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With its air defenses operating at 5% of capacity at best, Ukraine can do little to stop Russia from dismantling the Ukrainian military capability, infrastructure and logistics, military journalist Aleksey Borzenko tells Sputnik.

Strikes have continued on railway infrastructure facilities in western Ukraine used for transporting military cargo from Europe, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported on Monday.

The Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) and Energodar have been subjected to more than 750 strikes by Ukrainian drones and artillery in last 4.5 months, Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom said on Monday.

Russian forces have liberated the settlements of Shirokoe and Shevchenkovo in the Kharkov region, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Monday.

The Russian aerospace forces have destroyed temporary deployment points of the Ukrainian armed forces in the Kharkov and Sumy regions using FAB-500 aerial bombs and missiles, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Monday.

Hundreds of combat launches of Russia's new Dan-T drone have already been carried out during the special military operation, and the munition is demonstrating high effectiveness, Bekkhan Ozdoev, the industrial director of the armaments, ammunition, and special chemicals cluster at Rostec, told Sputnik.

US President Donald Trump said rising diesel prices are being driven by disruptions to Russian supplies and revealed that he has asked Vladimir Zelensky to stop attacks on Russian refining infrastructure.

Ukraine's parliament is expected to vote on the resignation of the country's prosecutor-general on September 15 after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged his quick removal amid rising tensions over a series of high-profile anti-corruption investigations.

The Director General of the UN nuclear watchdog, IAEA, opened its 70th General Conference on Monday in Vienna with a message full of optimism, stressing that despite the many difficulties and tensions the world is witnessing a "common spirit of dedication" which still guides their work.

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Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) and experts warned on Monday of the potential risks of traveling to China as new entry and exit rules take effect, but Taiwan is not planning to raise its travel alert in the face of those risks at the moment.

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The Department of State congratulates the Republic of Djibouti on joining the Artemis Accords. Djibouti is the 72nd country to sign the Accords to date, pledging its commitment to the peaceful exploration of space.

A Santa Barbara County, California, man pleaded guilty today to detonating a bomb at a Santa Maria courthouse in 2024 in an attack that injured three people, damaged the building, and was intended to kill law enforcement officers in retaliation for local law enforcement seizing his firearms earlier that year.

Iran has rejected suggestions that Tehran had prior knowledge of or played any role in the attack on Saudi Arabia's strategic East-West oil pipeline, calling the accusation a "lie."

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova ridiculed Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski's delusion that Poland could defeat Russia quickly in the event of an armed conflict.

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Air Marshal Ashutosh Dixit, Vice Chief of the Air Staff, inaugurated the first Indian Air Force Dronathon-2026 at the Pokhran Field Firing Range, Jaisalmer, today. The inaugural ceremony was attended by senior functionaries of MoD, HQ IDS and representatives from Indian Army, and BSF. Dronathon-2026 is an IAF initiative aimed at engaging directly with the Indian unmanned systems industry and assessing emerging technologies under realistic operational conditions. The three-day event, planned from 14 to 16 September 2026, brings together over 20 leading defence companies, start-ups MSMEs, DPSUs and innovators from India's rapidly evolving unmanned systems ecosystem.