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Reuters: Hoax bomb threats, many of which appeared to originate from Russian email domains, were directed on Tuesday at polling locations in five battleground states - Georgia, Michigan, Arizona, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania - as Election Day voting was underway, the FBI said.
Reuters: The head of Australia's national intelligence office said an "emerging axis" of countries providing support to Russia, including China, Iran and North Korea, was "a profoundly troubling strategic development" that western countries were struggling to catch up with.
The Kyiv Independent: Chinese accounts helped spread Russian disinformation campaigns aimed at undermining the U.S. 2024 elections, according to research from the Atlantic Council published Nov. 4.
ISW: The Kremlin appointed the first-ever "Time of Heroes" program participant to a federal-level position, furthering its ongoing effort to staff government positions with pro-war veterans and set long-term conditions for the militarization of Russian government bodies from local to federal levels.
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The Kyiv Independent: Sweden will provide Ukraine with a new aid package valued at €9 million, which includes two vessels designed to enhance maritime security.
Meduza: Russia is facing a major shortage of engineers, the newspaper Vedomosti reported on Tuesday. About one in five companies in the country is reportedly seeking engineering personnel.
The Kyiv Independent: Russian troops shot dead six captured Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers near Pokrovsk in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine's Prosecutor General's Office reported on Nov. 5.
Bloomberg: A Turkish gas trader is starting a currency exchange business to ease unsanctioned trade between Russia and Turkey, showing firms are finding creative ways around payment issues while creating lucrative opportunities for middlemen (archive).
RFE/RL: A court in Uzbekistan's Ferghana Province has sentenced 51-year-old Alisher Xoliqov to five years in prison for mercenary activities with the Russian armed forces in a landmark case highlighting the growing issue of foreigners enlisting to fight in Ukraine.
Meduza: Russia’s advance has accelerated as Moscow pushes to seize territory in Ukraine, but this aggressive strategy has resulted in heavy equipment losses. In October alone, Russia lost 695 pieces of equipment on the battlefield.
Politico: Ukraine’s military battled North Korean troops for the first time since Pyongyang sent its forces to aid Russia, Ukraine’s defense minister confirmed on Tuesday.
The Kyiv Independent: The United Kingdom has been unable to retrieve its weapons from floating armories offering weapons and accommodation for guards defending Russian oil tankers, Bloomberg reported on Nov. 5.
Reuters: Polish prosecutors have indicted two men in a case concerning cooperation with Belarusian intelligence services, they said on Tuesday, one of a string of espionage cases in the NATO member state.
Reuters: Poland plans to invest 3 billion zlotys ($750 million) to boost ammunition production, according to a bill published late on Monday, aiming to ensure it has sufficient supplies in the event of an attack from Russia.
FT: Poland has detained four people suspected of being involved in test runs for a Russian plot to detonate parcel bombs on US-bound transatlantic flights (archive).
Reuters: Parcels that exploded at logistics depots in Europe were part of a test run for a Russian plot to trigger explosions on cargo flights to the United States, according to security officials.
The Kyiv Independent: The recruitment center of the Ukrainian Legion in Poland has received over 500 applications in a month from Ukrainians living in 30 countries, Ukrinform reported on Nov. 5, citing the center's officials.
Reuters: Foreign ministers from the Group of Seven democracies and three key allies said on Tuesday they were gravely concerned by the deployment of North Korean troops to Russia and the possibility they may be used in the war against Ukraine.
Politico: The European Union’s anti-fraud office, OLAF, has opened an investigation into a loophole allowing countries like Turkey to export sanctioned Russian oil to the bloc under a different label.
Reuters: A Russian missile attack on Ukraine's southeastern city of Zaporizhzhia on Tuesday killed six people, injured at least 20 more and destroyed a critical infrastructure facility, Ukrainian officials said.
The Moscow Times: An engineer at a Russian tank manufacturer has been sentenced to 16 years in prison for high treason, after being found guilty of giving military information to Ukraine, a court said on Tuesday.
Bloomberg: A budding alliance between Russia and North Korea is handing Chinese President Xi Jinping another problem, as Beijing comes under growing international pressure to rein in two of its closest diplomatic partners (archive).
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