Donald Trump has warned Vladimir Putin that the US “has a nuclear submarine off your shore” as he condemned a Russian cruise missile test as “inappropriate”.
Putin said Russia had successfully tested its nuclear-powered Burevestnik cruise missile, a nuclear-capable weapon Moscow says can pierce any defence shield, in a move that has infuriated Washington. Moscow said the Burevestnik had flown for 14,000km.
Responding to Putin’s announcement, Trump said the US did not need to fly so far as it had a nuclear submarine off the coast of Russia.
"They know we have a nuclear submarine, the greatest in the world, right off their shores, so I mean, it doesn't have to go 8,000 miles," Trump told reporters, according to an audio file posted by the White House.
"I don't think it's an appropriate thing for Putin to be saying, either, by the way: You ought to get the war ended, the war that should have taken one week is now in ... its fourth year, that's what you ought to do instead of testing missiles."
Key Points
- Putin's 'flying Chernobyl' missile risks nuclear radiation mishap, experts warn
- Moscow airports closed amid Ukrainian drone attack
- Russia downs 193 Ukrainian drones, including 34 targeting Moscow
- State Department thought Putin had no interest in ending Ukraine war
- Kremlin still open to Trump-Putin summit: 'It's complicated'
- Drone hits minibus in Russia's Bryansk killing driver and injuring five
Orban to discuss oil sanctions with Trump next week
15:01 , James ReynoldsHungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban will discuss U.S. sanctions on Russian oil companies when he meets U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington next week, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said on Monday.
"In the second half of next week there will be an opportunity in Washington for the prime minister to discuss this issue in person with the US President," Szijjarto told a briefing.
As the fresh U.S. sanctions do not take effect until late November, they are not currently creating any problems or causing a reduction in Hungary's oil imports from Russia, Szijjarto said.
Russian troops break through in Pokrovsk, Ukraine says
14:33 , James ReynoldsSome 200 Russian troops managed to break through in the front-line city of Pokrovsk, the General Staff of Ukraine’s Armed forces said on Sunday.
Troops were said to be engaging in small arms and drones clashes with Ukrainian forces in the city. The Ukrainian military said they were holding the Russians at bay with counter-attacks, but fighting was “highly dynamic and intense”.
Russia claimed over the weekend that Russian forces had surrounded up to 5,500 Ukrainian troops in the Pokrovsk direction, a claim the analysts said was likely false.
Ukraine has nonetheless been pressed to stop Russian troops from breaking through. A major breach in late July was repelled through until early October, but troops on the front lines report dwindling man and firepower.
Lithuania to shoot down smuggler balloons crossing from Belarus
14:04 , James ReynoldsLithuania's Prime Minister Inga Ruginiene said on Monday her country will begin to shoot down smuggler balloons crossing the border from Belarus, which have repeatedly interrupted the Baltic nation's air traffic.
Lithuania closed Vilnius Airport four times last week after balloons entered its airspace, and each time temporarily shut its Belarus border crossings in response to the incidents.
Lithuania has said balloons are sent by smugglers transporting contraband cigarettes from Belarus into the EU, but it also blames Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko, a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, for not stopping the practice.
Trump issues stark warning over Russian missile test
13:29 , James ReynoldsU.S. President Donald Trump warned on Monday that the United States had a nuclear submarine positioned off Russia’s coast after Vladimir Putin said he had tested a new nuclear-powered cruise missile capable of piercing any defence shield.
Putin said on Sunday Russia had successfully tested its Burevestnik missile, a nuclear-capable weapon, and will move towards deploying it.
Moscow said the 9M730 Burevestnik (Storm Petrel) had flown for 14,000 km (8,700 miles).
Asked on Air Force One about the test of the missile, Trump said the United States did not need to fly so far as it had a nuclear submarine off the coast of Russia.
