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CNN Exclusive: Elon Musk secretly ordered his engineers to turn off his company’s Starlink satellite communications network near the Crimean coast last year to disrupt a Ukrainian sneak attack on the Russian naval fleet, according to an excerpt adapted from Walter Isaacson’s new biography of the billionaire.

Reuters: U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Romanian Foreign Minister Luminita Odobescu on Thursday discussed Romania's investigation into drone debris found in Romania close to its border with Ukraine.

AP News: The Pentagon announced a new $600 million package of long-term aid to Ukraine on Thursday, providing funding for an array of weapons and other equipment just a day after Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited the country and pledged $1 billion in new military and humanitarian aid.

Reuters: U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris said on Thursday it would be a "huge mistake" for North Korea to exchange military support with Russia for use in Ukraine, while a top former U.S. intelligence official said there would likely be limits to what Pyongyang would get in return.

The Moscow Times: Hundreds of migrant workers hailing predominantly from Central Asia have been rounded up in a wave of police raids that has swept several Russian cities in recent weeks. The round-ups appear to primarily target male migrants who recently received Russian citizenship but failed to complete their compulsory military registration. Some are handed military summons on the spot, while others are forcibly taken to military enlistment offices.

POLITICO: Austria’s foreign ministry on Thursday summoned Martin Selmayr, the head of the European Commission’s office in Austria after he critiqued the country’s import of Russian gas, calling it “blood money.”

AP News: The head of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee has asked the country’s top three oilfield services companies to explain why they continued doing business in Russia after its invasion of Ukraine, and demanded that they commit to “cease all investments” in Russia’s fossil fuel infrastructure.

Reuters: Canada on Thursday tasked a Quebec judge with leading an independent public inquiry into allegations of attempted foreign interference in Canadian affairs by China, Russia and others.

AFP: Russian Foreign Minister visited Bangladesh Thursday, lashing out at Washington's foreign policy in the region as an increasingly isolated Moscow seeks to bolster relationships after its invasion of Ukraine.

Reuters: UK insurance firm Lloyd's of London is in discussion with the United Nations to provide coverage to Ukrainian grain shipment if a new Black Sea grain corridor agreement can be reached, CEO John Neal told Reuters in an exclusive interview Thursday.

The Kyiv Independent: There is a "realistic possibility" that Ukrainian forces can break through the remaining Russian defensive lines on the southern front by the end of 2023, Trent Maul, the director of analysis of the U.S.' Defense Intelligence Agency, said in an interview with The Economist on Sept. 6.

Meduza: In the first six months of 2023, Russia’s federal censor ordered the blocking of more than 885,000 websites that contained information banned under Russian law. That’s 85 percent more than in the first half of 2022.

Reuters: A Russian businessman with ties to the Kremlin was sentenced on Thursday to nine years in a U.S. prison after being convicted of participating in a $93 million insider-trading scheme involving hacked secret earnings information about multiple companies.

Microsoft: North Korean hackers targeted Russian diplomats and successfully breached a Russian aerospace research institute earlier this year.

The United States and Britain have sanctioned additional members of a Russian hacking gang known as Trickbot and U.S. officials have indicted nine people with ties to the group's malicious software and the Conti ransomware schemes.

Reuters: Ukraine's human rights commissioner has called for more international pressure on Moscow to help Kyiv bring home thousands of Ukrainian children who Kyiv says have been illegally taken to Russia during the war.

Bloomberg: Poland, Hungary and Slovakia are continuing to push for extending a ban on grain imports from Ukraine until the end of the year, warning of disruptions to their domestic markets.

Reuters: Ukraine has started exporting grain via Croatian seaports, aiming to broaden its export routes while its Black Sea ports are blocked, a senior Ukrainian official said on Thursday.

British American Tobacco said on Thursday it entered into a deal to sell its Russian and Belarusian businesses to a consortium led by members of BAT Russia's management team.

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