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The skyline of Shenzhen, in southern China, host city of the 2026 APEC summit, in a photograph from March 2025.

White House confirms Trump, Xi and Putin will meet in Shenzhen on Thursday to discuss nuclear weapons

A Romanian F-16 takes off on an alpha scramble for NATO's Baltic Air Policing mission at Šiauliai Air Base, Lithuania, in 2023.

Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia send residents to shelter after drones cross the border, and NATO jets scramble twice

Rustem Umerov, head of Ukraine's delegation at the Abu Dhabi talks, during an official visit to the United States in December 2025.

Russia and Ukraine agree to large-scale prisoner exchange in Abu Dhabi, and Trump's envoys fly to Moscow on Thursday

Rustem Umerov, head of Ukraine's Foreign Intelligence Service and of the Ukrainian delegation in Abu Dhabi, during a visit to the United States in December 2025.

Russia and Ukraine talk for nearly four hours in Abu Dhabi and return to the table on Wednesday

Qasr Al Watan, the presidential palace of the United Arab Emirates, in Abu Dhabi in March 2022. The city hosts the new round of Ukraine negotiations.

Europe secures a presence in Abu Dhabi, where the US, Ukraine and Russia meet on Tuesday and Wednesday

Crews from Ukraine's State Emergency Service (DSNS) work on rubble, in a photograph released by the service itself in 2024. The image is from the archive and does not show the attack in Komyshuvakha.

Russian bombing of a school used to hand out humanitarian aid kills 26 in Komyshuvakha, in Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia region

Dmitry Muratov, one of the five founders and former editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta, on Nemtsov Bridge in Moscow in February 2021.

Russia's Novaya Gazeta shuts down after 33 years and will switch off the newsroom lights on 9 November

Heads of delegation pose for photographs at the first Russia-Africa Summit, held in Sochi, Russia, in October 2019.

Russia-Africa Summit

Russia-Africa summit brings 48 countries to Moscow as Putin pitches lifting trade from $27 billion to more than $50 billion

Finland's president, Alexander Stubb, arrives at the NATO summit in The Hague, in June 2025.

Finland and Norway spend 90 minutes on the phone with Putin, and Denmark and Sweden criticise a move made outside the European bloc

The central square of Oleshky, in Ukraine's Kherson region, in a 2007 archive photograph, before the Russian invasion.

Local truce takes effect in Oleshky, the Russian-occupied Ukrainian city where about 2,000 residents remain

Viktor Orbán speaks in Kossuth Square, Budapest, on 15 March 2012, when he was prime minister of Hungary.

Trump administration pushes Viktor Orbán for UN Secretary-General, and Russia says it will not nominate him

Pope Leo XIV during an audience with the media at the Vatican on 12 May 2025.

Hospitalised after lung surgery, Leo XIV phones Putin to ask for a truce to reach Oleshky

A State Emergency Service of Ukraine crew removes the remains of an unexploded Russian ballistic missile in Kyiv after the attack on the city on the night of 7 October 2026.

Russia fires 39 ballistic missiles at Ukraine's power grid, hitting all three of Kyiv's heat and power plants

The Berlaymont building, headquarters of the European Commission, in Brussels in October 2022.

EU bought €197bn of Russian energy since 2022, European Commission says

Kaja Kallas, the European Union's High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, in an official portrait from November 2024.

EU blacklists 1,569 companies and executives in Russia's military industry, its largest listing since 2022

The fifth-generation THeMIS unmanned ground vehicle, built by Estonia's Milrem Robotics.

Estonia blames Russia for the arson attack on the military robotics firm that supplies Ukraine

A Tupolev Tu-95MS strategic bomber, the same model that crashed, on display at the MAKS air show in Russia.

Nuclear-capable Tu-95 bomber crashes in Russia's Far East, killing six of seven crew

South Korean President Lee Jae-myung during a visit to the White House, in August 2025.

South Korea and Ukraine

Seoul demands an apology from Kyiv after Zelenskyy revealed the transfer of two North Korean POWs

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky alongside European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen during the UN General Assembly in New York on 22 September 2026.

Ballistic missiles kill two in Kyiv hours after Zelensky offers an energy truce at the UN

AfD leaders Alice Weidel and Tino Chrupalla, in a montage of two photographs.

Germany and Russia

Putin's envoy and Germany's AfD prepare talks on bringing Russian gas back