A Russian pilot deliberately fired missiles at a Royal Air Force surveillance plane in international airspace over the Black Sea last year, the BBC reported on September 14 an incident Russia previously attributed to a "technical malfunction."
The United States says that it's placing sanctions on more than 150 businesses and people from Russia to Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, and Georgia to try to crack down on evasion and deny the Kremlin access to technology, money, and financial channels that fuel its war in Ukraine.
The Ukrainian Prosecutor-General's Office said on September 14 that the International Criminal Court (ICC) had opened a field office in Kyiv as part of efforts to hold Russian forces accountable for potential war crimes committed during it's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Russia's Foreign Ministry says it has informed the U.S. Embassy in Moscow that First Secretary Jeffrey Sillin and Second Secretary David Bernstein must leave the country within seven days, saying they carried out "illegal activities" by maintaining contact with a former consular employee.
Slovakia said on September 14 it was expelling an employee of the Russian Embassy in Bratislava for activities in "direct violation" of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.