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Reuters: Russian missiles hit grain terminals of an agricultural enterprise in Ukraine's southern Odesa region, injuring two people, the regional governor said on Friday.
AFP: Russia's navy carried out a live fire "exercise" in the northwest Black Sea, Moscow's defence ministry said Friday, days after the Kremlin said it would consider ships travelling to Ukraine through the waterway potential military targets.
Bloomberg: Russia suffers from some significant “structural weaknesses” behind the considerable defenses it has built up, says CIA Director William Burns.
POLITICO: Russia’s elite are showing increasing anxiety about Putin’s judgment, especially following a brief mutiny that appeared to catch the Kremlin off guard last month, CIA Director William Burns said Thursday.
CNN: Russia has used almost 70 missiles of various types and almost 90 Shahed drones over just four days during attacks on the Ukrainian cities of Odesa, Mykolaiv and other southern communities, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said.
ISW: The Russian military’s intensifying strikes against Ukrainian port and grain infrastructure and threats of maritime escalation are likely a part of a Kremlin effort to leverage Russia’s exit from the Black Sea Grain Initiative and exact extensive concessions from the West.
CNN: A top French foreign policy adviser on Thursday claimed China is delivering military equipment to Russia to use in Ukraine.
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Reuters: U.S.-supplied cluster munitions are in Ukrainian hands and being deployed in the field as part of Kyiv's battle against Russia, White House national security spokesman John Kirby said on Thursday.
Le Monde: The European Union is drawing up plans for a €20-billion fund to be spent over four years to help Ukraine resist Russia's invasion, officials said on Thursday.
Bloomberg: Ukraine central bank puts Sense Bank under administration and demanded its nationalization from foreign stakeholders controlled by a group of sanctioned Russian moguls.
Canada is imposing sanctions against 20 individuals and 21 entities connected to Russia’s military-industrial complex and against 19 individuals and 4 entities in the Russian cultural and education sectors.
AFP: The US placed more than 120 companies from Russia as well as several Kyrgyzstan firms on its sanctions blacklist for what it said were their contributions to Russia's war on Ukraine. The sanctions aimed at further choking off Russia's access to critical raw and manufactured materials as well as financing in order to hinder its war machine.
The European Union adopted new sanctions against Iran over its military support to Russia and Syria.
European Council prolongs economic sanctions against Russia until 31-1-‘24 and confirms the EU’s unwavering support for Ukraine’s independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity within its internationally recognised borders and its inherent right of self-defence.
Britain on Thursday sanctioned 13 individuals and businesses in the Central African Republic, Mali and Sudan with links to Russia's Wagner Group, including one it described as the "right hand man" of the group's founder Prigozhin.
Australia has imposed targeted sanctions on 35 entities in Russia's defence, technology and energy sectors, and 10 individuals, including Russian Ministers and senior officials, and senior military personnel in Belarus.
In this exclusive for The Insider, sources in the FSB, GRU and Ministry of Internal Affairs explain why Putin's security apparatus failed to stop Wagner from seizing a key military base and charging all the way to the gates of Moscow.
AFP: Moscow on Thursday announced that British diplomats working in Russia will need to notify authorities in advance about their movements around the country.
Reuters: Ukraine's Defence Ministry said on Thursday it would consider all ships travelling to Russian ports and Ukrainian ports on the Black Sea that are occupied by Moscow as potential carriers of military cargo from July 21.
Bloomberg: Ukraine’s largest sunflower oil producer says it may need at least a year to restore its facilities at the Chornomorsk port after it was damaged by a Russian attack.
Reuters: A building at the Chinese consulate in Odesa was damaged in a Russian missile and drone attack on the southern Ukrainian port city, regional governor Oleh Kiper said on Thursday.
POLITICO: As of May 20 of this year, 22,000 Wagner fighters had been killed in Russia’s war in Ukraine — close to a quarter of the total number of the paramilitary group’s troops who’ve fought in the country — according to a Wagner-affiliated Telegram channel.
Reuters: Mercenaries from Russia's Wagner Group will help train Belarusian special forces during exercises at a military range near the border with NATO-member Poland, the Belarusian defence ministry said on Thursday.
US News: The "elite" fighting forces loyal to Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov that were supposed to inherit positions vacated by the Wagner Group have yet to show up.
worth mentioning
Ukraine’s tech sector is playing vital wartime economic and defense roles
Ukraine's Zelenskiy calls for spending restraint, minister offers to resign
Putin foe Navalny risks two more decades in prison
A Russian sentenced to 6 years in prison for posting about murders of civilians in Bucha, Mariupol
China swallows record flows of Russian oil and coal as war drags
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