Abbas Araghchi, Iran’s foreign minister, met with President Vladimir V. Putin in Moscow. Russia has tried to avoid entanglement in the conflict while remaining a key player in the region.

Another interest-rate cut highlights the narrowing path for the country’s central bank amid the strains of immense wartime spending.

Kremlin officials said the American move, which Europe opposes, showed that Moscow could not be dislodged from the center of global energy markets.

Ukraine said the attack struck a key electronics plant, highlighting how it remains capable of hitting high-value targets inside Russia.

With political activism off-limits, residents of St. Petersburg are finding purpose and community in the “politics of small deeds,” repairing and cleaning architectural treasures.

Azerbaijan threatened to retaliate, as the neighbors with a long history of tensions found themselves again at odds.