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The Kyiv Independent: Russia has stolen more than 180,000 tons of Ukrainian grain through the port of the occupied city of Mariupol in Donetsk Oblast alone, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said at a government meeting on Oct. 8.

CNN: The US military’s top commander in Europe compiled a list of weapons systems the US possesses that could help Ukraine in its fight against Russia that the Biden administration has not yet provided, including air-to-surface missiles and a secure communications network used by NATO.

Reuters: U.S. President Joe Biden cancelled his upcoming trip to Germany and Angola on Tuesday in a blow to plans for the highest level meeting ever of the Ramstein group of Ukraine arms donors that aimed to underscore unwavering support for Kyiv.

Euronews: Hungary confirmed on Tuesday that it would not back the change in the EU sanctions on Russia's immobilised assets that G7 allies need as guarantee to issue a €45 billion loan to Ukraine until after the elections in the US next month.

POLITICO: Republican presidential nominee Trump has spoken to Putin “maybe as many as seven” times since leaving office in 2021, journalist Bob Woodward reports in a forthcoming book obtained by CNN. Woodward also writes that Trump, while in office, sent Putin Covid-19 testing machines for his private use during the height of the pandemic.

Reuters: Turkey and Brazil have been the main importers of Russian seaborne diesel and gasoil since the European Union banned the import of Russian oil products, data from market sources and finance company LSEG showed.

The Kyiv Independent: Russian troops committed to the capture of Vuhledar in Donetsk Oblast outnumbered defending Ukrainian forces by around 9:1, Oleksandr Okhrimenko, commander of the 72nd Mechanized Brigade, said.

Reuters: Russian attacks on Ukraine's northeastern city of Kharkiv on Tuesday killed at least two civilians and injured more than 30 people, including a child, regional officials said.

EIB President Nadia Calviño presented the Ukraine Energy Rescue Plan to EU finance ministers at their meeting in Luxembourg today. The plan foresees up to €600 million in EU-backed financing for critical energy projects in the public and private sectors to meet urgent heating and power needs of wartime Ukraine.

EU Council: Brussels has presented a new framework for sanctions against Russia, focused on fake news, election destabilisation and cyberwarfare.

The Guardian: The head of MI5 has said his agency has “one hell of a job” to do as the threat from Islamic State has returned while Iran and Russia engage in intensifying efforts to undertake assassination and sabotage plots in the UK.

The Moscow Times: A 16-year-old Russian schoolboy considered the country’s youngest political prisoner said he has been subjected to beatings by his cellmates in the Moscow detention center where he’s currently being held.

POLITICO: Cuba asked to join the BRICS group of emerging economies, Foreign Minister Carlos Miguel Pereira announced Tuesday.

The United Kingdom accused Russia of deploying chemical weapons in its war on Ukraine, and is freezing the assets of agencies and enforcing travel bans on the individuals it says are responsible, the government said Tuesday.

Reuters: Russian shelling in Ukraine's southern Kherson region on Tuesday killed one person and injured five more, the regional governor said.

The Kyiv Independent: Ukraine should receive the first Mirage 2000 fighter jets from France in the first quarter of 2025, French Defense Minister Sebastien Lecornu said on Oct. 8.

AFP: Over 1,000 residents have been evacuated due to a fire at a large oil terminal in Russian-annexed Crimea, a local official said Tuesday, after Ukraine claimed it had struck the depot.

Reuters: Russia said on Tuesday that it still had an emergency hotline with the United States and the NATO military alliance to deflate crises as nuclear risks rise amid the gravest confrontation between Moscow and West since the depths of the Cold War.

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