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Kyiv Independent: Ukrainian drones reportedly struck a military-industrial facility in Sterlitamak in Russia’s Bashkortostan Republic more than 1,300 kilometers (800 miles) from Ukraine.
The Kyiv Independent: Ukraine’s military launched several waves of attacks against the Russian city of Sochi on Sept. 3-4, including a naval drone strike on a Russian vessel.
Reuters: Finland's Border Guard authority said on Friday it is investigating whether a surveillance drone found on the shore of its southern coast had violated the Nordic country's territory.
The Kyiv Independent: Berlin will supply Kyiv with 250 million euros to bolster Ukraine's energy infrastructure ahead of the winter, Germany's Economics and Energy Ministry announced on Sept 3.
ISW: Putin attempted to portray the Russian government as promptly responding to the Ukrainian drone threat while continuing to deflect responsibility for providing air defense onto private businesses.
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RFE/RL: A scientific facility on a secluded island that is closed to the public is affiliated with an institute accused of developing biological weapons for the Russian military, RFE/RL’s Russian Service and Systema, RFE/RL’s Russian investigative unit, have found.
CBC: Canada's PM Mark Carney says he will keep any conversation with Putin short if he comes face-to-face with him at the G20 summit later this year. "The message will be simple: 'Get out of Ukraine, give back all of Ukraine to Ukraine, end this war which is killing more than 30,000 of your people every single month,' and I'd leave it at that to be honest."
Politico: Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski said the recent wave of Kremlin-backed hybrid attacks across Europe calls for tighter restrictions on Russian diplomats and citizens traveling within the bloc.
Reuters: Trump on Thursday said he would ask European nations to pay back the United States for military aid and munitions previously sent to Ukraine amid the ongoing war with Russia and appeared to signal a halt in sales to allied nations. Trump also slammed reports of heavily depleted U.S. munition stockpiles amid the separate war in Iran.
The Kyiv Independent: A Russian military commander was shot by an unknown person near Engels in Russia's Saratov Oblast on the morning of Sept. 3, Russian media reported, just days after he was linked by Ukraine's Security Service to a deadly strike on a children's hospital in 2024.
dpa, Yahoo News: Mass production of more than 5,000 medium and long-range combat drones for Ukraine has begun at a site near Munich, the US-German defence company Auterion said on Thursday.
Politico: The Slovak government on Wednesday rejected a 12-month extension for the EU's individual sanctions package against Russia, three diplomats told POLITICO.
The Kyiv Independent: Stopping purchases of Russian oil will not help end Moscow's all-out war against Ukraine, Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said on Sept. 3 during his first visit to Kyiv.
Euronews: Estonia’s Defence Minister Hanno Pevkur has resigned over an arms deal for Ukraine involving EU funds paid to an Indian company with no track record of making shells.
Reuters: Germany was investigating a suspected arson attack outside a defence firm in Munich on Thursday, days after two sabotage attempts on the power grid and a month after an airport drone attack that Berlin and its allies blamed on Russia.
Reuters: Russia is recruiting Danish citizens to help plan sabotage against Danish defence firms with ties to Ukraine, the country's national security and intelligence service, PET, said on Thursday.
The Moscow Times: Ukraine’s SBU security service alleged Thursday that a commander of the Russian Volunteer Corps, a unit of far-right Russians fighting alongside Ukrainian forces, was recruited by Moscow to assassinate a Russian opposition figure.
The Kyiv Independent: Russian attacks on Kyiv and the surrounding oblast on Sept. 3 injured at least 13 people and damaged a Coca-Cola plant during the eighth consecutive day of strikes on the Ukrainian capital, local authorities and officials reported.
Kyiv Post: Ukrainian drones attacked targets across Russia overnight, hitting residential buildings near Moscow and a seaport in the Black Sea resort city of Sochi, Russian officials and monitoring channels reported.
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