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Reuters: Russia launched overnight air attacks on Ukraine's south and east using drones and possibly ballistic missiles, Ukraine's Air Force and officials said early on Tuesday.
AP News: A Russian fighter jet flew very close to a U.S. surveillance aircraft over Syria, forcing it to go through the turbulent wake and putting the lives of the four American crew members in danger, U.S. officials said Monday.
WSJ: The swift loss of several tanks and infantry fighting vehicles, many of them immobilized by mines or missiles from attack helicopters, has jolted Ukraine and its Western backers.
ISW: Russian logistics to southern Ukraine will likely suffer in the short and medium-term, likely exacerbating recent and significant complaints about inadequate Russian supplies in southern Ukraine.
FT: Analysts warn Beijing and Moscow are starting to use their close partnership to project power against other countries.
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POLITICO: Western countries are hoping Beijing can help pressure Moscow into rejoining a key global food security deal after the Kremlin formally pulled out of the agreement Monday.
CNN: Russa has concentrated more than 100,000 soldiers in the Kupyansk area to try and break Kyiv’s defenses, Serhii Cherevatyi, Ukrainian Deputy Commander for Strategic Communications of the Eastern Military Grouping, said on Monday.
POLITICO: A diplomatic row between EU and Latin American countries over how — or even whether — to mention the war in Ukraine risks turning what was meant to be the celebration of a renewed partnership into a diplomatic failure.
The Moscow Times: Russia has resorted to sending aging, Soviet-made tanks to the battlefield in Ukraine in a desperate bid to compensate for its staggering artillery losses, experts and analysts have said — to mixed effectiveness.
POLITICO: Pope Francis has dispatched a high-level emissary to speak directly with President Joe Biden about the thousands of Ukrainian children Russia has forcibly displaced, a person familiar with the meeting said.
Anadolu Agency: Azerbaijan said Monday it will send electrical equipment worth $7.6 million as humanitarian aid to Ukraine.
Swedish hygiene products group Essity has completed the divestment of its Russian operations for a purchase price of about 1.2 billion Swedish crowns ($117.34 million), the company said in a statement on Monday. The buyer is a company called New Technologies LLC, whose principal owner is Igor Shilov, Essity added.
Novaya-Europe: Russian army general Sergey Surovikin has been unreachable since the Wagner mutiny. Novaya-Europe consult experts to find out what could have happened to him.
Meduza: A source close to Ukraine’s Main Intelligence Directorate told Meduza that the bridge blast was a joint operation between the Ukrainian Security Service and the Navy. He said Russian troops tried and failed to hit the drones Ukraine used with firearms.
The Guardian: The mayor of Kharkiv has dismissed Russia’s claim that Monday’s attack on the Kerch Bridge linking the Crimean peninsula to Russia was an act of Ukrainian “terrorism” and said the Kremlin had brought death and destruction to his city on an epic scale.
Reuters: Teledyne FLIR Defense will supply an additional 1,000 Black Hornet micro drones as well as spares to Ukraine as part of an order from Norway’s ministry of defense, the company said on Monday.
AP News: The bridge connecting Russia-annexed Crimea and Russia carries heavy significance for Moscow both logistically and psychologically, as a key artery for Russian military and civilian supplies bound for Crimea and as an assertion of Russia’s control of the peninsula.
Reuters: The Baltic states will decouple from the Russian power grid in early 2025, Estonian Prime Minister and Lithuanian power grid operator CEO said.
Reuters: U.S. aid chief Samantha Power on Monday announced more than $500 million in humanitarian assistance during a visit to Ukraine, where the United Nations says some 17 million people need help following Russia's invasion.
UK Government: The UK Foreign Secretary, James Cleverly has today announced 14 new sanctions in response to Russia’s attempts to destroy Ukrainian national identity, including 11 against those involved in the forced deportation of Ukrainian children.
Sweden’s government on Monday announced it was pledging 6bn krona (EUR 522 million) in aid to rebuild Ukraine and facilitate reforms to pave the way for EU membership.
The Guardian: A Crimean Tatar-led underground movement is already active behind Russian lines and hundreds of young Tatar men are ready to take up arms to liberate the occupied peninsula, a veteran community leader has said.
Reuters: Russia refused on Monday to extend the agreement that has enabled Ukraine to export grain from its Black Sea ports for the past year, complaining that promises to free up its own shipments of food and fertilisers had not been kept.
worth mentioning
Bill allowing Russian National Guard to have heavy weaponry introduced to parliament
Ukraine Business Upbeat on Outlook for First Time Since Invasion
Insurers reviewing Black Sea ship cover after Russia suspension
Russian Tech Giant Yandex Seeks New ‘Middlemen’ Buyers for Kremlin Handover
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