More than 20 people have been rescued in Kenya from a suspected human trafficking ring that lured them with job offers in Russia but intended to send them to fight in Ukraine, police said.

Russia failed to win enough support on Saturday to get elected to the United Nations aviation agency's governing council, in the latest rebuke of Moscow for actions taken after its 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is due to give his country’s address at the General Assembly, four days after President Trump said he believed Ukraine can win back all the territory it has lost to Russia.

German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius warned on Thursday about the growing threat posed by Russian space activities, citing concerns over two Russian satellites shadowing Intelsat satellites used by German forces and others.

European officials fear that Moscow is escalating its antagonism of Europe as U.S. support recedes. A focus of worry now: election interference in Moldova.

Russia intends to keep military expenditures at a high level over the next three years, undermining notions the Kremlin is preparing to end its war on Ukraine any time soon.

Vladimir Putin "will keep driving the war forward wider and deeper" if he is not stopped, Ukraine's President Zelensky has warned. Speaking at the UN's General Assembly in New York, Zelensky said more countries would be met with Russian aggression unless allies displayed a united front and ramped up support.

Russia gets the microphone at the U.N. world leaders' meeting Saturday, three years into an invasion of Ukraine that the international community has broadly deplored and a that powerful member newly says Ukraine can repel.