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The Kyiv Independent: Ukrainian special forces destroyed Russian weaponry and personnel during a combat operation on the Tendra Spit, an island off the coast of the occupied area of Kherson Oblast, Ukraine's military intelligence agency reported on July 29.

Bloomberg: Germany is preparing more than 60 military procurement orders for parliamentary approval by the end of this year, including the purchase of 20 Eurofighter jets, as many as 5,000 Boxer armored vehicles and at least 3,500 Patria Oyj armored vehicles (archive).

The Insider: Billionaire Vladimir Plahotniuc, who was recently arrested in Greece in connection with the “Moldovan laundromat” case, regularly visited Moscow using a passport that bears a false name.

LRT: Lithuania's Chief of Defence General Raimundas Vaikšnoras said the country's Armed Forces had redeployed a unit of its air defence battalion closer to the Belarusian border.

Politico: The Kremlin summoned Norway’s chargé d'affaires in Moscow on Tuesday to protest what it described as "unlawful restrictive measures" imposed by Oslo on Russian fishing vessels operating in Norwegian waters.

AP News: Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk on Tuesday said authorities have detained 32 people suspected of coordinating with Russia to engage in acts of sabotage, according to Polish news agency PAP.

The Kyiv Independent: Five people were killed and three others injured on July 29 when Russian forces launched a rocket attack on civilians gathered to receive humanitarian aid in Kharkiv Oblast, according to the State Emergency Service of Ukraine.

The Moscow Times: Two of Russia’s largest pharmacy chains suspended operations across several regions on Tuesday following cyberattacks that disrupted digital infrastructure and brought their nationwide networks offline.

Reuters: The owners of three vessels chartered by India's Nayara Energy have asked to end their contracts with company, under pressure from EU sanctions imposed on the Russian-owned refiner.

The Guardian: A business associate of the oligarch Roman Abramovich has failed to overturn sanctions imposed on him after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, after a supreme court judgment seen as a test case for the UK’s sanctions regime.

The Moscow Times: Kazakh authorities said Tuesday that the EU had granted the country permission to export coal to the bloc via Russian ports despite sanctions targeting Moscow.

The Kyiv Independent: Russia's largest airline, Aeroflot, continued canceling flights for a second consecutive day after a pro-Ukrainian hacker group claimed responsibility for a devastating cyberattack on its IT infrastructure.

The Moscow Times: In 2021, the Russian government and Gazprombank pledged billions of rubles to build a strategic deepwater port on the eastern shore of Sakhalin Island. Four years later, there is still no port — not even a construction site.

Reuters: A Colombian national acting on behalf of Russian intelligence carried out two arson attacks in Poland last year, before setting fire to a bus depot in the Czech Republic, the Polish Internal Security Agency said on Tuesday.

The Kyiv Independent: The EU has warned Kyiv through diplomatic channels that it will freeze some financial assistance if a bill restoring the independence of Ukraine's principal anti-corruption bodies is not passed, European Pravda and Ukrainska Pravda reported on July 29.

AP News: Russian glide bombs and ballistic missiles struck a Ukrainian prison and a medical facility overnight as Russia’s relentless strikes on civilian areas killed at least 27 people across the country, officials said Tuesday, despite Trump’s threat to soon punish Russia with sanctions and tariffs unless it stops.

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