⚡️Ukraine strikes 'very important' deal on new batch of Patriot missiles, Zelensky says. "It's an important decision, a very important one. We've achieved a result," President Zelensky said at a meeting with leaders of the Ukrainian community in the U.S. kyivindependent.com/ukraine-…

🔪 Ukrainian citizen attacks priests with a knife at a Polish abbey — one dead A 31-year-old Ukrainian man was detained in Jarosław following an attack on the grounds of a Benedictine abbey. According to police, the victims were four men and one woman; one priest was killed and several others were injured. The suspect was detained, and his motive is still being investigated. Volodymyr Zelensky reacted to the attack: “We are shocked by this evil. At this point, we know that a priest was killed and several other people were wounded. We express our deepest condolences to the family and loved ones of the deceased. We wish all those injured a speedy recovery.” The Ukrainian president added that the perpetrator must be held fully accountable under the law.

❗️Ukraine knows with what and against which energy facilities Russia will strike. Ukrainian special services have obtained Russian documents on preparations for the winter campaign, said Ukrainian Energy Minister Shmyhal. “For large cities such as Kyiv, Odesa and Kharkiv, the enemy has separate plans.”

🇺🇦💡 Minister of Energy said that Ukrainian special services have received documents from Russia on preparations for the winter campaign. The documents describe which facilities will be attacked, in what quantity and with what weapons. For large cities like Kyiv, Odesa and Kharkiv, the enemy has separate plans.

😡 This is how Russian “Banderol” missiles flew right over the heads of Odesa residents today On the night of September 24, Odesa and the surrounding region became one of the main targets of Russia’s attack. The strikes damaged a hospital, a school, residential buildings, a shopping center and warehouses. Two people were injured. The S8000 Banderol is a Russian compact cruise missile powered by a jet engine. According to Ukrainian intelligence, it can fly roughly 500 km, reach speeds of about 620–650 km/h, and carry a 114 kg warhead, including around 50 kg of explosives.

Marine Le Pen said she would halt French financial assistance to Ukraine if she wins the 2027 presidential election. “We can no longer provide financial assistance to Ukraine, and we regret that,” she told POLITICO. However, Le Pen said France could continue training Ukrainian soldiers and military leadership and providing military aid. She also said she could support a postwar peacekeeping force in Ukraine if such a deployment became one of the conditions for negotiating a ceasefire. #France

We survived another terrifying night. Odesa and the Odesa region came under a massive attack — 11 Banderol missiles and 6 aerial bombs. I was worried about my sister because she wasn’t answering, and based on the timing, she should already have been crossing the Romanian-Ukrainian border. My sister made it back home, everything is okay 🫂♥️ But our Ukrainian 💙💛 superpower is getting up after 4 hours of sleep, having some coffee, thanking God for a new day, and carrying on. And I still have dogs to walk )) In the photo is my adorable little “tenant” Nyura, my sister’s dog. Lots of coffee today — basically my main food.

❗️Zelenskyy has begun his address from the podium of the UN General Assembly in New York.

🇹🇷🇺🇦 Zelensky: Met with Turkish President Erdogan. Discussed security in the Black Sea, primarily how to ensure the operation of the maritime export corridor. There are various options on the table for how it can be fully restored. We also discussed bilateral issues: a free trade zone and a potential Drone Deal.

🇺🇦 Zelensky: After losing so many people, Russia managed to capture just over 1,000 square kilometers of our land this year, and we have already liberated a significant part of it. Russia is a country that already has 17 million square kilometers of its own land without any Ukrainian territory. To add another thousand square kilometers, Putin spent 248 people per kilometer. Does anyone still think that he's reasonable and moderate?

The Kremlin claimed President Zelensky has not rejected an invitation to Moscow, despite telling a reporter he would go "on a rocket." Spokesman Peskov insisted Putin is open to talks if Zelensky visits, though Kyiv refuses to go to Russia. kyivpost.com/post/85335

❗️Russia will not stop its war while peace negotiations are taking place, – Lavrov He also repeated the Kremlin’s usual “root causes”: blamed Ukraine and Europe for the failure of the Minsk agreements, claimed Kyiv had been preparing a military operation to retake the occupied Donbas, defended Russia’s annexation of Crimea, and again raised Moscow’s claims about the rights of Russian speakers and the Orthodox Church in Ukraine.

