Security officers in Ukraine’s capital Kyiv
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UPDATE 1616 GMT:
A Russian commander has been shot and critically wounded, days after he was linked by Ukraine’s security service SBU to a deadly strike on a Kyiv children’s hospital in 2024.
The attacker shot Maj. Gen. Nikolay Varpakhovich twice before escaping on a motorbike.
On Monday, the SBU announced a “notice of suspicion” in absentia for Varpakhovich over his involvement in the missile strike on the Okhmatdyt children’s hospital in Kyiv on July 8, 2024.
Two adults were murdered and 34 people injured, including nine children.
UPDATE 1121 GMT:
Denmark’s intelligence agency PET warns Russia is pursuing sabotage operations.
Following Germany’s formal blame of Russia’s hybrid warfare (see Wednesday’s coverage), European Union have summoned Russia’s envoys and discussed fresh sanctions.
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“The Russian intelligence services are actively preparing acts of sabotage targeting the defense industry in Denmark,” PET said. They are recruiting “ordinary Danes” on social media to take photos that can be used in plans.
UPDATE 1027 GMT:
Ukraine’s State security service SBU says the deputy commander of the anti-Kremlin Russian Volunteer Corps admitted contacts with Russia’s State security service FSB.
The SBU claimed Stepan Kaplunov received tasks to assassinate a Russian opposition figure and Ukrainian troops.
The SBU’s abduction of Kaplunov sparked a gunfight with the Ukrainian military intelligence service GUR, which oversees the Russian Volunteer Corps, wounding three officers.
The security service said Kaplunov cooperated with investigators and was not detained.
Kaplunov denied contact with the FSB. He said he admitted to the allegations only after being held for nine days under psychological pressure and threats.
UPDATE 1023 GMT:
Airports in Moscow have restricted flights for the second night in a row amid Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky’s warning of more airstrikes.
Sheremetyevo Airport cancelled 21 flights and delayed 235, and Vnukovo Airport cancelled 22 and delayed 94.
UPDATE 1006 GMT:
Belgium has again blocked the European Union from using €200 billion in frozen Russian assets for Ukraine.
Last December Brussels, which holds 2/3rd of the assets, objected to the initiative. The EU instead financed a €90 billion loan for Kyiv’s needs through 2027.
Four EU members have asked to reopen the possibility of the frozen assets. However, Belgium Foreign Minister Maxime Prevot said the position was “unchanged”: “Using these assets through a process akin to confiscation carries significant risk.”
EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said after ministerial talks in Wicklow, Ireland that fresh funds for Ukraine should ultimately come from Russia.
“That is why some of the member states were proposing to go back to the discussion of the frozen assets. And we will continue that discussion,” she declared.
UPDATE 1000 GMT:
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio says Ukraine may need several years to start the production of Patriot air defense systems.
“It really won’t solve the short-term challenge that they’re pointing to,” Rubio said.
He pushed aside the crisis for Ukraine from Russian aerial attacks, saying “the whole world is asking for more air interceptors” but US needs come first.
UPDATE 0622 GMT:
Russia has attacked Kyiv for the seventh night in a row.
Explosions were heard in the capital just before 11 p.m. Mayor Vitali Klitschko said air defense units were repelling Russian drones. He urged residents to stay in shelters.
Air raid alerts also sounded in cities across Ukraine, including Ternopil in the west.
In the Odesa region in the south, at least 17 people, including three children, were injured.
The strikes damaged 20 apartments between the 10th and 17th floors of a high-rise residential building and 12 cars parked nearby. Power was cut to more than 350,000 homes.
Two civilians were murdered and eight wounded in the city of Dnipro, where food warehouses and educational buildings were damaged.
UPDATE 0617 GMT:
Norwegian authorities seized a Russian vessel at the port of Barentsburg on Wednesday at the request of Ukraine’s national oil and gas company, Naftogaz.
The seizure is part of a global effort to force Russia to pay for its illegal takeover of Naftogaz assets during the occupation of Crimea. In 2023 a Hague tribunal ordered Russia to pay Naftogaz $4.22 billion plus interest. The Kremlin has refused.
On August 31 a district court authorized the seizure of the Professor Molchanov, a Russian State ship used for commercial expedition cruises around the Svalbard archipelago.
ORIGINAL ENTRY: Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky has condemned a shootout on Thursday between members of Ukraine’s intelligence and security services.
The gunfire in Kyiv injured three officers of the internal security service SBU and the military intelligence service GUR.
Reports said the violence erupted when the SBU detained the deputy commander of the Russian Volunteer Corps, an anti-Kremlin unit that fights for Ukraine under the watch of the GUR.
Zelensky said the situation was “absolutely shameful”, firing a senior officer of the SBU and calling in prosecutors and investigators:
Here in Ukraine, shooting is only permissible at Russian occupiers in defense of Ukraine. Our state will not perceive any other shootout as something that anyone is allowed to do.
Censor. NET publishes footage of the end of the conflict between SBU and GUR
The video shows how the parties switch to raised tones, then a shot is heard and the Alpha specialists begin fire. It was not possible to identify who fired first from this video.
3 GUR employees were injured.
— MAKS 26 (@maks23.bsky.social) September 2, 2026 at 8:04 PM
