“I really don’t want this to be Yalta 2, 3, 4”: Zelenskyy fears Trump-Xi-Putin meeting could redivide world, with Ukraine on agenda
Great powers may sit down to redraw the world’s spheres of influence again.
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Putin claims Russia is ready for new talks with Ukraine, calls occupied land historical Russia
He also cited unnamed genetic studies to claim Russians and Ukrainians are one people, a day after hosting a US envoy.
40,000 tons of Russian diesel are bound for New York—due four days after Americans vote
The tanker loaded at a Baltic port Ukrainian drones struck in March. Trump wants cheaper diesel before the midterms.
Trump cannot get Putin to halt strikes on Ukraine’s power grid, so he blames Ukraine instead, Zelenskyy says
Before that, US officials had cut Kyiv off from US intelligence and lowered a speed cap on Starlink to pressure Ukraine.
Russian missiles and drones kill one and injure 24 in Kyiv, splitting its metro line in two
Hours after a Kremlin aide said Russia was ready in principle for new talks, prosecutors say Russia destroyed 13 homes in one Kyiv district.
22 House lawmakers press Trump to implement Russia sanctions law. Diesel deal draws bipartisan backlash
The lawmakers argue that using the law’s sanctions and tariff powers would force Russian President Vladimir Putin to take peace talks seriously.
“He thinks Ukraine is a weak link and that it needs to be squeezed into giving in”: diplomat on why Trump pressures Kyiv, not Moscow
Trump is using aid and intelligence as levers over Kyiv.
“We don’t need to hit the entire plant”—Ukraine’s drones go for refinery parts sanctions make hard to repair
Of 54 strikes The Washington Post examined, more than half appear to have damaged the units that start turning crude into fuel.
Zelenskyy says Ukraine could hold elections if Russia agrees to 60-day ceasefire. Moscow counters with truce lasting only voting day
Spokesperson Dmitry Peskov says Ukraine needs the 60 days not to hold elections but to heal its wounds and keep fighting.
Australia keeps Russian fuel out even as US opens its market: “We do not want Vladimir Putin to benefit from this war in Middle East”
Australia says it has 43 days of petrol and 31 days of diesel stockpiled, enough to wait out high prices without buying from Russia.
Trump’s Russian diesel deal, which drew fury in Ukraine, is unlikely to lower prices, experts say
Analysts say Putin pushes for sanctions relief and no new US sanctions, all without any demand to stop the war
It was built to shield Russian crops from hail. Now it’s being pitched as a drone interceptor
In farm service, the Alazan flies about 10 km and climbs up to 8 km. Russian state TV showed a guided version at a training range Putin toured.
Russia starts pouring more into war after Putin judged Alaska talks with US would bring no “acceptable” deal to end fighting — Bloomberg
Russia's 2026 budget deficit has nearly doubled to more than $81 billion, as war spending blows past the original plan.
Ukraine brings 14 more children home from Russian-occupied Kherson Oblast. One of them was being forced onto Russia’s military rolls
This year's returns from the occupied south now reach 204.
Kyiv’s supermarkets are the new front line as Russia hunts civilian life before winter
Officials say the Kremlin is blending drone strikes, sabotage, and bot-farm propaganda to break the capital before the cold arrives.
The Kremlin calls mobilization talk “nonsense”—Zelenskyy says it has already begun, with North Korean reinforcements
The claim comes from Ukraine's military intelligence, which has tracked Russian preparations for a larger call-up for months.
Russia’s mass drone attacks on Ukraine have a goal—likely Ukraine’s capitulation by spring 2027, ISW says
Until his new theory of victory has played out, Putin is unlikely to soften his demands or enter serious ceasefire talks, according to ISW.
Kushner’s “win-win” peace deal is impossible when Putin wants all of Ukraine — Zelenskyy
The Ukrainian president said he knew Putin would never change his goal, and that the deal formula was built on a misreading of what Russia wanted.
Ukraine takes Zelenskyy’s Russian airspace warning to UN aviation body
Kyiv's letter asks the UN aviation body to recommend that member states stop flying over Russia.
Putin dismisses mobilization reports as Ukraine warns Russia could call up 600,000 to war
Russian officials gave similar assurances before the Kremlin’s 2022 call-up, while the decree authorizing it was never formally revoked.