Ukraine's Air Force says turrets aimed by AI and machine vision have shot down the Geran-5, the fastest attack drone in Russia's fleet. Kyiv is putting some of the short-range guns on bridges that Russian drones struck repeatedly in the past week, to guard individual structures.
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A cruise missile hit on the Progress Rocket Space Center targets where Soyuz vehicles are built, not where they fly. Roscosmos was already short of rockets before the strike.
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Russia fired 267 drones and at least two missiles overnight. But the 37 dead in Myla came from ammunition detonating in a chain reaction beside dozens of homes. Ukrainian prosecutors are now asking who approved the storage.
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The strongest thing to come out of Witkoff and Kushner's three hours with Putin was 72 hours of quiet over two city limits, which is thin material for anyone pricing an end to a war that has run more than four and a half years.
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Speaking to reporters at a BRICS summit in India, Putin said European troops in Ukraine would mean war with Russia while denying that his country threatens Europe. Lavrov said Saturday that the fighting continues through any talks.
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The request would have Ukraine give up the one pressure point on Moscow it operates without American help. Zelenskyy's answer is a mutual energy ceasefire that would also cover Russian strikes on Ukraine's grid.
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The assembly opened in New York on the 22nd and the U.S.-China summit is set for the 24th, so a confirmed Zelenskyy meeting, staff-vetted trade talks with Beijing and an Iran meeting that is still only a possibility all sit inside the same gap.
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Dario Amodei and Sam Altman told the UN Security Council that AI could threaten humanity and asked governments to set safeguards. The White House science adviser in the room said no new global governance structure is needed.
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The National Centre for Information Defence is meant to detect, attribute and disrupt foreign information attacks. The evidence Burnham cited includes Russian forgery of the branding of 28 British organisations.
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The US national average is a record $6.51 a gallon, and Rapidan Energy puts the odds of a White House export ban at 35%. The flow that would stop is 1.5 million barrels a day, a fifth of world seaborne diesel.
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Both published accounts of the call trace the agreement to meet in New York back to Zelenskyy himself, and one of the two also has him thanking Trump for the sanctions on Russia's energy sector.
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Poland's prime minister says Moscow is planning hybrid strikes with drones or rockets on Ukraine's European backers. A day later he sat down with seven neighbours in a new bloc whose agenda is energy, logistics and border trade.
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The benchmark note restarted its climb overnight and reached its highest level since 2007 with the rate decision a day away, while Bank of America guided third-quarter investment banking fees down by more than 10%.
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Ukraine's Economy Ministry says strikes on Odesa put $40 billion of export revenue at risk. That is about what the country shipped in all of 2025. The loss it actually projects is $8 billion to $15 billion a year.
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NABU says investment-fraud call centers bought protection from inside the Prosecutor General's Office. The deputy arrested for it ran the department that handles requests from foreign prosecutors.
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Russia turned down Ukraine's offer to spare civilian vessels and ruled out reviving the grain deal. Ukrainian Black Sea exports are running at about a quarter of last year's volume.
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The 16 jets arrive in 2028-2029. The parts that touch this war are an Aster-30 shipment moved forward by weeks and a licence to build interceptors inside Ukraine.
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