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AP News: Nearly $6 billion in U.S. funding for aid to Ukraine will expire at the end of the month unless Congress acts to extend the Pentagon’s authority to send weapons from its stockpile to Kyiv, according to U.S. officials.
Reuters: Russia has revoked the accreditation of six British diplomats, accusing them of espionage, the Interfax news agency cited the FSB state security service as saying on Friday.
RFI: Japan scrambled fighter jets after Russian aircraft flew around the archipelago for the first time in five years, Tokyo said Friday.
Bloomberg: Ukrainian steelmakers may be forced to import coking coal if Russian forces overwhelm the nation’s only mine near the front line in Donetsk, dealing another blow to the embattled industry (archive).
ISW: Russian forces continued counterattacking throughout the Ukrainian salient in Kursk Oblast on September 12 but made only marginal gains, likely due to continued Ukrainian offensive operations and defensive counterattacks in the area.
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Bloomberg: The US and UK governments are discussing allowing Ukraine to deploy British cruise missiles backed by US navigational data to conduct long-range strikes inside Russian territory, according to people familiar with the matter (archive).
BBC News: Four activists for black rights have been convicted of federal charges of conspiring to act as unregistered Russian agents, the US Justice Department said.
Bloomberg: Russia, Iran and China are “ramping up” attempts to stoke divisions within the US ahead of November’s presidential election, according to a top Department of Justice official (archive).
POLITICO: Moscow's forces have launched a counteroffensive in the Kursk region, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed Thursday.
Bloomberg: Several European Union nations intend to challenge International Monetary Fund chief Kristalina Georgieva about the Washington-based lender’s plan to engage with Russia on economic issues for the first time since the invasion of Ukraine (archive).
Reuters: Poland added its voice on Thursday to calls to allow Ukraine to fire Western-supplied missiles deep into Russia as it hosted U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken for talks in Warsaw.
AP News: Iran’s government on Thursday summoned the envoys of Britain, France, Germany and the Netherlands over their accusations that Tehran supplied short-range ballistic missiles to Russia to use against Ukraine.
France 24: A Russian strike on Red Cross vehicles in eastern Ukraine killed three people, the country's president Volodymyr Zelensky said Thursday.
Reuters: The Russian interior ministry has placed six foreign journalists on its wanted list for illegally crossing the Russian frontier to report inside the Kursk region after a Ukrainian cross-border incursion.
AP News: The World Health Organization issued a stark warning on Thursday about a potential health crisis in Ukraine as the country faces its third winter of war since Russia’s full-scale invasion.
Reuters: Ukraine accused Russia on Thursday of using strategic bombers to strike a civilian grain vessel in a missile attack in Black Sea waters near NATO member Romania, escalating tensions between Moscow and the military alliance.
POLITICO: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused Brazil of being pro-Russia in the Kremlin’s war on Ukraine and lambasted a joint peace proposal drawn up by Brasília and Beijing.
The Guardian: More than $30m worth of aircraft tyres made by western manufacturers including the French firm Michelin and Britain’s Dunlop were imported into Russia last year via intermediaries despite attempts to ban the trade, according to a Ukrainian government agency.
Reuters: About 45 Indian nationals have been discharged from the Russian army and efforts are under way to get a further 50 Indians released, a spokesperson for the Indian Foreign Ministry said on Thursday.
The Kyiv Independent: Spain prevented Hungary from buying Talgo, a Madrid-based train manufacturer, due to its potential usefulness for Ukraine's reconstruction, the Financial Times reported on Sept. 12. Madrid vetoed the 619 million euro bid due to concerns about Budapest's warm ties to Moscow.
Reuters: Chinese President Xi Jinping could meet his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskiy next month, a former Ukrainian official said in Beijing on Thursday at the opening of China's biggest annual military diplomacy event.
The Kyiv Independent: Russian troops are pushing toward the town of Kurakhove in Donetsk Oblast from three directions, but their advance has slowed down, the spokesperson for Ukraine's 33rd Separate Mechanized Brigade said.
The Barents Observer: For the second day in a row, aviation authorities in the north Russian region redirect all civilian flights as Ukrainian attack drones are reported to be in the air.
The Kyiv Independent: Ukrainian reconnaissance and special forces blew up a railroad in Russia's Belgorod Oblast, derailing a freight train, Babel media outlet reported on Sept. 12, citing a military intelligence source.
worth mentioning
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China's Xi Jinping to visit Russia next month for the BRICS summit
NATO’s Jens Stoltenberg will be new Munich Security Conference chief
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