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U.S. intelligence concluded that Vladimir Putin ordered an escalated sabotage campaign against NATO countries, as Romania tied a 14 September fire beside a Brașov arms factory to a Russian-run network with suspects held in Germany and Poland.
Putin discussed using Novatek’s gas technology in Polar LNG’s proposed $25 billion Alaska project with Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner. Novatek secretly financed the venture through an Abu Dhabi company.
Metro’s Russian subsidiary transferred $12.4 million to a Kremlin-backed fund equipping Russian troops in Ukraine after coming under state management. The German parent company says it neither authorised nor approved the payment.
Russian ballistic missiles struck a Kyiv university on 26 October, injuring five students and staff. The attack came hours after UN investigators concluded that Russia's deliberate strikes on Ukraine's energy infrastructure constituted war crimes and crimes against humanity.
The UN Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine cited Vladimir Putin's own instructions in concluding that Russia's attacks on the power system are war crimes and crimes against humanity. Russian strikes have hit the bridge carrying Kyiv's green metro line on at least four days this month.
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Hours after Witkoff praised Putin as a humanitarian, Russia launched three waves of ballistic missiles at Kyiv and 210 drones across Ukraine. Ukrainian officials reported cluster warheads near historic monasteries as Trump waived sanctions and Patriot missiles stalled.
Putin has proposed talks with Trump and Xi in China to negotiate Ukraine’s future without Ukraine. The proposal follows Trump's decision to ease Russian diesel sanctions, waive new congressional sanctions and pressure Kyiv to halt strikes on Russian refineries.
Putin envoy Kirill Dmitriev says the US Treasury asked his sanctioned Russian investment fund to help facilitate diesel payments. He also claims Russia and the US are discussing nuclear-powered data centres, just two days before new US investment restrictions take effect.
The order to restrict Ukraine’s Starshield military satellite service reportedly came from inside the White House. As Ukrainian drones lost communications, Trump pressured Kyiv to stop striking Russian refineries, threatened intelligence and weapons support, and struck a diesel deal with Putin.
Trump announced a deal with Putin to sell 4.8 million tonnes of Russian diesel, worth nearly $7.24 billion, while easing US sanctions. The agreement would strengthen Russia’s war finances and undermine Ukraine’s efforts to cut off revenues funding Russia’s invasion and attacks on civilians.
The Pentagon has left the UK, France and NATO's three top defence spenders, the Baltic states, out of an allies' meeting in Poland as Trump moves to ease Russia sanctions, invites Putin to his Doral resort and weighs pulling up to 40,000 US troops from Europe.
14 Republican and Democratic senators are urging Trump to withdraw his invitation for Vladimir Putin to attend December’s G20 summit at Trump’s Miami golf resort. Putin is wanted by the ICC over Russia’s kidnapping of Ukrainian children.
Rep. Robert Garcia demands Trump Jr.'s records on Putin-decorated oligarch Umar Kremlev, who paid for his wedding parties. Blanche and Patel decline to act.
Umar Kremlev, a Putin-decorated Russian oligarch under Ukrainian sanctions, paid hundreds of thousands towards Donald Trump Jr.'s Bahamas wedding.
