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The Kyiv Independent: Ukraine launched a massive drone attack on several Russia's regions overnight on Sept. 10, including Bryansk, Moscow, Tula, Kaluga, Belgorod, Kursk, Oryol, Voronezh, as well as the Krasnodar Krai region.
Reuters: U.S. President Joe Biden's administration has sent Congress a classified report on its strategy for the war in Ukraine, three sources said on Monday, months after a June deadline mandated in a multibillion-dollar spending bill lawmakers passed in April.
BBC News: Evidence found by the BBC shows that Russia is using media and cultural initiatives to attract African journalists, influencers, and students while spreading misleading information.
Bloomberg: An agreement to send Russian gas through Ukraine's pipelines is almost certain to expire within months, halting flows to Europe at a critical time this winter (archive).
Reuters: Russia recorded its lowest birth rate since 1999 in the first six months of this year, according to official data published on Monday, with births in June below 100,000, marking their first monthly decline.
ISW: Kremlin officials are likely trying to shape international peace mediation efforts in the war in Ukraine while demonstrating Russia's unwillingness to engage in good-faith negotiations with Ukraine.
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AFP: Sweden's government on Monday announced it was pledging $443 million in military aid to Ukraine including assault crafts and air defence systems, but said there were currently no plans to send fighter jets.
The Kyiv Independent: Latvia summoned the Russian Embassy's charge d'affaires to express protest after a Russian drone armed with explosives crashed in Latvia for the first time, the Latvian Foreign Ministry announced on Sept. 9.
Reuters: Ukraine's foreign ministry said on Monday it had summoned a senior Iranian diplomat to warn of "devastating and irreparable consequences" for bilateral relations if reports that Tehran had supplied Russia with ballistic missiles were correct.
The Kyiv Independent: Romania's Defense Ministry confirmed on Sept. 9 that it had found Russian drone fragments near the village of Periprava, situated directly across the Danube River from the Ukrainian border.
Reuters: A former salesman for a manufacturer of laser welding machines was arrested on Monday on charges that he conspired to evade U.S. export control laws in order to sell his company's products to a division of the Russian state nuclear company Rosatom.
The Moscow Times: Many of the evacuated residents of southwestern Russia’s Kursk region have not yet received payments promised by Putin over one month into Ukraine’s surprise incursion, the independent news outlet Agentstvo reported Monday.
The Kyiv Independent: Soldiers of Ukraine's 3rd Tank Brigade shot down a Russian Orlan reconnaissance drone at a record altitude of 3,620 meters, the Ukrainian military said.
Reuters: Polish security services have neutralised a sabotage operation orchestrated by Russia and Belarus that aimed to destabilise Poland, Deputy Prime Minister Krzysztof Gawkowski said on Monday.
LRT: Police in Lithuania’s port city of Klaipėda on Saturday received reports of Russia’s war symbol, the letter Z, having appeared on a number of objects.
The Kyiv Independent: Russian forces shelled the town of Nikopol in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast on Sept. 9, killing a 16-year-old girl and injuring three other people, Governor Serhii Lysak said.
The Moscow Times: Over 300 Russian soldiers who fought in Moscow’s war on Ukraine and ran as candidates from the ruling United Russia party have secured political office in Russia’s 2024 regional and local "elections", state media reported Monday.
The Kyiv Independent: Ukraine's new Foreign Minister, Andrii Sybiha, said on Sept. 8 that he had recalled the Ukrainian charge d'affaires from Georgia, saying that "ambassadors of a country at war cannot be detached from the war's realities."
AFP: China's top diplomat Wang Yi will visit Russia this week for a security meeting of BRICS emerging economies, Beijing's foreign ministry said Monday.
Reuters: Ukraine's energy ministry said on Monday that Russian forces had attacked energy facilities in seven regions in the space of 24 hours.
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