2025-09-29: Russia Roundup

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jagonews24 (2025-09-29). Vessel with 52,500 tonnes of Russian wheat arrives in Ctg. jagonews24.com A vessel carrying 52,500 tonnes of wheat from Russia has arrived at Kutubdia outer anchorage in the Bay of Bengal in Chattogram.

| afp | (2025-09-29). Denmark bans all civilian drone flights this week due to EU summit: ministry. tribune.com.pk Copenhagen. Denmark will ban all civilian drone flights across the country this week to ensure security as Copenhagen hosts an EU summit gathering heads of government, the transport ministry said Sunday. | Mysterious drone sightings across Denmark since September 22 have prompted the closure of several airports, with Denmark hinting at possible Russian involvement, charges Moscow has rejected. | Copenhagen is to host an EU summit on Wednesday and Thursday. | "Denmark will host EU leaders in the coming week, where we will have extra focus on security. Therefore, from Monday to Friday, we will close the Danish a…

Staff (2025-09-29). Russia: 'We Are Very Concerned About What the US Is Doing Around Venezuelan Waters'. orinocotribune.com Russia is deeply concerned about what the US is doing around Venezuelan waters, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said at a press conference on Saturday. | "We are certainly very alarmed by what the US has organized now in what are currently international waters, but near Venezuelan territorial waters," Lavrov said. The foreign minister specified that he spoke with his Venezuelan counterpart, Yván Gil, about the matter the previous day. | "The situation is truly serious, because there are significant armed and naval forces there, including a nuclear submarine, and there are direct threats of military interve…

Brian Berletic (2025-09-29). US-Europe Manipulating Elections in Moldova to Extend Russia… thealtworld.com For those wondering why the US/EU are obsessed over elections in Moldova, it is literally on the list of geopolitical measures aimed at "extending Russia" in the 2019 RAND Corporation paper, "Extending Russia: Competing from Advantageous Ground." | The paper notes: | "The United States could encourage Transnistria's youth (who, according to some journalistic accounts, might be more pro-West than their elders) to push their pseudo-state to leave the Russian orbit." | And that: | "The United States could also push for closer NATO and European integration with Moldova." | This is yet another example of US foreign po…

Brian Berletic (2025-09-29). US oversees ATACMS and GMLRS strikes into Russia… thealtworld.com US President Trump never intended to stop the war in Ukraine — it is a US proxy war the US could stop any time it wants, it doesn't want to. | It has been and is now escalating HIMARS strikes inside Russia — attacks only possible with DIRECT US involvement. | Before even winning the 2024 US election Trump and Vance made it clear to anyone carefully listening the goal was to dump the cost/consequences on Europe and hopefully freeze the conflict while the US provokes similar conflict with China in Asia. | And that is what's happening. | Russia never agreed to a ceasefire because it knew all along the Trum…

Sana Khan (2025-09-29). Ukraine Pushes for Joint Aerial Shield With European Allies. moderndiplomacy.eu President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has called on European partners to join Ukraine in building a regional air defense shield, arguing that Kyiv's battlefield experience could help secure the continent against Russia's drone and missile threats. Speaking via video link at the Warsaw Security Forum, Zelenskiy urged Poland and other allies to cooperate on creating a "fully …

albawaba (2025-09-29). Four killed, dozens injured in Russia's largest drone attack of the war on Ukraine. albawaba.com ALBAWABA- Russia launched one of its most intense assaults on Ukraine since 2022, unleashing hundreds of kamikaze drones and missiles on residential neighborhoods in Kyiv and other cities. The overnight attack left at least four people dead, including a 12-year-old girl, and injured more than 40 others.According to Ukrainian officials, Russian forces fired approximately 595 drones and 48 missiles in a 12-hour barrage. Ukrainian air defenses intercepted most of them, 568 drones and 43 missiles, but several penetrated defenses, striking apartment blocks, a cardiology clinic, and factories in the capital. Firefighte…

Reuters,Bloomberg (2025-09-29). Russia says 'no signals' from Ukraine on peace talks as it faces Nato warning. scmp.com There have been no signals from Kyiv about a possible resumption of negotiations between the Russian and Ukrainian delegations, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Russia's RIA state news agency. | "No, so far there are basically no signals from Kyiv at all," Peskov said when asked whether there were any indications about talks resuming between the Russian and Ukrainian delegations, according to the RIA report, published on Monday.

Andrew Korybko (2025-09-29). The First-Ever Polish-Swedish Joint Exercise Presages Closer Cooperation Against Russia. thealtworld.com

Mark J Willière (2025-09-29). Moldova's Ballot Battlefield: Is a New Cold War Brewing with Russia? thinktank.pk Moldova's parliamentary elections delivered a resounding victory for pro-European forces, with the ruling Party of Action and Solidarity (PAS) securing around 50% of the vote and a clear majority of 55 seats in the 101-seat legislature. This outcome, however, unfolded against a backdrop of intense geopolitical friction, as allegations of extensive external meddling cast a …

| AFP | (2025-09-29). Massive Russian missile and drone barrage kills four in Kyiv. tribune.com.pk Russia pounded Ukraine for hours with hundreds of drones and missiles overnight, killing at least four people, including a 12-year-old girl, Kyiv said Sunday. | Neighbouring Poland scrambled jets to secure its airspace in the wake of the 12-hour barrage, after NATO accused Moscow of being behind a series of violations of the defence alliance's airspace. | Diplomatic efforts to stop the war have faltered and Russia has vowed to press on with the offensive that it launched in February 2022. | "Moscow wants to continue fighting and killing and deserves only the harshest pressure from the world," Ukrainian Preside…

Artin Dersimonian (2025-09-29). Moldova 'survives' Russian pull as elections move it closer to EU. responsiblestatecraft.org CHISINAU, Moldova — President Maia Sandu's ruling Party of Action and Solidary (PAS) was able to

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