Day 1,287.

Today, as a Nato leader meets with Vladimir Putin while Ukraine is subjected to the latest wave of Russian drone strikes, we look at the ongoing Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit in China that is attempting to rewrite the global security order. Plus, we examine quite what happened to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s plane, after suspected Russian interference, and hear the latest in the cyber war.

Contributors:

Dominic Nicholls (Associate Editor of Defence). @DomNicholls on X.

Francis Dearnley (Executive Editor for Audio). @FrancisDearnley on X.

Gareth Corfield (Transport Correspondent). @GazTheJourno on X.

Content Referenced:

Ursula von der Leyen’s plane forced to land blind after ‘Russia jams GPS’ (The Telegraph):

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/09/01/ursula-von-der-leyen-plane-forced-land-blind-russia/ 

Costa breaks ranks on EU-US trade deal, fires warning shot at Trump (POLITICO):

https://www.politico.eu/article/antonio-costa-eu-us-trade-deal-warning-shots-donald-trump/ 

Germany and France plan early warning system JEWEL (Hartpunkt):

https://www.hartpunkt.de/raketenabwehr-berlin-und-paris-planen-fruehwarnsystem/

Andrew Fox Substack on PTSD: 

https://mrandrewfox.substack.com/p/ptsd?r=z0uop&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true

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