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Reuters: Anti-aircraft units worked to shoot down drones attacking the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, early on Wednesday, with drone debris falling in three districts but causing no injuries, Mayor Vitali Klitschko and military officials said.
BBC News: A Russian drone strike has hit port and industrial facilities in the south of Ukraine's Odesa region on the Black Sea, starting fires, authorities say. A grain silo was damaged, according to regional head Oleh Kiper, who gave no further details.
Reuters: A large number of prisoners held in makeshift detention centres in Russian-occupied southern Ukraine were tortured and sexually violated, a team of international experts said on Wednesday in a summary of their latest findings.
ISW: Russian authorities will likely struggle to balance the need to quell domestic concern over continuing drone attacks deep within the Russian rear with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s continued refusal to fully mobilize Russian society for the war and its corresponding consequences.
BBC News: Ukrainian women have been signing up in growing numbers to serve as combat troops against Russia. The BBC spoke to three of the 5,000 female front-line soldiers who are fighting both the enemy and sexist attitudes within their own ranks.
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POLITICO: The latest attack, which saw Ukraine throw in thousands of Western-trained reinforcements to drive south from the town of Orikhiv, has not yet yielded significant results, U.S. Defense Department officials told NatSec Daily this week, with one noting that the gains are being measured in the hundreds of meters.
The Insider: Nikolaos Bogonikolos, arrested in Paris earlier this year, lies at the center of a smuggling network aiding Russia's technology acquisition from the US. The Insider has revealed the network and identified the FSB and SVR military units involved.
AFP: Poland and Ukraine Tuesday summoned each others' envoys over an escalating row between the allies on grain imports from Kyiv. Polish presidential aide Marcin Przydacz on Monday said Warsaw was prioritising "the interests of Polish farmers" when it called on the EU to extend a ban on imports of Ukrainian grain.
TIME: As Ukraine makes slow gains along the southern front in its war against Russia, the government in Kyiv has begun preparing for Russian forces to sabotage the nuclear power plant they occupied at the start of the invasion, the country’s energy minister told TIME in an interview.
AP News: Poland’s government said that two Belarusian helicopters entered Poland’s airspace on Tuesday, an incident that comes amid rising tensions along the NATO member’s border with the Russian ally.
Reuters: Italy's cyber security agency on Tuesday said it had detected hacker attacks against websites of at least five banks, which temporarily made it impossible to access some of their services. The agency "identified the reactivation of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack campaigns by pro-Russian... groups against national institutional subjects," a statement said.
CNN: The US is still waiting for European officials to submit a final plan for training Ukrainian pilots on F-16 fighter jets, which the US will have to authorize before the program can actually begin, officials familiar with the matter told CNN.
The Guardian: Britain’s ambassador to Ukraine, Melinda Simmons, has characterised Russia’s alleged mass abduction of children from Ukraine as a deliberate strategy to sever ties between Ukraine and the “next generation that will defend the country”.
AFP: Iceland said Tuesday it had suspended work at its embassy in Russia, the first European country to do so, as commercial, cultural and political relations had slumped to an "all-time low".
Bloomberg: South Africa is working to persuade Russia to return to talks on a Ukraine grain-export deal that it pulled out of last month, nearly a year after it was reached.
The Kyiv Independent: In early June, 11 Ukrainian POWs were moved from Russia to Hungary. New information obtained by the Kyiv Independent in collaboration with RFE/RL Hungary gives clues to the direct involvement of the Hungarian state in the transfer.
The Moscow Times: Russia’s plans to launch a crypto-based “Digital Ruble” are not going to help it avoid Western sanctions in the foreseeable future, experts say, despite Russian officials’ claims that the new currency could deal a fatal blow to the U.S.-led global financial system.
WSJ: Tens of thousands of Ukrainians have lost limbs since the start of the war, according to new estimates.
The Moscow Times: At least nine Russian military enlistment offices have been targeted in arson attacks linked to phone scams in recent days, media outlets reported Tuesday.
istories: Oleg Deripaska, Leonid Mikhelson, Gennady Timchenko, and other Russian businessmen recruit volunteers for the war on salaries. In the meantime, their businesses, which is involved in this — Rusal, Novatek, PIK, Mospromstroy — successfully avoid sanctions.
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