MOSCOW, September 21. /TASS/. The Bank of Russia purchased 2 bln rubles ($23.80 mln) worth of yuan on the domestic market with settlement on September 18, 2026, according to data published on the regulator’s website.

Foreign currency purchases on the domestic market with settlement on September 17 also totaled 2 bln rubles.

The Bank of Russia conducts foreign currency purchase and sale operations on the domestic market through the Moscow Exchange’s foreign exchange section using the yuan-ruble instrument.

Russian air defenses down 1,110 Ukrainian drones overnight

On-duty air defense systems intercepted and destroyed fixed-wing drones over the Belgorod, Bryansk, Kursk, Ryazan, Tula, Kaluga, Vladimir, Nizhny Novgorod, Tambov, Voronezh, Lipetsk, Smolensk, Oryol, Rostov, Volgograd and Saratov regions, the Samara Region, the Krasnodar Region, the Moscow Region and the Republic of Crimea, as well as over the Black Sea

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