Russia and Ukraine Saturday agreed to halt aerial strikes on each other's capitals for three days during U.S. envoys' visits to the two countries in the latest push to negotiate an end to a four-and-a-half-year war.
Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered Russian forces not to strike Kiev for three days beginning "at midnight today," Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said on Saturday as Putin met with U.S. envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff in Moscow later in the evening.
Following a phone call with U.S. President Donald Trump, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Saturday that Ukraine was also prepared to refrain from strikes on Moscow, effective immediately through Sept. 7.
Zelensky added that the plan for diplomatic meetings in Kiev on Sept. 6 had been approved and that Ukraine was awaiting Witkoff and Kushner for what he called a "substantive conversation."
Witkoff and Kushner landed in Moscow earlier on Sept. 5 and are expected to travel to Kiev on Sept. 6.
Russia, Ukraine agree to halt strikes during U.S. envoys' visits
A newly released Chinese documentary provides a rare glimpse into the country's crackdown on cross-border telecom scam networks in northern Myanmar, highlighting the pivotal role of technological countermeasures in the campaign.
Titled "The Demise of Telecom Fraud in Northern Myanmar," the three-part documentary was jointly produced by the Chinese Ministry of Public Security and China Media Group, and was aired on CCTV nationwide on Monday. It reveals the brutal conditions inside telecom fraud compounds in northern Myanmar, where scams mainly targeted Chinese citizens.
The documentary unveils the covert methods used by fraud gangs, such as stealing China's communication signals to make their scams highly deceptive.
"For example, they secretly ran wireless bridges, cables and fiber optics to pull domestic network signals into Muse (town in Myanmar) for remote use, allowing them to pose as users inside China and carry out fraud," said Zhang Zheng, a second-level inspector at the Cybersecurity Administration Bureau of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.
According to the documentary, expert teams from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology worked with public security authorities to conduct a sweeping inspection for illegal equipment in key areas.
In just three months, they shut down 75,000 fraud-related mobile phone numbers and more than 4,000 broadband accounts, and cleared nearly 100 wireless bridges, effectively cutting off the communication channels between fraudsters and users inside China.
Chinese documentary spotlights tech in Myanmar telecom fraud crackdown
