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Reuters: Ukraine will receive missiles for Patriot air defence systems and HIMARS rocket launchers in the first batch of weapons being sent under a new funding programme agreed by the U.S. and Ukraine's European allies, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Wednesday.

The Australian Government is lowering the Russian Oil Price Cap and imposing targeted sanctions on a further 95 Russian 'shadow fleet' vessels.

Reuters: Detonations of parcels carried by DHL and DPD in Europe in 2024 were organised and supervised by Russian citizens with ties to Russian military intelligence, Lithuania's general prosecution service and criminal police said on Wednesday (investigation).

The Moscow Times: Latvia's State Security Service said Wednesday that it arrested one of its citizens on suspicion of spying for Russia.

Reuters: The Russian government is considering raising the rate of value-added tax to keep the budget deficit in check and maintain reserves, despite public assurances from Putin that there will be no tax rises.

The Kyiv Independent: Germany has shifted its position and now supports using frozen Russian sovereign assets to fund Ukraine’s needs, Bloomberg reported on Sept. 17.

Reuters: Ukraine and the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation announced they would each commit $75 million to a joint investment fund that is part of Kyiv's minerals deal with Washington, officials said on Wednesday.

The Kyiv Independent: The Ukrainian parliament on Sept. 17 ratified a 100-year partnership agreement with the U.K., marking a deepening relationship between the two countries.

Reuters: Poland has urged European Union member states that are still buying Russian energy to end those imports by the end of 2026 and will offer them help towards achieving that goal, Energy Minister Milosz Motyka said on Wednesday.

RFE/RL: Russia's Rubicon is causing major problems across the 1,100-kilometer front line, and Ukraine is struggling to find ways to counter it. New findings from RFE/RL’s Russian Service now shed more light on the unit and how it could be structured.

Reuters: Denmark will acquire long-range precision weapons, after years of cuts to its military budget, to counter the threat posed to Europe by Russia, even as there was no immediate risk of attack to the Nordic country, Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said.

United24 Media: Brussels is drawing up plans to channel frozen Russian assets into Ukraine through a new system of “reparation loans,” worth as much as $180 billion, the Financial Times reported on September 17.

The Kyiv Independent: The Russian military maimed a soldier to prevent him from fleeing the battlefield, according to an alleged intercepted phone call released by Ukraine's military intelligence on Sept. 17.

Reuters: German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Wednesday accused Putin of murder and trying to destabilise the West by testing its limits and sabotage, speaking at a parliamentary debate where he clashed with the far-right opposition. Merz said recent Russian incursions into Polish and Romanian airspace were part of a long-running trend of testing the West's boundaries.

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