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Ukraine's use of Turkish strike drones in the conflict in the eastern Donbass region is defensive and does not violate any agreements, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Friday.

Russia's gross domestic product (GDP) rose 3.4% year on year in September, the economy ministry said on Friday, after a 3.7% increase in the previous month.

Top Chinese diplomat Yang Jiechi met North Korea's ambassador to China on Thursday and expressed Beijing's willingness to maintain high-level interactions and strengthen strategic coordination, China's foreign ministry said.

Sberbank made a third-quarter net profit of 348.3 billion roubles ($4.93 billion), up from 271.4 billion a year earlier, Russia's largest lender said on Thursday.

Russia's largest lender Sberbank on Thursday reported a record net profit of 348.3 billion roubles ($4.9 billion) for the third quarter but raised provisions as it classified assets of its subsidiary in Ukraine as restricted.

The Russian capital brought in its strictest COVID-19 related lockdown measures in more than a year on Thursday as nationwide one-day pandemic deaths and infections hit new highs amid slow vaccination take-up across the world's biggest country.

China will finance the construction of an outpost for a special forces unit of Tajikistan's police near the Tajik-Afghan border, the Central Asian nation's parliament said on Thursday.

The Kremlin on Thursday denied a media report which said it was working to relaunch Russia's troubled vaccination advertising and public information campaign amid surging COVID-19 infection and death rates.

* Miners lead losses in China, Russia as commodity prices fall

Russia's largest lender Sberbank on Thursday reported a record net profit of 348.3 billion roubles ($4.9 billion) for the third quarter but raised provisions as it classified assets of its subsidiary in Ukraine as restricted.