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Reuters: Ukraine's Air Force said on Thursday its air defence systems shot down 34 of 44 Shahed drones that Russia launched overnight, while a regional official said no casualties were caused by the attack.
The Guardian: International regulators are incapable of properly monitoring safety at the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station, according to a critical dossier compiled by Greenpeace that is being sent to western governments on Thursday.
Bloomberg: The NATO military alliance is racing to develop technologies to allow real-time detection of suspicious activity near underwater critical infrastructure, after the Nord Stream pipeline blasts one year ago laid bare the difficulty of monitoring.
ISW: The situation near Verbove remains unclear as prominent Russian milbloggers have become noticeably less inclined to report in detail on Russian activity on this frontline or present bad news about Russian failures.
WSJ: Saudi Arabia and Russia have raked in billions of dollars in extra oil revenues in recent months, despite pumping fewer barrels, after their production cuts sent crude prices soaring.
Bloomberg: Chinese and Russian aluminum industry associations hope to expand cooperation across the supply chain as the two nations deepen ties in the wake of the invasion of Ukraine.
UK Ministry of Defence: The Russian Aerospace Forces have lost approximately 90 fixed-wing aircraft in combat since February 2022.
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Reuters: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said his country is “deeply sorry” for putting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in the position of unknowingly applauding a veteran who served in a Nazi unit.
Bloomberg: The European Union will seek to boost its defense capabilities in response to a more hostile global environment as the bloc’s 27 governments start to define the political direction for the coming years.
DW: Hundreds of Russian soldiers have deserted, but many do not have passports and are trying to get to safety in the West for fear of extradition. DW spoke to three of them.
Council on Foreign Relations: If Western allies fail to send Ukraine the weapons it needs, the odds increase of the war dragging on indefinitely, at a terrible cost to both Ukraine and Russia and a growing risk to the wider world.
Bloomberg: Russian hackers are striking Ukraine more but the attacks aren't as ambitious as they were at start of war, Ukrainian officials say.
AP News: Bulgaria’s parliament Wednesday approved the provision of additional military aid to Ukraine in its war with Russia.
Ukrainska Pravda: One of the world's largest cutting machine tool manufacturers, the German-Japanese company DMG MORI, continues to help the Russian military industry despite the fact that it announced its withdrawal from Russia after the start of a full-scale war against Ukraine.
The United States has imposed sanctions on entities in Iran, Hong Kong, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates that the U.S. Treasury Department says comprise a network for the procurement of parts for Iran's drone program.
The Moscow Times: At least three pro-war Russian journalists have received severed pig’s heads from unknown senders over the past week, according to media reports.
Novaya-Europe: What became of the Russian conscripts who denounced the poor conditions they faced in Ukraine?
POLITICO: Mercenaries from the Russian Wagner Group are back fighting on the front line in Ukraine, a senior Ukrainian military official told POLITICO on Wednesday. Several hundred fighters from the group once ruled by now-dead Prigozhin were spotted fighting in the ranks of different Russian military units on the eastern front.
The New Voice of Ukraine: Russia has initiated a fresh trial against members of the Azov Battalion in Rostov-on-Don, with potential life sentences hanging over them. The Russians intend to convict 24 Azov members with lifelong imprisonment, charging them with “seizure of power by force” and “participation in a terrorist organization.”
AFP: German authorities are investigating a possible war crime committed in the Ukrainian city of Hostomel, a spokeswoman for federal prosecutors told AFP on Wednesday. Civilians including a German citizen were allegedly shot at and injured by Russian forces in the city north-west of Kyiv.
Reuters: UBS shares fell on Wednesday after a report that the U.S. Department of Justice has stepped up scrutiny into alleged compliance failures that helped Russian clients evade sanctions.
AFP: Poland's agriculture minister said on Wednesday that his country remained open to a Ukrainian proposal for a grain import licensing system, adding that the thorny issue would be discussed in the coming weeks.
AP News: Russia on Wednesday accused Ukraine’s Western allies of helping plan and conduct last week’s missile strike on the Black Sea Fleet’s headquarters on the annexed Crimean Peninsula.
WSJ: Germany is holding off sending Taurus long-range precision missiles to Ukraine because of concerns Berlin could be dragged closer to a direct confrontation with Russia.
The Kyiv Independent: Official announcements from Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, England, Northern Ireland, Denmark, and Sweden stated that their football teams would not take part in any competitions involving Russian teams, The Times reported.
Reuters: The share of Russia's imports invoiced in Chinese yuan soared to 20% in 2022 from 3% a year earlier after its invasion of Ukraine unleashed a raft of sanctions that cut the country out of the global financial system, a new study found on Wednesday.
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Binance fully exits Russia with sale to CommEX
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