China military parade: Xi Jinping hosts Putin and Kim Jong UnOn The Ground newsletter: Get a weekly dispatch from our international correspondentsGet a weekly dispatch from our international correspondentsGet a weekly international news dispatchUS president Donald Trump said he was “very disappointed” in Russian president Vladimir Putin over ongoing strikes in Ukraine.He had hoped a meeting with the Russian leader in Alaska last month would help peace talks – but no deal or follow up meeting has been agreed since.”I’m very disappointed in him – he knows. We have a great relationship,” Trump told the Scott Jennings Radio Show.”Very disappointed, thousands of people are dying. They’re not Americans that are dying, but they’re Russians and they’re Ukrainians, and there are thousands,” he said.It comes as the original 2 September deadline set by Trump for the Kremlin to reach a peace deal has passed.In the weeks that followed, Russia has significantly amped up its missile and drone attacks on Ukrainian cities, a development Trump’s treasury secretary Scott Bessent has called “despicable”.Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia was engaged in a new troop buildup along certain sectors of the frontline and was still launching strikes on Ukrainian targets.He said Russian forces had targeted Ukraine with 150 drones overnight, more than 50 in the morning and “dozens” more in the evening. Ukraine rejects legalisation of Russian occupation of Zaporizhzhia nuclear plantUkraine will never agree to legalise the Russian occupation of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant and an immediate withdrawal of Russian troops is the only way to guarantee safety there, the Ukrainian foreign ministry said yesterday.A ministry statement made no direct reference to Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin’s statement during a visit to China that Moscow was ready to cooperate with the United States at the plant, seized in the first weeks after Moscow’s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine.”The Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant is and will remain an integral part of the sovereign territory of Ukraine. Any attempts by Russia to question this fact are legally null and void and politically pointless,” the ministry said.”The only way to restore nuclear safety is the immediate and complete withdrawal of Russian military and other personnel from the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant,” it said.A view shows the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant from the bank of Kakhovka Reservoir near the town of Nikopol amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine (Reuters)Arpan Rai3 September 2025 05:34Lavrov says Russia expects ongoing Ukraine talks with territorial changes consideredMoscow expects talks between Russia and Ukraine to continue but “new territorial realities” must be recognised and new systems of security guarantees formed, Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov said in remarks published today.Russia has occupied around 20 per cent of Ukraine since its invasion in 2022, and illegally annexed the Crimea peninsula in 2014.”For peace to be durable, the new territorial realities … must be recognised and formalised in international legal terms,” Lavrov said in an interview with Indonesia’s Kompas newspaper, according to a transcript provided on the website of Russia’s foreign ministry.”A new system of security guarantees for Russia and Ukraine must be formed as an integral element of a pan-continental architecture of equal and indivisible security in Eurasia,” he said.Lavrov said that “Ukraine should be guaranteed a neutral, non-aligned, and non-nuclear status,” in an indirect reference to Moscow’s continued opposition to Ukraine joining Nato.Ukraine says it is not for Russia to decide what Kyiv can or cannot join, while Nato says that Russia can have no veto over membership of the alliance which was formed in 1949 to counter the threat from the Soviet Union.Russia’s foreign minister Sergei Lavrov speaks during a meeting with Turkmenistan’s foreign minister Rashid Meredov in Moscow (Reuters)Arpan Rai3 September 2025 05:24Russia launches air attack on Kyiv, Ukraine’s military saysUkraine’s air defence units were engaged in repelling a Russian air attack on Kyiv, the city’s military administration said today, as nationwide air raid alerts followed warnings from Ukraine’s air force of missile and drone strikes.”Air defence is operating in Kyiv! Stay in shelters until the all-clear is given!” Timur Tkachenko, head of Kyiv’s military administration, said on