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AFP: Putin has tasked a former aide of late Wagner chief Prigozhin -- who was killed in an air crash in August -- to oversee volunteer fighter units in Ukraine, according to a Kremlin statement on Friday.
AP News: Visiting South Sudan President Salva Kiir agreed in a meeting with Russia’s president to expand their relationship in energy, trade and other areas, notably oil.
The Kyiv Independent: Russia's Defense Ministry claimed on Sept. 29 that its forces shot down 11 Ukrainian drones overnight — 10 over the Kursk region and another one over the Kaluga region. Kyiv hasn't commented.
ISW: Several Russian milbloggers claimed that they self-censor the majority of their reporting amidst an apparent wider self-censorship in Russian reporting about the tactical realities on certain sectors of the front.
UK Ministry of Defence: Several reports suggest a concentration of Wagner veterans around Bakhmut: their experience is likely to be particularly in demand in this sector. Many will be familiar with current front line and local Ukrainian tactics, having fought over the same terrain last winter.
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Sky News: The decision to reinstate Russian teams to some European competitions faced opposition from three of the five UEFA vice presidents in a private meeting of the ruling executive committee, Sky News has learned.
Reuters: Belarus on Thursday said a Polish helicopter had violated its airspace but Warsaw said none of its helicopters had crossed the border between the two countries.
Business Insider: Russian troops have installed dozens of towers across the occupied city of Mariupol to surveil Ukrainian citizens' conversations and track their digital activity, Petro Andryushchenko, an advisor to Mariupol's exiled mayor, said.
France24: Military strongman Khalifa Haftar, whose forces dominate eastern Libya, held talks with Putin in Moscow on Thursday, his forces and the Kremlin said.
Reuters: The United States on Thursday imposed sanctions on two companies, including one based in Russia, and one person it accused of exacerbating instability in Sudan as fighting has killed thousands and displaced millions of civilians.
Bloomberg: Russia currently has 150,000 excess shipping containers that rail depots are struggling to manage, reflecting a surge in Chinese goods flowing into the country but much less moving out.
AFP: Swedish prosecutors on Thursday called for a Russian-Swede to be sentenced to up to five years in prison for allegedly passing Western technology to Russia's military.
POLITICO: US House Republicans are making another run at yanking Ukraine aid from a Pentagon spending bill, even after an identical proposal was resoundingly defeated a day earlier.
Reuters: NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, on an unannounced visit to Kyiv, said on Thursday that Ukrainian forces were "gradually gaining ground" in their counteroffensive against Russian forces.
AFP: The British and French defence ministers visited Kyiv Thursday to discuss further military aid to Ukraine to bolster Kyiv's counter-offensive against Russian forces.
Business Insider: Western-made armor is failing in Ukraine because it was not designed to sustain a conflict of this intensity, a military analyst told The Wall Street Journal.
AFP: Kazakhstan's leader said Thursday his country would not help Russia circumvent Western sanctions imposed over the war in Ukraine, amid suspicions that Moscow is still receiving vital goods via Central Asian nations.
The Guardian: Brussels has warned European companies and governments that it could ban the sale of certain components to Turkey and other countries from where Iran and Russia are sourcing parts for drones and other weapons striking Ukrainian cities.
Bloomberg: Russian oil is continuing to rise, defying an increasingly redundant price cap put in place by the Group of Seven and its allies.
The Moscow Times: A mass cyberattack on Russia’s air booking system sparked flight delays among major carriers on Thursday. Russia's flagship airline Aeroflot said the denial-of-service attack resulted in delays of up to an hour for departures at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo International Airport.
Sky News: When Kherson was liberated in November 2022, people came out on the streets to celebrate. It was the most significant city to be recaptured by Ukraine. Sky News has uncovered some of the horrors revealed by liberation from the Russian occupation.
Bloomberg: Bulgarian lawmakers on Thursday approved a motion to gradually end imports of Russian crude, bringing the country in line with other European Union members.
AFP: Russia said Thursday that it plans to raise defence spending by almost 70 percent next year, funnelling massive resources into its Ukraine offensive to fight what it calls a "hybrid war" unleashed by the West.
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