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BBC News: Russia's defence ministry says it has thwarted a Ukrainian drone attack after it downed two drones over the Moscow region. Two other drones were intercepted over the Bryansk region, north-east of the Ukrainian border. Flights were temporarily stopped to and from Moscow's airports early on Tuesday.
AFP: Russia's defence ministry says early Tuesday one of its Sukhoi jets "destroyed" a Ukrainian "reconnaissance boat" in the Black Sea.
POLITICO: Josep Borrell, the EU’s foreign policy chief, is eyeing a ministerial-level meeting in late September to discuss peace in Ukraine.
ISW: Russian milbloggers continue to indicate that Russian forces lack equipment and suffer from low morale along the entire frontline.
UK Ministry of Defence: On 19 August 2023, a Tu-22M3 BACKFIRE medium bomber of Russia’s Long Range Aviation was highly likely destroyed at Soltsky-2 Airbase in Novgorod Oblast, 650 km away from Ukraine’s border. This adds weight to the assessment that some UAV attacks against Russian military targets are being launched from inside Russian territory. Copter UAVs are unlikely to have the range to reach Soltsky-2 from outside Russia.
AP News: Russia and China will look to gain more political and economic ground in the developing world at a summit in South Africa this week, when an expected joint dose of anti-West grumbling from them may take on a sharper edge with a formal move to bring Saudi Arabia closer.
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Mediazona: In Perm, the principal and ten teachers of a school specializing in German language have resigned following pressure from pro-war activists who accused them of sabotaging propaganda lessons, and FSB agents began attending exams.
Bellingcat: Russia’s operation to smuggle grain from occupied Ukraine is evolving. A new investigation by Bellingcat, Scripps News and Lloyd's List has tracked ships taking grain from Crimea direct to Iran. Grain exports have also begun from other occupied ports.
Meduza: Prigozhin has released a new video statement. Purportedly speaking from “one of the African countries,” he says Wagner Group is “making Russia greater on all continents” and “making Africa freer” while “creating nightmares for ISIS and al-Qaeda.”
The New Yorker: Elon Musk told Pentagon officials during a call about the satellite-based internet that SpaceX supplies to Ukraine’s military that he’d spoken personally with Putin.
AP News: Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis pledged Monday to keep up military support for Ukraine for as long as it takes and to help with post-war reconstruction.
Ukrainska Pravda: Ukraine’s Security Service has seized over 1B hryvnias (approx. US$27 million) worth of property belonging to Colonel-General Valery Kapashin, a Russian Defence Ministry official, in Ukraine’s Poltava Oblast.
The Insider: In spite of sanctions, microchips from U.S. companies Texas Instruments and Analog Devices continue to be imported into Russia, where they have military applications. These violations are hiding in plain sight, in registered customs data.
WSJ: Thousands of Ukrainian children, some of them orphans, have been transported from Russian-occupied areas to Belarus, where they were exposed to pro-Kremlin propaganda.
RFE/RL: The Russian investigative group Proyekt (Project) said on Aug. 21 that an organization led by Milskaya, the wife of Russia’s Emergency Minister Kurenkov, was involved in the forced deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia last year.
The Moscow Times: The Russian division of Austria’s Raiffeisen Bank will start charging 50% commission on all incoming U.S. dollar transfers, the bank announced Monday in a statement, citing unspecified “market conditions.”
Reuters: German prosecutors said on Monday they searched the home of two pro-Kremlin activists under suspicion that they violated a law that regulates the production and transfer of war weapons. The activists - Max Schlund and his romantic partner Elena Kolbasnikova - have organised multiple rallies protesting Germany's support of Ukraine since the beginning of Russia's full-scale invasion last year.
The Kyiv Independent: Ukraine’s military has advanced southeast of Robotyne and south of Mala Tokmachka in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Maliar reported on Aug. 21. “The enemy tried to regain lost positions east of Robotyne, but unsuccessfully,” Maliar said on Telegram.
Business Insider: Tens of thousands of "laughing" reactions appeared on Russian social-media posts about the memorial of a Ukrainian child who was killed in a Russian air strike over the weekend.
Newsweek: Russian forces in Ukraine have lost 12 tanks, 14 armored personnel vehicles and 19 artillery systems in just 24 hours, Kyiv's military said on Monday, as its grinding counteroffensive nears its third month in the south and east of the country.
Reuters: An Iranian military delegation has arrived in Moscow to discuss cooperation between Iranian and Russian ground forces, state news agency TASS reported on Monday, citing Russia's Defence Ministry.
The Moscow Times: Authorities in southwestern Russia on Sunday sealed off an area of roughly 1,400 square kilometers for at least three months over an anthrax outbreak. Voronezh region Governor Alexander Gusev declared a local state of emergency, banning unauthorized persons from entering the region’s Paninsky district until Nov. 16.
The Kyiv Independent: Moscow has prepared a "development plan" for occupied Mariupol, which includes an increase in population by around 300,000 via migration from Russia, reported the National Resistance Center, an organization operated by Ukraine’s Special Forces.
Reuters: Ukraine is considering using its newly-tested wartime Black Sea export corridor for grain shipments after other cargo ships follow the first successful evacuation of a vessel on the route last week, a senior agricultural official said on Monday.
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