Russian President Vladimir Putin met with his Syrian counterpart, Ahmed al-Sharaa, in what experts described as the Kremlin's bid to cling to its foothold in the Middle East amid mounting setbacks and waning influence. The meeting, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said, involved talks on the future of Russia's military facilities — the naval base in Tartus and the Khmeimim air base. The talks came at a time of visible setbacks for Russia's presence in the Middle East. Moscow had planned

The announcement followed a phone call between the two leaders, during which they also agreed to hold a high-level U.S.-Russia meeting next week.

"Our military knows what to do; they have the military potential and all the necessary capabilities," Kremlin Spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said.

"There will be no oil, (Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is) not buying his oil from Russia, it started — you know, you can't do it immediately, it’s a little bit of a process, but the process is going to be over with soon," U.S. President Donald Trump said.

The ruling sends the case back to a new panel of judges at the Bologna Court of Appeal for review.

HUR claims they receive only two weeks of training at the Avangard training center in Moscow Oblast before being sent to the front line.

The measures aim to choke off Russia's vital fossil fuel revenues that fund its war against Ukraine.

"Let's trust our military," NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said. "Let's not take the Russians too seriously."

According to the FSB, the Russian Anti-War Committee's goal is the "violent seizure of power" and the "change of the constitutional order."

The military monitoring group Belarusian Hajun was an open-source intelligence project that tracked Russian and Belarusian troop movements and other military activity in Belarus.

The comments come ahead of a meeting of NATO defense ministers in Brussels on Oct. 15, chaired by NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte.

The proposal, initiated by the Russian National Automobile Union, comes amid a deepening supply crisis exacerbated by Ukraine's escalating drone strikes on Russian oil infrastructure.

Estonian officials say Moscow is intensifying its provocations after an unusual movement by Russian troops near the border forced Tallinn to shut down a transit easement on Oct. 10. The Saatse Boot — located near the small boot-shaped section of Russian territory that juts into southeastern Estonia — was closed after border guards reported seeing seven armed men in unmarked uniforms briefly appear on the road. "Russian border guards routinely patrol the area near Saatse, as it lies within thei

"What a change from the 1984 Tom Clancy novel The Hunt for Red October. Today, it seems more like the hunt for the nearest mechanic," NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said.

Speaking about past negotiations with Moscow, Trump said U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff "had no idea about Russia, had no idea about Putin too much" at the time.