Security officers in Ukraine’s capital Kyiv
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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.
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
