Overview

• Vladimir Putin told IAEA chief Rafael Grossi in the Kremlin that cooperation spans nearly all areas, including global nuclear safety, with Rosatom head Alexey Likhachyov joining the meeting.
• Alexander Lukashenko arrived in Moscow for bilateral talks that include a possible decision on building a second Belarusian nuclear power plant, as Putin noted active Russia–Belarus coordination on Union State security.
• Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova dismissed a Bloomberg report that Western Europe warned it could shoot down Russian aircraft as an anti‑Russia fantasy and said the story was impossible to comment on.
• Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev told the UN General Assembly that the OSCE Minsk Group failed to fulfill its mission, following moves inside the OSCE to wind down the Karabakh mediation format.
• Russia’s elections chief Ella Pamfilova urged leaving the OSCE’s ODIHR, and Putin said he would consult diplomats and lawmakers on the proposal after her criticism of the watchdog’s work.