❗TASS News Roundup, October 8:

▪Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Turkmenistan to attend events related to the CIS summit and the Caspian Environmental Summit

▪Moscow is ready to do everything it can to help Iran resolve the current situation in the Middle East, Putin told his Iranian counterpart Masoud Pezeshkian

▪The exact timing of a potential phone call between Putin and his US counterpart Donald Trump has yet to be coordinated, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said

▪Moscow agrees with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio that there are currently no prospects for a diplomatic settlement in Ukraine, Peskov said

▪The Washington administration will stop supporting the resolution of the conflict in Ukraine, if it believes this will not yield results, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said

▪Russian troops liberated the community of Annopolye in the Kharkov Region over the past 24 hours in the special military operation in Ukraine, the Defense Ministry said

▪The 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to Canadian author Anne Carson, the Nobel Committee for Literature at the Swedish Academy said

▪The United Kingdom introduced anti-Russian sanctions against 26 individuals and companies, according to the updated black list of the Foreign Office

▪Russia’s international reserves stood at $733.2 bln as of October 2, 2026, down $9.5 bln over the week, according to the Bank of Russia