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Reuters: President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday that Ukraine's military faced difficulties on front lines in the east and south of the country, but were dominant in their campaign.

AP News: Russian shelling damaged a landmark church Thursday in the Ukrainian city of Kherson that until last year held the remains of Prince Grigory Potemkin, an 18th-century Russian military commander.

Eurasianet: Citing Western sanctions, Georgia is banning the re-export and transit of cars imported from the United States and the European Union to Russia and Belarus. The booming re-export business has been drawing growing scrutiny amid Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Novaya-Europe: Putin signed the record-high number of classified orders in July 2023 since 1999, Mediazona reports. According to the media outlet, 62% of all the presidential decrees signed in July were not made public.

CNN: A week after US officials said Ukraine was deploying extra troops to its counteroffensive, movement is limited on the southern front lines with fighting concentrated in two parts of Zaporizhzhia region, according to available videos and statements from official sources.

AP News: The prime ministers of the three Baltic countries agreed Thursday to speed up their nations’ disconnection from Russia's power grid by nearly one year and connect with the continental European energy network by February 2025.

Reuters: U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken urged all countries at the United Nations on Thursday to tell Russia to stop using the Black Sea as blackmail after Moscow quit a deal that had allowed Ukraine to safely ship its grain to global markets.

The Moscow Times: At least 79 civilians have been killed on Russian soil since Moscow launched its invasion of Ukraine last year, the independent news website 7x7 reported.

Reuters: Russian army recruitment ads have started appearing on the Internet in Kazakhstan, offering those who join an immediate payment of $5300. In Kazakhstan, participating in foreign armed conflicts is punishable by up to nine years in prison.

POLITICO: According to the UK government’s newly released National Risk Register, there are 89 key vulnerabilities and threats to the country. The threat posed to European gas supplies by Russia since its invasion of Ukraine is listed in the register for the first time.

AFP: German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius on Thursday again ruled out supplying Ukraine with long-range Taurus missiles, saying it was "not a top priority" right now.

Newsweek: The commander of Russia's elite airborne troops, General Colonel Mikhail Teplinsky, leaked the number of casualties sustained by his unit since President Vladimir Putin's full-scale invasion of Ukraine began, prompting the Kremlin to scramble to delete his announcement.

Business Insider: Ukrainian resistance forces poisoned 17 Russian military officers at a celebration in the southern Ukrainian port of Mariupol, according to an advisor to the mayor of the city.

The EU agrees to impose more sanctions on Belarus with further export bans, as it cracks down on efforts to bypass restrictions on Russia over its war in Ukraine.

AFP: The European Union has called on G20 countries to push Russia to resume a deal allowing Ukraine grain exports through the Black Sea, a letter seen by AFP Thursday said.

CNN: US officials warn that the Russian mercenary group Wagner, which helps prop up several military juntas in the region, could seek to exploit the crisis in Niger. Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin has celebrated the putsch and offered to help the country’s new leaders.

AP News: India will participate in a weekend meeting that Saudi Arabia is hosting to find a way to start negotiations to end Russia’s war in Ukraine.

Reuters: Jailed Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny said he expected to receive a "Stalinist" sentence, extending his prison term by maybe 18 more years, when a court delivers its verdict on a battery of new charges against him on Friday.

AP News: Polish and Lithuanian leaders held an urgent meeting Thursday in a strategically sensitive area where their NATO nations border Belarus and the Russian territory of Kaliningrad, warning that they are bracing for provocations from Moscow and Minsk in the area.

Reuters: Russia has added Norway to its list of foreign states that have committed so-called "unfriendly" acts against Russian diplomatic missions, news agencies reported on Thursday. Countries on the list are limited in the number of local staff they can hire in Russia, with Norway restricted to 27.

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