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Reuters: More than 10,000 North Korean troops have arrived in Russia to support its war against Ukraine, with a "significant number" in the frontline areas including Kursk, South Korea's defence ministry said on Tuesday.
CNN: An American social media influencer said he was paid $100 by a pro-Kremlin propagandist to post a fake video of Haitian immigrants claiming to vote in the US presidential election. The payment was one of several the man said he received from the propagandist - a registered Russian agent - to post on social media in the run-up to the election.
Reuters: Putin accepted the sudden resignation on Monday of one of Russia's longest serving governors who headed the Rostov region that has been plagued by Ukrainian drones and where the Wagner Group forces started a short-lived mutiny.
ISW: Russian and pro-Kremlin actors launched an information operation on November 4 to discredit incumbent Moldovan President Maia Sandu’s victory in the Moldovan presidential elections.
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Bloomberg: Russia is increasing its efforts to manufacture and disseminate phony videos and bogus information to undermine the legitimacy of the American election and exacerbate already deep divisions, US intelligence agencies warned late Monday — hours before Election Day (archive).
The Kyiv Independent: Ukraine has signed agreements with the World Bank totaling nearly $600 million under the "Resilient, Inclusive and Sustainable Enterprise" (RISE) project, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal announced on Nov. 4.
The Moscow Times: Estonia's coalition government on Monday said it hoped to amend the constitution to ban Russian and Belarusian residents from voting in municipal polls next year, to prevent potential meddling by Moscow and Minsk.
Mediazona: “They’re being bought as meat”: leaked audio reveals Russian MP Borodai describing volunteer fighters in Ukraine as “spare people”—expendable soldiers given old weapons and meant to exhaust Ukrainian forces while “real” troops prepare in the rear.
Politico: Russia is staging hybrid attacks on other countries as part of its all-out war on Ukraine, NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte said on a visit to the German capital Monday.
The Kyiv Independent: Ukraine and Lithuania signed a defense industry memorandum of understanding, Defense Minister Rustem Umerov said on Nov. 4. Under the document, Kyiv and Vilnius will jointly produce drones and parts for them, ammunition and components, and electronic warfare systems.
Euromaidan Press: As Ukraine faces potential 20-hour daily power outages, Germany will deliver €200 million in humanitarian assistance to Ukraine’s most vulnerable communities on the frontlines, providing fuel, insulation, and winter gear as Russian attacks continue to cripple the country’s power grid.
Meduza: The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday that Western security officials believe a covert Russian operation shipped two incendiary devices via DHL as part of a plot to “start fires aboard cargo or passenger aircraft flying to the U.S. and Canada.” The devices ignited in July 2024 at DHL logistics hubs in Germany and England.
The Kyiv Independent: Canada sent the first U.S.-made National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile System (NASAMS) to Ukraine, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told President Volodymyr Zelensky on Nov. 4. "We expect to receive it by the end of this year," Zelensky said after the call.
Reuters: South Korea and the European Union on Monday jointly condemned North Korea's supply of weaponry to Moscow and demanded that it withdraw troops it has sent as Russia wages war against Ukraine.
The Kyiv Independent: Russian forces are launching about ten times as many Shahed-type drones against Ukraine as they did last fall, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Nov. 4.
Forbes: October was by far the worst month yet for Russian long-range drone attacks on Ukraine. The number of drones was less than 1,000 a month previously, rising to 1,301 in September and a whopping 2,023 last month. As winter approaches, Russia is using its drones to bring blackouts to Ukraine in an attempt to freeze the country into submission.
The Moscow Times: More than 3,300 foreigners have been awarded Russian citizenship this year in return for aiding Moscow’s offensive in Ukraine, according to Interior Ministry spokeswoman Irina Volk.
RFE/RL: Early in peace talks that began days after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Moscow proposed a treaty whose one-sided conditions amounted to Kyiv’s surrender, according to a draft obtained by Systema, RFE/RL’s Russian investigative unit.
The Kyiv Independent: Ukraine has begun receiving increasingly more military assistance from international partners, namely in terms of artillery, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Nov. 4.
AFP: The Swedish government rejected 13 offshore wind parks in the Baltic Sea deemed to pose a risk to the nation’s ability to protect itself against threats from Russia.
The Kyiv Independent: The first North Korean soldiers stationed in Russia's Kursk Oblast to aid Moscow's war have come under fire, Andrii Kovalenko, the head of the counter-disinformation department at Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council, reported on Nov. 4.
AFP: A Russian rocket will launch two privately built Iranian satellites into orbit early Tuesday, the Iranian embassy in Moscow said, hailing close space cooperation between Moscow and Tehran.
worth mentioning
Russia revealed to have spent almost €850m on ‘patriotic’ shows and events since the start of Ukraine war
Russia reportedly to pay North Korean soldiers $2,000 per month to fight against Ukraine
Russia distributes manual for digging mass graves to soldiers
German prosecutors drop probe against Russian-Uzbek billionaire Usmanov
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