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Reuters: The U.S. government is weighing new, harsher sanctions against Russia's lucrative oil trade, seeking to tighten the squeeze on the Kremlin's war machine just weeks before Donald Trump returns to the White House, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday.
Meduza: Russia is facing a severe labor shortage. And while the war is making things much worse, it's not the only cause. Economists say the situation is unlikely to turn around before the 2030s.
Reuters: The death toll from a Russian missile strike that destroyed a clinic in the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia on Tuesday has risen to six, while four more people remain under the rubble, the regional governor and emergency services said on Wednesday.
ISW: The Kremlin is very likely hesitant to completely evacuate all military assets from Syria in the event that it can establish a relationship with Syrian opposition forces and the transitional government and continue to ensure the security of its basing and personnel in Syria.
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The US has given $20bn to Ukraine, funded by the profits of seized Russian assets. The economic support forms a significant part of a $50bn package agreed by G7 member nations announced in June.
The Kyiv Independent: The State Department approved a $266 million foreign military sales package for Ukraine on Dec. 10, enabling the sustainment of services as well as repairs necessary for the upkeep of the country's F-16 fighter jets.
The Guardian: Photographs of the fire caused by a suspected Russian incendiary device at a DHL facility in Birmingham in July have backed up intelligence assessments that the blast was strong enough to have brought down a cargo plane.
Reuters: President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged Ukraine's allies on Tuesday to provide 10-12 more Patriot air defence systems that he said would fully protect its skies, after a Russian missile killed at least six people in the southeastern city of Zaporizhzhia.
The Kyiv Independent: Analysts from the crowd-sourced monitoring website DeepState Map reported on Dec. 10 that Russian forces had advanced in Sumy Oblast near the border village of Oleksandriya.
WaPo: Squeezed by Western sanctions and astonishingly high interest rates, Russia’s businesses fear bankruptcies as Putin pushes ahead with the Ukraine war (archive).
Reuters: Peace talks on the war in Ukraine could possibly start this winter, Poland's prime minister said on Tuesday, as he outlined a series of planned meetings as Warsaw seeks to play a leading role in ending the war.
AFP: The United States unveiled trade restrictions Tuesday on eight companies, including two Chinese firms and several from Russia, alleging human rights violations.
The Kyiv Independent: Russia is evacuating its forces from Syria as one of its military bases comes under siege, Kyiv’s military intelligence agency (HUR) reported on Dec. 10. According to HUR, Russian troops in Syria are expressing frustration with their commanders over the disorganized withdrawal.
Reuters: Satellite imagery show that Russian naval ships have left Moscow's base at Tartous on Syria's coast and some have dropped anchor offshore following the overthrow of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad by rebel forces.
AP News: Belarus’ authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko said Tuesday his country is hosting dozens of Russian nuclear weapons and will prepare facilities for the planned deployment of Moscow’s newest hypersonic ballistic missile.
Bloomberg: Bulgaria said it may halt the transit of Russian natural gas to central Europe if Gazprom PJSC doesn’t find a payment solution amid US sanctions (archive).
Reuters: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy will raise the issues of Ukraine being invited to join the NATO military alliance as well as security guarantees at a meeting with European partners this month, Kyiv said on Tuesday.
The Kyiv Independent: Some 70.3% of Ukrainians are in favor of their country's gradual accession into NATO in a model resembling the entry of West Germany, according to a survey by the Kyiv-based New Europe Center published on Dec. 10.
Reuters: China's yuan-denominated exports to Russia fell at a double digit pace in November, worsening sharply from 24% growth in October and marking the first decline in four months, Chinese customs data showed on Tuesday.
AFP: A 39-year-old man in Siberia has been jailed for three years for defacing posters that called on people to enlist in the Russian army, regional authorities said Tuesday.
The Kyiv Independent: Russian soldiers increasingly sabotage their own boats and equipment to avoid having to storm the Dnipro River islands on the southern front, Ukrainian resistance group Atesh claimed on Dec. 10.
Reuters: Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Tuesday it had detained a dual Russian-German citizen on suspicion of preparing an act of sabotage on a railroad in Nizhny Novgorod, a city some 280 miles (450 km) east of Moscow.
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