"They know we have a nuclear submarine, the greatest in the world, right off their shores, so I mean, it doesn't have to go 8,000 miles," Trump told reporters, according to an audio file posted by the White House.
"I don't think it's an appropriate thing for Putin to be saying, either, by the way: You ought to get the war ended, the war that should have taken one week is now in ... its fourth year, that's what you ought to do instead of testing missiles."
Ukraine and allies to work on ceasefire plan as Putin stalls: Zelensky
13:01 , James ReynoldsUkraine and its allies have agreed to proactively work on a ceasefire plan after US president Donald Trump proposed ending the war at current battle lines.
President Volodymyr Zelensky told Axios that allies were to come up with “some quick points, like a plan for a ceasefire”, amid Russia’s apparent reluctance to commit.
Zelensky welcomed Trump’s recent sanctions on Russian oil, but said that US weapons would still be needed to “pressure” Putin into negotiations.
He said Ukraine was asking the U.S. administration not only for Tomahawks missiles but "similar things" that do not require lengthy training.
Lithuania draws up plans to shut Belarus border crossings indefinitely
12:30 , James ReynoldsLithuania's prime minister said Monday that her country has drawn up plans to shut its border crossings with Belarus indefinitely, after flights at the capital's airport were disrupted repeatedly by suspected sightings of balloons used to smuggle cigarettes across the frontier.
Lithuania's National Security Commission met after balloon sightings prompted the suspension of air traffic at Vilnius Airport on three successive evenings — Friday, Saturday and Sunday — causing cancellations, diversions and delays.
The Kremlin said that a visit by Russia’s special envoy for investment and economic cooperation to the United States was a small step on a long road to dialogue.
Envoy Kirill Dmitriev was in the U.S. for what he said was a series of long-planned meetings.
"Informal contacts in general are a very important component of dialogue," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.
"This is just a small step on a long road."
Ukraine ready to fight for the next three years: Tusk
11:31 , James ReynoldsUkraine is ready to fight on for another three years, Polish prime minister Donald Tusk said, adding that he hopes the war will not last longer.
Tusk told The Sunday Times that Kyiv was anxious about the toll the war could take on its population and economy should it stretch on for longer than a few more years.
“President Zelensky told me [on Thursday] that he hopes that the war will not last 10 years, but that Ukraine is ready to fight for another two, three years,” he said.
Ukraine ready to fight for the next three years, says Poland’s PM Tusk
What we know about the Burevestnik missile
11:00 , James ReynoldsRussia has reportedly tested a new nuclear-capable and powered cruise missile, which President Vladimir Putin claims is designed to confound existing defences, moving closer to its military deployment.
Here’s what we know about the Burevestnik:
What we know about Putin’s new Burevestnik nuclear-capable missile
Zelensky thanks Britain and France for munitions
10:32 , James ReynoldsUkrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky thanked Britain and France for their commitment to helping Kyiv fend off the invading Russian forces.
Zelensky wrote on X on Sunday evening: “I want to express my particular gratitude to the United Kingdom and France: there is a decision from France to provide Ukraine with additional Mirage fighter jets and air defense missiles, while the UK will continue to assist us with air defense by supplying missiles and producing interceptor drones – thank you for that.”
“For the world to address Russia from a position of strength, we in Ukraine must stand on strong ground ourselves,” he added.
Editorial: Ukraine’s ingenuity alone will not be enough to win the war
10:00 , James ReynoldsNato forces must back Ukraine or prepare to see all that country’s innovative brilliance fall into the hands of the Kremlin:
German minister sheltered from Russian attacks on Kyiv
09:14 , James ReynoldsGermany’s economics minister has told how she had to shelter in a bunker during a Russian bombardment of Kyiv.
Katherina Reiche said at a press conference on Sunday that the “distressing experience” had shown her “once again very clearly that Russia's attacks on the Ukrainian population are aimed at wearing them down”.
At least two people were killed and 12 injured in the attack, dpa reports.
