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BBC News: Russia is estimated to have supplied North Korea with more than a million barrels of oil since March this year, according to satellite imagery analysis from the Open Source Centre, a non-profit research group based in the UK.
Bloomberg: Activity appears to have slumped at Russia’s only construction yard for liquefied natural gas modules, another sign of how Western sanctions are thwarting the country’s ambition to become a top player in this key energy market (archive).
AFP, Yahoo News: At the outskirts of a South Korean industrial city, workers at a sprawling weapons factory were conducting final-stage testing for a newly built surface-to-air defence system that could, eventually, head to Ukraine.
ISW: Neither the Oreshnik ballistic missile strike nor Putin's November 21 statement represent a significant inflection in Russian strike capabilities or likeliness to use a nuclear weapon.
The Kyiv Independent: Russia struck a residential area in the city of Sumy overnight on Nov. 22 with Shahed drones, killing two people and injuring 12, local authorities reported.
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AP News: The Kremlin fired a new intermediate-range ballistic missile at Ukraine on Thursday in response to Kyiv’s use this week of American and British missiles capable of striking deeper into Russia, Putin said.
Semafor: Russia warned the US of an incoming ballistic missile strike on Ukraine shortly before Thursday’s attack, a US administration official told Semafor. “The United States was pre-notified briefly before the launch,” the official said.
Reuters: President Joe Biden dropped his opposition to Ukraine firing U.S. missiles at targets deep inside Russia in response to North Korea's entry to the war, a shift in U.S. policy that took on added urgency following Trump's Nov. 5 election win.
Bloomberg: American defense firms should be alert for Russian actors sabotaging their operations at home and abroad as Moscow seeks to undermine support for Ukraine, US intelligence and national security agencies said Thursday (archive).
AFP, Yahoo News: NATO member Romania on Thursday signed a deal with Washington to buy 32 F-35 jets, an unprecedented expenditure for the country neighbouring Ukraine.
AP News: The World Aquatics governing body of swimming has eased rules that now allow approved athletes from Russia and Belarus to compete in team events at international meetings.
Norway has allocated 500 million kroner ($45 million) to fund the production of weapons and military equipment by Ukrainian companies for the Ukrainian Defense Forces.
The Moscow Times: Russia’s lower-house State Duma on Thursday approved a three-year budget that allocates a record 13.5 trillion rubles ($133.63 billion) to national "defense" in 2025, accounting for nearly 40% of the government’s total spending.
RFE/RL: More than 1 billion hryvnyas ($24 million) in assets owned by a businessman with Russian citizenship under sanctions eluded Kyiv's control when they were sold off to private companies in deals that the government did not stop.
US issues dozens of fresh Russia sanctions, Treasury department's website shows. They include sanctions on Russia's Gazprombank, more than 50 internationally connected Russian banks, more than 40 Russian securities registrars, and 15 Russian finance officials.
Bloomberg: The UK’s sanctions enforcement agency said it has identified cases where falsified documents are being used to evade a Group of Seven price cap on Russian oil exports (archive).
Reuters: Russia's Alrosa, the world's largest producer of rough diamonds by volume, may suspend some production in 2025 and cut staff as it grapples with low global prices, the sanctions-hit company's CEO said on Thursday.
The Moscow Times: Russian airlines have grounded 34 of their 66 Airbus A320neo family aircraft due to unresolved engine issues exacerbated by Western sanctions, the Kommersant business newspaper reported Thursday.
Newsweek: A Russian bomb "abnormally landed" in a school in the village of Bykovka in the Yakovlevsky urban district, marking the 150th time Russia has accidentally bombed itself this year with an FAB aerial bomb.
The Kyiv Independent: Russia launched an attack against the city of Kryvyi Rih in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast on Nov. 21, injuring at least 26 people, officials said.
Politico: Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said a United States anti-missile base in Redzikowo, Poland "is a priority target for potential neutralization."
Reuters: Hungary is going to install an air defence system in the northeastern part of the country as the threat of an escalation of the Ukraine-Russia war is "greater than ever", its defence minister said.
The Kyiv Independent: Russian forces launched a large-missile missile attack early on Nov. 21, reportedly lifting Tu-95 bombers and MiG-31K Kinzhal carriers and attacking the central-eastern city of Dnipro.
Reuters: Russia's weekend missile strikes hit three of the five working thermal plants owned by Ukrainian power giant DTEK and one of them is still offline, an industry source said, illustrating the severity of the latest blow to the national grid.
worth mentioning
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Russian spokeswoman told during briefing not to comment on missile strike reports, video shows
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