the Telegram messaging app.Arpan Rai3 September 2025 04:58Russia and US in process of co-ordinating date and venue of next round of talksRussia and the United States are in the process of coordinating the next round of bilateral talks, Russia’s RIA state news agency reported today, citing the Russian foreign ministry’s spokesperson, Maria Zakharova, as saying. Arpan Rai3 September 2025 04:45Trump claims he is ‘very disappointed’ with PutinDonald Trump has said he was “very disappointed” in Russian president Vladimir Putin as he made a public appearance after five days.He said he had hoped a meeting with the Russian leader in Alaska last month would help peace talks – but no deal or follow up meeting has been agreed since.”I’m very disappointed in him – he knows. We have a great relationship,” Trump told the Scott Jennings Radio Show.”Very disappointed, thousands of people are dying. They’re not Americans that are dying, but they’re Russians and they’re Ukrainians, and there are thousands.”He added: “We’ll see what happens, but I’m very disappointed in president Putin, I can say that.””We’ll be doing something to help people live. It’s not a question of Ukraine, it’s helping people live,” he said.Arpan Rai3 September 2025 04:21What is GPS jammingThe Global Positioning System (GPS) and other satellite navigation systems use radio signals from satellites to calculate position. To determine position, a GPS needs a direct line of sight to at least four satellites.There are two ways to disrupt satellite navigation.The first is jamming. This works by simply broadcasting high-intensity radio noise in the same frequency band used by the navigation satellites.Jamming drowns out the satellite signal, like a person shouting loudly in your ear stops you hearing what someone is saying on the other side of the room. This appears to be what happened in Bulgaria.The second way to interfere with satellite navigation is called spoofing, and it’s a little more elegant. Spoofing involves sending radio signals that pretend to be coming from the navigation satellites.Where jamming stops the satellite navigation system from producing any location, spoofing tricks it into giving a false location – with potentially catastrophic results.Steffie Banatvala3 September 2025 04:00ICYMI: Russia accused of jamming GPS on plane carrying EU chief Ursula von der LeyenA plane on which European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen was travelling was hit by GPS jamming over Bulgaria in a suspected Russian operation, a spokesperson said.The plane landed safely at Plovdiv International Airport in the country’s south-central region on Monday.The incident was first reported by the Financial Times, which said that Ms Von der Leyen’s plane had to circle the airport for an hour.The commission’s spokesperson Arianna Podestà said that Ms Von der Leyen would continue her planned tour of the seven European Union nations bordering Russia and Belarus.“We can indeed confirm that there was GPS jamming,” Ms Podestà said.Steffie Banatvala3 September 2025 03:00France to host meeting of Ukraine’s ‘coalition of the willing’France will host a meeting of the “Coalition of the Willing,” a group of countries supporting Ukraine, on Thursday, the French presidency has said.The meeting, which will be held in hybrid format, will focus on security guarantees for Ukraine and on Russia’s refusal to make peace, the Elysee added.”Following the meeting held between Europeans and Americans in Washington on August 18, the heads of state and government will discuss the work on security guarantees for Ukraine conducted in recent weeks and will take stock of the consequences of Russia’s persistent refusal to make peace,” President Emmanuel Macron’s office said in a statement on Monday.Steffie Banatvala3 September 2025 02:00Putin says he and Trump came to ‘understanding’ about how to end Ukraine war at Alaska summitSteffie Banatvala3 September 2025 01:00All Ukraine’s bold attacks on Russia after nuclear plant hit in KurskAs Ukrainians gathered to mark Independence Day across the country last Sunday, Russia accused Kyiv of launching dozens of drones at a nuclear power plant in Kursk.The attack, which sparked a large fire and destroyed parts of the plant’s infrastructure, was one of the most audacious attacks on Russian territory so far this year.But experts have said that Ukraine has one of the best combat-ready armies in Europe.Steffie Banatvala3 September 2025 00:00
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Ukraine-Russia war latest: Trump ‘very disappointed’ with Putin as Moscow accused of building up forces on frontline
