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The US will reportedly share intelligence on long-range targets within Russia with Ukraine as Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Starmer and other leaders are gathering in Denmark to discuss the war at another European summit. Follow the latest.
Thursday 2 October 2025 13:45, UK
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If Russia defeats Ukraine, it will embolden China’s moves towards Taiwan, a senior Taiwanese military officer says.
On a rare visit to Europe, Hsieh Jih-sheng, deputy chief of the general staff for intelligence, said he hoped that Kyiv emerges victorious.
Addressing the Warsaw Security Forum he said: “There are many things that we can learn from the Ukrainian theatre that we can elevate for our overall readiness.
“The defeat of Ukraine will signal that China can take more aggression towards Taiwan.” 
China’s foreign ministry said Taiwan was trying to “capitalise on a hot issue and grab eyeballs”. 
“The Taiwan issue is purely an internal Chinese affair, intrinsically different from the Ukraine crisis,” it said.
Hsieh raised the alarm about China and Russia’s joint military drills. 
“If China moves on Taiwan while Russia increases its offensive in Ukraine, the world could face a two-front geopolitical crisis,” he added. 
Russia and Ukraine have exchanged 185 prisoners of war from each side, the Russian defence ministry says.
It said the swap was in line with agreements reached at the last round of face-to-face peace talks with Ukraine, held in Istanbul on 23 July. 
The deputy leader of Russia’s liberal Yabloko party, which opposes the war in Ukraine, has been charged with spreading lies about the Russian army, state investigators say.
Maxim Kruglov says he is not guilty of the charge, which can carry a jail term of up to 10 years, the investigators said. 
He was charged over the content of two posts he had made on the Telegram social media network in 2022, his lawyer said.
Nikolai Rybakov, the head of Yabloko, said Kruglov had publicly called, among other things, for a ceasefire.
Yabloko, which has only a handful of seats in regional parliaments and no seats in the national parliament, condemned Vladimir Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine.
Pictures show the aftermath of a Russian strike on a railway depot in Odesa.
A train driver was injured by shrapnel, said deputy prime minister Oleksiy Kuleba.
“Russia is trying every day to destroy one of the foundations of Ukrainian stability – our infrastructure, which holds the country together,” he said.
“This includes railways, roads, and energy. The aggressor country uses weapons that are impossible without foreign components. 
“Sanctions need to be tightened and all supply chains blocked.”
As blame is exchanged over the power cut to Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, one thing is clear – Russia wants the station’s energy, says a leading thinktank.
Russia has been laying foundations to connect the ZNPP to the Russian power grid for months, the Institute for the Study of War said.
It has been constructing power lines into occupied southern Ukraine and Russian officials have announced their intention to run the ZNPP at its full capacity.
Transferring the power plant to the Russian grid means disconnecting it from the Ukrainian one, which would “very likely introduce significant risks”, said the ISW.
Its six nuclear reactors have remained in a cold shutdown since April 2024 to mitigate the risk of a disaster, which is dependent on a reliable power supply.
The ISW said: “Russia’s integration of the ZNPP into the Russian power grid will exacerbate security risks, degrade Ukraine’s future power generation capacity, and serve as a tool that Russia can use to legitimise its occupation of Ukraine.”
Ukraine’s nuclear power infrastructure has once more been in the spotlight in recent days. 
Most notably, Ukrainians have raised the alarm over Europe’s largest nuclear power plant in Zaporizhzhia now being cut off from external power for eight consecutive days. Russia occupied the plant in the early months of the war.
The International Atomic Energy Agency said it was “by far the longest lasting such event” during more than three years of war.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy blamed Russian artillery for cutting the power line, but the Kremlin spokesman said it was Ukrainian shelling.
Last night, Zelenskyy also drew attention to Russian drone strikes on Ukrainian energy infrastructure in Slavutych, the city whose power supply services Chernobyl, the site of the world\u2019s worst nuclear accident. 
They left the former nuclear power plant in Chernobyl without power for three hours, he said.
The strikes overwhelmed defences and caused a blackout, affecting the sarcophagus that prevents radioactive dust from escaping the damaged reactor.
“Russia is deliberately creating the threat of radiation incidents,” Zelenskyy said in a statement.
He called Russia’s strikes on energy facilities, including on nuclear infrastructure, “a global threat”.
The Russian-installed management of the Zaporizhzhia plant downplayed the situation yesterday and today in statements to Russian state media, saying everything was under control.
However, they noted the lack of external supply was a threat as the plant is currently being cooled by emergency diesel generators. Two back-up generators are reportedly being activated within hours today.
The IAEA also said there was “no immediate danger” in Zaporizhzhia but warned that the current situation was “not sustainable”.
 Our Europe correspondent Alistair Bunkall<\/a><\/b> is on the ground in Copenhagen and had the chance to briefly speak to Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
The Ukrainian leader told him that it would be a \u201csignificant\u201d boost to Ukraine if the US provides them with long range weapons and intelligence, as is being reported in American media (see our 9.30 post).
“We spoke with the United States. We are very thankful to President Trump for this dialogue,” Zelenskyy said. 
He added that they notably also discussed “long range missiles, long range weapons” at their last meeting.
As the opening plenary and panels of the European Political Community summit are under way, we can bring you some more pictures from the big leaders’ reunion this morning.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy was pictured catching up with Sir Keir Starmer, Italy’s Giorgia Meloni, and the EU’s Ursula von der Leyen, amongst others.
The Kremlin has responded to reports that the US will start sharing intelligence on long-range energy and infrastructure targets within Ukraine (see our 9.30 post).
The government’s spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov, suggested this morning that this was not a substantively new development.
“The United States of America transmits intelligence to Ukraine on a regular basis online,” he told reporters.
“The supply and use of the entire infrastructure of NATO and the United States to collect and transfer intelligence to Ukrainians is obvious.”
Recent drone incursions across Europe are a sign that Russia still feels “bold enough to escalate this war”, Volodymyr Zelenskyy says in Copenhagen.
“This was never just about Ukraine,” Ukraine’s leader adds. “Russia has always aimed to break the West and Europe in particular.”<\/p>\n

European countries will have to work together to put a stop to that, Zelenskyy says, adding that Ukraine could share its experience on warding off Russian drones.
“This is just the beginning on the path toward an effective ‘drone wall’ to protect all of Europe,” he says.
The president of the European Commission recently proposed that EU countries should build a joint anti-drone defence system, though this has been met with scepticism from fellow leaders.
Zelenskyy first offered Ukraine’s help with building a joint European aerial defence system in a speech at the Warsaw Security Forum on Monday.
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