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The Kyiv Independent: Russia attacked a residential neighborhood in the city of Kharkiv late in the evening on Oct. 30, killing a child and injuring at least 34 people, the State Emergency Service reported.
Politico: The European Commission is considering allowing Euroclear to tap frozen Russian assets to help shield the G7’s €45 billion loan to Ukraine against potential retaliation by Moscow.
ISW: The Kremlin is reportedly struggling to prepare for the September 2026 Russian State Duma elections campaign due to uncertainty about the course of the war in Ukraine, suggesting that the Kremlin is not confident that Russia will be able to win the war over the next two years.
BBC: Drones have changed warfare in Ukraine, with both Ukraine and Russia using them against military targets. But the BBC has heard eyewitness testimony and seen credible evidence that suggest Russia is using drones also against civilians in the frontline city of Kherson.
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Reuterts: British finance minister Rachel Reeves said on Wednesday she would provide the defence ministry with an additional 2.9 billion pounds next year and promised an annual 3 billion-pound support for Ukraine would continue for "as long as it takes".
CNN: A spinoff of the Russian “troll factory” that targeted the 2016 US presidential election now appears to be at the heart of a disinformation campaign trying to sway Western and especially US audiences, according to an investigation by researchers at Clemson University’s Media Forensics Hub with CNN.
The Kyiv Independent: President Volodymyr Zelensky announced that Ukraine is now producing nearly 20 Bohdana self-propelled artillery units monthly.
AP News: Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Wednesday that North Korean troops wearing Russian uniforms and carrying Russian equipment are moving toward Ukraine, in what he called a dangerous and destabilizing development.
AFP: NATO deputy chief Boris Ruge visited Croatia on Wednesday for talks with the country's lawmakers over military alliance's mission to support Ukraine, an issue that has split the country's politics.
Reuters: North Korea's deployment to Russia to aid its war against Ukraine has the potential to lengthen the already 2-1/2-year old conflict and draw in others, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said on Wednesday.
Politico: Former Slovak leader Igor Matovič didn’t mince words in deploring an appearance by the country’s current PM Fico on Russia’s state-owned Rossiya 1 TV channel on Wednesday. “What a horrible treacherous ferret,” said Matovič, who served as the country’s prime minister between 2020 and 2021, in a post on Facebook.
Reuters: Ukraine has received only 10% of U.S. military aid approved by Congress earlier this year, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in a video released on Wednesday.
RFI: The US and South Korean defense chiefs called Wednesday for North Korea to withdraw its troops from Russia, where Washington says some 10,000 of them have been deployed for possible action against Ukrainian forces.
Reuters: The United States imposed sanctions on Wednesday on hundreds of targets in fresh action against Russia, a signal that the U.S. will continue to counter evasion of its measures imposed over Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.
WaPo: Russian forces are summarily killing surrendering Ukrainian soldiers in increasing numbers on the battlefield, often shooting them point blank just after they have been taken prisoner, Ukrainian officials say (archive).
NY Times: Russia is using an institutionalized and brutal system to try to extinguish Ukrainian identity through propaganda, re-education, torture, forced Russian citizenship and sending children to live in Russia, former detainees and human rights groups say (archive).
Bloomberg: Tankers carrying sanctioned liquefied natural gas from Russia are gathering off the country’s far eastern coast, a sign of the difficulties in finding buyers in the midst of ever-tightening western restrictions (archive).
Reuters: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy strongly suggested in a video released on Wednesday that Kyiv has requested supplies of long-range U.S. Tomahawk missiles, as he made critical remarks about "confidential" information he said had been leaked.
The Guardian: Sweden and Norway are backpedalling on plans for cashless societies over fears that fully digital payment systems would leave them vulnerable to Russian security threats, and concern for those unable to use them.
The Kyiv Independent: Chechen dictator Ramzan Kadyrov on Oct. 29 apparently boasted about using Ukrainian prisoners as human shields, claiming there were casualties among the captives after a drone strike on Chechnya.
worth mentioning
How Russian soldiers kill Ukrainian civilians, fellow Russians — and even each other
Swiss lawyers hit by US sanctions for hiding dirty Russian money
Finland confiscating $4.25 bln in Russian assets in Naftogaz case
Backlash builds over Hungary joining Russia, Syria and Belarus at security summit
Switzerland adopts further sanctions against Belarus
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