President Donald Trump said on Oct. 15 that he is discussing denuclearization with the leaders of China and Russia, but suggested Beijing may be less willing to pursue it because of its smaller nuclear arsenal.

Staff wearing hazmat suits check the temperature of a driver at a customs checkpoint on the border with Russia at Suifenhe, China, on May 1, 2020.

Targeting energy infrastructure resulted in fuel shortages in parts of Russia. Russia has also attacked Ukrainian gas stations and other infrastructure. U.S.

"We call on Russia to stop its unprovoked war in Ukraine," she said. Russia has more than 5,500 nuclear warheads, according to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.

He noted that France and the UK are both nuclear powers, saying Russia understands this “perfectly well” but stressed that “no one else has the weapons that Russia has today. And this is our competitive advantage."

It’s also supplying technology to Ukraine for its war with Russia, with its unmanned ground vehicles.

Russia has denied that it is involved in committing any covert attacks against Europe and has instead accused NATO countries of falsely blaming Moscow in order to increase tensions.

Officials in Ukraine say Russia has abducted 20,000 Ukrainian children and 2,573 of them have since returned.

"I think it's incumbent upon Russia to obviously share more information with the world," Rubio told reporters in Iceland. "We're watching it very closely, hour by hour."

As Russia is willing to take greater risks, we also need to impose greater costs,” Kallas said on Sept. 21.

The United States is monitoring a possible case of the plague in Russia after 28-year-old lab worker, Darya Shipilova, died under undisclosed circumstances.

He said, however, that NATO should not be “naive,” noting that Russia is building up its armed forces and national industry.

Russia has launched air strikes against gas stations and industrial areas in Kyiv as part of its wider strategy to target Ukraine’s infrastructure, prompting NATO to scramble fighter jets in Polish and Romanian airspace.

President Donald Trump signed a bill on Sept. 18 imposing new sanctions on Russia and extending sanctions on Iran.

Auchan employs 24,236 people and operates 229 grocery stores in Russia.

Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026 aims to prevent Russia from using oil and gas sales to continue funding its war against Ukraine.

Trump previously announced in a Truth Social post on Sept. 4 that both Russia and Ukraine had agreed to stop carrying out strikes on energy infrastructure.

Ukraine launched a major drone attack on Russia on Sept. 19 and Sept. 20, striking oil refineries in Moscow.

De-escalation between the United States and Iran and between Ukraine and Russia could lead to some relief at the pump, but continued attacks and a disrupted oil market would continue to push prices up.

Zelenskyy responded that Ukraine was prepared to reciprocate if Russia stopped attacking Ukrainian energy facilities, critical infrastructure, and food exports.

He also suggested that the war between Russia and Ukraine could be over sooner than people think.

Russia Is Becoming More of a Liability At this point, Russia remains strategically useful to China.

“That means a war with Russia.”

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said in an X post on Sept. 15 that Russia is continuing “its systematic attacks to disrupt logistics across Ukraine.”

Iran’s U.N. mission thanked Russia and China for the veto, saying that the draft U.S. resolution was politically motivated.

Relations between North Korea and Russia have deepened since the start of the Russia–Ukraine war in 2022, with Pyongyang sending thousands of troops to aid Moscow in fighting in the conflict. South Korean lawmaker Rep.

Russia has agreed to do, likewise! The World’s Diesel price rise is mostly caused by the Russia/Ukraine War, not Iran,” he wrote.

President Donald Trump on Sept. 14 said Russia and Ukraine have agreed to stop attacking energy targets, coming as diesel prices have soared in recent weeks. “Ukraine has agreed not to hit Russian Energy targets. Russia has agreed to do, likewise!

This is the fourth time Russia has targeted vegetable oil export terminals and seed oil processing plants over the past 18 months.

Slovak Relations With Russia Fico wrote in an X post on Sept. 20 that he is not “and will never be, among those looking for a pretext for war between NATO and Russia.”