RT News - August 19 2026 (17:00 MSK)

Vladimir Putin says Moscow’s economy is showing resilience to the wave of Ukrainian attacks on Russia’s energy and trade infrastructure. More heads roll in Kiev as Ukraine's anti-corruption agency links a high-ranking member of Vladimir Zelensky's own office to the country's largest ongoing corruption case as part of its 'Forrest Gump' operation. The deputy head of Ukraine's presidential office has been sacked. And that's the message a Norwegian AI investor is sending the Philippine community he hoped to build a massive data centre in. Those plans are now scrapped.