Ukraine
Geopolitics
Modi tells Putin dialogue is the only path to end Ukraine war
Narendra Modi met Vladimir Putin on 31 August on the margins of the 26th Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Summit in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, and told the Russian president that dialogue and diplomacy was the way forward in resolving conflicts.
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Russian TV airs a first interview with jailed Australian Oscar Jenkins
Oscar Jenkins has given his first interview since a Russian court sentenced him to 13 years' imprisonment, filmed inside a jail in Russian-occupied Luhansk by Australian journalist Mark Lowe.
Geopolitics
Ukraine's record drone swarm draws Russian missile strike on Kyiv
Ukraine unleashed hundreds of drones across Russian territory in what Ukrainian military officials described as the largest coordinated drone strike of 2026, killing at least six people. By nightfall, the exchange had claimed four more lives, civilians at a Kyiv market, struck by a Russian missile.
Geopolitics
Ukraine pounds warships and grain terminals at Russia’s biggest Black Sea port
Novorossiysk, Russia's largest Black Sea grain export hub, went quiet on the morning of 13 August 2026.