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New York Post: On his way out of the White House, President Biden is reportedly making a last-minute plea to Congress for $24 billion in aid for war-torn Ukraine to bolster its military support and replenish US stocks that had dwindled.
Reuters: A Ukrainian delegation led by Defence Minister Rustem Umerov is visiting South Korea this week to ask for weapons aid to be used by Kyiv in its war with Russia, according to media reports.
ISW: Russian officials continue to demonstrate that the Kremlin aims to seize more territory in Ukraine than it currently occupies and is unwilling to accept compromises or engage in good faith negotiations, no matter who mediates such talks.
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The Kyiv Independent: Many U.S. officials acknowledge that Ukraine could be pushed into talks within months and might be forced to cede territory to end the war, the Washington Post reported on Nov. 26.
Reuters: A new ballistic missile fired by Russia at the Ukrainian city of Dnipro last week carried multiple warheads but no explosives, and caused limited damage, two senior Ukrainian government sources said.
The Guardian: Russia has banned cabinet ministers including Angela Rayner, Yvette Cooper and Rachel Reeves from entering the country under new sanctions announced by Moscow’s foreign affairs ministry.
Reuters: Russian shelling killed two civilians in the city of Sumy in northeastern Ukraine on Tuesday, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said.
The Kyiv Independent: Ukrainian forces have pushed back Russian troops from Kupiansk in Kharkiv Oblast and maintain control over the situation on the town’s outskirts, Nazar Voloshyn, the spokesperson for the Khortytsia group of forces, said on Nov. 26.
Reuters: Russian state-controlled gas giant Gazprom is making the assumption that no more gas will flow to Europe via Ukraine after Dec. 31 in its internal planning for 2025.
Politico: A top EU lawmaker is demanding that TikTok's chief executive appear before the European Parliament to answer questions about the platform's role in Sunday's Romanian presidential election, as researchers warn of covert activity on thousands of fake accounts leading up to the vote.
FT: A North Korean general was injured and several officers sent by Pyongyang to Russia’s Kursk region were killed last week when Ukraine launched British-supplied Storm Shadow missiles at a Russian command centre, according to a Ukrainian official (archive).
BBC News: Russia has made a rare admission, saying that a key air defence system and an air base in the Kursk region were hit by Ukraine with US-supplied Atacms missiles.
Reuters, Al Arabiya: Norway has agreed to raise its planned fiscal support for Ukraine next year to 30 billion crowns ($2.7 billion) from 27 billion crowns this year, Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere said on Tuesday, reversing an earlier proposal to cut the spending.
Belarusian Investigative Center: Belarusian companies supply Western chips to the Russian military-industrial complex, circumventing sanctions.
Politico: The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense has been actively investigating claims that domestically produced 120 mm mortar shells have been malfunctioning on the war front for the last three weeks, the ministry said in a statement Tuesday.
The Guardian: Russia said it was expelling a British diplomat for alleged spying as tensions between London and Moscow rose after Ukraine’s recent use of British weapons to strike deeper into Russia.
LRT: Lithuania’s Foreign Ministry has handed in a note to Russia, expressing strong protest over the country’s ongoing war crimes against Ukraine and its people.
Euronews: MEPs reaffirmed their strong support for Ukraine on Tuesday, condemning the military cooperation between Russia and North Korea and calling on the bloc to boost its support for Kyiv's embattled forces.
The Kyiv Independent: Russian forces apparently shot five unarmed Ukrainian prisoners of war in Donetsk Oblast earlier this November, the Prosecutor General's Office said on Nov. 26, launching a war crime investigation.
Politico: Britain's foreign secretary said his country is not considering sending troops into Ukraine "at this time," after his French counterpart urged Western allies not to set "red lines" in the conflict and the Kremlin warned against "hotheaded" escalation.
Reuters: Turkey is in talks with the United States and Russia in an attempt to secure a U.S. sanctions waiver so it can continue paying Gazprombank for Russian natural gas imports, Turkish authorities said.
The Kyiv Independent: A group of Russian lawmakers submitted a bill that would allow the Taliban Islamist movement to be removed from Russia's list of terrorist organizations.
Politico: Europe needs to take more risks, spend more, be faster and cut bureaucracy to win the new global arms race, a top NATO commander told POLITICO.
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