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Reuters: The Biden administration has moved to forgive about $4.7 billion in U.S. loans to Ukraine, State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said on Wednesday, as outgoing officials seek to do what they can before leaving office to bolster Ukraine in its war against Russia.
Bloomberg: Romania’s ultra-nationalist party leader, whose popularity has propelled him to No. 2 in the polls ahead of the country’s presidential election, said he would halt military aid to Ukraine if he gets the top job (archive).
BBC News: High-tech equipment made by a UK firm worth $2.1m has been sold to companies in Russia connected to the military, customs documents seen by BBC News suggest. The documents indicate the British-made camera lenses were shipped by a company registered in Kyrgyzstan.
ISW: The November 19 to 20 strike series indicates that Ukraine has already begun leveraging Western-provided long-range weapons systems to assemble more complex and effective strike packages.
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The Kyiv Independent: Russian troops have killed two Ukrainian prisoners of war in Donetsk Oblast's Pokrovsk District, the Donetsk Regional Prosecutor's Office said on Nov. 20.
Reuters: Ukraine fired a volley of British Storm Shadow cruise missiles into Russia on Wednesday, the latest new Western weapon it has been permitted to use on Russian targets a day after it fired U.S. ATACMS missiles.
The Kyiv Independent: The U.N.’s World Food program has allocated $2.1 billion for Ukraine between 2025 and 2027, Ukraine’s Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said on Nov. 20.
AFP: Italian prosecutors said Wednesday that they had opened cases against two people accused of spying for Russia "for the purposes of terrorism and subversion".
Reuters: The Netherlands has handed the final two of 18 promised F-16 fighter jets to a training facility in Romania, where Ukrainian pilots and ground staff are being taught to fly and maintain the planes in battle, the Dutch Defence ministry said on Wednesday.
The Kyiv Independent: Germany has delivered fresh military aid to Ukraine, including four self-propelled Panzerhaubitze 2000 howitzers, three Gepard anti-aircraft guns, and more, the German government said on Nov. 20.
AFP: Britain and Moldova launched a new defence and security partnership on Wednesday in the face of threats from Russia, the UK government announced.
Reuters: Russian oligarch-backed investment firm LetterOne lost its challenge to the enforced sale of a broadband provider on Wednesday, in the first challenge under Britain's recent national security law to reach London's High Court.
Politico: Russia has bolstered the ranks of its army with conscripts from the occupied territories of Ukraine, according to Russian state media.
The Kyiv Independent: Colonel General Kim Yong Bok, one of the generals accompanying North Korean troops in Russia, is a mystery-shrouded figure close to dictator Kim Jong Un, The Wall Street Journal reported on Nov. 20.
AFP: Ukraine on Wednesday described warnings of large-scale missile strikes on the country as a "psychological operation" carried out by Moscow after several foreign embassies announced their temporary closure over the threat.
Reuters: Ukraine said on Wednesday that a Russian command post had been "successfully struck" in the town of Gubkin in Russia's Belgorod region, around 168 km (105 miles) from the border with Ukraine.
The Kyiv Independent: Russia may try to convey to U.S. leadership its plan for a new world order up to the year 2045, including a scheme to break Ukraine up into three parts, the Interfax Ukraine news agency reported on Nov. 20, citing its sources in a Ukrainian intelligence agency.
Politico: Hungary is prepared to kick its Russian oil addiction if the European Union helps bankroll its switch to other importers, according to one of the country's most senior oil and gas executives.
LRT: Lithuania will provide another 10 million euros for urgent infrastructure reconstruction work in Ukraine.
The Kyiv Independent: Ukraine reportedly targeted Russian facilities with drones as the Russian Defense Ministry claimed on Nov. 20 that air defense forces shot down 44 drones overnight.
Meduza: The Russian FSB reported Wednesday that it had arrested a German citizen in Kaliningrad, Russia’s exclave on the Baltic Sea coast, for his alleged involvement in a sabotage attack in March.
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