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Politico: Both Brussels and Washington appear to be moving in the same direction, plotting sanctions against Beijing and Delhi, respectively, over their persistent enabling of Moscow throughout Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
BBC: US Attorney General Pam Bondi has ordered prosecutors to open legal proceedings into allegations of a so-called Russiagate conspiracy that Donald Trump has long claimed was concocted by political foes to smear him.
The Kyiv Independent: Russian drone and artillery strikes in Zaporizhzhia Oblast killed four people and injured three others on Aug. 4, Governor Ivan Fedorov reported early the next day.
Reuters: An overnight Ukrainian drone attack sparked several fires, including at a power substation, in the southern Russian region of Rostov, the acting regional governor said on Tuesday.
ISW: Russian authorities continue to intensify the use of bribery charges, including to scapegoat regional government officials responsible for Russia's border defense and target defense industry officials and critical information space actors.
Reuters: A nuclear submarine base in Russia's remote Far East region was damaged last week following one of the most powerful earthquakes to hit the area in decades, the New York Times reported on Monday, citing satellite images.
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Reuters: Two American financiers, with support from a former campaign manager of Trump, have approached Bulgarian authorities to discuss a possible investment in a state-owned underground storage filled mostly with Russian natural gas.
Reuters: Indian Oil Corp has bought 7 million barrels of crude from the United States, Canada and the Middle East, as Trump ramped up his criticism of the country over its purchases of Russian oil.
Reuters: Trump again threatened on Monday to raise tariffs on goods from India over its Russian oil purchases, while New Delhi called his attack "unjustified" and vowed to protect its economic interests, deepening the trade rift between the two countries.
Euractiv: The Netherlands will deliver the first package of US-made weapons, including Patriot missiles, to Ukraine under a new deal in which European allies cover the cost, Dutch Defence Minister Ruben Brekelmans announced Monday.
The Kyiv Independent: Russian forces have temporarily decreased the number of assault operations in Kherson Oblast over the past day as they regroup in preparation for more active assaults on islands in the Dnipro River, a Ukrainian military spokesperson said.
Reuters: Ryazan oil refinery, operated by the Rosneft oil company, has halted around half its refining capacity since August 2 following a Ukrainian drone attack last week.
Reuters: Primary oil processing at Russia's Novokuibyshevsk refinery, which is operated by the Rosneft oil company, has been halted since August 2 following a Ukrainian drone attack last week.
The Moscow Times: Russia’s state-run railroad operator has begun furloughing some of its administrative staff due to a sharp decline in freight traffic, the RBC news outlet reported Monday.
Reuters: Russian former President Dmitry Medvedev blamed NATO countries on Monday for the abandonment of a moratorium on short- and medium-range nuclear missiles and said Moscow would take further steps in response.
The Kyiv Independent: Latvia's National Electronic Mass Media Council has blocked ten websites used to spread Russian propaganda, Latvian public broadcaster LSM reported on August 4.
Reuters: President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday that Ukrainian troops in northeastern Ukraine were fighting foreign "mercenaries" from various countries including China, Pakistan and parts of Africa, and vowed a response.
RBC-Ukraine: Ukraine is preparing for a visit from Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, with the ratification of the free trade agreement between the two countries likely to be a key topic on the agenda.
Reuters: Ukraine said on Monday it had charged six people including a lawmaker and a government official for embezzling funds in the purchase of drones and jamming equipment for the military.
The Kyiv Independent: Ukrainian forces destroyed a Russian S-300 surface-to-air missile system in the Russian-occupied areas of Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Ukraine's General Staff said on Aug. 4.
Euronews: Ukraine’s Security Service struck an airfield in Saky in annexed Crimea overnight on Monday, hitting five fighter jets, which Russia uses for its regular attacks on Ukraine.
Reuters: In the last two months, just one Ukrainian charity supplying aerial interceptor drones says its devices have downed around 1,500 of the drones that Russia has been sending to reconnoitre the battlefield or to bomb Ukraine's towns and cities.
The Kyiv Independent: Ukrainian forces repelled a Russian assault on the Hoptivka border checkpoint in Kharkiv Oblast, preventing an attempted breach along the frontier with Russia, Viacheslav Zadorenko, the Derhachi City Military Administration head, reported on Aug. 4.
Politico: Russia is ramping up efforts to influence Moldovans living abroad across Europe to try to sway critical elections next month, the EU candidate country’s security chief has warned.
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