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🪖 Ukraine Hits Russia's Largest Refinery for 8th Time This Year

Ukrainian drones struck the Slavneft-YANOS refinery in Yaroslavl overnight, sparking a fire and killing one person, in what the Ukrainian General Staff confirmed as a deliberate campaign against Russia's refining infrastructure.

The Yaroslavl facility — one of Russia's largest, processing around 15 million tons of oil per year (300,000 bpd) — has now been attacked at least eight times in 2024. Ukraine struck Russian refineries at least 21 times in August alone, the highest monthly total since the full-scale invasion began, Bloomberg reported.

The sustained campaign has pushed Russian oil refining to a 20-year low, according to Bloomberg, deepening a domestic fuel crisis Kyiv is deliberately targeting to strain Moscow's war economy.

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🇺🇸 Trump: Russia Will Not Attack NATO After CIA Moscow Visit

President Trump said Thursday he has no concerns about a Russian attack on NATO, dismissing reports that CIA Director John Ratcliffe's surprise Moscow trip was a direct warning to the Kremlin.

Ratcliffe met Russian intelligence chief Sergey Naryshkin on Tuesday, Aug. 25. Trump described the visit as "semi-routine" and "standard procedure," though multiple US media reports characterized it as a mission to warn Moscow against striking NATO territory. Baltic states, which border Russia, had been closely watching the visit.

The divergence between Trump's public framing and reported intelligence objectives underscores ongoing uncertainty over US-Russia signaling ahead of any potential escalation.

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🪖 Russia Strikes Kyiv for Sixth Straight Day — 9 Dead

Russian air attacks on Kyiv and the surrounding region killed nine people and wounded over a dozen on Tuesday, marking the sixth consecutive day of strikes on the Ukrainian capital.

Eight of the dead and five of the wounded were in Kyiv itself. The strikes continue as diplomatic efforts to end the war — which began with Russia's full-scale invasion in February 2022 — remain unresolved.

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🏛 9/11 Trial Set for June 2028 at Military Tribunal

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the accused mastermind of the September 11 attacks, and three co-defendants are scheduled to stand trial before a military tribunal in June 2028.

The case has been mired in legal proceedings for over two decades since the 2001 attacks. Mohammed has been held at Guantanamo Bay since his capture in 2003.

The 2028 date marks the latest milestone in one of the longest-running and most legally complex terrorism prosecutions in U.S. history.

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🇪🇺 EU Boards Suspected Russian Shadow Fleet Tanker in Mediterranean

EU forces have boarded a suspected Russian shadow fleet oil tanker in the Mediterranean, in a continued effort to cut off oil revenues funding Moscow's war in Ukraine.

EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas confirmed the operation, stating: "Illegal oil sales from shadow fleet ships are a critical lifeline for Russia's war in Ukraine, and we'll continue to cut them off."

The action is part of broader EU measures targeting Russia's sanctions-evading oil network, which Brussels says is a key source of financing for the ongoing conflict.

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🌍 China-Nepal Disaster Death Toll Nears 1,000

Rescue operations intensified Monday as the combined death toll from landslides and flooding across China and Nepal approached 1,000, with road-clearing efforts at Gyirong Port entering a "critical stage."

Nepal alone recorded 903 dead as of Monday morning, with 4,247 people still missing, according to the country's National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority. Chinese and Nepali rescue teams continued searching affected areas as authorities worked to restore access to the hardest-hit zones.

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