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After Special Envoy Witkoff held separate meetings with the leaders of Russia and Ukraine, Russia and Ukraine agreed on October 21 to hold technical-level talks among Washington, Moscow and Kyiv.

According to @clashreport, Russian President Putin proposed a Putin-Trump-Xi trilateral meeting in China next month to end the Ukraine war on Moscow's terms, and the proposed meeting format would exclude Ukraine and Europe. Former US President Trump has not yet accepted the invitation.

On October 19, according to domestic media reports, Moscow State University stated that it will announce as soon as possible the formal decision to expel the Chinese student who wore the Rising Sun Flag, and the student involved has already been deported back to China.

According to @clashreport, the Trump administration is proposing that Europe resume purchasing Russian natural gas as part of a Russia-Ukraine peace agreement, as a means to provide Moscow with billions of dollars in revenue and restore its economic influence. It is reported that Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff have discussed the resumption of Russian natural gas pipelines passing through Ukraine.

On October 17, the Chinese Students Association at Moscow State University announced that it had reported the course of the incident, complete evidence, and the progress of communications to the Education Office of the Chinese Embassy in Russia.

Chinese students in the history department of Moscow State University drafted and submitted a joint petition, demanding that the university hold accountable the Chinese student who wore the Rising Sun Flag in class two days earlier.

According to @clashreport, on October 16, 2026 Beijing time, Ukrainian drones launched an attack on Russia’s Moscow Region. The strike reportedly targeted local industrial and warehousing facilities. No detailed reports on the specific damage or casualties have been available so far.

Recently, a Chinese student in the History Department of Moscow State University wore the Rising Sun flag and placed a Japanese military cap on his desk during class. He was reported by another Chinese student at the same university, after which he publicly released a video bowing in apology, saying his intention was to display a symbol of Japanese aggression rather than to support militarism.

On October 16, several Chinese students in the History Department of Moscow State University submitted a collective petition to the university administration, demanding an investigation into the incident involving a Chinese student draped in the Rising Sun flag.

Trump said talks are being held with Russia and China on denuclearization, and that he expects China to catch up with the size of the U.S. and Russian nuclear arsenals within the next five years.

According to the Financial Times (FT), Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced that Kyiv will resume strikes on Russian refineries, as Moscow continues to attack Ukraine's energy infrastructure after Trump declared an energy ceasefire.

According to X user QuanLujun, Mongolia has officially declared a "pneumonic plague epidemic" in Russia and has already activated its national emergency plan. The statement is said to have completely exposed Moscow's lies.

According to X account @clashreport, Italian Prime Minister Meloni has taken a stance on the Russian diesel trade, stating that the results of this decision are questionable and the risks are clear. She believes this move not only legitimizes Moscow and funds its war against Ukraine, but also undermines Western sanctions, contradicting the overall Western position.

According to an interview with the Financial Times, French far-right leader Marine Le Pen stated that if elected president, she plans to halt France's financial assistance to Ukraine within her first six months in office. She also opposes Ukraine's accession to the European Union and intends to review EU sanctions against Russia. Her stated rationale is that France can no longer afford to bear the burden of such aid, and she criticized Europe's approach of confronting Moscow in the energy sector.

On October 13, 2026, CBC Radio-Canada Chinese (RCIZhongwen) published an analysis pointing out that Ukrainian President Zelensky is currently caught in a pincer between escalating domestic hostilities and pressure from the Trump administration. The report said the Trump administration appears to be stepping up demands that Ukraine stop attacking oil refineries inside Russia, while the U.S. is also seeking a fuel-related deal with Moscow.

According to Axios, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner have shelved their plans to travel to Moscow. The two decided to postpone the trip until it is confirmed whether Ukraine and European countries are willing to support a new unified peace proposal aimed at Putin.

U.S. President Trump announced on Truth Social that Russia and Ukraine have reached an agreement on an energy ceasefire, but did not disclose details. Ukrainian President Zelensky stated he was unaware of this, but if Moscow agrees, Kyiv would also accept.

The U.S. Embassy in Moscow publicly announced deaths from a rat lung disease and quarantine measures, calling on U.S. citizens to cancel trips to Russia immediately or leave as soon as possible.

A laboratory worker at Russia's Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute died of severe pneumonia of unknown cause, followed by reports of a second employee's death, and the World Health Organization has requested that Moscow provide more information.

On the evening of June 18, 2026, nearly 200 Ukrainian drones struck Moscow and surrounding areas, marking Ukraine's largest attack on the Russian capital since the war began.

Ukraine launched more than 1,000 drones at Russia over the weekend. The mayor of Moscow said this was the largest attack on the Russian capital to date; 450 drones were shot down during their approach, and a Moscow oil refinery and a residential building were damaged.

On September 20, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced on social media that the Security Service of Ukraine, Unmanned Systems Forces, and Special Operations Forces, among other departments, jointly launched a large-scale long-range drone strike against the Moscow region the previous night, successfully hitting critical Russian petroleum industrial facilities and logistical bases.

On the final day of the Russian parliamentary elections, the skies over Moscow were hit by a large-scale drone attack. An oil refinery in the Moscow Oblast caught fire, billowing black smoke, and the area near the Kremlin was also affected.

