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The Treasury Department announced the additional U.S. sanctions on Russia, targeting the oil companies Rosneft and Lukoil. Secretary Scott Bessent told reporter earlier that the sanctions would be announced. The Treasury cited the lack of a serious commitment to a peace process to end the war in Ukraine.

Russia believes some NATO members, in particular Poland, want to abandon restrictions on the deployment of nuclear weapons in their countries, which would aggravate “strategic risks” and tensions, Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.

North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un has hailed his country’s “invincible” alliance with Russia, as he marked one year since his troops deployed to fight in Moscow’s war against Ukraine with the opening of a museum honouring soldiers who died in battle.

The US has imposed fresh sanctions on two of Russia’s largest oil companies, Rosneft and Lukoil, further aiming at Kremlin’s energy revenues.

The USGS said on its website following the quake in July: "Following the M8.8 Russian Kamchatka Peninsula Earthquake, the USGS has released new aftershock forecasts that detail the likelihood and magnitude of future earthquakes expected in the region.

A n explosion at a Russian factory in the Urals producing ammunition and weapons for the military has left at least 10 people dead, reports say. Witnesses described seeing explosions and a fireball at the Plastmass military plant in Kopeisk, near the city of Chelyabinsk.

Authorities have detained a Ukrainian citizen in Poland and two others in Romania for allegedly working with Russian intelligence on a sabotage campaign.

Reliance Industries, the largest, private Indian importer of Russian crude, is planning to reduce or halt its Russian oil purchases.

Putin oversaw a nuclear exercise on Wednesday involving Russia's full nuclear triad — land-based, sea-based, and airborne assets.

Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda says Russian military planes violated Lithuania’s airspace on Thursday evening.