Russia threatens NATO with possible nukes….
Russia is throwing more drones at Kyiv…..
So much so that student’s in a Ukraine college have been told to go to on-line classes….
While this goes on?
Trump has his people meeting with Russian’s about post war financial ‘deals.’…
Putin is cutting funding for Russian social service’s to fund the ongoing war…..
The Ukraine Lyman area territory gains are increasing ….
There are also Ukraine reported gains in the western Zaporizhia area….
And Ukraine keeps sending its drone deep into Russia after military and energy targets….
This while Russian combat units are reportedly disintegrating with desertions, KIA’s, suicides and MIA’s….
And Russia bloggers point to their people being told things that are NOT what is Reality in the war….
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Nato on Tuesday condemned “irresponsible nuclear rhetoric” by Russia, after Moscow warned it would “deploy its entire arsenal” if the alliance threatens its exclave Kaliningrad. “I can confirm that Russia sent a non-paper to Nato and that we have sent a response, noting that Nato is a defensive Alliance and none of our activities or exercises pose a risk to any part of Russia,” Allison Hart, a Nato spokesperson, said. “We strongly denounce the threat of force, including any irresponsible nuclear rhetoric. We call on Russia to end its unprovoked war in Ukraine.”
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Russia has intensified daytime strikes on Kyiv using jet-powered dronesthat Ukrainian forces are struggling to intercept. Russia fired ballistic missiles and dozens of jet-powered drones at Kyiv, Ukraine’s air force said Tuesday, as Moscow seeks to make Ukraine buckle under the pressure of day-and-night bombardment of its capital and other cities. Russia has used new jet-powered drones that fly too fast and too high for Ukrainian ground-based air defenses to shoot down.
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Russia struck two datacentres in Kyiv overnight, a military-linked cargo vessel in the Black Sea, and another vessel with military cargo in the Ukrainian port of Odesa, the Russian defence ministry said on Tuesday. In a later evening statement, the ministry said its forces had launched a drone strike on a ship in the Black Sea which it said was carrying cargo intended for the Ukrainian armed forces.
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Ukraine’s top university on Tuesday said it was ordering students to stay home as it switched to remote classes due to the surge in Russian daytime drone attacks on the capital. Kyiv’s Taras Shevchenko National University said it would “switch to a remote format of work” until at least 16 October, “due to the deteriorating security situation in Kyiv”. The university’s main campus is close to the National Academy of Sciences, which was hit by a drone strike, killing one person, on Monday.
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Russian glide bombs struck a school in the northern Ukrainian city of Sumy on Tuesday, killing two people and injuring six, the regional governor said. The city’s governor, Oleh Hryhorov, said three children were among the injured. He said teachers and school officials had managed to evacuate 100 people.
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Russia’s foreign investment envoy, Kirill Dmitriev, met US officials in Washington for talks about future US-Russia energy projects planned after Moscow’s war against Ukraine, a US government official told AFP. Dmitriev and US officials held “constructive discussions on a peaceful resolution to the Russia-Ukraine conflict and possible US-Russia energy initiatives after the war ends” on Monday, the official said on Tuesday. “The visit follows special envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner’s recent meeting with president Putin in Moscow and their discussions last week with Ukrainian officials in NYC,” said the official, speaking anonymously.
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The US president, Donald Trump, favours a proposal under which the US would lift some sanctions if Russia released a number of political prisoners, according to a report in the Atlantic. The White House did not comment directly on the report. When asked about the article, a US official told AFP that Trump was “committed to continuing to play a constructive role in ending the war between Russia and Ukraine, and he remains optimistic that we’ll ultimately get a peace deal done”.
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Russia will cut funding for welfare, education and healthcare in next year’s state budget to help cover soaring military spending, fiscal documents obtained by Reuters showed. Russia plans to spend 17.1tn roubles (US$202.58bn) on defence in 2027, about 27% more than the 13.5tn roubles originally budgeted and the highest figure since the start of the war in Ukraine in 2022. Funding for social policy, which covers items such as state pensions, payments to war veterans and maternity benefits, will shrink by 7%, while education funding will fall by 6% and healthcare by 6.8%.
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Belgium will transfer three F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine by the end of the year to help in its war with Russia, Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said on Tuesday. Zelenskyy said Ukraine had already received “urgent deliveries” of F-16 ammunition from Belgium and Spain, among other countries. Zelenskyy later said later Ukraine had received a “very good” assistance package the day before of a NASAMS air defence system, developed jointly in the US and Norway.
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A Russian nuclear-capable strategic bomber crashed Tuesday on a training mission in the country’s far east, killing six members of its crew, its defence ministry said. The ministry said in a statement that the Tu-95 bomber went down in an unpopulated area in the Amur region, adding that one crew member survived the crash and was hospitalised with injuries….
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ISW… Offensive Campaign Assessment, September 28, 2026
- Ukraine’s 3rd Army Corps publicized details on the third phase of Operation Vivaldi in the Lyman direction, which included successfully feinting and deceiving Russian forces and the liberation of Nove, Ridkodub, Katerynivka, Karpivka, and Novomykhailivka (all north of Lyman).
- Operation Vivaldi is fueling Russian ultranationalist milblogger discourse about how the pervasive culture of lying within the Russian military is harming Russian forces and facilitating Ukrainian successes in the Lyman direction.
- The Kremlin is restricting publicly available information regarding Russia’s oil and gas industry, likely in an effort to conceal and protect Russian oil supplies for a variety of reasons, including from Ukrainian strikes, Western sanctions, or domestic Russian discontent and panic stemming from fuel shortages.
- Russian forces conducted a drone strike mere kilometers from the Ukrainian-Polish border near the Yahodyn border crossing for the second time in September 2026. Poland announced its intent to change its air defense rules of engagement following the strike.
- Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on September 28 transferring the assets of German wholesale retailer Metro AG in Russia to “temporary” management under Russian company UK Torg Rus LLC.
- Russian Colonel General Alexander Lapin, who previously commanded the Central and Northern groupings of forces in Ukraine, became the deputy prime minister of the Republic of Tatarstan on September 28.
- Ukrainian forces recently advanced in western Zaporizhia Oblast.
- Russia launched 289 drones against Ukraine overnight.
- Ukrainian forces continued their long-range strike campaign against Russian oil infrastructure and military assets on the night of September 27 to 28.
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Daily Kos Grunt Report for Today…
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