In pictures: Devastation in Kyiv in the aftermath of Russian drone strikes on Sunday
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Russia casts doubt over Ukraine acquiring Tomahawks
08:15 , James ReynoldsUkraine is unlikely to dare to use American Tomahawk missiles to hit targets deep in Russian territory now that Russia has the Oreshnik and Burevestnik missiles, a former Russian prime minister said.
Sergey Stepashin told Russia’s TASS news agency that he was “confident” that “Tomahawks will not fly deep into Russia”.
“Listen to what [Putin] said. We also have the Burevestnik now,” he told reporters, asked whether Russia could deploy the Oreshnik in the event the US does provide Ukraine with Tomahawks.
Russia downs 193 Ukrainian drones overnight
07:45 , James ReynoldsRussia claimed on Monday to have downed 193 Ukrainian drones overnight in an apparently wide-reaching attack.
The Russian defence ministry said that 47 had been shot down over the Bryansk region; 42 over Kaluga region; 32 over the Tula region; 10 over the Kursk region; seven over the Oryol region; four over the Rostov region; four over the Voronezh region; two over the Orenburg region; two over the Tambov region; and one over the Belgorod, Lipetsk and Samara regions.
The ministry reported that 40 had been shot down over the Moscow region, including 34 UAVs that it said were flying towards Moscow.
Injuries were initially reported in Bryansk. Buildings were damaged in Oryol region and Kaluga region.
UK in line of fire if the Kremlin were to attack a Nato country, warns Tusk
07:13 , Arpan RaiPolish prime minister Donald Tusk has warned that Britain would be in the line of fire if the Kremlin were to attack a Nato country, and said he is been “shocked” by the level of public complacency about the UK’s safety.
Referring to the Russia-linked arson attacks on prime minister Keir Starmer’s former family home in Kentish Town, London, he told the Sunday Times of his shock.
“The problem is that no one in Britain was [taken aback] by this. I was shocked, frankly speaking,” Tusk said. “After information about it appeared in the British press, the reaction was like it was just an Arsenal-Liverpool football match. But if the Russians are ready and able to organise something like that, it means that they are ready and able to do anything.”
He added that if Moscow deployed its new hypersonic Oreshnik ballistic missiles to Belarus or Kaliningrad, a Russian exclave next to Poland, it would be easily capable of unleashing a nuclear warhead in any European capital, including London, given the missiles’ range of up to 2,000 miles.
“The threat is global and universal, above all because of technology,” Tusk said. “You and we are both already under massive attack in cyberspace. In Poland they are ready to destroy the cyberinfrastructure [underpinning] our railways, our hospitals. It could be really painful. This is why you can’t live under this sweet illusion that you are too far away from them, that it’s not your war, it’s just Ukraine or Poland.”
Ukraine ready to fight for the next three years, says Poland’s PM Tusk
06:58 , Arpan RaiPolish prime minister Donald Tusk has said that Ukraine is ready to fight for another three years, but hopes the war will not last longer.
Poland’s leader revealed that Kyiv was anxious about the toll the war could take on its population and economy should it stretch on for longer than a few more years.
“I have no doubts Ukraine will survive as an independent state,” he said in an interview with The Sunday Times. “Now the main question is how many victims we will see. President Zelensky told me [on Thursday] that he hopes that the war will not last 10 years, but that Ukraine is ready to fight for another two, three years.”
Ukraine ready to fight for the next three years, says Poland’s PM Tusk
Watch: How Ukraine and Russia are playing out a deadly cat and mouse drone war from underground bunkers
06:26 , Arpan RaiA look at Putin's new missile's failed test record
06:11 , Arpan RaiThe Burevestnik has a poor test record of at least 13 known tests, with only two partial successes, since 2016, according to the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI), an advocacy group focused on reducing nuclear, biological and emergent technology risks.
