Latest Defence Intelligence update on the situation in Ukraine – 20 September 2023.

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🇺🇦 #StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦 pic.twitter.com/VWdtEUc6w9

— Ministry of Defence 🇬🇧 (@DefenceHQ) September 20, 2023

NEW: The #Russian government quickly signaled on September 19 that Russian peacekeeping forces would not intervene in #Azerbaijan’s military operation into Nagorno-Karabakh, despite #Russia’s previous security ties to #Armenia. https://t.co/DNzpyV7cnJ pic.twitter.com/06SLNvOdBv

— ISW (@TheStudyofWar) September 20, 2023

A showdown between Russian FM Sergey Lavrov and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was avoided at the UN Security Council, with Zelenskyy leaving before Lavrov’s arrival.

Russia’s top diplomat accused the West of ‘shaking global stability’: https://t.co/torcA5dAd1 pic.twitter.com/FZXF3kK7zF

— DW News (@dwnews) September 20, 2023

Seated at the same table as Russia’s ambassador at the U.N. Security Council, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy made his case for arming Kyiv and imposing sanctions on Moscow pic.twitter.com/LUuhOBIWNm

— Reuters (@Reuters) September 20, 2023

Poland summons Ukrainian ambassador over Zelenskyy remarks, Kyiv calls for calm https://t.co/P26vRRwM03 pic.twitter.com/ZLzQJIrXyQ

— CNA (@ChannelNewsAsia) September 20, 2023

#BREAKING Polish PM says Warsaw no longer arming Ukraine pic.twitter.com/dTKfc4LBpH

— AFP News Agency (@AFP) September 20, 2023

Russia-Iran ties have reached new level: Russian defence minister https://t.co/aHvLTxSbAC pic.twitter.com/Lw6HyrNP9V

— CNA (@ChannelNewsAsia) September 20, 2023

LIVE: World leaders hold UN Security Council meeting on Ukraine https://t.co/uORhw2ohKT

— Reuters (@Reuters) September 20, 2023