The Kyiv Independent

The proposal matters beyond the battlefield because attacks on energy and export infrastructure increasingly connect the war directly to international fuel and food markets, giving any reciprocal restraint wider economic significance.

For further information, see the Kyiv Independent, Associated Press, and New Voice of Ukraine.

India and New Zealand have completed ratification of their Free Trade Agreement, clearing the way for it to take effect on 20 October.

All Indian exports to New Zealand will receive duty-free access immediately, while 57% of New Zealand exports to India will become tariff-free.

It's not clear whose interest he is holding up or what those interests are.

But according to this Ukraine media here, Kiev Independent.

U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff has done a great job in Washington-led efforts to help the Ukraine-Russia war, Foreign Intelligence Chief Rustam Umarov said in an interview with Axios published on September 20th.

Umarov, one of Kyiv's key peace negotiators, rebuffed earlier reporting about the Kyiv independent that both Ukraine and Russia grow increasingly frustrated, both Ukraine and Russia, grow increasingly frustrated with U.S. President Donald Trump's envoy.

The operation shows Ukraine attempting to restore tactical movement through coordinated drones, strikes on logistics, electronic warfare suppression, and ground forces, even as Russian offensive operations continue elsewhere along the Donetsk Front.

For further information, see Third Army Corps, Ukrainska Pravda, Kyiv Independent, and Institute for the Study of War.

India defends energy security as new US law raises tariff pressure

India says it will protect its energy and economic interests after the United States enacted legislation giving Washington expanded authority to impose tariffs of up to 100% on major buyers of Russian energy.

Finally, I'll just say this, both Ukraine and Russia, if there's anything uniting them, they both hate Witkow and also likely Kushner, but they definitely hate Witkow.

Everyone hates Witkow, Kiev Independent writes.

Kiev and Moscow are growing increasingly frustrated with the U.S. mediated process and Washington's envoy, Steve Witkoff.

They're like, all Witkoff wants to talk about is like restaurants.

So, [chuckles] so you have to think, are they even exporting diesel? Because there are other problems here.

So there's one massive problem, according to the Kyiv Independent, with Trump's Ukraine diesel th-- price theory.

A study by Ukraine's KSE Institute, shared with the Financial Times, assessed the US-Israeli war with Iran had a far bigger impact on global diesel and gasoline supplies than Ukrainian drone strikes, estimating exports from the Persian Gulf fell by 152 million barrels between March and August, compared with 68 million barrel drop in Russian exports over the same period.

Now, the 68 million barrels drop is going to have some kind of effect, but it's less than-- I mean, the, uh, Persian Gulf is gonna be more than twice the amount of an effect, and Trump is putting the blame squarely on Ukraine for bizarre...