Russian President Vladimir Putin said the next generation of the country's political leadership must be veterans of the Ukraine war. Putin made the comments during a meeting with different factions of the Russian State Duma and spoke of the participation of Ukraine war veterans in elections.

President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russia is deliberately slowing its economic growth in order to suppress inflation and that the world's second largest oil exporter was far away from a recession.

"If any troops appear there, especially now while fighting is ongoing, we assume that they will be legitimate targets," Putin says as the U.S. and Europe plan for a post-war Ukraine.

President Donald Trump renewed his call for European countries to “stop buying oil” from Russia, a demand he has linked to further US pressure on Vladimir Putin to halt the war in Ukraine.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signalled on Thursday that he is open to raising certain taxes, especially on the wealthy, as the government struggles to make ends meet in the fourth year of the war in Ukraine.

As Trump pushes for peace, Ukraine accuses Russia of a deadly drone and missile strike, "as if there were no efforts by the world to stop this war."

In the week since NATO fighter jets scrambled to shoot down multiple dozens of Russian drones that had crossed into alliance airspace in Poland, US and Western intelligence officials have been unable to determine whether the incursion was accidental or an intentional effort by Russia to probe western air defenses and gauge NATO’s response.

Moscow claims incursion into Estonia was ‘scheduled flight’ after Donald Trump warns the breach could lead to ‘big trouble’

On September 10th Alla Pugacheva, who has been, by far, Russia’s biggest pop star for 50 years, whose fame rivals Abba and Madonna and far outstrips that of Anna Netrebko, a Russian classical diva, gave her first big interview since she left Moscow in 2022.

Yuriy Boyechko, CEO of Hope for Ukraine, told Newsweek that negotiations had hit a dead end," and that Kyiv is now turning to strikes on Russian infrastructure such as oil facilities to pressure Vladimir Putin to negotiate. Ukraine must therefore rely on its own efforts, particularly targeting Russian oil refineries with drone strikes, he added.

Russia denies jets entered Estonian airspace in the same month as its drones violated the airspace of two other Nato members.

President Vladimir Putin has concluded that military escalation is the best way to force Ukraine into talks on his terms and that Donald Trump is unlikely to do much to bolster Kyiv’s defenses, according to people close to the Kremlin.