The setbacks include a 2019 blast during the botched recovery of an unshielded nuclear reactor allowed to "smolder" on the White Sea floor for a year following a prototype crash, according to State Department reports.
Russia's state nuclear agency Rosatom said five staff members died during the testing of a rocket on 8 August.
Putin presented their widows with top state awards, saying the weapon they were developing was without equal in the world, without naming the Burevestnik.
Putin's 'flying Chernobyl' missile risks nuclear radiation mishap, experts warn
05:57 , Arpan RaiVladimir Putin announced Russia has successfully tested its nuclear-powered Burevestnik cruise missile, a nuclear-capable weapon Moscow says can pierce any defence shield and evade US missiles.
But experts, citing its poor test record, have said Burevestnik missile will not add capabilities that Moscow does not already have and risks a radiation-spewing mishap.
The missile – referred to as SSC-X-9 Skyfall by Nato – has a nuclear-powered engine that threatens to disgorge radiation along its flight path and its deployment risks an accident that could contaminate the surrounding region, said Cheryl Rofer, a former US nuclear weapons scientist.
“The Skyfall is a uniquely stupid weapon system, a flying Chernobyl that poses more threat to Russia than it does to other countries," agreed Thomas Countryman, a former top State Department official with the Arms Control Association, referring to the 1986 nuclear plant disaster.
Putin is showing off a new nuclear-capable weapon. What we know about the Burevestnik missile
05:40 , Arpan RaiRussia has reportedly tested a new nuclear-capable and powered cruise missile, which president Vladimir Putin claims is designed to confound existing defences, moving closer to its military deployment.
- The 9M730 Burevestnik, whose name translates as "storm petrel", is a ground-launched, low-flying cruise missile that is not only capable of carrying a nuclear warhead but is also nuclear-powered. Nato refers to it as the SSC-X-9 Skyfall.
- Putin, who first revealed the project in March 2018, has said it has an unlimited range and can evade US missile defences. But some Western experts have questioned its strategic value, saying it won't add capabilities that Moscow does not already have, and may disgorge radiation along its flight path.
What we know about Putin’s new Burevestnik nuclear-capable missile
Russia downs 193 Ukrainian drones, including 34 targeting Moscow
05:13 , Arpan RaiRussian air defence systems destroyed 193 Ukrainian drones overnight, officials said.
These included 34 that targeted Moscow and 47 over the Bryansk region where one person was killed and five others were injured, Russian authorities said today.
The drones over Moscow were downed within a span of six hours, starting at just before 10pm last night Moscow time (1900 GMT), mayor Sergei Sobyanin said.
The Russian defence ministry said in its daily report on Telegram that in addition to the drones destroyed over Moscow and the Bryansk region, Russian systems downed drones over 11 other regions, chiefly in the country's west and south.
There were no reports of damage in Moscow, but Russia rarely discloses the full scale of damages inflicted by Ukrainian strikes inside its territory unless civilians or civilian objects are involved.
Russian aviation watchdog Rosaviatsiya said that two of Moscow's four airports, the Domodedovo airport and the smaller Zhukovsky airport, were shut for about 2.5 hours from 2240 GMT to ensure air safety.
How Ukraine and Russia are playing out a deadly cat and mouse drone war
04:49 , Arpan RaiRamzan darts about his garage workshop with gleeful enthusiasm, showing off a small blue mortar bomb from “Holland or Poland”, a whopping thin-tailed, bulging-headed shell from America, Ukrainian bespoke high-explosive packed grenades and even an anti-tank mine – all for dropping on the heads of Russians.
A former infantry soldier, he has been at war for three years and says he misses the thrill of fighting up close, but, as the armourer for a four-man drone team flying an unmanned bomber in the National Guard’s Typhoon drone unit: “This is the best way to kill Russians.”In a war of constant frontline improvisation, workshops like Ramzan’s garage – where he makes his own detonators and devises new types of incendiary bombs – have taken on the value of billion-pound industrial-military research centres in Nato countries.
