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Reuters: Japan's government is set to add 1.122 trillion yen ($7.46 billion) to its fiscal investment and loan program for the current financial year to account for Group of Seven nations' support for Ukraine, among others, a draft document seen by Reuters showed on Friday.
The Kyiv Independent: Four unarmed Ukrainian prisoners of war were apparently shot and killed by Russian forces in Donetsk Oblast earlier this November, adding to the five previously reported executions of Ukrainian soldiers, the Prosecutor General's Office said on Nov. 28.
Reuters: Chinese and Russian militaries have organised and carried out the ninth joint strategic air patrol in "relevant airspace" over the Sea of Japan on Friday, Chinese state broadcaster CCTV said.
The Kyiv Independent: A large fire has engulfed an oil depot in Russia's Rostov Oblast overnight on Nov. 29, local media reported.
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RFE/RL: A state-owned facility in Belarus was used by the Russian military to operate a "filtration” camp where multiple sources say Ukrainian soldiers and civilians were subjected to torture and other abuses, an RFE/RL investigation has found.
AFP: Russian air strikes killed 19 civilians in the Aleppo countryside on Thursday, a war monitor said, as jihadists and the Syrian army clashed following a major offensive by the rebels in the country's northwest.
Greenpeace: The International Atomic Energy Agency is failing in its role to urgently protect Ukraine’s nuclear plants against Russian missile attack, Greenpeace CEE said in reaction to the latest large-scale missile strikes targeting Ukraine’s vulnerable electricity system on Nov. 28.
RBC-Ukraine: Russia has allegedly declared its readiness to exchange 630 Ukrainian prisoners of war. However, this may be a provocation and propaganda, states Andrii Yusov, Deputy Head of the Coordination Staff for Prisoner of War Affairs.
Reuters: A team of Bulgarians carried out surveillance on a U.S. military base in Germany where Ukrainian forces were being trained, one of six operations they undertook as part of a spying conspiracy for Russia, prosecutors told a London court on Thursday.
Ukrainska Pravda: The European Union and Ukraine have signed a memorandum of understanding to provide €18.1 billion in macro-financial assistance secured by frozen Russian assets.
The Kyiv Independent: Ukraine destroyed a Russian high-value radar station, 48Y6-K1 Podlet, near the village of Kotovske in occupied Crimea on Nov. 28, Ukraine's military intelligence agency reported.
Reuters: France, which is under pressure over its stance on an international arrest warrant issued for Israel's prime minister, declined on Thursday to say whether it would be prepared to arrest Putin under a similar warrant.
The Insider: Waterjet machines used in the production of military equipment continue to be delivered to Russia despite both the machines themselves and their spare parts being under a U.S. embargo.
Politico: Putin personally authorized the Salisbury poisoning of a former Russian spy on U.K. soil, the British government’s top Russia official said Thursday.
The Kyiv Independent: The Netherlands delivered three new Patriot air defense launchers to Ukraine, Dutch Defense Minister Ruben Brekelmans announced on Nov. 28.
Bloomberg: Norway has agreed to bear half of the responsibility of protecting the main transit hub for foreign military aid to Ukraine, according to Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk (archive).
Reuters: Germany has offered to re-deploy Patriot air defence systems to NATO ally Poland at the start of the new year. "With this we will protect a logistical hub in Poland which is of central importance for the delivery of materials to Ukraine," German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius said.
AP News: A Polish company strongly denied any laws were broken when it sent Swiss-made ammunition to Ukraine, after the Swiss government placed some export restrictions on the company over concerns that the ammunition ended up in Ukraine.
The Finnish defense and security technology group Summa Defence Ltd is establishing a drone production facility in Finland in collaboration with its Ukrainian partners.
Reuters: Russia may use its new Oreshnik hypersonic missile to attack "decision-making centres" in Kyiv in response to Ukraine's firing of Western missiles at Russian territory, Putin said on Thursday.
AFP: Russia fired cluster munitions at Ukrainian energy facilities in its massive attack Thursday, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky said, slamming it as a "despicable escalation" by Moscow.
CNN: More than a million households in Ukraine were left without power following the aerial bombardment, authorities in the country said. This is Russia’s 11th large-scale assault on Ukraine’s energy supplies this year alone, according to the energy ministry in Kyiv, a strategy that has caused nationwide rolling blackouts.
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