Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Moscow has not sent Washington an ultimatum regarding U.S. involvement in Ukrainian Armed Forces strikes on Russian territory, but raises the issue during bilateral contacts.
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Galuzin noted the inconsistency of American rhetoric regarding negotiations on the Ukrainian crisis settlement.
Maria Zakharova warned London about the consequences of Ukrainian strikes with British weapons and called for abandoning the hostile line.
Head of the LPR Leonid Pasechnik said nine people were killed when a Ukrainian drone attacked a passenger bus traveling from Lisichansk to Stakhanov.
In a phone conversation, Vladimir Putin and Syria's transitional president Ahmed al-Sharaa discussed prospects for bilateral relations, emphasizing the importance of a memorandum on reorganizing the Khmeimim airbase and the logistics point in Tartus.
Pakistani military and Iranian security sources told RIA Novosti that Washington and Tehran have agreed on a ceasefire, with an official announcement expected in the coming days.
Armenia's Anti-Corruption Committee has informed RIA Novosti about large-scale searches across the country. Former President Robert Kocharyan was brought to the committee's building early Tuesday.
Only 50 of 193 UN member states expressed support for an anti-Russia statement on Ukraine, with the US not joining.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said he would be very pleased if the CSTO decided to expel Yerevan, as it would free Armenia from the dilemma of whether to leave.
Ukrainian drones attacked Ozon warehouses in Makhachkala and Krasnodar, causing fires. Several people were injured, but their lives are not in danger. There were also attempts to attack facilities in Adygeysk and Nevinnomyssk.
Iran's government has received an official proposal to join the Mecca Agreement, which provides for joint defense between Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan, according to the head of the Iranian parliament's news agency, Mehdi Rahimi.
Iran has a range of scenarios to counter hostile US steps, including economic war, said IRGC spokesman Hossein Mohebbi.
The British newspaper Guardian reports that Ukrainian authorities cannot guarantee the safety of Kyiv's energy infrastructure, which is becoming a target for successful Russian strikes.
Despite EU plans to ban Russian energy imports, Belgium, France, Spain and others keep buying LNG and pipeline gas. Belgium led in June, increasing LNG imports by 27%.
In response to reports of a weapons cache found near Berlin allegedly linked to Russian intelligence, the Russian embassy in Germany quoted the film 'The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed'.
The High Anti-Corruption Court of Ukraine has ordered the detention of former Verkhovna Rada deputy Maksym Mykytas, who appears in NABU audio recordings in a criminal organization investigation, with bail set at 30 million hryvnias.
A US Air Force Boeing E-3B Sentry aircraft signaled an emergency near the Strait of Hormuz, according to flight data reviewed by RIA Novosti.
As cold weather approaches, Kyiv faces a critical electricity shortage that could make cities uninhabitable. The EU discusses talks with Moscow, but Kyiv is still exporting energy to Europe.
US President Donald Trump announced the start of an economic operation against Iran, calling it an isolation of unprecedented scale, after Tehran refused to make a deal.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Moscow is raising with Washington the return of confiscated diplomatic property and the resumption of direct air service.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Serhiy Koretskyi announced the suspension of Mykola Hladyshenko as head of the supervisory board of state-owned Sense Bank, who is implicated in a new NABU investigation. The suspension of the bank's board chairman Oleksiy Stupak has also been initiated.
The Sakhalin regional union of trade union organizations told RIA Novosti that the bodies of two sailors from the vessel "Ostrovnoy Krab" who died in China will be sent home.
US President Donald Trump aims to hold a personal meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un before the end of this year, according to the Wall Street Journal.
A ceremonial reburial of Yevhen Konovalets, founder of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), took place near Kiev with military honors, attended by President Zelensky and other top officials.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova accused Kiev of derailing IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi's visit to the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, scheduled for August 20-21, by threatening not to guarantee his safety.