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RFI: The leaders of the European Union were joined by others from the United Kingdom to Turkey, as well as NATO chief Mark Rutte and Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky, for a one-day meeting of the European Political Community.

The Kyiv Independent: German Chancellor Olaf Scholz fired former Finance Minister Christian Lindner after he proposed sending Ukraine Taurus missiles instead of financial aid, Lindner said on Nov. 7, according to the German media outlet Berliner Zeitung.

An investigation by The Insider has revealed that Promet, a Russian group of companies acting as a contractor for the country’s Ministry of Defense, has simultaneously been fulfilling military orders in Lithuania.

Reuters: Germany will be able to provide most of the 4 billion euros pledged to Ukraine even if the 2025 budget cannot be approved on time following the collapse of the coalition government, sources from the budget committee told Reuters.

The Kyiv Independent: The U.S. will send Ukraine the full $6 billion in outstanding military aid before President-elect Donald Trump is inaugurated on Jan. 20, Deputy Pentagon Press Secretary Sabrina Singh said at a briefing on Nov. 7.

Meduza: A Russian major general (who led a unit notorious for running a "concentration camp" that tortured soldiers who refused attack orders) was killed this week in Ukraine. The circumstances of Pavel Klimenko's death are still unclear.

Reuters: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday North Korean troops had suffered casualties in combat with Kyiv's forces and that some of the 11,000 troops sent to Russia's Kursk region had taken part in fighting.

CNN: Russia is unleashing near-constant waves of long-range drone strikes on Ukrainian cities as its troops advance in the east, as President Volodomyr Zelensky warned Moscow was firing about 10 times as many drones as it did last fall.

AP News: Dozens of Russian drones targeted Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, in an eight-hour nighttime attack, authorities said Thursday as Russia kept up its relentless pounding of Ukraine after almost 1,000 days of war.

The Kyiv Independent: Russian forces attacked the city of Zaporizhzhia on Nov. 7, killing eight people, including a 1-year-old child, and injuring 42 others.

OC Media: Russia has called for the borders between South Ossetia and Abkhazia and Georgian Government controlled territories to be delineated.

BBC News: One of Russia's youngest political prisoners has lost an appeal to overturn a five-year jail sentence. Arseny Turbin was only 15 when he was arrested in the summer of 2023.

RFE/RL: A Chinese-owned electronics plant in Russia's Leningrad region has ceased operations, highlighting the growing impact of Western sanctions on Moscow over its war against Ukraine and the shifting dynamics of foreign business in Russia.

RBC-Ukraine: Polish Defense Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz, in an interview on Radio ZET, stated that Poland will establish its first fortifications on the border with Russia and Belarus in the coming days.

Reuters: Three airports in Eastern Finland are reintroducing radio navigation equipment to facilitate aircraft landings during times that authorities believe Russia is interfering with satellite navigation.

AFP: France last month summoned a North Korean diplomat to protest Pyongyang's backing of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the foreign ministry said on Thursday.

The British government said on Thursday it had imposed its biggest sanctions package against Russia for 18 months, targeting people involved in the Ukraine war, African mercenary groups and a nerve agent attack on British soil.

Reuters: Russia plans to significantly tighten the rules governing the income received by those deemed "foreign agents" and of those who speak negatively about Russia after leaving the country, the speaker of the Russian parliament said on Thursday.

AFP: The head of Russia's Security Council Sergei Shoigu said Thursday the West faces a "choice" of either entering talks with Moscow on Ukraine or continuing the "destruction" of its population.

The Kyiv Independent: Ukrainian forces may have targeted routes in Dagestan used by Iran to supply weapons to Russia, the War Zone media outlet said on Nov. 6.

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