RT News - October 2 2026 (17:00 MSK)

NATO's chief claims the alliance is only defensive in nature, while its own members express confidence they have the means to take out any Russian target. Russia’s OSCE envoy Dmitry Polyansky calls NATO's actions a direct threat to Moscow. We'll talk to him at the top of the hour. Russian forces turn up the heat on Kiev, striking military and energy infrastructure, slowly eroding the country's military logistic hubs, that's as Vladimir Putin says Ukraine soon won't be able to sustain its control over Donbass. The European Union rejects additional funding of Ukraine, this comes after Zelensky and his official pleas to the bloc for an extra 27 billion dollars. The EU calls the request quote 'unexpected and unexplained'.