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Reuters: Trump is expected to tap US Senator Marco Rubio to be his secretary of state. Rubio has said in recent interviews that Ukraine needs to seek a negotiated settlement with Russia rather than focus on regaining all territory that Russia has taken in the last decade. He was also one of 15 Republican senators to vote against a $95 billion military aid package for Ukraine, passed in April.
The Kyiv Independent: Trump has tapped Rep. Mike Waltz to be his national security adviser. Waltz has expressed reservations about continued extensive US military aid to Ukraine, arguing that European nations should increase their support to ensure regional stability.
Reuters: North Korea has ratified a mutual defence treaty with Russia signed by the two countries' leaders in June, which calls for each side to come to the other's aid in case of an armed attack, state media KCNA said on Tuesday.
Forbes: Without much fanfare, Taiwan may have become one of the Ukraine air force’s biggest boosters. According to former Pentagon official Tony Hu, Taiwan has donated its surplus HAWK surface-to-air missile batteries to the Ukrainian air force.
ISW: Russian forces reportedly continue to advance in the Donetsk-Zaporizhzhia Oblast border area, and Russian advances northwest of Vuhledar and south of Velyka Novosilka may begin to pressure Ukrainian positions in Velyka Novosilka.
The Insider: Japan has reinterpreted the wording of its sanctions and allowed Russians to import mild hybrid cars, according to a report from regional Russian publication RBC Primorye released yesterday.
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FT: Brussels is changing its spending policies to potentially redirect tens of billions of euros to defence and security, as Russia’s war in Ukraine and Donald Trump’s return to the White House heap pressure on the EU to boost investment (archive).
Verstka: Almost 500 civilians in Russia have already fallen victim to the "veterans" returned from Ukraine. Grim numbers, but they are just the tip of the iceberg.
Meduza: The next four or months will be “pivotal” for determining Ukraine’s negotiating position in potential talks to end the war, Reuters reported on Monday, citing a senior official in Kyiv.
Reuters: Ukraine said on Monday its hard-pressed military was battling 50,000 troops in Russia's Kursk region to its north, while also scrambling to reinforce two besieged fronts in the east and bracing to meet an infantry assault in the south.
The Kyiv Independent: Russian forces allegedly killed two captured Ukrainian servicemen in Russia's embattled Kursk Oblast, the Prosecutor General's Office reported on Nov. 11.
The Moscow Times: A drone strike on an apartment complex in the southwestern city of Belgorod last week was likely carried out by Russian forces, according to a visual investigation by the independent news outlet Pepel.
The Insider: Iran's “Shetab” payment system has officially been linked to Russia's “Mir,” the Iranian news agency Tasnim reported on Nov. 11. This connection enables Iranian bank cardholders to make cash withdrawals in rubles at Russian ATMs.
Reuters: Russian attacks on Monday killed three in Ukraine's central-east Dnipropetrovsk region and injured at least 19, with more people likely trapped under rubble, officials said.
AFP: Russian strikes on Monday damaged a dam near the front line in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region, Ukrainian authorities said, warning nearby villages could be threatened by rising water levels.
Bloomberg: The International Monetary Fund began its latest assessment of its loan program with Ukraine, even as Kyiv delays passing tax legislation as the lender expects (archive).
The Moscow Times: A Russian court ordered the arrest in absentia of International Criminal Court Judge Haykel Ben Mahfoudh, who himself earlier issued arrest warrants for Russian military leaders.
AFP: Russian human rights group Memorial has told AFP that Moscow's crackdown on dissent since invading Ukraine is vastly underestimated, with thousands of Russian and Ukrainians jailed for political reasons.
Politico: Amid a wave of alleged plots by suspected Russian operatives to target infrastructure across Europe, experts say Sweden should clamp down on Moscow-aligned institutions across the country — including a small church in the Swedish town of Västerås.
AP News: Russian glide bombs, drones and a ballistic missile smashed into cities in southern and eastern Ukraine on Monday, officials said, killing at least six civilians and injuring about 30 others.
Reuters: The European Union has supplied Ukraine with more than 980,000 shells for the war with Russia and plans to pass the 1 million mark by the end of this year, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said on Monday.
Politico: The European Parliament is preparing to pass a resolution calling for more “targeted” measures against Russia’s shadow fleet as evidence mounts that Moscow is dodging sanctions and risking an environmental disaster, according to a draft proposal seen by POLITICO.
The Kyiv Independent: Three children and a woman were killed when a high-rise residential building in Kryvyi Rih was hit by a Russian missile on Nov. 11, local authorities said.
FT: UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron pledged their “unwavering” support for Ukraine as the two leaders met in Paris days after a second Trump administration was elected in the US (archive).
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