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AP News: The State Department said Wednesday that it has approved $322 million in proposed weapons sales to Ukraine to enhance its air defense capabilities and provide armored combat vehicles.
Reuters: An Indian company shipped $1.4 million worth of an explosive compound with military uses to Russia in December, according to Indian customs data seen by Reuters, despite U.S. threats to impose sanctions on any entity supporting Russia's Ukraine war effort.
The Kyiv Independent: One person was killed and one injured as an oil depot in Russia's Krasnodar Krai was hit in a reported Ukrainian drone attack on July 24, with explosions and drones seen in the city of Sochi.
ISW: Russia is weaponizing ongoing domestic protests in Ukraine to intensify rhetoric designed to undermine Ukraine's legitimacy and discourage Western support.
Reuters: Air traffic controllers lost contact on Thursday with an An-24 passenger plane carrying about 50 people in Russia's far east, the Interfax and SHOT news outlets said.
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Reuters: Chinese-made engines are being covertly shipped via front companies to a state-owned drone manufacturer in Russia, labelled as "industrial refrigeration units" to avoid detection in the wake of Western sanctions.
Politico: Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard on Wednesday declassified documents she claims prove intelligence officials in the Obama administration lied about Russia’s efforts to influence the 2016 election.
Meduza: Komsomolskaya Pravda — reportedly Putin’s favorite newspaper — warns that the E.U. could attack Russia by 2027, raising concerns that the Russian media is preparing the public for a direct military confrontation with NATO.
The Kyiv Independent: Belarus signaled on July 23 that it could reverse its earlier decision to move the Zapad-2025 military drills inland, citing what it called escalating military activity by Poland and Lithuania near its borders.
AFP: Russia and Ukraine during talks in Istanbul Wednesday agreed to exchange 1,200 prisoners of war each, a Russian negotiator said, adding Moscow offered to hand Kyiv the bodies of 3,000 killed soldiers.
Bloomberg: Russia’s gas output declined in the first half of the year as higher exports to China and increased domestic demand failed to make up for lost flows to Europe via Ukraine (archive).
Reuters: Foreign oil tankers are being temporarily barred from loading at Russia's main Black Sea ports following new regulations, effectively blocking exports from Kazakhstan handled largely by a consortium partly owned by U.S. energy majors.
AP News: A former security guard at the U.S. Embassy in Norway has been indicted by prosecutors there on suspicion of espionage after he allegedly spied for Russia and Iran, state broadcaster NRK said Wednesday.
Europol: A person suspected of being the administrator for the Russian language cybercriminal forum XSS .is was arrested in Ukraine this week, the French public prosecutor's office and the pan-European police body Europol said on Wednesday.
TVP World: The EU’s enlargement commissioner has urged Kyiv to reverse a law that tightens restrictions on key anti-graft agencies, a move that triggered protests around the country.
The Kyiv Independent: The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development warned Ukraine on July 22 that its law targeting the independence of anti-corruption agencies could deter defense and reconstruction investment, European Pravda reported.
Reuters: Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy vowed on Wednesday to retain the independence of anti-corruption agencies, bowing to pressure from the first wartime street protests and rare rebukes from European allies.
Meduza: With Trump now open to supplying U.S.-made weapons to Ukraine, Gen. Oleksandr Syrsky calls for longer-range missiles and the permission to use them against Russia.
The Kyiv Independent: Colonel Maksym Kazban, the commander of Ukraine's "Liut" (Fury) Assault Brigade of the National Police, was killed in a car crash in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine's National Police reported on July 22. Kazban was a veteran officer who led a unique front-line formation made up of Ukraine’s elite police forces.
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