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The Malta-flagged tanker Agioi Fanendes left Russia's Baltic port of Primorsk on Friday with about 40,000 tonnes, or 300,000 barrels, of diesel bound for New York, where it is due on November 7. The Kremlin confirmed the shipment, which follows a deal Trump said he struck with Putin, despite Ukraine's protests. US diesel prices stand at $6.30 a gallon.
Day 3 of 3 · Earlier: Oct 19, Oct 21 · The story so far
Ukrainian drones struck three Yandex facilities, a Sber data center and a VKontakte server farm across five Russian regions, causing failures in payments, navigation and cloud services, Euronews reported. Repeated drone attacks are also disrupting operations at Moscow's airports. Experts quoted said restoring the damaged infrastructure could take months or years.
Vladimir Putin met US special envoy Steve Witkoff in St Petersburg, after which the Kremlin said Russia was ready in principle to resume trilateral talks with the US and Ukraine from mid-November. Moscow said it would consider US economic proposals but not make political concessions, and a Kremlin aide said a Putin-Xi-Trump summit was being prepared. Witkoff described Putin as a humanitarian, a remark criticized by some commentators.
Day 5 of 7 · Earlier: Oct 17, Oct 18, Oct 19, Oct 20 · Later: Oct 22, Oct 23 · The story so far
Putin ordered the release of Stephen Hubbard, an American held since 2022 on charges of fighting as a mercenary for Ukraine, as he met Witkoff. President Trump had requested the release and welcomed it on social media.
Day 1 of 3 · Later: Oct 22, Oct 23 · The story so far
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said the first Russian diesel tanker, of 40,000 tons, would leave for an undisclosed US port on Thursday, with more shipments to follow. The arrangement, which eases sanctions on Russia, has angered Kyiv and European capitals, according to Euronews.
Day 2 of 3 · Earlier: Oct 19 · Later: Oct 23 · The story so far
Ukraine launched more than 1,000 drones at Russia in one of its largest aerial attacks of the war, setting an oil export terminal and depot ablaze in St Petersburg. Russia carried out deadly strikes on Ukraine over the weekend.
Day 3 of 3 · Earlier: Oct 17, Oct 18 · The story so far
The Wall Street Journal reported Putin proposed a summit next month with Trump and Xi Jinping on ending the war, without Zelenskyy. Ukraine's foreign minister Andrii Sybiha said such a meeting would encourage Putin to prolong the war; the idea also raised concern in Asia.
Day 1 of 3 · Later: Oct 21, Oct 23 · The story so far
Ukraine launched more than 1,000 drones at Russia in one of its largest aerial attacks, setting an oil export terminal, refinery and depot on fire in St Petersburg and killing at least one person. A data centre used by a Russian social network was also hit, while Kyiv accused Moscow of repeatedly violating a US-backed energy ceasefire.
Day 2 of 3 · Earlier: Oct 17 · Later: Oct 19 · The story so far
Russia's Cosmos-2612 has repeatedly changed orbit to make close approaches to ICEYE-X36, a US-registered commercial radar-imaging satellite whose operator supplies data to Ukraine.
Russian officials said Ukrainian forces struck an oil refinery in the Ryazan region southeast of Moscow, hours after President Trump urged restraint. Kyiv has vowed to keep hitting Russian refineries in response to attacks on its own energy system.
Day 1 of 3 · Later: Oct 18, Oct 19 · The story so far
There has been a stark rise over the past year in anti-government activists being deported to Russia from the EU and US, where they had sought refuge.
President Vladimir Putin approved the restructuring of UniCredit Bank Russia and the sale of most of the business to a UAE-based private investor. The Italian lender will keep its payments operations.
Day 1 of 3 · Later: Oct 15, Oct 16 · The story so far
Figures: Russia on World Bank Open Data, latest available year.