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Reuters: Two Ukrainian drones attacked the Russian town of Kurchatov, home to a nuclear power plant in the Kursk region, early on Friday, Governor Roman Starovoit said.
AFP: Russian air defences destroyed a drone approaching Moscow, the city's mayor said on Friday, a day after a similar attack on the capital.
The Kyiv Independent: The US Department of Defense announced a contract for Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missiles (AMRAAM) from the American company Raytheon for Ukraine.
The War Zone: The Ukrainian drone attacks, that destroyed Russian Il-76s, came from inside Russia and were aimed directly at the middle section of the aircraft, Ukrainian Maj. Gen. Kyrylo Budanov, head of the Defense Intelligence Directorate, told The War Zone.
ISW: Russian authorities arrested a notable fringe ultranationalist Russian milblogger on accusations of discrediting the Russian military, likely as part of centralized efforts to silence some critical milblogger voices without prompting a general backlash.
BBC News: UK defence giant BAE Systems has set up a legal entity in Ukraine and signed deals to help ramp up supplies of weapons and equipment to Kyiv.
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CNN: Russian military hackers have been targeting Ukrainian soldiers’ mobile devices in a bid to steal sensitive battlefield information that could aid the Kremlin’s war on Ukraine, the US and its allies warned Thursday.
POLITICO: A group of Ukrainian soldiers have completed a training program on U.S. M1 Abrams tanks, a lethal new weapon officials hope can help Kyiv break through Russia’s entrenched defenses. Around 200 Ukrainians have practiced on trainer tanks at U.S. Army training areas in Germany. The soldiers recently completed one of the last phases of the program, a combined arms, battalion force-on-force exercise at Hohenfels Training Area.
CNN: Ukrainian forces said they had penetrated the “first line” of Russian strongholds in the Zaporizhzhia region, in a sign that Kyiv is edging closer to Moscow’s sprawling network of fortified trenches along the southern front.
AP News: The defense ministers of Poland and South Korea held talks in Warsaw Thursday on security and support for Ukraine in its fight against Russia’s aggression, as well as on further cooperation in the armaments sector.
AFP: A defrocked Russian priest who spoke out against Moscow's offensive in Ukraine was jailed for three years Thursday, after a court found him guilty of spreading "fake news" about the army.
Bloomberg: A Gazprom PJSC venture has racked up 110 billion rubles ($1.2 billion) in legal claims after filing two more lawsuits against European banks that backed a key natural gas project caught up in sanctions against Russia.
Reuters: United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said on Thursday that he had sent Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov "a set of concrete proposals" aimed at reviving a deal that allowed the safe export of Ukrainian grain via the Black Sea.
AFP: Turkey's foreign minister said on a visit to Moscow on Thursday that reviving a deal to ship Ukrainian grain across the Black Sea was "critical" for food security.
Bloomberg: Putin is moving swiftly to take control of Wagner mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin’s sprawling operations in Africa and the Middle East, days after his renegade ex-protege died in a mysterious plane crash.
AP News: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Thursday his country has developed a weapon that hit a target 700 kilometers away, in an apparent reference to the previous day’s strike on an airport in western Russia.
The Moscow Times: Authorities in separatist and Russian-occupied regions of Ukraine on Thursday announced the start of early voting in local "elections".
AP News: A German court on Thursday convicted a Russian man of plotting the murder of an exiled Chechen dissident on orders from a cousin of the Russian republic’s Moscow-backed 'strongman leader', Ramzan Kadyrov.
Reuters: India's imports of Russian oil fell in August to a seven-month low as refiners curbed purchases due to planned maintenance outages at some plants and lower discounts for Russian grades. However, oil imports from Saudi Arabia surged to a multi-month high, according to preliminary data from Kpler and Refinitiv trade flows.
Royal Navy warships and RAF patrol aircraft tracked a series of Russian vessels in the waters close to the UK in a concerted monitoring operation.
The Guardian: With pro-Russia commentators regularly appearing on TV, Italians are less likely to back Ukraine than people in most other EU states.
Reuters: Russia, one of the world's biggest oil producers, has faced shortages of fuel crucial for gathering the harvest in some parts of its southern breadbasket and the situation may get worse in coming months, market sources told Reuters.
Meduza: The Russian Volunteer Corps, an armed formation fighting on the side of Ukraine, claimed that it worked together with Ukrainian counterintelligence to carry out the recent attack on a military airfield in Russia’s Kursk region.
Bloomberg: Kazakhstan is buying tankers to ship its oil across across the Caspian and Black Seas, the latest sign that central Asia’s largest crude producer is seeking alternatives to its main export pipeline through Russia.
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