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Reuters: Artillery shells sold by Indian arms makers have been diverted by European customers to Ukraine and New Delhi has not intervened to stop the trade despite protests from Moscow.
CNN: Vice President Kamala Harris is expected to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Washington, DC, next week, according to three sources familiar with the planning.
ISW: Continued Ukrainian strikes against rear Russian logistics facilities within Russia will generate wider operational pressures on the Russian military beyond the individual destruction of ammunition stockpiles and logistics facilities.
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Reuters: Hungary's energy security chief on Wednesday slammed the European Union for not providing enough support to help smaller, landlocked countries move away from Russian natural gas.
Bloomberg: Europe is in a strong position to maintain steady energy supplies this winter even as a key Russian gas transit route is set to close, according to the head of German utility Uniper SE (archive).
WP: Pro-Kremlin websites and social media accounts are promulgating the unsubstantiated claim that Ukraine orchestrated a potential assassination attempt on Donald Trump, as the Senate convenes a hearing with tech industry leaders about Russia’s and other U.S. adversaries’ efforts to meddle in the election (archive).
Reuters: The European Union must be quick to increase its defences as Russia may be ready for a confrontation in six to eight years, the nominee to be the EU's first defence commissioner told Reuters in an interview.
The Kyiv Independent: French Mirage 2000-5 fighter jets destined for Ukraine will be modified to enable them to hit ground targets, the French media outlet Sud-Ouest reported on Sept. 18.
Reuters: Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexei Overchuk said on Thursday that Moscow would support Pakistan's inclusion in BRICS.
BBC News: Russia's ambassador has been summoned to the UK Foreign Office over the expulsion of six British diplomats from Moscow, the government has said.
POLITICO: Moscow paid and trained a ring of insurgents in a bid to overthrow Armenia’s pro-Western government earlier this year, prosecutors in the country have said, but local security forces disrupted the alleged plot.
Reuters: Finland's President Alexander Stubb has called for expansion of the U.N. Security Council, abolition of its single state veto power, and suspension of any member engaging in an "illegal war" such as Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Bloomberg: Defense ministers from from nine eastern European nations urged NATO to prepare a “collective answer” to mounting cases of airspace violations by Russia among nations bordering Ukraine (archive).
Reuters: NATO must enact a "robust coordinated" response to incidents in which Russian missiles or drones fired at Ukraine enter the alliance's airspace, Romanian Defence Minister Angel Tilvar said on Wednesday.
AFP: Russia's counter-offensive to retake territory captured by Ukrainian forces in the Kursk region has been "stopped", a spokesman from Ukraine's military administration set up in the area told AFP Wednesday.
POLITICO: A top U.S. diplomat slammed Viktor Orbán for the Hungarian leader's embrace of Donald Trump in the American presidential election — and took him to task for cozying up to Russia and China.
Bloomberg: Gold-rich Sudan discussed boosting cooperation in the mining sector with Russia, as Moscow strengthens ties with the North African nation’s military-led government amid a 17-month civil war (archive).
Reuters: European Union sanctions could target financial institutions that underpin battlefield product flows to Russia as well as the supply of products made in southeast Asia by Western subsidiaries, the EU's sanctions envoy said on Wednesday.
Reuters: India is prepared to keep buying oil from Russian companies that are allowed to make such sales, since prices are cheap, oil minister Hardeep Singh Puri said on Tuesday.
Reuters: A Ukrainian drone attack destroyed a warehouse storing missiles, guided bombs and artillery ammunition in Russia's Tver region, a source in Ukraine's SBU state security service told Reuters on Wednesday. The drones caused an "extremely powerful detonation" at a large warehouse of the Main Missile and Artillery Directorate of the Russian Ministry of Defence in the town of Toropets, the source said.
Four senior Air Force leaders from the U.S. and allied nations discussed their combined efforts in deterring Russia in the Arctic during a panel at the Air Force Association’s Air Space, and Cyber Conference in National Harbor, Sept. 17.
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