Sikorski urges tougher sanctions on Russia after Lavrov says Putin cannot be “enticed”
Poland’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski has called for tougher sanctions against Russia and continued support for Ukraine.
18 September 2025
Poland’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski has called for tougher sanctions against Russia and continued support for Ukraine.
The Council of Europe has published a draft convention on the establishment of an International Claims Commission for Ukraine.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has visited the command post of Ukraine's Air Assault Forces in the Donetsk region.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that Ukraine's Armed Forces have thwarted a planned Russian offensive near Pokrovsk and Dobropillia in the Donetsk region.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that Ukraine's Armed Forces have thwarted a planned Russian offensive near Pokrovsk and Dobropillia in the Donetsk region.
Ukraine is prepared to help train Polish engineers and military personnel, share its expertise in building a drone defense line, and provide access to specific software so that Poland can detect Russian attacks in advance.
In the Donetsk region, the Russian army dropped an aerial bomb on the city of Kostiantynivka, killing five people.
Ukrainian forces are conducting a counter-sabotage operation in Kupiansk, Kharkiv region, with Russian sabotage group members already taken prisoner. For civilians who remain in the city, the situation is critical, though evacuations continue despite the risks.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has met with Ukrainian soldiers who took part in the Dobropillia counteroffensive operation in the Donetsk region.
As part of repatriation efforts, 1,000 bodies — which, according to the Russian side, belong to Ukrainian servicemen — have been returned to Ukraine.
Anonymous Telegram channels have been spreading false information aimed at discrediting Ukrainian intelligence services and destabilizing the situation inside Ukraine.
Ukraine and Poland have agreed to establish a joint operational group for unmanned aircraft systems (UAS).
British media report that Russian reconnaissance ships and drones are actively collecting data on subsea cables and pipelines in Europe.
The number of people injured in Russia’s strike on a gas station in Poltava region has risen to five.
The Australian government is lowering the price cap on Russian oil to USD 47.60 and imposing targeted sanctions on a further 95 vessels belonging to Russia’s “shadow fleet.”
On the night of September 18, Ukraine’s Special Operations Forces carried out a strike on the Volgograd Oil Refinery in Russia’s Volgograd region.
President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a law ratifying the One Hundred Year Partnership Agreement with Great Britain and thanked King Charles III of the United Kingdom for his support.
Russian troops attacked one of the State Emergency Service units in Nizhyn again yesterday, killing one rescuer and wounding two others.
Four settlements in the Kharkiv region were under Russian strikes yesterday; one person died, and the other was injured.
Polish Defense Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz arrived in the Ukrainian capital on Thursday, September 18, for a visit.
Air Defense Forces neutralized 48 of 75 drones used by Russia to attack Ukraine last night.
Between the morning of September 17 and the morning of September 18, Russian troops struck 29 settlements in 13 communities in the Sumy region 68 times.
Russian invaders killed two residents of the Donetsk region yesterday, September 17.
On the frontline over the past 24 hours, on September 17, 184 combat clashes between the Ukrainian Defense Forces and Russian invaders were recorded.
Seven people were injured in Russian strikes in the Kherson region yesterday.
The total combat losses of Russian troops since the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, from February 24, 2022, to September 18, 2025, amount to about 1,098,380 people, including 930 yesterday.
As a result of night shelling of the Poltava region and temporary power outages in several sections of the region, reserve diesel locomotives were brought in. One person was injured.
Russia is initiating a new wave of mobilization in the temporarily occupied city of Melitopol as it prepares for the autumn 2025 draft.
In the Kyiv region, Russian drones attacked and set fire to warehouses and a private house.