Drone war was pioneered by self-funded Ukrainian soldiers adapting civilian toys to mortal effect. Kyiv now has the capacity to produce drones by the million, but on the front lines the model remains a killer startup.
Sam Kiley joins the Ukrainian infantry near Zaporizhzhia:
How Ukraine and Russia are playing a deadly cat and mouse drone war from underground
Drone hits minibus in Russia's Bryansk killing driver and injuring five
04:28 , Arpan RaiA Ukrainian drone hit a minibus in the Bryansk region, killing the driver and injuring five people, the governor of the southwestern Russian region bordering Ukraine said this morning.
All those injured were taken to a local hospital, the governor, Alexander Bogomaz, said on his Telegram channel.
State Department thought Putin had no interest in ending Ukraine war
04:19 , Arpan RaiIntelligence analysts inside the Trump administration were reportedly divided over whether Vladimir Putin was sincerely interested in negotiating an end to the Ukraine war.
Ahead of a controversial August summit in Alaska between Trump and Putin, the State Department’s internal intelligence agency took a more dim view of the question than other sectors of the administration, warning the president of Putin’s reluctance to end the conflict in assessments and presidential briefings, The Wall Street Journal reports.
“We kept standing firm,” John Williams, who resigned earlier this year from his post as director of the State Department’s Russia-Eurasia analysis in the intelligence bureau, told the paper. “We didn’t see that [Putin] had incentive to negotiate an end to the war.”
State Department thought Putin had no interest in ending the war in Ukraine: report
Ukraine ready to fight for another two to three years, says Tusk
04:08 , Arpan RaiPolish prime minister Donald Tusk has said that Ukraine is concerned about the toll the war could take on its population and economy if it were to stretch on for longer than a few more years.
“I have no doubts Ukraine will survive as an independent state,” Tusk told the Sunday Times. “Now the main question is how many victims we will see. President Zelensky told me [on Thursday] that he hopes that the war will not last ten years, but that Ukraine is ready to fight for another two, three years.”
Russia says it has downed 34 Ukrainian drones targeting Moscow
04:00 , Arpan RaiRussian air defence systems destroyed 34 Ukrainian drones that targeted Moscow through repeated attacks overnight and forced a temporary closure of two of the city's four airports, Russian authorities said this morning.
The drones were downed within a span of six hours, starting at just before 10pm on Sunday Moscow time (1900 GMT), the mayor of the Russian capital, Sergei Sobyanin said.
Russian aviation watchdog Rosaviatsiya said the Domodedovo airport and the smaller Zhukovsky airport were shut for about two and a half hours from 2240 GMT to ensure air safety.
In the Tula region, which borders the Moscow region to the north, 24 drones were destroyed in the early hours today, regional governor Dmitry Miliyaev said on Telegram.
Kremlin still open to Trump-Putin summit: 'It's complicated'
03:29 , Arpan RaiRussia has suggested it is still open to a leaders' summit between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, which the US president appeared to give up on last week.
"Presidents cannot meet for the sake of meeting, they cannot just waste their time, and they are open about that. That's why they instructed (Russian foreign minister Sergei) Lavrov and (US secretary of state Marco) Rubio to prepare this process. The process is complicated," Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told state TV Kremlin correspondent Pavel Zarubin.
Peskov also commented on sanctions imposed by the US on Russian oil giants Lukoil and Rosneft, calling them "an unfriendly step", but said that Russia seeks to build friendly relations with all countries, including the US.
“Despite the various nuances voiced by the president of the United States, we must still be oriented towards our interests. Our interests are to build good relations with all countries, including the United States," said Peskov, a close ally of the Russian president.
“Of course, the actions that were taken this week were an unfriendly step. They have indeed damaged the prospects for resuscitating our relations. But that does not mean that we should abandon these aspirations. We should do what is favourable to us," Peskov said.
