RT News - August 10 2026 (17:00 MSK)

Crude oil flows may be recovering, but the fuels that actually power trucks, tractors, construction machinery and industry remain under severe pressure. A developing shortage of refined petroleum products has driven US diesel prices to a record high, raising concerns that the next global energy shock could increasingly be felt throughout the real economy. INR Report: Based on reporting by Tyler Durden for ZeroHedge HERE · Global oil markets are…

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is calling for tighter controls over AI-powered automatic licence plate readers, warning that surveillance of ordinary citizens' movements has become “out of control”. His intervention highlights a growing international debate over where legitimate law-enforcement technology ends and mass surveillance begins. INR Report: Based on reporting by Frank Bergman for Slay News HERE · Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has…

Vladimir Putin says that the ultimate resolution of the conflict with Ukraine must be handled by Moscow and Kiev only while noting that Ukraine's current Western sponsors are complicit in international terrorism. Moscow says Vladimir Zelensky's threats to civilian infrastructure and his terrorist tactics are an attempt to draw attention away from Kiev's frontline losses. On the eve of a shooting in Kiev between Ukraine's spy agencies, one…

More than four years into the Russia-Ukraine war, the central question is increasingly not who can gain another town or stretch of territory, but whether either side can achieve its underlying political objectives. Political scientist Dr Nicolai Petro argues that Russia, Ukraine and Europe's leaders remain locked into fundamentally incompatible visions of European security leaving military escalation easier to imagine than a durable settlement.

Ukraine's Security Service headquarters is hit by a drone, a day after a street shoot-out between rival intelligence agencies in Kiev. Moscow denies Berlin's claim of an attempted explosive drone attack at a German airport, while Germany's opposition questions the account. Estonia's Defense Minister quits amid a €70m scandal over undelivered shells for Ukraine. In the DRC, health workers face attacks from locals claiming the Ebola outbreak is a…