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AP: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says the war with Russia is in a new stage, with winter expected to complicate fighting after a summer counteroffensive that failed to produce desired results due to enduring shortages of weapons and ground forces.
FT: Washington is aiming to halve Russia’s oil and gas revenues by the end of this decade, a senior US diplomat has said, arguing western sanctions on Moscow will need to be maintained “for years to come”.
ISW: A recent Russian opinion poll indicates that the number of Russians who fully support the war in Ukraine has almost halved since February 2023 and that more Russians support a withdrawal of Russian forces from Ukraine than do not.
Euronews: Winter has already arrived, and it has brought an array of difficulties to the Ukraine war, affecting armies on both sides, and Ukrainian civilians too.
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The Insider: The Russian army has destroyed or stolen millions of historical documents from the Nazi occupation and post-World War II period in Ukraine's state archives.
Reuters: Ukraine will need to wait until next year before it receives its first big shipment of rocket-propelled bombs the U.S. has adapted to strike at a nearly 100-mile (160km) range, according to the Pentagon and people familiar with the timing.
AP News: Russian missiles tore through apartment buildings in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region, local officials said Thursday, killing at least two people and burying families under rubble as the Kremlin’s forces continued to pound the fiercely contested area with long-range weapons.
CNN: A fire that ripped through a train as it travelled along a strategic rail tunnel in eastern Russia was the work of the Ukrainian Security Service, a Ukrainian defense source has claimed. “Four explosive devices were detonated while the freight train was in motion,” a source with knowledge of SBU operations told CNN.
Reuters: Ukraine's human rights commissioner accused Russia on Thursday of refusing to agree new exchanges of prisoners of war after a stretch of three months in which no swaps have been reported.
The Kyiv Independent: As part of the European Union’s ammunition procurement program, 480,000 artillery shells “have been either delivered (to Ukraine) or are on the pipeline,” European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said.
Reuters: EU countries are digging in against parts of the Commission's latest proposed package of sanctions on Russia, namely the so-called "no Russia clause", retaliatory financial limits and enforcing sanctions on goods for personal use, six sources said.
The Moscow Times: Estonia on Thursday warned its citizens against "any travel" to Russia, suggesting that it may temporarily close the border with its eastern neighbor amid an influx of asylum seekers on the Russian-Finnish border.
Reuters: U.N. human rights chief Volker Turk on Thursday deplored a Russian Supreme Court ruling that designates LGBT activists as extremists, urging Moscow to repeal laws that discriminate against that community.
Ukrinform: The Netherlands will provide Ukraine with an additional aid package of €2.5 billion in 2024.
Norway will donate 250 million Norwegian kroner (around $23 million) to Ukraine's food security under the five-year support program known as Nansen, the Norwegian government announced.
Reuters: The European Union should take Ukraine's military needs into account as it determines the future strategy of Europe's defence industry, EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Thursday.
Bloomberg: The European Union is moving ahead with a proposal to tax profits from more than €200 billion of frozen Russian central bank assets to aid Ukraine’s reconstruction despite concerns from several member nations.
Reuters: The revenues of Russia's largest oil and natural gas producers dropped by 41% in the first nine months of the year, the central bank said in its financial stability review, as export volumes and prices declined.
AP News: Hungary will not support any European Union proposal to begin talks on making Ukraine a member of the bloc, a government minister said Thursday.
Reuters: Weeks of road blockades by Polish truckers protesting at the border will reduce Ukraine's overall imports by about a fifth in November, and could cost Kyiv one percentage point of GDP growth if they drag on, a senior Ukrainian official said.
The Moscow Times: Germany's consulate in the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad on the Baltic Sea will close starting Thursday, according to an official statement on its website, which did not give a reason for the closure.
Euronews: Military spending in the European Union hit a record €240 billion in 2022 - up 6% on the previous year, the European Defense Agency said on Thursday. This is the eighth consecutive year of growth in the bloc, with many states defending the need for a significant increase due to the Russian threat and Ukraine war.
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