Three killed as Russia targets Kyiv with drones
03:22 , Arpan RaiAt least three people were killed after Russia targeted Ukraine's capital with drones, officials said.
At least 29 people were wounded, seven of them children, in the second consecutive nighttime attack on Kyiv to claim civilian lives.
Ukraine's interior minister Ihor Klymenko said a 19-year-old woman and her 46-year-old mother were among the killed.
Russian drones caused fires in two residential buildings in the capital's Desnianskyi district. Emergency crews evacuated civilians from a nine-story and a 16-story building, put out flames and cleared the rubble.
Russia attacked Ukraine with 101 drones overnight into Sunday, according to Ukraine's air force, of which 90 were shot down and neutralised. Five drones hit four locations and drone debris fell on five other places, the statement said.
Moscow airports closed amid Ukrainian drone attack
02:58 , Arpan RaiAt least two airports in Moscow were shut down as Russia engaged its air defence systems overnight to repel Ukrainian drone attacks, officials said.
Russian aviation watchdog Rosaviatsiya said that the large Domodedovo airport and the smaller Zhukovsky airport were closed to ensure air safety, starting at 2240 GMT.
Within a span of five hours, starting at just before 10pm last night Moscow time, Russian defence units downed 28 drones, said Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin.
The information on any potential damage was not immediately clear.
Russia’s defence ministry rarely discloses the full scale of damages inflicted by Ukrainian strikes inside its territory unless civilian objects are involved.
Watch: Why Russians are fighting against Russia: ‘Putin has not only ruined Ukraine, he’s ruined my country’
02:00 , Bryony GoochRecap: Slovakia will not be part of EU scheme for Ukraine's military needs, PM Fico says
01:00 , Bryony GoochSlovakia will not take part in any European Union programme aimed at financing military help for Ukraine in its fight against Russia's invasion, Prime Minister Robert Fico said on Sunday.
Slovakia stopped state military aid for Ukraine when Fico's government came to power in 2023, but has still allowed commercial sales. Fico differs with European Union states on the war, saying a solution is not on the battlefield.
EU leaders agreed on Thursday to meet Ukraine's "pressing financial needs" for the next two years but held off on endorsing a plan to use frozen Russian assets to fund a 140 billion euro loan to Kyiv.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has said the money could be used right away to strengthen Ukraine's air defence, air fleet and frontline positions.
"I refuse to allow Slovakia to take part in any financial scheme aimed at helping Ukraine manage the war and military spending," Fico told a televised news conference.
Russia’s population is shrinking rapidly. Putin is trying to stop that
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Russia’s population is shrinking rapidly. Putin is trying to put a stop to that
Which countries buy Russian oil – and what impact will sanctions have?
Sunday 26 October 2025 23:00 , Bryony GoochThe US has this week imposed new sanctions on Rosneft and Lukoil, Russia’s two largest petroleum-producing companies.
After efforts to negotiate an end to Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine appeared to come to a standstill, the Trump administration made the move in a bid to “increase pressure on Russia’s energy sector” and “degrade the Kremlin’s ability to raise revenue for its war machine and support its weakened economy”.
So how much impact could the move have, and what are the implications for countries who rely on Russia to supply their oil?
Karl Matchett reports:
Which countries buy Russian oil – and what impact will sanctions have?
Watch: Putin issues warning as Russia tests new nuclear-powered cruise missiles
Sunday 26 October 2025 22:00 , Bryony GoochUK in line of fire if the Kremlin were to attack a Nato country, warns Tusk
Sunday 26 October 2025 21:00 , Bryony GoochPolish prime minister Donald Tusk has warned that Britain would be in the line of fire if the Kremlin were to attack a Nato country, and said he is been “shocked” by the level of public complacency about the UK’s safety.
Referring to the Russia-linked arson attacks on UK prime minister Sir Keir Starmer’s former family home in Kentish Town, London, he told the Sunday Times of his shock.
