RT News - July 4 2026 (17:00 MSK)

The Russian army takes full control of Konstantinovka, a key city in the Donbass which had been a heavily reinforced Ukrainian fortress and logistics hub. Vladimir Putin also says Kiev is trying to divert attention away from Russia's advances with strikes on civilians. A nation united in grief. A six-day funeral ceremony for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has begun in Tehran. Many Thousands attending to bid farewell to the late Iranian supreme leader, who was killed in a US-Israeli airstrike in February. Mourners say they've lost the defender of their homeland. Vladimir Putin congratulates Donald Trump on the 250th anniversary of US independence, highlighting how both nations worked together to save humanity from Nazism in World War 2.