The heads of the British and American foreign intelligence agencies said on September that Ukraine’s surprise incursion into Russia is a significant achievement that could change the narrative of war as they urged Kyiv’s allies not to be held back by Russian threats of escalation.

   German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock on September accused Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats SPD of watering down support for Ukraine just two weeks before a key state election.

   RFE RL’s Ukraine Live Briefing gives you the latest developments on Russia’s ongoing invasion, Western military aid, global reaction, and the plight of civilians. The Live Briefing presents the latest developments and analysis, updated throughout the day.

   A large fire at an arms depot has prompted local authorities to evacuate some people in southwest Russia’s Voronezh region.

   Thousands of people gathered in Lviv, western Ukraine, on September to attend a funeral service for four members of a family who died in a Russian air strike two days earlier. The drone and missile attack killed Yevhenia Bazylevych and her three daughters at their home, leaving the girls’ father...

   Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s plan to increase the number of aircraft in the Ukrainian Air Force is realistic, Dutch Defense Minister Ruben Brekelmans said on September in an interview with RFE RL.

   The top aide to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and a group that represents Ukrainians living in Canadian have sharply criticized the showing of the film Russians At War at the Venice Film Festival, calling it Russian propaganda.

   U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has said the use of U.S. donated weapons for long range strikes on Russian territory would not turn the tide of the war in Ukraine’s favor. Austin spoke on September after a meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group at Ramstein Air Base in Germany. Austin...

   U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said on September that no single military weapon will be decisive for Ukraine to defeat Russia’s full scale invasion and that the use of donated U.S. weapons for long range strikes into Russia would not turn the tide of the war in Ukraine’s favor.

   The European Union on September announced a new aid package to provide humanitarian aid to vulnerable Ukrainians ahead of the winter months.

   Russian forces continue to push toward the city of Pokrovsk in Ukraine’s Donetsk region. RFE RL correspondent Maryan Kushnir reports from the front line in the village of Novohrodivka, which he says was on fire and has been entered by Russian forces.

   Russians are voting for governors and regional legislators in regions and cities, including Moscow and St. Petersburg, on September . But many opposition candidates have been barred from running.

   At least five people have been wounded in latest Russian drone and missile attacks across Ukraine, Kyiv said on September, adding that the air defenses shot down out of Russian drones launched overnight.

   President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on September visits Germany where Ukraine’s military backers are meeting, days after one of the deadliest strikes of the war and as Russian forces make battlefield gains.

   President Volodymyr Zelenskiy is conducting Ukraine’s biggest government shake up since Russia launched its full scale invasion. Here’s a look at the goals, timing, and potential effects of a move the wartime leader says will generate new energy but that critics say will change little.

   The death toll in a Russian missile strike on the Ukrainian city of Poltava rose to on September, the Interior Ministry said, adding that the number of wounded also rose and now stands at .

   A grand jury in the U.S. state of Maryland has charged six Russians, including five who are officers in Russia’s military intelligence agency GRU , with conspiracy to hack into computer systems and conspiracy to commit wire fraud.

   The Romanian government is in the final stages of donating a Patriot missile system to Ukraine in the midst of Ukraine’s ever increasing calls for more support from the West.

   Russia was planning to attack Ukraine from the Kursk region before Ukraine launched its cross border incursion last month, Ukraine’s top military commander, Colonel General Oleksandr Syrskiy, said in an interview broadcast on September .

   Ukraine’s parliament has approved the nomination of Andriy Sybiha as the country’s new foreign minister, replacing Dmytro Kuleba as part of a major government reshuffle.