Ukraine fires 630 drones at the Moscow region as an airport is evacuated over the drone threat
From the Newshound archive · first published 23 October 2026 · last updated 24 October 2026.
Steve Witkoff (right), the top Trump aide, with Vladimir Putin, as a Kremlin aide said a new round of three-way peace talks could be held around 10 November in Abu Dhabi.
Russia's war is now hitting home, with drivers queuing past petrol station exits as the economy limps. One Rosneft forecourt outside Moscow had no diesel at all. Days earlier, Ukrainian drones struck an industrial area and a residential complex in Sofino, killing two people. Yet many Russians still shrug it off with the same refrain: 'Everything is fine.'
Warehouses and data centres across Russia are going up in flames.