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Reuters: Iran has brokered ongoing secret talks between Russia and Yemen's Houthi rebels to transfer anti-ship missiles to the militant group, three Western and regional sources said, a development that highlights Tehran's deepening ties to Moscow.

AP News: The U.S. will send Ukraine an undisclosed number of medium-range cluster bombs and an array of rockets, artillery and armored vehicles in a military aid package totaling about $375 million, U.S. officials said Tuesday.

Reuters: Russia hit a high-rise apartment block and a bakery in Ukraine's northeastern city of Kharkiv with guided bombs on Tuesday, killing at least three people and injuring 34, with others feared trapped under rubble, authorities said.

AFP: The European Union needs to get tougher on countries that allow Western technology to transit to Russia for use in its war on Ukraine, Kyiv's top sanctions official said Tuesday.

Reuters: Freed Russian political prisoners on Tuesday appealed for the release of more than 1,000 others still incarcerated as a U.N. expert described a significant worsening of state repression in Russia that was endangering lives.

AFP: Russian lawmakers on Tuesday approved new measures to facilitate the army's ability to recruit suspected criminals for its military offensive in Ukraine.

The Moscow Times: The Kremlin is attempting to create the illusion that Russian men who fight in Ukraine will enjoy greater career prospects — including the possibility of future government roles — as it grapples with a shortage of military volunteers and seeks to quell criticism from Ukraine war veterans.

The Insider identifies four major Chinese banks facilitating transfers to firms supplying sanctioned equipment to Russian oil companies. They are China Everbright Bank Beijing, Bank of Ningbo, Bank of China, and ICBC.

AppleCensorship: GreatFire has published a groundbreaking study revealing the widespread removal of VPN apps by Apple from its Russia App Store.

An investigation by The Insider has shown that Latvian national Aleksejs Haļavins plays a key role in the "shadow fleet" of tankers shipping Russian crude.

FT: JPMorgan Chase and HSBC unwittingly processed payments for companies in Africa controlled by the deceased Russian warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin, as his sanctions-hit Wagner private army expanded across a continent where it has been accused of brutal human rights abuses (archive).

The Kyiv Independent: Russia is using Chinese satellites to take pictures of Ukraine's nuclear facilities for possible future attacks, President Volodymyr Zelensky said in an interview with ABC News aired on Sept. 24.

AP News: Ukrainian troops engaged in hand-to-hand combat as they drove Russian forces out of a huge processing plant in the town of Vovchansk in Ukraine’s northeast that had been occupied for four months, officials said Tuesday.

AFP: US President Joe Biden said Tuesday that Putin's invasion of Ukraine has failed as he urged the United Nations to keep supporting Kyiv until it is victorious.

POLITICO: Jörg Dornau, a member of the far-right Alternative for Germany party in the Saxony state parliament, has used political prisoners to work on his onion plantation in Belarus, a Belarusian news outlet reported Tuesday.

AP News: TikTok has removed accounts associated with Russian state media for engaging in “covert influence operations” ahead of the U.S. presidential election.

Reuters: The Russian parliament is working on a law that would ban what the authorities cast as the harmful promotion of a child-free way of life with heavy fines for "childlessness propaganda", a close ally of Putin said on Tuesday.

POLITICO: A Russian warship menaced a Norwegian fishing vessel in the Arctic Ocean earlier this month, firing a warning shot that forced it to flee, according to the small boat's skipper.

Reuters: Roughly 60% of the foreign parts found in Russian weapons on the battlefield in Ukraine come via China, Ukraine's presidential adviser Vladyslav Vlasiuk told reporters on Tuesday.

worth mentioning

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to meet this week with U.S. senators

Kremlin scrambles to reassure ‘Iranian friends’ after Tehran condemns war in Ukraine

2 Siberian teenagers charged with terrorism for setting fire to helicopter

Russia’s eastern Ukraine reconstruction work relies on sketchy job recruitment and exploitative labor practices

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