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AP News: Air alerts sounded again and again in Kyiv and residents headed to shelters early Thursday morning, as a massive Russian attack on at least six cities across Ukraine killed at least two people, started fires and wounded at least 21.
AP News: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy returns to Washington on Thursday for a whirlwind one-day visit, this time to face the Republicans now questioning the flow of American dollars that for 19 months has kept his troops in the fight against Russian forces.
CNN: Poland said Wednesday it will stop providing weapons to Ukraine amid a growing dispute between the two countries over a temporary ban on Ukrainian grain imports.
Reuters: ‘We will not send a single round to Ukraine.’ That was Robert Fico's blunt message at a political rally, ahead of a Slovakia’s Sept. 30 election that the populist former prime minister is favorite to win.
ISW: Russian servicemen and milbloggers revealed that the Russian military command orders Russian troops to carry out “ill-conceived and unsupported” counterattacks on Bakhmut’s southern flank to urgently regain lost ground.
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POLITICO: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is expected to visit the Pentagon on Thursday, his first trip to the U.S. military’s headquarters in Arlington, Va., a top White House official said Wednesday.
AFP: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday confronted Russia directly at the UN Security Council, denouncing the Kremlin's invasion of his country as "criminal" and urging the United Nations to strip Moscow of its veto power.
POLITICO: Moscow confirmed that a military vehicle carrying Russian peacekeepers came under fire and its crew was killed as Azerbaijan stepped up its attacks on the region of Nagorno-Karabakh. The number of dead was not disclosed.
Reuters: Romania will work with Ukraine over the next 30 days on a grain export control plan that will help protect Romanian farmers, Agriculture Minister Florin Barbu said on Wednesday.
Meduza: In a new set of guidelines distributed by the Kremlin to Russia’s state-controlled news media, Moscow frames Azerbaijan’s assault on Nagorno-Karabakh as Baku’s internal business, blaming Armenia’s alleged Westward drift for precipitating the attack.
Trap Aggressor: A complex German processing machine used to produce tank shells is en route to Russia, reported the Ukrainian sanctions accountability project, Trap Aggressor. The CNC lathe, created by the German manufacturing company Spinner, was imported by a Russian company, YUMAK, and transported through Turkey.
Bloomberg: Ukraine’s parliament reinstated a requirement obliging officials to publicly declare their assets, beefing up a previous version of the bill vetoed by President Volodymyr Zelenskiy after it drew criticism for being too soft.
Meduza: Norway plans to ban most vehicles with Russian license plates from entering the country, becoming the last Schengen Area country bordering Russia to do so.
AFP: Poland said it had summoned Kyiv's ambassador on Wednesday over remarks by Ukraine's leader Volodymyr Zelensky at the UN that came amid a row over grain exports.
Reuters: U.S. businessman and philanthropist Howard Buffett said on Wednesday Western public interest in the war in Ukraine could wane in the coming year, and that he may step up his own support for Ukraine to set an example.
Business Insider: Unknown saboteurs "blew up" several Russian military aircraft at a base near Moscow earlier this week, Ukraine's military intelligence agency said on Wednesday.
AFP: The death toll from Tuesday's Russian strike on the Ukrainian city of Kupyansk has risen to eight people, authorities said, after Ukrainian rescuers found another two bodies in the rubble.
BBC News: Ukraine has said it will set up "grain hubs" in Kenya and other parts of Africa to tackle food insecurity. President Volodymyr Zelensky's office announced the plan, without giving many details, after he met his Kenyan and South African counterparts in New York.
The Guardian: Russia has “deliberately and repeatedly” targeted medical facilities in the Ukrainian city of Kherson, causing damage to children’s hospitals, maternity wards and a regional clinic, according to a new study.
Bloomberg: Denmark wants to buy back and reopen its only munition factory, which traces it roots back to 1676, to counter a shortage of supplies due to Russia’s war on Ukraine, broadcaster DR reported, citing Defense Minister Troels Lund Poulsen.
Reuters Exclusive: European Council President Charles Michel will ask China directly at the United Nations Security Council to do more to push Russia towards a "just peace" in Ukraine, according to his draft speech seen by Reuters at the UNGA.
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