Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has arrived in New York to take part in the high-level week of the UN General Assembly; he will speak on September 26 and meet US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday.
The US State Department said Marco Rubio will meet Sergei Lavrov in New York on Wednesday. Lavrov had earlier spoken of plans to clarify the US position on the Ukrainian settlement.
US President Donald Trump said a new personal meeting with Vladimir Putin is possible and that he is discussing terms of a possible peace agreement on Ukraine with his Russian counterpart.
Russia's Defense Ministry said drones struck the Palma and Novaya Liniya logistics centers in Odessa and a cargo ship in the port that had delivered military products for the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Four people died and at least nine were injured in a fire at the Solnechny shopping center in Sterlitamak; the preliminary cause was a short circuit, and three of the dead were sisters.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkmen President Serdar Berdymukhamedov discussed the State Duma elections and interaction between the two countries in a phone call, the Kremlin press service said.
Russian forces have encircled a large Ukrainian defense node in Dobropolye in the DPR, trapping units of Ukraine's 4th and 15th National Guard brigades and the 425th Skala assault regiment, the Defense Ministry said.
Russian security structures say Ukraine sent units with no combat experience to the Sumy direction, as the "North" group reports killing over 265 Ukrainian fighters in a day and reducing enemy-controlled territory by 152 square kilometers since the start of the year.
Eight incumbent and acting regional heads won direct elections, while two more were chosen by regional parliaments.
Head of the Central Election Commission Ella Pamfilova said four parties preliminarily cleared the five-percent threshold on party lists, while United Russia leads in 208 single-mandate districts.
Turnout in the State Duma elections reached a record 56.66 percent despite attacks and threats. After processing 50.03 percent of protocols, United Russia leads with 57.87 percent of the vote.
According to the CEC website, turnout in the State Duma elections stood at 50.46 percent by 13:37 Moscow time. Today is the final, third day of voting.
Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said the military repelled the largest Ukrainian drone attack on the capital; several drones reached the Moscow refinery and one hit a residential building, with no fatalities.
Nearly 6 million voters used remote electronic voting in the State Duma elections; 2.5 million voted this way in Moscow, with turnout for remote electronic voting reaching 82%.
According to the CEC, turnout in the elections of deputies to the ninth State Duma was 44.38% by the time polling stations closed on the second day of voting.
According to the election monitoring service, about 2.2 million people in Moscow voted online; about 100,000 voted remotely overnight, said Vadim Kovalev, head of the city's Public Election Observation Headquarters.
Russian security structures told RIA Novosti that Ukraine's command reinforced the 127th brigade with foreign mercenaries to try to break the encirclement in the northeast of the Kharkiv region.
President Vladimir Putin, in a greeting on Gunsmith Day, said Russia's defense-industrial complex will build up its potential and thanked workers in the sector.
Belgium's highest administrative court ruled that the treasury's refusal to unfreeze BKS Bank assets was issued by an incompetent body, setting a precedent for other holders of frozen funds, though automatic unfreezing will not follow.
Head of Russia's Central Election Commission Ella Pamfilova said voting began as scheduled, with no extraordinary situations reported.
Parliamentary elections and combined campaigns are held in Russia from September 18 to 20. Residents of four new regions take part for the first time. The CEC says voting is safe, including for military personnel.
Voting has started in Russia for State Duma deputies and other campaigns combined with them on the single voting day. Polling will run for three days, from September 18 to 20.
Presidential elections will be held in Transnistria on December 13, which Tiraspol does not rule out could be the last in history. Chisinau is already introducing economic measures, and Moldovan security services have issued a report on the depot in Kolbasna, which Tiraspol and Moscow see as a possible step toward a forceful solution.
The Russian Defense Ministry reported that the Sever group advanced near a pocket in the north of the Kharkiv region, and that the settlement of Malaya Volchya came under Russian control.
Russia's Defense Ministry says its troops carried out massed and group strikes on military-industrial, energy and port infrastructure facilities in Ukraine.