“The problem is that no one in Britain was [taken aback] by this. I was shocked, frankly speaking,” Tusk said. “After information about it appeared in the British press, the reaction was like it was just an Arsenal-Liverpool football match. But if the Russians are ready and able to organise something like that, it means that they are ready and able to do anything.”
He added that if Moscow deployed its new hypersonic Oreshnik ballistic missiles to Belarus or Kaliningrad, a Russian exclave next to Poland, it would be easily capable of unleashing a nuclear warhead in any European capital, including London, given the missiles’ range of up to 2,000 miles.
“The threat is global and universal, above all because of technology,” Tusk said. “You and we are both already under massive attack in cyberspace. In Poland they are ready to destroy the cyberinfrastructure [underpinning] our railways, our hospitals. It could be really painful. This is why you can’t live under this sweet illusion that you are too far away from them, that it’s not your war, it’s just Ukraine or Poland.”
Ukraine ready to fight for another two to three years, says Tusk
Sunday 26 October 2025 20:00 , Bryony GoochPolish prime minister Donald Tusk has said that Ukraine is concerned about the toll the war could take on its population and economy if it were to stretch on for longer than a few more years.
“I have no doubts Ukraine will survive as an independent state,” Tusk told the Sunday Times. “Now the main question is how many victims we will see. President Zelensky told me [on Thursday] that he hopes that the war will not last ten years, but that Ukraine is ready to fight for another two, three years.”
Donald Trump issues warning to Vladimir Putin: ‘I’m not wasting my time’
Sunday 26 October 2025 19:30 , Bryony Gooch
Donald Trump issues warning to Vladimir Putin: ‘I’m not wasting my time’
Russia says more than 80 people detained for questioning after Moscow street fight
Sunday 26 October 2025 19:00 , Bryony GoochRussia's interior ministry said on Sunday that more than 80 people had been taken to police stations for questioning after a major street fight between migrants in a residential area of Moscow and that all foreigners involved would be deported.
Russian media published videos of people fighting on the street with clubs and spades and smashing windows amid parked cars near the Prokshino residential complex, though it was not immediately clear what the fight was about.
Russia's interior ministry said 19 people had been arrested for hooliganism, adding that those migrants with Russian citizenship may have their citizenship revoked. Other foreigners involved would be deported, the ministry said.
"Those foreign citizens involved who are not imprisoned, will be deported and banned from re-entry," said Irina Volk, a spokeswoman for the interior ministry.
Migration, especially from the former Soviet republics of Central Asia and the Caucasus, has become a major domestic political issue in Russia.
Migration has been restricted since a deadly attack at a Moscow concert hall in 2024 which Russian authorities said was carried out by Tajiks.
About 6.3 million migrants arrived in Russia in 2024, according to interior ministry figures, with about half of the total from Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan.
While the domestic Russian economy is reliant on cheap labour from those republics, especially in the construction and consumer industry, there has been a backlash from many Russian citizens against what they say is such a large influx of people with little knowledge of Russian customs or culture.
Russia has faced acute labour shortages across multiple sectors since the start of the war in Ukraine, as hundreds of thousands joined the military.
Watch: Trump warns Putin 'I'm not wasting my time' as he makes demand to Russian leader
Sunday 26 October 2025 18:30 , Bryony Gooch‘Putin has not only ruined Ukraine, he’s ruined my country’
Sunday 26 October 2025 18:00 , Amy-Clare MartinThe Independent’s world affairs editor Sam Kiley spoke to Russian volunteers in Ukraine’s army who have turned on Vladimir Putin:
Why Russians are fighting against Russia: ‘Putin has ruined my country’
Ukraine's allies have pledged to take Russian oil and gas off the global market
Sunday 26 October 2025 17:30 , Amy-Clare Martin
Starmer vows Ukraine allies will take Russian oil and gas off market
ICYMI: Russia tested new nuclear-powered cruise missile, top general says
Sunday 26 October 2025 17:00 , Amy-Clare MartinRussia has tested a new nuclear-capable, nuclear-powered cruise missile named the Burevestnik, Russia's top general told President Vladimir Putin in remarks released on Sunday.
