Russia detains Azerbaijani citizen over alleged Ukraine-linked 'terror' plot as Moscow-Baku tensions escalate

Khabarovsk in Russia's Far East is more than 6,000 kilometers from Ukraine.

Russian propagandist Margarita Simonyan said on Sept. 7 that she has been recently diagnosed with a "serious illness" and is about to undergo surgery.

"If the Europeans drew a line and said: 'We're not going to buy more Russian gas, we're not going to buy Russian oil.' Would that have a positive influence on the U.S. leaning in more aggressively (on sanctions) as well? Absolutely," U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright said.

A 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee was fatally stabbed in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Aug. 22, The Charlotte Observer reported.

"Potatoes, eggs, milk, and butter are becoming more expensive... But some unscrupulous producers, suppliers, or sellers are allowing themselves to profit in this way," Russian Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov said.

Russian authorities are known to extract confessions under duress, and the highly formalized language of the arrested man's testimony suggested it may have been pre-written.

"The drone is unarmed, and there are Cyrillic inscriptions on it," said Agnieszka Kepka, spokesperson for the prosecutor's office in Poland's eastern city of Lublin.

Ukraine's Air Force said Russia launched 810 Shahed-type drones and 13 cruise and ballistic missiles during the attack.

Ukraine's Air Force said Russian forces launched 142 Shahed-type attack and decoy drones overnight.

Ukrainian forces lost 5 square kilometers but regained control of 26 square kilometers in the Pokrovsk sector in Donetsk Oblast in August, Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi said.

"This is the same kind of provoked conflict as when terrorists from Palestine attacked Israel. The war developed in exactly the same way," Deputy chairman of Slovakia's ruling Smer party and member of parliament, Tibor Gaspar, said.

Zarichne's strategic importance comes from its position near key transport routes connecting Sloviansk and Lyman.

"Putin doesn't want to meet with me, but he wants very much to meet with the president of the United States, to show everybody video and images that he is there," President Volodymyr Zelensky said in an interview with ABC News.