Kanye West’s planned October concerts in Russia have been cancelled following venue disputes and intense backlash from Russian pro-war figures. Lawmakers had demanded the rapper endorse Russia’s invasion of Ukraine after outrage over his past lyrics. kyivpost.com/post/85332

Volodymyr Zelenskyy left his New York meeting with Donald Trump on a positive note, but experts say the talks yielded few concrete breakthroughs english.nv.ua/nation/zelensk…

Kyiv police bomb disposal experts safely neutralized an unexploded 227-kilogram warhead from a ballistic missile launched by Russian forces at the capital overnight. The unexploded munition posed a serious danger to nearby residents and infrastructure. Bomb disposal specialists made the warhead safe before removing it with specialized equipment. It will now be transported to a designated training ground outside Kyiv, where it will be destroyed. Source: The Kyiv Police press service

❗️OpenAI will provide the Ukrainian government with free access to its AI-based Daybreak cyber defense system to strengthen protection of civilian infrastructure — including hospitals and power plants — from cyberattacks. The system helps quickly identify vulnerabilities in digital systems and develop ways to fix them. Under the agreement, Ukraine will also gain access to the GPT-5.6 Sol model. This was reported by the BBC.

Wounded three times, his legs shot out from under him so he could not walk, Ray Duke told the two men carrying him to put him down and run. He knew he was slowing them, and slowing them meant they would all die. So he stayed, propped up, pouring fire into the charging enemy, and that was the last anyone saw of him alive. Duke was an Army sergeant first class from Tennessee, leading a platoon near Mugok on April 26, 1951, during the Chinese offensive. When his platoon was ordered to pull back, he learned that several of his men had been left isolated and cut off in the ground they had just given up, surrounded and fighting for their lives. He would not leave them there. He gathered a small force and led a daring assault back into the enemy to reach the trapped men and pull them out. Having rescued them, he stayed in the fight. Though he had been wounded by mortar fragments, he moved calmly along his platoon's line, coordinating their fire and urging his men to hold firm against the mounting enemy assault. He was steadying the whole defense by walking the line under fire. Then he was wounded again, a third time, this time hit in both legs. He could no longer walk. Two of his men picked him up and started carrying him off the hill to safety, but Duke quickly understood the arithmetic. Two men hauling a third could not move fast enough, and the enemy was closing in. Carrying him was going to get all three of them killed. So he ordered them to leave him. He told the two men to put him down and save themselves, to get to safety while they still could. And then Ray Duke, unable to stand, propped himself up and kept fighting. The last time his men saw him, he was pouring devastating fire into the ranks of the onrushing enemy, buying them their escape. They got away. Duke did not. He was captured, and he did not survive captivity. He died as a prisoner of war a few months later, in November 1951. Ray Duke was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor. The sergeant who charged back to rescue his cut off men, and then, when his own legs were gone, refused to let them die dragging him along, and stayed behind firing so they could live.

“They choose death—we choose life.” We join Ambassador Leiter’s family and all of Israel in prayer for Neria’s recovery.

Вшануймо хвилиною мовчання пам’ять полеглих у війні Героїв України.

Will an energy ceasefire be reached? In recent days, there has been much talk about Ukraine and Russia holding talks on an energy ceasefire. ▪️ On September 13, President Trump said that Ukraine should not strike Russian refineries because this is driving up diesel prices around the world, including in the United States. Ukraine proposed an energy ceasefire as well as a maritime one: no strikes on Russian shipping and ports if Russia refrains from striking Ukrainian shipping and ports. ▪️ On September 14, President Trump announced that an energy ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia had begun. Neither the Ukrainian nor the Russian side confirmed this, mutual strikes are still ongoing. ▪️ On September 15, Peskov called an energy ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine a "very good idea" and stated that Russia is ready to agree to an energy ceasefire under two conditions: if strikes on Russian shipping and ports stop, and if the West lifts sanctions on the oil and gas sector. ▪️ On September 23, Marco Rubio saud that Ukraine and Russia are showing interest in a partial ceasefire regarding the cessation of mutual strikes on energy infrastructure. Rubio also discussed the energy ceasefire "on the sidelines" of the UN General Assembly with Lavrov. ▪️ The energy ceasefire was discussed by Presidents Zelenskyy and Trump during their meeting. What is the complexity of this issue? Each side interprets an energy ceasefire differently. It is also being considered together with a maritime ceasefire: a mutual halt to strikes on vessels and ports in the Black Sea. Russia has set an additional condition: the United States and Europe must lift sanctions on Russia’s oil and gas sector, which would clearly benefit Moscow. The main risk for Ukraine lies in the one-sided nature of a possible ceasefire: if Ukraine stops striking Russia’s oil industry while Russia continues attacking cities, infrastructure, and ports, then what is the point of such a ceasefire? In fact, the demand for a ceasefire exists on both sides: Russia is interested in it due to damage to its oil refineries, while Ukraine is interested because the heating season is approaching. President Trump stated that he is ready to use the Graham Act as leverage on Russia: "If necessary, I will have to use it." In turn, Rubio also described the bill as an additional tool available to the U.S. president. Ukraine has already stated that Kyiv agrees to a full, immediate, and unconditional ceasefire and called on Russia to do the same. Fifty-one UN countries supported the statement.