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Bloomberg: The UK and Canada will join a European Union plan to tap a portion of the almost $300 billion in Russian central-bank assets held by Group of Seven nations, in an effort to ramp up their financial support to Ukraine (archive).
AP News: Russia has stepped up railway attacks over the past three months, seeking to sow unrest in Ukrainian regions it borders by depriving people there of rail connections, the Ukrainian state railway said.
Reuters: Local authorities in Ukraine ordered the evacuation of families from dozens of villages on Tuesday near the all-but-destroyed northeastern city of Kupiansk, citing the "worsening security situation", in a region that has faced heavy Russian attacks.
Bloomberg: Ukrainian authorities are growing frustrated with a surge in foreign components being found in Russian drones, with a senior diplomat calling on allies to tighten sanctions controls as Moscow scales up military production (archive).
ISW: Russian forces appear to be conducting larger mechanized assaults during rainy and foggy weather conditions, which complicate Ukrainian drone operations.
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Reuters: Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa will visit Moscow on Wednesday. Sharaa is set to hold talks on the continued presence of Russia’s naval base in Tartous and its air base in Hmeimim. He will also formally request the handover of Assad, a Russian ally, for trial over alleged crimes against Syrians.
AP News: NATO defense ministers will meet on Wednesday to try to drum up more military support for Ukraine amid a sharp drop in deliveries of weapons and ammunition to the war-ravaged country in recent months.
Reuters: Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski warned on Tuesday Europe must be prepared for Russia to strike deep into the region, calling it "irresponsible" not to build defences such as a "drone wall" on its eastern flank.
The Insider: Although Estonia has declared Putin’s Kremlin to be a terrorist regime, many Estonian citizens continue to openly do business with sanctioned Russian companies and oligarchs who have a commercial interest in the ongoing full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Reuters: Major Chinese airlines on Tuesday urged the Trump administration to abandon a plan to bar them from flying over Russia on U.S. flights, saying it would boost flight times, raise air fares and could disrupt some routes.
The Moscow Times: The International Monetary Fund on Tuesday once again lowered its forecast for Russia’s economic growth in 2025, projecting an expansion of just 0.6% even as it raised its global outlook.
The Kyiv Independent: Russia's largest oil depot in occupied Crimea is still burning a day after being struck by Ukrainian drones, with a huge column of smoke visible from more than 25 kilometers away, local media reported on Oct. 14.
Dallas has obtained exclusive documents confirming that a major US company (SLB) continues to facilitate the manufacturing of oil production equipment in Russia despite international sanctions.
The Kyiv Independent: Russia's Federal Antimonopoly Service has been asked to impose maximum prices at gas stations as fuel shortages worsen across the country. The proposal, initiated by the Russian National Automobile Union, comes amid a deepening supply crisis exacerbated by Ukraine's escalating drone strikes on Russian oil infrastructure.
The Moscow Times: The European Court of Human Rights on Tuesday ordered Russia to pay Georgia more than 250 million euros for violations committed after the brief war between the two countries in August 2008.
Reuters: Russia's revenues from crude oil and refined products fell again in September, as exports of the latter plunged to the lowest in a decade excluding the COVID-hit April 2020, the International Energy Agency said on Tuesday.
The Moscow Times: Russian forces struck a United Nations aid convoy in the partially occupied Kherson region of southern Ukraine on Tuesday, Ukrainian and UN officials said, though no one was reported injured or killed in the incident.
Reuters: The European Commission has proposed expanding an initiative for a "drone wall" on Europe's eastern flank to protect all of the continent after some regions said they felt left out, two EU officials and an EU diplomat told Reuters on Tuesday.
Reuters: Spanish gas grid operator Enagas is ready to ban Russian liquefied natural gas by 2027 if the EU brings forward its phase-out to that date, its CEO Arturo Gonzalo told Reuters.
Reuters: Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Tuesday it had opened a criminal case against exiled businessman Mikhail Khodorkovsky and other prominent Kremlin critics, accusing them of plotting to violently seize power.
worth mentioning
US defense manufacturer reveals new Tomahawk launcher — just what Ukraine would need to hit Russia
Belarus detains at least 88 over alleged ties to military monitoring group, rights watchdog says
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