The Russian’s won’t agree to any limited cease-fire….
It would seem Putin won’t or can’t move to show a weakness in the war with a cease firewall and no REAL wining of territory such as Donetsk /Donbas Region…
Soooo?!
Russia and Ukraine keep shooting at each other……
Russia saying it’s making battle field gains that just are NOT happening…
Ukraine President Zelenskiy in New York City for the UN General Assembly asks the worlds leaders to help him fight against Russia’s attack on his country and end the War….
Trump has invited Russian President Putin to the G-20 meeting this winter which will be held in Miami Florida….(Do NOT be surprised if countries start to drop out from the get together)….
This IS Donald Trump at his worse….
A piece in Daily Kos points to movement FROM Drones back to mounted artillery ….
Read the linked piece below….
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Russia hammered Kyiv with drones in daylight attacks on Wednesday hours before Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with world leaders at the UN general assembly. Two people were killed and 41 wounded in Ukraine’s capital. Palls of black smoke floated above the city following the latest in what have been daily Russian attacks that torment Ukrainian civilians. The drones set off fires and damaged buildings in Kyiv and elsewhere in Ukraine overnight, authorities said.
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The attacks continued early into Thursday with emergency crews dispatched to three districts, said Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko.“Explosions in Kyiv, The capital is under attack from ballistic missiles. Remain in shelters!” Klitschko wrote on Telegram. Unofficial Telegram channels showed what was described as a fire lighting up the horizon.
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A Russian aerial bomb attack also killed five people and injured six on Wednesday in the village of Oleksandrivka in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region, the regional governor said. Vadym Filashkin, writing on Telegram, said Russian forces had dropped four bombs on the village, near the city of Kramatorsk.
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Zelenskyy urged world’s leaders Wednesday to keep choking Russia’s revenues and impede its war efforts, telling the UN general assembly that “Russia’s revenues must remain a target.” “When someone gives Russia more money through trade, they give this war more time. And that is exactly why we insist on limiting trade with the aggressor, and why we are burning Russia’s revenues ourselves,” he said.
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Zelenskyy also reiterated his warnings to Moscow that Ukraine would strike back and make the coming winter deeply painful for Russia, if the two sides cannot agree a truce on energy attacks before the cold sets in. Ukraine and its allies are racing to secure limited agreements on energy infrastructure and Black Sea shipping before winter, fearing renewed Russian strikes on power and heating facilities, while Moscow continues to show little interest in wider negotiations to end the war. “Ukrainians understand that this winter could be very harsh for us. But in response, we will have no choice but to make it painful for Russia too,” Zelenskyy told the UN meeting.
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The US has invited Russian president Vladimir Putin to a December G20 meeting in Miami, Florida, where he could hold a summit with Donald Trump, US secretary of state Marco Rubio said on Wednesday. The Kremlin said Russia would consider the invitation. Rubio, speaking after meeting Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov on the sidelines of the UN general assembly, said the US remained open to engaging with Russia on the war in Ukraine, despite stalled efforts to bring an end to the conflict. “We’ve invited President Putin to the G20. We think it’s an opportunity for him to engage not just with the president but with other world leaders. We hope that’s an invitation he’ll accept,” Rubio said.
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Zelenskyy said on Wednesday he had signed a “drone deal” with Finland’s president, another in a series of agreements offering to combine Kyiv’s technical expertise with other countries’ industrial capacity. Zelenskyy met Finnish president Alexander Stubb, along with Norwegian prime minister Jonas Gahr Stoere in New York. “And today we just signed a Drone Deal with Alex (Stubb) – an important step for jointly protecting our people and an even stronger partnership between our countries,” Zelenskyy wrote on Telegram.
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Ukraine has transferred two North Korean prisoners of war to South Korea, Zelenskyy said on Thursday in his address to the UN. “Recently, we sent two North Korean prisoners of war to the Republic of Korea,” Zelenskyy said in his speech. “These guys are not easy to capture alive. One of them, when he realised he was going to be taken prisoner, tried to kill himself. And he was shocked that fate did not let him die.” Zelenskyy did not provide more details about the return. According to some estimates, North Korea has sent up to 15,000 soldiers since 2024 to support Russia’s war against Ukraine.
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Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese has announced that Australia will provide $60m more in support for Ukraine’s fight against Russia’s invasion during an emotional meeting with Zelenskyy in New York. Albanese became emotional as he paid tribute to his “friend” Zelenskyy in his fight against Russian aggression. “[His] leadership has been, I think, quite extraordinary, leading people in circumstances which are extraordinarily difficult,” he said…..
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ISW…Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, September 23, 2026
- High-ranking Kremlin officials effectively rejected the US-Ukrainian-proposed limited energy ceasefire and continued reiterating Russia’s unwillingness to engage in any meaningful peace negotiations.
- The Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) and Russian milbloggers are simultaneously doubling down on baseless claims that Russian forces have encircled Ukrainian forces in various sectors of the frontline, likely as part of the Kremlin’s cognitive warfare campaign to portray Ukrainian defenses as collapsing.
- Ukrainian and Russian sources continue to refute Russia’s baseless claims of encirclements.
- A Russian Mi-8 helicopter violated Polish airspace in Braniewo (near Kaliningrad) — a marked escalation in Russia’s aggressive behavior toward NATO states.
- Ukrainian forces recently advanced in the Kupyansk direction, in the Chasiv Yar tactical area, and in the Novopavlivka and Oleksandrivka directions. Russian forces recently advanced near Kostyantynivka and south of Dobropillya.
- Russian forces launched 161 drones against Ukraine overnight.
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Daily Kos Grunt Report for Today….
FPV drones owning the battlefield was always going to be a short-term situation. The reason is straightforward: armored vehicles moving forward now carry enough electrical power and mounting space to field automated, optically guided kinetic anti-drone systems directly on the vehicle. These systems can be cued by early warning, so vehicles and their automated defenses know where incoming FPV drones are before they arrive. The drones themselves can be tracked optically and acoustically, picked up by the sound of their engines and motors, and with enough of these systems fielded, Third Corps has effectively mastered how to clear the sky of FPV drones in the area it’s operating in, specifically the ground north of Lyman.
The reason so few FPV drones are being encountered in that area comes down to a deliberate, layered air defense concept. A .50 caliber machine gun has an effective range of roughly a thousand meters, which means each air defense gun protects a radius of about two thousand meters around itself. These systems can be vehicle-mounted, trailer-mounted, or pallet-mounted, simply dropped off at the front and daisy-chained together. With four, six, or twelve of them working in concert, they move forward one piece at a time, like pieces on a chessboard, always keeping overlapping fire and mutual support between systems. Combined with electronic warfare vehicles and other anti-drone systems moving forward alongside them, this is exactly what has let Third Corps advance into a large area while encountering relatively few FPV drones, whether radio-guided or fiber-optic guided.
We always knew this was coming. When large formations move forward with heavy vehicle density, combining kinetic anti-drone systems with electronic warfare sweeps the FPVs from the sky, and that’s exactly what’s being seen now. We saw an earlier version of this at the Battle of Kursk, where wide-spectrum jamming alone worked well for the first couple of days, until fiber-optic drones showed up and jamming alone stopped being enough. What’s happening now is the second phase of that same evolution: jammers combined with kinetic air defense actually sweeping the skies clear of FPVs, rather than jamming alone trying to hold the line.
FPV drones will always have a place on the battlefield going forward, but they’ve always been fragile, and as long as they can be seen, they can be dealt with. What’s re-emerging now, as a direct result of clearing the skies, is conventional tube artillery, finally able to do what it does best at long range again, without nearly as much fear of the FPV threat hanging over it.
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