RT News - August 18 2023 (09:00 MSK)

Moscow under fire as a drone's intercepted over the capital by air defenses. Russia brands it an attempted Ukrainian terror attack. The UN Security Council debates issues around the flow of weapons both to Ukraine, and from it with Russia claiming Kiev's soldiers are becoming cannon fodder in the conflict. The ECOWAS group of West African states reaffirms it will step in militarily, if all else fails over the crisis in Niger. But much of Africa itself seems divided over armed intervention. As ethnic clashes continue to rage in Manipur, the chief minister of the North-East Indian state makes an appeal for peace, in an exclusive interview with RT.