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Moscow's fuel stations limit sales amid shortages linked to Ukrainian drone attacks on refineries

Russian authorities have banned exports of gasoline and diesel, eased fuel quality requirements and began importing petroleum products.

A general view shows the Novorossiysk Fuel Oil Terminal (NMT) in the Black Sea port of Novorossiisk, Russia May 30, 2018. Picture taken May 30, 2018.
Smoke billows from a warehouse, after deadly Ukrainian drone attacks, as per regional governors, in Elektrostal, Moscow Region, Russia, July 18, 2026, in this screen grab obtained from a social media video.

Russia's Putin orders government to help rebuild warehouses destroyed in Ukrainian attacks

Ukrainian prisoners of war (POWs) smoke cigarettes after a swap, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, at an undisclosed location in Ukraine August 19, 2026.

Russia and Ukraine swap 103 prisoners of war each

US special envoy Steve Witkoff (L) and US President's son-in-law and businessman Jared Kushner arrive at the Elysee Palace in Paris, on January 6, 2026.

'We're going to get it solved': Ukraine peace deal within reach, says US envoy Witkoff


Russia warns Ukraine against striking Crimea with US, British missiles

Kyiv says it wants to reclaim all of its territory, including the Crimean peninsula

 Rescuers work at the site of residential houses heavily damaged by a Russian missile strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kramatorsk, Donetsk region, Ukraine June 14, 2023.

The Ukraine counteroffensive and the Middle East

BEHIND THE LINES: Ukraine success in the upcoming offensive will serve to stave off the possible realization of this picture. 

 A UKRAINIAN police officer inspects parts of an Iranian-made Shahed-136 suicide drone at the site of a Russian strike on fuel storage facilities in Kharkiv in October 2022.

Ukraine dam collapse to impact water supply, disperse mines

The UK's Defense Ministry said flooding disrupted the peninsula’s main source of fresh water, the North Crimean Canal.

 Kakhovka Dam and Kakhovska Hydroelectric Power Plant

At least seven missing in Russian-controlled Nova Kakhovka after dam collapse

Many have been left without adequate drinking water, while many animals have been killed and people have been forced to evacuate from their homes.

 A satellite image shows Nova Khakovka Dam in Kherson region, Ukraine May 28, 2023.

Russia says it thwarted major Ukrainian offensive, killed hundreds

"The enemy's goal was to break through our defenses in the most vulnerable, in its opinion, sector of the front," the defense ministry said.

 A view shows an apartment building heavily damaged during Ukraine-Russia conflict in the city of Sievierodonetsk in the Luhansk Region, Ukraine July 1, 2022.

Ukraine says Russia plans to simulate accident at nuclear power plant

The defense ministry's intelligence directorate said Russian forces would soon shell the plant and then announce a radiation leak.

A serviceman with a Russian flag on his uniform stands guard near the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in the course of Ukraine-Russia conflict outside the Russian-controlled city of Enerhodar in the Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine August 4, 2022.

Ukraine strikes southern Russia with rocket and drone, officials and media say

"All emergency services are working at the scene. The cause of the incident is being investigated. Residents are asked to stay calm," Krasnodar mayor Yevgeny Naumov wrote on Telegram.

Ukrainian serviceman carries a reconnaissance unmanned aerial device near a frontline, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Donetsk region, Ukraine May 25, 2023.

Ukraine likely behind Kremlin drone attack -NYT quotes US officials

The newspaper said the attack appeared to be part of a series of covert operations that have made officials in the US uncomfortable.

 A still image taken from video shows a flying object exploding in an intense burst of light near the dome of the Kremlin Senate building during the alleged Ukrainian drone attack in Moscow, Russia, in this image taken from video obtained by Reuters May 3, 2023

Belarus accused of role in transfers of Ukrainian children

The transfers of children to Belarus were illegal and in violation of the Geneva Conventions and the statute of the ICC, the report said.

 A woman and a child wait in a bus after fleeing from Russia's invasion of Ukraine, at the border crossing in Siret, Romania, March 1, 2022.

'Nuclear apocalypse' more likely due to Western arms in Ukraine - Medvedev

The United States has committed $37 billion in security assistance to Ukraine since Putin sent troops into Ukraine in February last year.

 Ukrainian servicemen fire a BM-21 Grad multiple launch rocket system towards Russian troops, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, near the frontline town of Bakhmut, Ukraine May 19, 2023