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Reuters: Britain on Thursday launched a trade sanctions unit with new powers to penalise companies that fail to comply with restrictions on exporting services to Russia.
AFP: Hundreds of apparent pro-Russian bot accounts on X are pushing US election misinformation and amplifying false narratives about Democratic contender Kamala Harris, a research group said Thursday, calling them "sleeper agents" for having evaded detection for years.
Reuters: Chinese carmaker Chery has started assembling cars in Russia for sale in the country at three factories vacated by Western rivals including Volkswagen and Mercedes.
The Kyiv Independent: Drones attacked the Khanskaya military airfield in Russia's Republic of Adygea in the early hours of Oct. 10, the Russian Telegram news channel Astra reported. The airfield is located near the village of Khanskaya, close to the region's capital city of Maykop.
Reuters: The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the International Finance Corporation will fund Ukraine's newly merged telecoms company with $435 million, the lenders said on Thursday.
AP News: Russia is recruiting young African women to work at a factory producing drones for use in Ukraine amid a labor shortage.
Reuters: Two pro-Russian activists said that German authorities have barred them from re-entering the country where they had been operating when a Reuters investigation last year revealed their ties to the Kremlin.
Euractive: Romania has extended the list of imports from Ukraine that require a licence to enter the country, according to a government decision on Wednesday, following complaints from Romanian farmers about the dumping prices of Ukrainian products.
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Reuters: A Russian ballistic missile attack on Wednesday on the port infrastructure of Ukraine's southern Odesa region killed six people and injured eight, Odesa Regional Governor Oleh Kiper said.
Defense News: Russia has sustained more than 600,000 casualties during the war in Ukraine, a sign of losses accelerating out of proportion with its gains, Pentagon officials said.
ISW: The Russian military command has likely ordered Russian forces to conduct a relatively high tempo of mechanized assaults in Ukraine to pursue significant tactical advances before muddy ground conditions in fall 2024 constrain mechanized maneuver.
Reuters: The Biden administration would have serious concerns if reports are accurate that former president Trump spoke with Putin as many as seven times since leaving office in 2020, White House spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre said.
Euromaidan Press: The Ukrainian Defense Forces struck a Shahed drone depot in Russia’s Krasnodar Krai, according to the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. According to available information, around 400 strike drones were stored at the base. Control results confirmed a direct strike on the depot, with secondary detonations observed at the facility.
Reuters: President Volodymyr Zelenskiy will meet NATO General Secretary Mark Rutte and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer in London on Thursday, a boost for Ukraine after a summit of its main backers was cancelled at a difficult moment in its fight against Russia.
Euronews: European Union countries have given their green light to an unprecedented plan to issue a €35 billion loan to support Ukraine's war-battered economy using the immobilised assets of Russia's Central Bank as collateral.
RFE/RL: Cases of the alleged execution of Ukrainian prisoners of war fall under the mandate of the International Criminal Court and the court is entitled to try such cases, ICC Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan has said.
The Moscow Times: More than half a billion euros in frozen Russian assets held by Dutch banks and other financial institutions appear to have been released, De Telegraaf reported.
POLITICO: Russia could attack Sweden for control of the Baltic Sea, Stockholm's Defense Minister Pål Jonson said Wednesday.
The Kyiv Independent: The French military is training and equipping Ukraine's Anne de Kyiv brigade in France, the first instance of a foreign country training a Ukrainian brigade on its territory, the French Embassy in Kyiv said on Oct. 9.
AFP: President Emmanuel Macron will on Thursday hold talks in Paris with Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky, a day after he met Ukrainian troops that France is training on its territory to fight the Russian invasion, the presidency said.
The Kyiv Independent: Lithuania has blocked and fortified a bridge over the Nieman river linking it to the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, the country’s defense minister said on Oct. 9.
Reuters: Pope Francis will meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Friday morning, the Vatican said on Wednesday.
The Kyiv Independent: Ukraine received two IRIS-T anti-aircraft systems from Berlin last week, German Major General Christian Freuding said in an interview with the news outlet RND published Oct. 9.
Reuters: Hungary is putting European security at risk, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Wednesday in an unusually blunt speech blasting Budapest’s relationship with Russia and China.
Reuters: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Wednesday he expected a new date for a summit of key allies to be agreed soon following the postponement of a planned gathering in Ramstein, Germany, because U.S. President Joe Biden was unable to join.
Reuters: Ukraine aims to organise a new peace summit by the end of this year and wants Russia to attend this time, its ambassador to Turkey said on Wednesday, but ruled out any direct bilateral talks with Moscow at the meeting.
Reuters: Authorities declared a state of emergency on Wednesday in a western region of Russia where Ukraine said it had struck a weapons arsenal overnight.
Bloomberg: Russia’s move to ban Discord, an instant messaging platform popular among gamers and programmers, sparked a backlash from military bloggers who say it’s used by drone operators at the front in the war on Ukraine (archive).
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