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Reuters: Slovakia will stop blocking the approval of the 18th package of European Union sanctions against Russia on Friday, Prime Minister Robert Fico said.
The Kyiv Independent: Russian forces launched a series of overnight attacks across Ukraine on July 18, killing one person and injuring at least five others, according to local officials.
ISW: Russia's unsustainably high payments to soldiers and the impacts of the resulting domestic labor shortage will likely further destabilize the Russian economy, regardless of the Kremlin's claims of economic stability.
The Kyiv Independent: Ukrainian soldiers raised flags in two eastern settlements lying near Donetsk Oblast's administrative border with Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine's 20th Corps said on July 17, dismissing Russian claims of capturing the territory.
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Reuters: Ukraine will let foreign arms companies test out their latest weapons on the front line of its war against Russia's invasion, Kyiv's state-backed arms investment and procurement group Brave1 said on Thursday.
The Kyiv Independent: NATO forces could capture Russia's heavily fortified Kaliningrad Oblast "in a timeframe that is unheard of" if necessary, U.S. Army Europe and Africa commander General Chris Donahue said, Defense News reported on July 17.
AFP: The United States was moving to get weapons to Ukraine quickly under Trump's plan for Europe to buy arms, and was weighing selling Patriot air defence systems from its own stocks, Washington's envoy to NATO said Thursday.
Bloomberg: Prime Minister Keir Starmer hinted the UK may join Germany in purchasing weapons from the US to give to Ukraine, as western allies seek to shore up the conflict-torn nation’s defenses in its war against Russian invaders (archive).
The Guardian: The risk of Russia- and China-backed attacks on undersea cables carrying international internet traffic is likely to rise amid a spate of incidents in the Baltic Sea and around Taiwan, according to a report.
Euronews: Ukraine's new government has approved plans to expand domestic arms production to meet half the country’s weapons needs within six months as it tries to push back Russian forces, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Thursday.
CNN: Russia is thought to be days or weeks away from surging into a heightened summer offensive, perhaps using the 160,000 troops Ukrainian officials have said are amassing near their front lines.
The Moscow Times: Russia has formally notified international regulators that it will treat European satellites suspected of aiding Ukraine’s military as legitimate targets for signal jamming, the Space Intel Report website wrote Thursday.
Reuters: Czech-arranged shipments of artillery ammunition to Ukraine are rising this year, proving partners' trust in a government programme matching donations from NATO partners with offers to sell ammunition, the Czech Defence Ministry said on Thursday.
The Kyiv Independent: Former Defense Minister Rustem Umerov may be tapped to lead the country's National Security and Defense Council, Ukrainska Pravda reported amid a major government reshuffle on July 17, citing its undisclosed sources.
NY Post: President Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky, are considering a “mega deal” that would see the US buy battlefield-tested Ukrainian drones in exchange for Kyiv agreeing to buy a swath of weapons from America, the Ukrainian leader said.
Reuters: India is confident of meeting its oil needs from alternative sources if Russian supplies are hit by secondary sanctions, Oil Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said on Thursday.
The Kyiv Independent: Russia's 41st Combined Arms Army fighting in eastern Ukraine has suffered "catastrophic" losses, according to internal documents published on July 17 by Ukraine's "I Want to Live" project.
Reuters: Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday Olha Stefanishyna, a deputy prime minister responsible for Euro-Atlantic integration, would become the country's new ambassador to the United States.
Reuters: Ukraine's newly appointed Prime Minister Yuliia Svyrydenko said on Thursday that her government would be launching a full audit of public finances to achieve "real savings", and that large-scale privatisations should be accelerated.
WSJ: Vigilante groups are increasingly taking control of Russia’s streets and imposing their version of nationalist, pro-Kremlin order as police leave for higher salaries fighting in the war in Ukraine (archive).
Reuters: Preparations are underway to quickly transfer additional Patriot air defence systems to Ukraine, NATO's top military commander Alexus Grynkewich said on Thursday, as the country suffers some of the heaviest Russian attacks of the war so far.
Bloomberg: Top executives at some of Russia’s biggest banks have privately discussed seeking a state-funded bailout if the level of bad loans on their books continues to worsen over the next year (archive).
The Kyiv Independent: Ukraine has repatriated 1,000 bodies based on a deal concluded with Russia in Istanbul, the Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War announced on July 17.
Bloomberg: The flow of foreign currency into Russia is drying up as trade increasingly shifts to ruble payments, reflecting the impact of Western efforts to limit Russian cross-border transactions (archive).
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