The missile travelled 14,000 km (8,700 miles) and was in the air for about 15 hours, General Valery Gerasimov, chief of the general staff of Russia's armed forces, told Putin.
Putin has said the 9M730 Burevestnik (Storm Petrel) - dubbed the SSC-X-9 Skyfall by NATO - is "invincible" to current and future missile defences, with an almost unlimited range and unpredictable flight path.
In his remarks on Sunday, Putin, dressed in camouflage fatigues, told Gerasimov that the crucial Burevestnik tests have now been completed and that work should start on the final stage before deploying the missiles.
Recap: Trump says he won't meet with Putin until he thinks there will be a peace deal
Sunday 26 October 2025 16:30 , Amy-Clare MartinDonald Trump has said he will not meet with Vladimir Putin until he thinks a deal to secure peace between Russia and Ukraine is in place.
"You have to know that we're going to make a deal, I'm not going to be wasting my time," the US president told reporters in Doha on Saturday.
The leaders last met in Alaska in August, during a hastily organised summit which yielded no concrete results.
Japan scrambles jets as Russian nuclear-capable bombers fly near its coast
Sunday 26 October 2025 16:00 , Amy-Clare Martin
Three killed and 29 wounded after drone attack on Kyiv
Sunday 26 October 2025 15:30 , Amy-Clare MartinThree people have been killed and 29 were injured after the Ukrainian capital was targeted with drones overnight, the authorities said on Sunday morning.
Seven children were among those hurt of in the second consecutive nighttime attack on Kyiv to claim civilian lives.
Ukraine's Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said a 19-year-old woman and her 46-year-old mother were among the killed.
Russian drones caused fires in two residential buildings in the capital's Desnianskyi district. Emergency crews evacuated civilians from a nine-story and a 16-story building, put out flames and cleared the rubble.
Olha Yevhenivha, 74, said there was so much smoke from the fire that she couldn't leave her apartment.
"Even until now our windows are totally black from the smoke, and it was impossible to go down, so that's why we put wet blankets on our doors and balcony," she said.
According to Ukraine’s air force, the attack involved 101 drones, 90 of which were shot down.
The attack came a day after a Russian missiles and drones killed four people, including two in Kyiv, prompting fresh pleas from Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for Western air defence systems.
Russia's defence ministry said its forces struck energy facilities and rail infrastructure serving Ukraine's war effort on Saturday, as well as other military targets such as troop deployment points and a drone factory.
It did not comment specifically on strikes on Kyiv, or on the civilian casualties reported by Ukraine.
Recap: Starmer wants allies to get tough on Russian assets
Sunday 26 October 2025 15:00 , Amy-Clare MartinSir Keir Starmer has urged allies to “finish the job” on frozen Russian assets by using them to strengthen Ukraine’s defences.
At a major press conference on Friday, the prime minister urged the so-called “coalition of the willing” to help to take Russian oil and gas off the global market.
It comes after the UK targeted Russia’s oil companies with tough sanctions earlier this month.
He said: “Last week, the UK became the first country to sanction all of Russia’s oil majors. On Wednesday, the US acted decisively and joined us.
“Together with further sanctions from the EU, we’re choking off funding for Russia’s war machine.
“And I’m urging others to take these steps, to go further to reduce their dependence and incentivise third countries to stop buying these tainted resources.”
Other measures under consideration include seeking ways to use billions in frozen assets to fund Ukraine’s defences.
Sir Keir met Ukrainian President Voloydmyr Zelensky for a bilateral meeting in No 10 on Friday ahead of the two leaders joining a call along with the wider coalition of the willing – a group of more than 30 countries pledging support for Kyiv.
