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RFE/RL: Three civilians were killed early on October 22 in a Russian drone strike on Ukraine's northeastern Sumy region, which borders Russia, the regional administration said.
Reuters: South Korea will gradually take countermeasures in line with the level of military cooperation between Russia and North Korea, Deputy National Security Adviser Kim Tae-hyo told a briefing on Tuesday.
BBC News: The UK government will give an extra £2.26bn ($2.93bn) to Ukraine, using the profits from seized Russian assets held in Europe.
Reuters: Ukraine overnight drone attacks caused an explosion and a fire at an ethanol manufacturing plant and damaged two other alcohol producing enterprises in Russia, Russian officials said on Tuesday.
The Kyiv Independent: Russian soldiers executed two captured Ukrainian soldiers near Selydove in Donetsk Oblast, the Donetsk regional prosecutor's office reported on Oct. 21.
Reuters: Ukraine's Foreign Ministry blasted U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Monday for what it said was his acceptance of an invitation from Putin to a BRICS summit, while staying away from a peace summit on the war in Ukraine.
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WIRED: A Russian-aligned propaganda network notorious for creating deepfake whistleblower videos appears to be behind a coordinated effort to promote wild and baseless claims that Minnesota governor and vice presidential candidate Tim Walz sexually assaulted one of his former students (archive).
Reuters: Moldova's referendum on joining the European Union took place amid "unprecedented interference" by Russia and its proxies, an EU spokesperson said on Monday.
AFP: The United States added more than two dozen entities to a trade blacklist Monday over alleged support of weapons and drone development programs in Pakistan and Iran. The 26 targets, mostly in Pakistan, China and the United Arab Emirates, were said to have violated export controls, been involved in "weapons programs of concern," or evaded US sanctions and export controls on Russia and Iran.
RFE/RL: More than 50 members of Congress have signed a letter calling on the U.S. government to toughen sanctions on Russian oil and questioning an exception granted to U.S.-based oil-services company Schlumberger (SLB) that has allowed it to continue operating in the country.
Reuters: The U.S. Justice Department on Monday proposed new rules to protect federal government data or Americans' bulk personal data from getting into the hands of countries like China, Iran and Russia by placing new limits on certain business transactions.
AP News: Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces said Monday they shot down a cargo jet in the country’s far western reaches of Darfur, a claim that Russian diplomats said they were trying to investigate in the war zone.
Reuters: The Russian government's purchases of iPhones for January through September were four times higher than the same period in 2023, the Vedomosti daily reported on Monday, despite certain officials being banned from using Apple devices.
Politico: NATO requested Monday that South Korea send a delegation to brief it on reports that North Korea is sending troops to Russia.
Reuters: Poland said on Monday it had been a mistake to exclude Polish and Ukrainian leaders from last week's meeting of U.S., German, British and French leaders in Berlin that focused on how to support Kyiv in its war with Russia.
WSJ: Mariupol became an emblem of Russia’s destruction early in its full-scale invasion of Ukraine two years ago. Now the ruined port city is war bounty, enriching allies of Putin (archive).
Reuters: Russian attacks on Monday killed three people in the southern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia and three in Donetsk region near the front line in the 2-1/2-year-old war against Russia, regional governors said.
The U.S. has allocated a new military assistance package for Ukraine worth $400 million, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announced during his to Kyiv on Oct. 21.
The Kyiv Independent: The International Atomic Energy Agency has financed Russian state scientific research in occupied Crimea since the peninsula was illegally captured in 2014, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reported on Oct. 21, citing obtained documents.
LRT: Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Gabrielius says NATO should consider sending troops to Ukraine, following reports that North Korea is doing it to support Russia’s war effort.
The Kyiv Independent: Russian authorities detained 18 North Korean soldiers who abandoned their positions in Russia's Kursk Oblast, a military intelligence source told the Kyiv Independent on Oct. 21.
Reuters: If North Korea were to send troops to Ukraine to fight on Russia's behalf it would significantly escalate the conflict, NATO Chief Mark Rutte said on social media platform X on Monday.
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