander and pilot-ace during the Great Patriotic War, marshal of aviation." This mural exemplifies the systematic replacement of Ukrainian cultural symbols with Russian military glorification that occupation authorities have implemented throughout Mariupol.

Russian empire nostalgia covers occupied Mariupol as authorities paint imperial quotes on apartment walls

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Ukraine offers joint air defense plan after Russian drones test NATO’s limits through Poland

remains of russian drones in poland

Russia programmed drones along previously used violation routes— Polish military analyst

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NATO jets shoot down Russian drones in Poland—but NATO believes it’s not an attack

Russia launches 415 drones, 43 missiles in massive overnight assault on Ukraine

Street in Yarova, Donetsk Oblast, showing destruction and debris following a Russian airstrike that targeted civilians.

Russian airstrike targets civilians in Yarova, Donetsk Oblast – 24 killed

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Russia buried its 41st Army command in a Donetsk research lab—Ukraine blew it up with domestic cruise missiles (video)

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