Below, you’ll find a digest of news reports from October 20, 2025, in Russian and English. As preparations for a Trump–Putin summit in Budapest stalled, Meduza tracked ongoing threats to European security, the latest developments…
Category: 1. Russia
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WATCH: Military Recruitment – Ukrainian Style!
Armed Forces Press is the Military’s premier investigative newspaper. Long suffering from an absence of patriotic media, the United States Military is in dire need of an organization which will confront and highlight bad policies.
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Kyiv Attacked Overnight After Ukraine Hits Russian Chemical Plant In Bryansk
Russia launched an overnight air attack on Kyiv, prompting a response from Ukraine’s air defense units, the city’s mayor said after Ukraine’s military said it struck a chemical plant in Russia’s Bryansk region.
Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko…
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Trump halts Zelenskyy not to count on Tomahawk supplies anytime soon – WSJ
On October 17, 2025, US President Donald Trump, during talks with Vladimir Zelenskyy at the White House, said that Ukraine should not hope for the supply of long-range Tomahawk cruise missiles in the near future. This…
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Brussels Moves To Leverage $204 Billion In Russian Assets For Ukraine Loan
EU leaders will task the European Commission on October 23 with drawing up a legal proposal to leverage 176 billion euros ($204 billion) of frozen Russian state assets for a loan to Ukraine — a move that could cover most of Kyiv’s financial…
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Trump-Putin Budapest summit could pose threat to international rule of law and Ukraine’s relations with Hungary
The US president, Donald Trump, has said he will meet his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, in the Hungarian capital of Budapest “within two weeks or so” for more talks on ending the war in Ukraine.
While plans for the summit are…
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Trump-Putin Budapest summit would have posed threat to international rule of law and Ukraine’s relations with Hungary
The US president, Donald Trump, was expected to meet his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, in the Hungarian capital of Budapest in coming weeks for more talks on ending the war in Ukraine.
However, the summit appears to have been…
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What do Hungary’s leading media say about the upcoming Budapest summit
There are three different opinions of major Hungarian media outlets about the upcoming Trump-Putin summit: the pro-government newspaper Index, the right-wing Magyar Nemzet and the opposition Népszava channel.

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Russian man sentenced to prison for keeping grenade soldiers gave him as a thank-you — Meduza
A court in Russia’s Belgorod region sentenced a local resident to one year and four months in prison for possessing a hand grenade, Mediazona reported.
According to the Telegram channel Pepel, 40-year-old Vitaly received the grenade and…
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‘Regulated life has won’ Fifteen years ago, Alexander Gronsky photographed Moscow’s unruly outskirts. Now he says they’re disappearing.
Fifteen years ago, Russian photographer Alexander Gronsky released Pastoral, a series of landscape photos taken on the outskirts of Moscow that depict the fragile boundary between the ever-expanding city and the nature surrounding it. Since…
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