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ISW: Russia may begin to mobilize members of Russia’s active reserve on a rolling basis to sustain its combat operations in Ukraine, but it is unlikely to conduct a large-scale involuntary reserve mobilization to expand the size of the Russian military dramatically at this time.
Reuters: South Korea's chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said on Tuesday that Russian technology possibly went into North Korea's new intercontinental ballistic missile. Nuclear-armed North Korea displayed its most advanced Hwasong-20 intercontinental ballistic missile in a military parade last week.
The Kyiv Independent: Military aid to Ukraine has fallen dramatically in recent months, a report by the Kiel Institute published on Oct. 14 has found.
Reuters: Russian forces attacked Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city, with guided bombs on Monday, knocking out power to 30,000 customers in three districts, local officials said.
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Reuters: Britain's domestic spy agency MI5 issued a rare public warning to members of parliament on Monday that they are being targeted by spies from China, Russia and Iran in an attempt to undermine the country's democracy.
AP News: The U.N. nuclear watchdog is pushing Ukraine and Russia to agree to local ceasefires so that external power can be restored to Ukraine’s huge nuclear power plant in Zaporizhzhia, two diplomats familiar with the plan told The Associated Press.
The Kyiv Independent: The European Council has agreed to reduce and eliminate duties on a range of Ukrainian agricultural products, paving the way for the first significant update to tariffs under an EU-Ukraine trade agreement since it was adopted in 2016.
Reuters: Zelenskiy said on Monday that he would meet Trump in Washington on Friday, where the two would discuss Ukraine's air defence and long-range strike capabilities.
The Insider: The pro-Kremlin Matryoshka disinformation network has launched a new campaign against Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan ahead of the country’s June 2026 parliamentary elections, according to insights from the Bot Blocker Project.
RFE/RL: Thousands of Cubans have been recruited to travel to Russia and many have ended up fighting in Ukraine, possibly under false pretenses. RFE/RL’s investigative unit Systema found a 41-year-old travel agent from provincial city has been key to recruiting.
RBC-Ukraine: Russia's coal industry has become one of the main economic casualties of the full-scale war against Ukraine. Sanctions, rising costs, and falling global prices have led to the sector's worst crisis in 30 years.
TVP World: Russia has used cryptocurrencies to pay saboteurs involved in hybrid attacks on EU countries in order to prevent intelligence services from tracking the payments, a senior Polish security official has said.
Bloomberg: Russia has unseated the US as Venezuela’s primary source of naphtha, a petroleum product it needs to dilute its extra-heavy crude, as Washington’s trade policies push the two sanctioned countries into deeper economic cooperation (archive).
The Kyiv Independent: Russia is ready to test European borders and escalate the current tensions into an open confrontation at any moment, German intelligence head Martin Jaeger told German lawmakers on Oct. 13.
Reuters: NATO chief Mark Rutte mocked Russia on Monday over the "limping" condition of one of its submarines as Russian authorities denied it had been forced to surface because of technical problems.
WP: China has materially helped Russia gain a key battlefield advantage in its grinding war against Ukraine, dramatically increasing exports over the summer of key components needed to make the fiber-optic drones that have enabled Moscow to overwhelm Ukrainian defenses on the front lines (archive).
France 24: The European Union's top diplomat Kaja Kallas said Monday that Russia was "gambling with war", after a spate of Russian drones and military jets crossing into the bloc's airspace.
WSJ: Poland has almost doubled the size of its military and boosted military spending to nearly 5% as Russia has grown more assertive (archive).
The Kyiv Independent: Ukrainian drones struck the largest Russian oil depot in the city of Feodosia in occupied Crimea overnight on Oct. 13 sparking a massive blaze, a source in Ukraine's Security Service told the Kyiv Independent. "Drones hit at least five tanks. A large-scale fire is recorded on the territory of the oil depot," the source said.
Euromaidan Press: Russia has confiscated or is preparing to confiscate at least 25,000 residential properties in occupied Ukrainian territories, Le Figaro reported, citing documents, testimonies, and open sources.
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