Presidents Trump and Putin are holding a press conference following their meeting in Alaska to discuss ending the Russia-Ukraine war.
Fighting around nuclear power plants has repeatedly raised fears of a nuclear catastrophe during three years of war.
Putin’s endorsement of the new nuclear deterrent policy comes on the 1,000th day after he sent troops into Ukraine, on Feb. 24, 2022.
Russia also is slowly pushing Ukraine’s outnumbered army backward in the eastern Donetsk region.
According to a Harris aide, Harris discussed the importance of a peaceful transfer of power with Trump.
That incident heightened dread of a nuclear disaster in a country still haunted by the 1986 explosion at Chernobyl.
The Kremlin spokesman says a U.S. presidential adviser has traveled to Russia for talks.
The Kremlin spokesman says reports that the U.S. military carried out a cyberattack in Russia ahead of the U.S. midterm elections proves that the country needs to create its own, self-controlled segment of the internet.
The Kremlin is dismissing the White House's warning that the Syrian government is preparing a new chemical attack and that President Bashar Assad and his military "will pay a heavy price" if it goes ahead.
The Kremlin says Russian President Vladimir Putin is set to speak by phone with U.S. President Donald Trump over the weekend.