Live updates and the latest news as Marco Rubio meets Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov at the United Nations after Donald Trump shifted his stance on the Ukraine war.

Ukrainian drones flew almost 1,000 miles into Russian territory to hit one of the country's largest oil refineries on Wednesday, the second time the facility has been attacked in the past week.

Russia said on Wednesday it was economically stable and its army was advancing in Ukraine, rejecting comments by U.S. President Donald Trump urging Kyiv to take advantage of Russian economic weakness and seize back all of its captured territory.

Ukraine's armed forces face a challenging fall as Russia intensifies efforts to seize the eastern Donetsk region

Russia rivals Qatar as one of the largest exporters of liquefied natural gas to the European Union after the United States. L.N.G. is chilled, liquid fuel shipped by tanker. The European Union is now proposing to phase out these shipments by 2027.

Russian drones are now targeting Nato members. As Russia is running out of troops, Russia's hybrid war is not just cost-effective; it's also a necessity.

Moldovans are facing a flood of disinformation driven by artificial intelligence ahead of a critical parliamentary election, which will determine whether the small country can stay on its path toward the European Union or is pulled back into Moscow’s orbit.

Russian and Iran signed a memorandum of understanding on Wednesday on the construction of small nuclear power plants in Iran, Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom said.