RT News - August 9 2026 (17:00 MSK)

Five civilians are killed and over 20 wounded in a Ukrainian drone strike on the Russian city of Belgorod. That's as Kiev ramps up its attacks on the Russian population targeting a beach full of tourists at a popular resort earlier this week. Yemen's Ansar Allah movement strikes a Saudi oil refinery. It comes just days after Pakistan, Turkiye and Riyadh announced their joint defence pact which calls an attack on one member - an attack on all. Benjamin Netanyahu rejects the Board of Peace's 15-point plan on Gaza refusing to withdraw IDF forces from the enclave. That's as a member of the Hamas political bureau exclusively tells RT the group agreed to the plan to spare the enclave from further bloodshed.