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The Kyiv Independent: A 34-year-old Colombian man has been arrested in Romania for allegedly planning to sabotage critical infrastructure under the direction of a Russian citizen.
ISW: Putin continues to posture Russian economic stability and growth while high interest rates and efforts to combat inflation suggest that the Kremlin is worried about economic stability in the long-term.
Reuters: Malaysia said on Thursday any attempt by the incoming Trump administration to impose tariffs on BRICS countries for trying to create a new currency or use alternatives to the dollar could cause global semiconductor supply chain disruptions.
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Politico: Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday shot down the Biden administration’s request to include $24 billion in Ukraine-related aid as part of an expected short-term spending bill Congress needs to pass by Dec. 20.
Reuters: Documents declassified by Romania's top security council on Wednesday said the country was a target of "aggressive hybrid Russian attacks" in a period of consecutive elections.
Politico: Cybersecurity and infrastructure in Germany are under “severe threat” by foreign adversaries such as Russia and China, said Chancellor Olaf Scholz in the Bundestag on Wednesday.
Reuters: The U.S. and Britain announced on Wednesday they had disrupted what they described as a global money laundering ring used by rich Russians to evade sanctions, and which London said laundered cash for drug traffickers, criminals and spies (OFAC & NCA reports).
The Moscow Times: Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) spies on anti-war Russians with advanced Android spyware, the legal rights group Perviy Otdel said Wednesday, citing a systems analyst who discovered the surveillance software on his phone.
The Kyiv Independent: Russian troops are storming the Kherson direction in an attempt to gain a foothold on some islands in the Dnipro River delta, Vladyslav Voloshyn, the spokesperson for the Ukrainian military's Southern Command, told Suspilne on Dec. 4.
AFP: NATO chief Mark Rutte said Wednesday that Russia was giving support to North Korea's missile and nuclear programmes in exchange for Pyongyang sending troops to use in the war with Ukraine.
The Kyiv Independent: Ukraine’s recently developed Palianytsia, a lightweight missile-drone hybrid, has entered serial production, Defense Minister Rustem Umerov wrote in an op-ed on Dec. 4.
Politico: Germany's Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock has refused to rule out deploying Bundeswehr soldiers to Ukraine as part of any future cease-fire deal.
Reuters: A top Ukrainian official has begun a visit to the United States to build contacts with the incoming administration of President-elect Donald Trump, who has promised to end Russia's war in Ukraine upon taking office.
AFP: Ukraine said Wednesday that the body of a mayor captured by Russian forces in the Zaporizhzhia region at the start of their 2022 invasion, who allegedly died in their captivity, had been returned by Moscow.
Meduza: The history section on Russia’s 2025 college aptitude test, the Unified State Exam, will reportedly include the names of 11 participants in the war in Ukraine alongside those of historical figures like Peter the Great.
The Kyiv Independent: Ukraine is set to receive $50 billion in frozen Russian assets held by the United States and the European Union, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced on Dec. 4.
Reuters: Up to 100 "suspicious incidents" in Europe this year can be attributed to Russia, Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavsky told reporters on Wednesday as he arrived at a meeting with NATO counterparts in Brussels.
Reuters: Russia's involvement can be seen in many of the wars currently taking place across the world, said British Foreign Minister David Lammy at a NATO meeting on Wednesday, as he urged NATO allies to 'get serious' over defence spending.
FT: Kherson’s civilians have been, since midsummer, the target of an experiment without precedent in modern European warfare: a concerted Russian campaign to empty a city by stalking its residents with attack drones (archive).
Reuters: As Ukraine's military struggles to find enough troops, particularly infantry, to hold off Russia's much larger army, some units are giving a second chance to those who have absconded from service.
Reuters: Advisers to Donald Trump publicly and privately are floating proposals to end the Ukraine war that would cede large parts of the country to Russia for the foreseeable future, according to a Reuters analysis of their statements and interviews with several people close to the U.S. president-elect.
worth mentioning
Hungary requests US sanctions exemption for gas payments to Russia’s Gazprombank
Malta revokes Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson’s visa ahead of OSCE meeting
Statue of Russia's Wagner founder Prigozhin unveiled in Central Africa
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