After the Moscow refinery was hit on September 20, Zelensky spoke with Trump by phone, saying they discussed many issues and agreed to meet in New York, and thanking Trump for arranging visits to Kyiv by Witkoff and Kushner and the signing of the Lindsey Graham Act. According to Axios, Trump asked Zelensky to stop striking Russian refineries to avoid diesel shortages and price hikes; Zelensky said the strikes were aimed at cutting the Russian military's fuel supply, and Trump did not ask him to stop strikes on Russian territory.

On September 18, Moscow warned that certain British facilities inside Ukraine could be regarded as legitimate targets, threatening to spread beyond Ukraine; London subsequently condemned the threat.

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin stated that more than 350 Ukrainian drones flew toward Moscow, 64 of which were shot down.

In September 2026, multiple authoritative financial and diplomatic media outlets revealed that major strategic negotiations between China and Russia regarding the cross-border natural gas trunk pipeline 'Power of Siberia 2' have fallen into a severe stalemate due to disagreements over key commercial pricing and procurement volumes. Despite Moscow's eagerness to expand its eastern energy exports after facing obstacles in the European market, Beijing, leveraging its advantage of diversified energy security, insists on purchasing at a price close to Russia's extremely low domestic subsidy price. The expected divergence in pricing is several times, causing the substantive agreement to be indefinitely delayed.

The UK's Financial Times reported that CIA Director Ratcliffe's visit to Moscow was aimed at playing a greater role in Russia-Ukraine ceasefire negotiations, and said the White House declined to comment. White House principal deputy press secretary Anna Kelly tweeted a denial, saying the White House did not refuse to comment; rather, the Financial Times published its story ahead of the deadline, basing the report on low-level anonymous sources, and not a single one of the claimed conversations ever took place.

In September 2026, U.S. presidential envoys Witkoff and Kushner first visited Moscow, then traveled via Poland by special diplomatic train to Kyiv for the first time, holding several hours of talks with Zelensky. Zelensky said the territorial issue can only be resolved at the leadership level, and both sides gave positive assessments of their future outlook, but major differences remain over the Donbas issue.

Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin said 450 drones were shot down, and a Moscow refinery and a residential building were damaged, resulting in three deaths.

On September 1, 2026, Ukrainian President Zelensky publicly revealed that Ukraine had, at the request of a certain global power, suspended strikes on Russia's Far East Vladivostok direction at a specific time.

US CIA Director Atcliffe boarded a C-17 military aircraft for a sudden and emergency visit to Moscow, returning after staying for about four hours, which sparked high-level strategic speculation among outsiders regarding US-Russia intelligence, the North Korean nuclear issue, and preventing the Chinese Communist Party from driving a wedge.

Russia stated that a Ukrainian drone attack on a warehouse in Moscow resulted in 5 deaths and 10 injuries.

Zelensky said the Ukrainian army attacked the Dubna satellite communications center in the Moscow region for the second time, an facility located more than 500 kilometers from the Ukrainian border.

According to the footage, Ukrainian drones recently attacked a Moscow refinery and also affected some Russian military-related bases.

The film claims that Assad of Syria has fled to Moscow.

Ukraine deployed attack aircraft and decoy drones, heavily damaging Moscow's Kapotnia refinery, causing its oil processing capacity to halt.

On June 16 and June 18, 2026, Ukrainian drones struck the Moscow Kapotnya refinery twice. The plant supplies about 40% of the gasoline and 50% of the diesel used in the Moscow region.

The program said that Moscow and St. Petersburg were recently attacked, and that Russian soldiers also posted videos threatening to launch a mutiny and demanding that Putin stop the war.

Russia has released surveillance footage of the March 2024 terrorist attack at the Crocus City Hall in Moscow for the first time. The attack occurred in March 2024 and caused a large number of casualties.

In his speech at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations, Xi Jinping indirectly denied the possibility of democratization in China with his "shoe theory."

Yang Lan delivered a cultural-themed presentation in Moscow on behalf of Beijing's Olympic bid. That same September, she sold her stake in Sunshine Culture to Sina, after which Wu Zheng became co-chairman of Sina.

Lin Biao, the successor handpicked by Mao Zedong, was accused of staging a coup and died in 1971 in a plane crash shrouded in mystery while flying to Moscow.

After Khrushchev was overthrown in 1964, Zhou Enlai and He Long went to Moscow to explore reconciliation. Soviet Defense Minister Malinovsky told He Long that the Soviets had gotten rid of Khrushchev, and the Chinese should also get rid of Mao Zedong. Mao Zedong was deeply shocked upon hearing this, and this incident had a profound impact on the history of the Chinese Communist Party.

Film teacher Kuleshov juxtaposed the same close-up of an expressionless male actor after shots of soup, a coffin, and a woman, leading the audience to interpret them as hunger, sadness, and desire, respectively.

To evade pursuit by French police, Deng Xiaoping made his way to Moscow, where he enrolled in Sun Yat-sen University to receive Soviet red ideology education.

After being filtered by communism, Liu Shaoqi was selected and recommended to Moscow in 1921 for advanced studies, systematically learning Marxism-Leninism.