Zelensky called this decision “an investment in war.” Main Ilya Pitalev / RIA Novosti / Sputnik / IMAGO / SNA / Scanpix / LETA Railway tanks at a station in Moscow Russia and the United States have agreed to supply Russian diesel fuel to the American and world markets. United States President Donald Trump announced this after a telephone conversation with Vladimir Putin on the evening of October 9.

U.S. President Donald Trump said he had reached a deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin to supply Russian diesel fuel to U.S. and global markets. Trump said they reached the agreement during “highly successful” talks by phone. Russia agreed to supply more than 300,000 metric tons of diesel fuel to U.S. and global markets as soon as possible, Trump said.

US President Donald Trump said that he had agreed with Vladimir Putin on the supply of Russian diesel fuel to the American and world markets. According to the leader of the United States, the agreement was reached during “very successful” telephone conversations with the Russian President. Russia, Trump said, agreed to supply more than 300 thousand tons of diesel fuel to the American and world markets as soon as possible.

Several aircraft from Russia’s Rossiya Special Flight Detachment, which transports the country’s leaders and senior officials, circled over Moscow on the evening of October 9 because of the threat of a Ukrainian drone attack. Five of the detachment’s aircraft were unable to land immediately.

Several planes of the special flight squad "Russia", which transports top officials and high-ranking officials, circled over Moscow on the evening of October 9 due to the threat of an attack by Ukrainian drones. In total, five planes of the “Russia” detachment were unable to land immediately. At least three of them were returning from Turkmenistan, where Vladimir Putin participated in the CIS summit, several Russian publications and telegram channels drew attention to at once ( 1 , 2 , 3 ).

Ori Aviram / MEI / SIPA / Scanpix / LETA Kramatorsk, October 8. A Russian strike hit two buses carrying passengers on regular routes. Thirty-three people were killed. Ukrainian drones attacked Russia’s Kaluga region overnight into October 9, Governor Vladislav Shapsha said. He said Ukrainian forces struck infrastructure in Kaluga but gave no further details. Nine people were injured, five of whom were hospitalized. Yandex later said its data center in Kaluga had come under drone attack.

Since the start of the full-scale invasion in 2022, thousands of Ukrainian children have ended up in Russia. The scenarios varied: some fled the combat zone, and the only way out led through the Russian border; others were taken from occupied territories deeper into the occupying country, often under false pretenses, such as a school trip; still others were sent by their own parents to Russian children’s camps to escape the danger, only for the parents to later find they couldn’t get them back.

Update: Prosecutors have overturned the decision to open a criminal investigation into Nikita Tulupov, an investigator in the Lerchek case, TASS reported. Some of the jewelry seized during a search of blogger Valeria Chekalina’s home has gone missing, Interior Ministry spokeswoman Irina Volk said on Telegram. Authorities opened a criminal investigation into one of the investigators in the case against Chekalina, who is known as Lerchek.

A Ukrainian missile strike on Donetsk on August 26 killed 20 Russian military officers, Mediazona reported. The outlet said this was the largest number of Russian army officers killed in a single incident since the war began. The officers served at the headquarters of the Central Military District and the 41st Combined Arms Army.

Marc Hill / Bloomberg / Getty Images A bottle of Marchesi Antinori wine at a winery in Tuscany One of the oldest Italian wineries , Marchesi Antinori, reported that thieves stole 30 thousand bottles of wine worth five million euros from its warehouse in Tuscany, writes the Financial Times. According to company representatives, this is one of the largest wine thefts in Italian history.

Say Agency, the organizer of Kanye West’s canceled concert in St. Petersburg, has refunded 132,000 rubles to Voronezh resident Yevgeny Rasskazov, the first person in Russia to sue the company over the cancellation, his representative told TASS. Rasskazov received the money on October 5. His representative said the refund covered the face value of four tickets. Rasskazov has yet to receive the additional 13,200 rubles he paid when buying them (likely a service fee).

The organizer of the canceled Kanye West concert in St. Petersburg, Say Agency, paid 132 thousand rubles to Voronezh resident Evgeniy Rasskazov, who was the first in Russia to file a lawsuit against the company due to the cancellation of the performance. A representative of the plaintiff told TASS about this. Rasskazov’s money was returned on October 5. According to the agency's interlocutor, this is the nominal cost for four tickets.

As a result of the Ukrainian missile attack on Donetsk on August 26, 20 officers of the Russian Armed Forces were killed, writes Mediazona. As the publication notes, this is the most massive case of one-time death of Russian army officers since the beginning of the war. The officers served at the headquarters of the Central Military District and the headquarters of the 41st Combined Arms Army.

Leading mathematicians have been working on many of them for years. Now they feel they will have to reinvent their profession Samuel Boivin/NurPhoto/Getty Images OpenAI, the developer of the Chat GPT neural network, published solutions to more than 350 open problems from most areas of mathematics on GitHub on October 6. The company said that they were found by its new model, which had recently solved one of the mathematical “millennium problems” - the Navier-Stokes equation.

The Russian government has submitted a bill to the State Duma, the lower house of Russia’s parliament, that would raise the maximum age for women in military service from 45 to 50. The bill appears in the State Duma’s database. The bill would also raise the maximum age for women to remain in the reserves: to 55 for officers, up from 50, and to 50 for those with other ranks, up from 45.