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The Kyiv Independent: Ukraine will not use "the youth of soldiers" to make up for its gaps in military equipment and training, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Dec. 9.

Reuters: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday he had issued orders to increase funding for equipping the country's brigades with new drones.

The Insider: A company linked to Russian billionaire and longtime Putin ally has become one of the largest exporters of Russian liquefied natural gas, the investigative project Dossier has discovered.

FT: A spy for Russia living in the UK discussed selling captured US-made battlefield drones to a Chinese military contact, British prosecutors said on Monday (archive).

Reuters: Dutch F-35 fighter jets intercepted three Russian aircraft over the Baltic Sea on Friday and escorted them at a distance over international waters to the border of the NATO area of ​​responsibility, the Dutch defence ministry said on Monday.

The Kyiv Independent: Russia’s spending on “national defense” reached an unprecedented $43 billion in the third quarter of 2024, The Moscow Times reported on Dec. 9.

Bloomberg: China’s escalating conflict with the US over trade is now extending to the drones that have become a vital part of Ukraine’s defense. Manufacturers in China recently began limiting sales to the US and Europe of key components used to build unmanned aerial vehicles (archive).

Reuters: President Volodymyr Zelenskiy made the case on Monday for a diplomatic settlement to Russia's war in Ukraine and raised the idea of foreign troops being deployed in his country until it could join the NATO military alliance.

The Kyiv Independent: Russia has asked Turkey to assist in withdrawing its troops from Syria following the collapse of Bashar al-Assad's regime, CNN Turk reported on Dec. 9.

The Moscow Times: Lithuanian prosecutors said Monday the Baltic state had arrested a member of the opposition Conservative party on charges of spying for Russia.

Reuters: The United States and Britain on Monday announced a new wave of sanctions targeting what it said was the illicit gold trade, which the United Kingdom said was financing Putin's war efforts in Ukraine and fuelling corruption.

EU Council: Ukraine will soon get another 4.1 billion euros in funds after the European Union's member states approved the planned payment of the money, said the EU Council on Monday. The money, which forms part of the EU's Ukraine facility, will help Ukraine's economy, as the country continues to fight against Russia.

WSJ: Moscow fired four times as many drones and missiles this fall as it did the previous year, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis (archive).

Politico: Ukraine's major European allies should forge an alliance aimed at agreeing on a "common vision" for peace in Ukraine, the leader of Germany's conservative opposition, Friedrich Merz, said during a visit to Kyiv Monday.

Reuters: Friedrich Merz, frontrunner in the race to become Germany's next chancellor, used an election-time visit to Kyiv to condemn his country's policy on arming Ukraine as akin to making the country fight with one arm tied behind its back.

The Kyiv Independent: Syrian opposition fighters took control of the Latakia province, where Russian military facilities – the Khmeimim airbase and the Tartus naval base – are located, Russian state news agency TASS reported on Dec. 9, citing a Syrian source.

Bloomberg: A cache of internal Russian documents reviewed by Bloomberg reveals how Putin’s forces have been able to keep purchasing American semiconductors (archive).

BBC News: The former head of a notorious prison in Russian-occupied Ukraine has reportedly been killed in a car blast in Donetsk, in what is being seen as the latest in a series of attacks on pro-Kremlin figures in occupied land.

Reuters: A Dutch court on Monday extended the detention of a Russian former employee of semiconductor equipment maker ASML suspected of stealing intellectual property and selling it to buyers in Russia in violation of European sanctions.

The Kyiv Independent: The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) on Dec. 9 released footage of its Sea Baby naval drones successfully fending off Russian helicopters pursuing them near occupied Crimea last week.

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