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Reuters: Pro-Kremlin forces are meddling in Moldova's upcoming presidential election by paying off tens of thousands of voters in a sweeping plot to derail Chisinau's bid for closer European Union ties, police said on Thursday.

AFP: Ukraine said Thursday that it had opened its first recruitment office in Poland aiming to enlist citizens for its fight against Russia's invasion.

RFE/RL: Reporters Without Borders has asked the European Union to hold Serbia accountable for hosting Russian state media network RT, which RSF calls "Putin's factory of lies."

AP News: Kosovo’s prime minister said Thursday that the Balkan region has enjoyed the greatest degree of peace, freedom and democracy over the past 25 years but that this could be reversed if Russia prevails in Ukraine and encourages Serbian expansion.

The Kyiv Independent: Ukraine has received more than one-third of the 500,000 155 mm shells expected to be delivered under the Czech initiative by the end of 2024, Ukraine's Ambassador to Czechia Vasyl Zvarych said in an interview with CTK news agency published on Oct. 3.

AFP: Ukraine on Thursday urged the world's oldest arbitration court to order Russia to dismantle its bridge built to connect occupied Crimea to the Russian mainland.

AP News: A hacking group tied to Russian intelligence tried to worm its way into the systems of dozens of Western think tanks, journalists and former military and intelligence officials, Microsoft and U.S. authorities said Thursday.

The Kyiv Independent: The head of the counter-disinformation center at Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council denied claims from the Russian media about an attempted Ukrainain attack against the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant on Oct. 3.

AFP: Russia on Thursday sentenced a 59-year-old nurse to eight years in a penal colony for denouncing Moscow's Ukraine offensive on social media.

The Kyiv Independent: Russian forces continue striking settlements in Russia's Kursk Oblast even when there are no Ukrainian troops present, Vadym Mysnyk, a spokesperson for Ukraine's Operational Tactical Group Siversk, said.

POLITICO: NATO's new Secretary-General Mark Rutte piled pressure Thursday on hesitant Western countries who refused to give Ukraine the right to use advanced weapons to strike military targets deep inside Russia.

Reuters: NATO chief Mark Rutte told Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy "your security matters for ours" on Thursday during his first visit to Kyiv since becoming the alliance's secretary-general. Rutte also reiterated NATO's pledge that Ukraine would one day be a NATO member.

The Kyiv Independent: Ukraine received a Patriot air defense system from Bucharest, Romanian Defense Ministry spokesperson Constantin Spinu confirmed for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty on Oct. 3.

Reuters: A Russian drone targeted a truck delivering gas in a border district of Ukraine's northern Chernihiv region on Thursday, killing two adults and a child, national police said.

The Kyiv Independent: Switzerland is planning to allocate 1.5 billion Swiss francs ($1.7 billion) for reconstruction projects in Ukraine over the next four years, Swiss Ambassador to Ukraine and Moldova Felix Baumann said.

Reuters: Hungary's Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto summoned the German ambassador on Thursday to complain about a speech in which she urged Hungarian public figures to speak out against actions she said were eroding the trust of Budapest's NATO and EU allies.

The Kyiv Independent: Drones operated by the Security Service of Ukraine attacked the Borisoglebsk military airfield in Russia's Voronezh Oblast overnight on Oct. 3, a source in the SBU told the Kyiv Independent.

POLITICO: Moscow will be starved of funds to run its war economy if Saudi Arabia delivers on plans to hike crude production to protect its own position as global oil kingpin.

The Kyiv Independent: Ukrainian forces struck a Russian Nebo-M radar system using U.S.-supplied ATACMS missiles, Ukraine's General Staff reported on Oct. 3. The Nebo-M, valued at about $100 million, is designed to detect and intercept aerial threats, including ballistic missiles.

Reuters: Russian forces launched a major drone attack overnight on 15 Ukrainian regions, causing damage to energy infrastructure and residential buildings, authorities said on Thursday.

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