RT News - August 19 2024 (09:00 MSK)

Russia's Kursk Region sees intense combat as more civilians are evacuated from danger following Ukraine's cross-border incursion. While ignoring the elephant in the room, Italy's state TV channel airs an interview with a Ukrainian soldier in the same region, publicly wearing Nazi regalia. The West is complicit in the persecution of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church - that's according to a renowned arch-bishop in the Greek Patriarchate of Jerusalem. The statement comes as Kiev gears up to ban the denomination.