Маргус Тсахкна
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Finland and Norway urge Putin to back Ukraine talks and de-escalation
Finland’s President Alexander Stubb and Norway’s Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre initiated a roughly 90-minute call with Vladimir Putin on 27 October to convey Ukrainian signals on de-escalation and preparations for Ukraine-US-Russia talks in Abu Dhabi. The leaders said the war must end, negotiations must resume and Russia must take practical steps to protect Ukraine’s energy and infrastructure. The Kremlin said Putin maintained that lasting peace required Russia’s interests to be fully considered.
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Russian drones strike Kyiv-Warsaw train and infrastructure near Polish border, prompting Polish emergency meeting
On the morning of September 13, 2026, Russian drones struck infrastructure near the Yahodyn-Dorohusk international border crossing on the Ukraine-Poland border in Volyn Oblast, damaging a gas station, hitting a truck on the Polish side, and striking the locomotive of a Kyiv-Warsaw passenger train about two kilometers from the Polish border. Poland scrambled fighter jets, issued air alerts in Lublin and Podkarpackie voivodeships, and Prime Minister Donald Tusk convened an emergency meeting at the Government Centre for Security, warning that Russian escalation could reach Polish territory in the coming weeks. No passengers or railway workers were injured in the locomotive strike after a Ukrzaliznytsia monitoring group warned the crew in advance and gave an evacuation signal roughly 15 minutes before impact.