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Reuters: At least nine people were injured, including an 11-year-old girl, and several apartments were on fire after a Russian drone attack on Kyiv, Ukrainian officials said on Wednesday.
ISW: The rate of Russian advances in Ukraine has increased in recent weeks but remains slow and consistent with positional warfare rather than with rapid mechanized maneuver—emphasizing how generally stagnant Russian advances have been after over two and half years of war.
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FT: Ukraine and Russia are in preliminary discussions about halting strikes on each other’s energy infrastructure. Kyiv was seeking to resume Qatar-mediated negotiations that came close to agreement in August before being derailed by Ukraine’s invasion of Kursk (archive).
CNN: A small number of North Korean troops are already inside Ukraine, according to two western intelligence officials, and officials expect that number to grow as the North Koreans complete training in eastern Russia and move toward the front lines of the war.
Bloomberg: Raiffeisen Bank Int. slashed the volume of its Russian loans and deposits by about a quarter, after the European Central Bank demanded the lender cut its exposure in the country (archive).
AFP: Ukraine is planning to add another 160,000 troops to its military over the next three months as Kyiv's forces struggle to fend off Russian advances, officials in Kyiv said Tuesday.
Politico: Hungary's foreign minister is set to join Russia, Syria and Belarus at the Minsk Conference on Eurasian Security this week.
The Kyiv Independent: President Volodymyr Zelensky asked for Tomahawk missiles from the U.S. as part of the "non-nuclear deterrence package" in his victory plan, the New York Times reported on Oct. 29, citing undisclosed U.S. officials.
Mediazona: Russian soldiers increasingly accuse commanders of sending them on fatal missions in Ukraine as punishment. Caught between enemy lines and orders to “zero them out,” a common term these days, troops say they’re left with little chance of survival.
Politico: Russia on Tuesday banned 131 Australians from entering the country in what its foreign ministry said was retaliation for Canberra’s “anti-Russian agenda.”
Reuters: A military factory of German concern Rheinmetall which opened in Ukraine in late October could become a target for Russian attacks, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday.
AP News: Putin on Tuesday launched a massive exercise of the country’s nuclear forces featuring practice missile launches as he continued to flex the country’s nuclear muscle amid spiraling tensions with the West over Ukraine.
The Kyiv Independent: A drone strike that damaged the Russian Special Forces University of Putin in the Chechen city of Gudermes on Oct. 29 may have been launched from Russia's neighboring North Caucasus republics, an intelligence source told KI.
Reuters: Saudi Arabia is ready to act as a mediator between Russia and Ukraine, Russian state news agency TASS cited the Saudi ambassador to Moscow as saying on Tuesday.
The Moscow Times: Estonia’s Foreign Ministry summoned Russia’s charge d’affaires amid an ongoing border dispute over a shared river, media in the Baltic country reported Tuesday.
Reuters: President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday he had agreed with South Korea's president to step up contacts between their nations at all levels to develop countermeasures and a strategy to respond to North Korea's involvement in the war in Ukraine.
Bloomberg: Finnish President Alexander Stubb raised “Russian aggression” with Chinese President Xi Jinping, a rare instance of Beijing coming under public pressure for its support of Moscow (archive).
Reuters: Romania could shoot down drones illegally breaching its airspace, based on threat levels and risks to human life and property, a draft law published by the Defence Ministry showed.
AFP: Indonesia and Russia will hold their first joint naval drills next month, Jakarta's navy said Tuesday, as the Southeast Asian archipelago's new leader seeks to boost ties with Moscow.
The Kyiv Independent: Smoke and explosions were recorded in the Russian-occupied city of Luhansk on Oct. 29 after what Governor Artem Lysohor called possible strikes on Russian ammunition depots.
worth mentioning
Europe to boost power export capacity to Ukraine, Moldova over winter
Norway announces $127 million compensation for Romanian Patriot sent to Ukraine
North Korea ramps up Kim Jong Un’s security over assassination threat, Seoul says
Georgia to partially recount disputed votes
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