Ukraine’s military intelligence said it hit an important fuel pipeline in the Moscow region that supplies the Russian army.

Putin is massing air defences around Moscow for a long winter of drone attacks. That means leaving other areas undefended, but he may have little choice in the matter.

Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin said emergency services were working at the sites where debris fell. State propaganda agency RIA Novosti reported that Domodedovo and Zhukovsky airports had suspended flights.

On 31 October, as a result of a special operation by the DIU, a critically important Russian military facility — the Moscow Ring Oil Pipeline — was rendered inoperative. The pipeline had supplied the Russian army with fuel resources used in its genocidal war against the Ukrainian people.

The Trump administration on Wednesday imposed sanctions on Russia’s two largest oil companies as it called on Moscow to agree to an immediate ceasefire in the war with Ukraine.

Though Trump said his October 16 call with Putin was “very productive”, the Russian leader annoyed his US counterpart by extolling Moscow’s supposed battlefield successes near the eastern Ukrainian city of Kupiansk and the Oskil river, said two people briefed on their conversation.

One of the most public figures in Russia’s controversial “adoption” of minors removed from occupied Ukraine now faces up to a decade in prison on child-trafficking charges. Irina Rudnitskaya, who heads an organization that advocates for “family values” and supports foster parents,

Three Bulgarians are jailed for painting red hands on France's Holocaust Memorial in a suspected case of Russian "destabilisation".