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AP News: A Russian missile tore through an outdoor market in eastern Ukraine on Wednesday, killing 17 people and wounding dozens, as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken returned to the country with more than $1 billion in new American funding for Ukraine, including military and humanitarian aid.
Reuters: Russian drone strikes have damaged port infrastructure, a grain silo and administrative buildings in the Izmail district of Ukraine's Odesa region, its governor, Oleh Kiper, said on Thursday.
WSJ: Russian occupation authorities in Crimea regularly parade “traitors” on camera, aiming to cow pro-Kyiv residents into submission. But many Crimeans still openly yearn for a return to Ukrainian rule.
ISW: Ukrainian and Russian sources report the Russian defense industrial base faces growing challenges in replacing basic supplies in addition to known challenges in rebuilding its stocks of precision weapons.
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AFP: French president Emmanuel Macron insisted Wednesday that "the Russian flag cannot be at the Paris Olympic Games... at a time when Russia is committing war crimes".
POLITICO: Most EU countries are against extending an import ban on Ukrainian grain beyond mid-September, four EU diplomats told POLITICO, pushing back against calls by five eastern member countries to keep the restrictions in place.
CNN: Senior Western officials are visiting the United Arab Emirates to discuss sanctions as concerns mount over goods being exported to Russia that could potentially be used in Moscow’s war on Ukraine.
The United States will provide depleted uranium tank ammunition to Ukraine as part of a $175 million aid package, the Pentagon said Wednesday. The 120mm rounds are for the US M1 Abrams tanks that Washington has promised to Kyiv and which are expected to be delivered before the end of the year.
The Guardian: Putin’s “gangster”-like nuclear threats require Nato to adopt a much more aggressive response, including flying more aircraft with nuclear weapons, the chief of the general staff of the Polish armed forces urged on Tuesday.
Reuters: Armenia said on Wednesday it would host a joint army exercise with the United States next week, at a time of rising military tension with neighbouring Azerbaijan and open friction in its relationship with Russia.
Bloomberg: European Union officials will begin meeting with member states this week to outline the bloc’s plan on how to impose a windfall tax on profits generated by more than €200 billion of frozen Russian central bank assets to aid Ukraine’s reconstruction.
The Moscow Times: Russia’s ruling, pro-Kremlin United Russia party is distancing itself from narratives related to the war in Ukraine in its campaign for the country’s regional and local elections this month.
BBC News: A high-ranking German intelligence officer has been charged with treason for allegedly passing state secrets to Russia.
POLITICO: The European Union's second highest court on Wednesday upheld sanctions against seven Russian businessmen and women, but ruled partly in favor of a complaint filed by former tech industry boss Shulgin.
Reuters: A high-level U.S. congressional delegation will meet with the top prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in The Hague on Thursday and discuss allegations of war crimes against Putin, its chair said on Wednesday.
CNN: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Kyiv Wednesday on what is his third trip to the Ukrainian capital since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion, seeking to double down on US support for Kyiv’s counteroffensive and make the political case back home that the US needs to commit billions of dollars more to help defeat Putin.
The Times of Israel: Benjamin Netanyahu and Volodymyr Zelensky are slated to speak by phone this week to come to an agreement on the upcoming Rosh Hashanah pilgrimage to the Ukrainian city of Uman, diplomatic sources told The Times of Israel on Wednesday.
Reuters: Slovakia's liberal Progresivne Slovensko (Progressive Slovakia) party will maintain the country's support for Ukraine in line with European and NATO partners if it wins power in an election later this month, its leader said.
CNN: Ukraine’s gross domestic product grew by 2.2% year-on-year in the first seven months of 2023, the economy ministry said on Wednesday.
Reuters: Parts of what could be a Russian drone fell on Romanian territory, Romania's Defence Minister Angel Tilvar said on Wednesday, two days after Ukraine said Russian drones had detonated on the NATO member's land.
The Moscow Times: Western academic journals have continued to publish articles by Putin’s oldest daughter since Moscow's February 2022 invasion of Ukraine, the independent news outlet Mozhem Obyasnit reported Tuesday.
Reuters: South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol said on Wednesday any attempt to cooperate with North Korea on military affairs in a way that damages international peace must immediately halt.
AFP: Russia's central bank announced Wednesday it plans to sharply step up support for the ruble, which has weakened considerably after 18 months of Western sanctions following Moscow's military intervention in Ukraine. The Bank of Russia said that between September 14 and 22 it would sell each day 21.4 billion rubles ($218.5 million) of foreign currency on the market, about 10 times the current volume it is selling on a daily basis.
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