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Reuters: Putin may soon indicate he will take part in a 2024 presidential election, Kommersant newspaper reported on Tuesday, paving the way for the Kremlin chief to stay in power until 2030.
Reuters: EU foreign ministers expressed support for Ukraine during a meeting in Kyiv on Monday, their first in a non-member country, after a pro-Russian candidate won an election in Slovakia and the U.S. Congress left Ukraine war aid out of its spending bill.
Reuters: Drunk recruits. Insubordinate soldiers. Convicts. They're among hundreds of military and civilian offenders who've been pressed into Russian penal units known as ‘Storm-Z’ squads and sent to the frontlines in Ukraine this year.
BBC News: Burger King remains open as usual in Russia despite the brand's owner pledging to leave more than a year ago.
Reuters: The Russian rouble weakened past the symbolic threshold of 100 to the dollar before recovering slightly in early trade on Tuesday, weighed down by foreign currency outflows and the country's shrinking current account surplus.
ISW: A Russian “Storm Z” assault unit instructor speculated that the Russian Ministry of Defense removed Lieutenant General Andrey Sychevoy from commanding in the Bakhmut direction due to his poor performance.
CTP: Kuwaiti newspaper Al Jarida reported on October 2 that Iran and Russia have agreed to transfer unspecified weapons from Lebanese Hezbollah to Russian forces in Ukraine and to tribal insurgents fighting the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces in eastern Syria.
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The Moscow Times: U.S., French and German corporations continued to dominate the Russian market in 2023 despite the Western business exodus sparked by the war in Ukraine, according to Forbes Russia’s list of the 50 largest foreign companies in the country.
Meduza: Russia may be preparing to test the Burevestnik nuclear-powered intercontinental cruise missile — or might have already done so, writes The New York Times, referencing Planet Labs’ satellite imagery.
AFP: The White House on Monday rejected claims by the Kremlin that Western fatigue on aid for Ukraine would grow after a deal to avoid a US government shutdown left out funds for Kyiv. "If Putin thinks he can outlast us he's wrong," Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said, adding that there was a large Western coalition supporting Ukraine against Putin's invasion.
The Guardian: Ukraine is set to receive billions of euros more in military aid, as well as training for fighter pilots, the EU’s top diplomat has said, after a “historic” meeting of EU foreign ministers in Kyiv.
AFP: Slovakia on Monday accused Moscow of interfering in its election at the weekend that was won by a populist pledging to end military help for Ukraine.
Bloomberg: Latvia said Russia may try to persuade some nearby countries to detain current and former officials visiting from states that supported punishing Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine.
AP News: The Pentagon is warning Congress that it is running low on money to replace weapons the U.S. has sent to Ukraine and has already been forced to slow down resupplying some troops, according to a letter sent to congressional leaders.
Bloomberg: Biden is planning to call allies to reassure them that US support for Ukraine will continue, according to people familiar with the matter.
Reuters: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Monday discussed possible alternative "corridors" for exporting grain from Ukraine, Zelenskiy's office said.
BBC News: Ukraine's first underground school will be built in the north-eastern city of Kharkiv, Mayor Ihor Terekhov has said. "Such a shelter will allow thousands of children to continue their in-person education safely even during missile threats," he said.
Reuters: ‘Defence’ spending will account for almost one third of Russia's total budget expenditure in 2024, the government's draft plans show, as Moscow diverts ever more resources towards prosecuting its war in Ukraine.
Newsweek: Russian authorities accidentally revealed the addresses of the country's secret military buildings, institutions, and spy homes, in Moscow and in St. Petersburg, an investigative site found.
Reuters: Denmark will contribute 100 million Danish crowns ($14.1 million) to a joint European order for ammunition under an EU scheme to aid Ukraine, the Danish ministry of defence said on Monday.
Middle East Eye: Turkish private arms producer Canik delivers hundreds of heavy machine guns to Ukraine that could be combined with armoured vehicles, with more to be delivered in the future.
Meduza: The Bulgarian authorities will ban entry to Russian cars, the head of the country’s border police Anton Zlatanov said on Bulgarian national television.
Reuters: Much of Moldova will no longer buy gas from Russian energy giant Gazprom, Moldovan Energy Minister Victor Parlicov said on Monday, referring to parts of the country that capital Chisinau controlled and not breakaway areas.
Newsweek: A factory that manufactures Kh-59 cruise missiles in western Russia was struck by multiple drones over the weekend, Ukraine's Main Directorate of Intelligence agency said on Monday.
worth mentioning
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