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The Eastern Herald’s Russia Desk covers Russia, the Russia-Ukraine war, Russian foreign policy, NATO-Russia relations, Eastern European security, the Baltic region and major geopolitical developments involving Moscow and its neighbors.

Lead photograph accompanying Al Jazeera's report on the Russian diesel agreement

Easing Diesel Export Ban Will Not Affect Russian Consumers, Novak Says

Russia's partial lifting of its diesel export ban will not affect domestic consumers, Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said, as exports resume under the Putin-Trump deal.

October 10, 2026

by Russia Desk

German security forces at Leipzig Airport following the GRU drone incident in August 2026

Three European Spy Chiefs Warn Russia Could Test NATO Within Months, Citing Leipzig Airport Drone

Three European intelligence chiefs issued a rare joint warning Sunday that Russia could test NATO's collective defence in months, not years, citing the Leipzig Airport drone incident as a decisive shift in Moscow's hybrid warfare tactics. Their assessments diverged internally

September 21, 2026

by Russia Desk

Drone strike damage in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, September 2026

Russia Strikes Back at Ukraine’s Cities After Biggest Moscow Attack of the War

Russia launched 172 drones at Ukrainian cities overnight, killing two in Zaporizhzhia, where apartment blocks burned

Voters at a polling station in Russia during the 2026 State Duma election

United Russia Claims Duma Victory as Fraud Reports Mount

Russia's Duma election closed September 20 with United Russia leading exit polls at 53.5% as fraud

Air defense intercepts over Kyiv during Russia Ukraine war, night sky streaks and explosions

Russia Ukraine war Day 1323: Europe rattled, airports on alert, grids face winter test

Kyiv. On day 1,323 of the Russia Ukraine war, the lines on the map did not shift dramatically, yet the sense of movement was everywhere: in claims of a captured village in

October 9, 2025

Conflicts, Military and War·News

Vladimir Putin at a regional summit in Dushanbe, urging Central Asia to deepen trade with Russia

Putin presses Central Asia to align trade as sanctions bite

Dushanbe — Vladimir Putin arrived with a familiar pitch and a sharpened edge. At a summit with the leaders of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, and Tajikistan, the Russian president urged Central Asia to

October 9, 2025

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Air defense intercepts drones over Kyiv during overnight attack as winter approaches

Russia Ukraine war Day 1323: Drone swarms, cross-border fire, and Europe’s ‘hybrid warfare’ alarm

Kyiv — Russia Ukraine War Day 1323 of the war, the map of violence widened and blurred in familiar ways. The front line ran not only through trenches and industrial towns in

October 9, 2025

Conflicts, Military and War·News

Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant at dusk with cooling stacks and lights along the Dnieper

Russia Ukraine war Day 1322: Putin’s birthday claim meets Europe’s squeeze

Kyiv — Day 1,322 of the Russia Ukraine war read like a weather report with moving fronts. The battlefield shifted by fields and treelines. The strike map stretched into grids, refineries, and

October 8, 2025

Conflicts, Military and War·News

Police walk past a departures board at Munich Airport after drone sightings halt flights

Russia Ukraine war Day 1321: Drones rattle Europe as Zaporizhzhia runs on diesel

Kyiv — On day 1,321 of the Russia Ukraine war, the picture that emerged was not a single headline, it was a mesh of threats stretching from a nuclear plant running on diesel

October 7, 2025

Conflicts, Military and War·News

Emergency workers at a destroyed home in Lviv after an overnight Russian strike on Oct 5 2025

Lviv blast kills family of four

Warsaw — Russia Ukraine war Day 1,320 of the war opened with air-raid sirens still echoing in the west and the blue flash of utility trucks in the east. A late-night barrage

October 6, 2025

Conflicts, Military and War·News

Grounded aircraft at Munich Airport after reported drone sightings

Russia Ukraine war day 1319: Munich drones snarl flights, Zaporizhzhia plant off the grid

Warsaw: On day 1,319 of the Russia Ukraine war, the map of risk stretched from western Ukraine’s rail lines to the airspace above Germany and the narrow seas off Denmark. Readers who

October 5, 2025

Conflicts, Military and War·News

Emergency lighting at Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant while backup generators run

Tanker seized, nuclear jitters, prisoners return

Kyiv. Zaporizhzhia. Paris. Sochi: The Russia Ukraine war entered Day 1,318 on Friday with a set of developments that pulled the conflict’s logic in several directions at once. Inside Ukraine, engineers again

October 4, 2025

Conflicts, Military and War·News

Russia Ukraine war, day 1317: winter test, grids hit, Europe on edge

Russia — The Russia Ukraine war, now on Day 1317, continues to redraw the map of risk in Europe. The front is not only measured in trenches along the Dnipro, it is

October 3, 2025

Conflicts, Military and War·News

Russia Ukraine war Day 1,316: power lines near Chornobyl after a temporary grid outage

Russia Ukraine war, Day 1316: Chornobyl power cut jolts Europe

Moscow — Russia Ukraine war Day 1316 unfolded with a familiar, and more perilous, rhythm: missiles and drones probing power nodes, fresh damage to rail links that knit the country together, and

October 2, 2025

Conflicts, Military and War·News

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Russia Desk

Easing Diesel Export Ban Will Not Affect Russian Consumers, Novak Says

Three European Spy Chiefs Warn Russia Could Test NATO Within Months, Citing Leipzig Airport Drone

Russia Strikes Back at Ukraine’s Cities After Biggest Moscow Attack of the War

United Russia Claims Duma Victory as Fraud Reports Mount

Russia Ukraine war Day 1323: Europe rattled, airports on alert, grids face winter test

Putin presses Central Asia to align trade as sanctions bite

Russia Ukraine war Day 1323: Drone swarms, cross-border fire, and Europe’s ‘hybrid warfare’ alarm

Russia Ukraine war Day 1322: Putin’s birthday claim meets Europe’s squeeze

Russia Ukraine war Day 1321: Drones rattle Europe as Zaporizhzhia runs on diesel

Lviv blast kills family of four

Russia Ukraine war day 1319: Munich drones snarl flights, Zaporizhzhia plant off the grid

Tanker seized, nuclear jitters, prisoners return

Russia Ukraine war, day 1317: winter test, grids hit, Europe on edge

Russia Ukraine war, Day 1316: Chornobyl power cut jolts Europe

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