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The Times: Only the long-range Storm Shadow missiles may not be used to attack targets inside Russia’s borders, according to UK government policy.

The Kyiv Independent: Alexey Smirnov, the acting governor of Russia's Kursk Oblast, ordered the mandatory evacuation of the town of Glushkovo on Aug. 14 amid Ukraine's ongoing incursion into the area.

Reuters: Ukraine's forces advanced further into Russia's Kursk region on Wednesday as Kyiv said its gains would provide a strategic buffer zone to protect its border areas from Russian attacks.

The Independent: Ukraine’s surprise attack inside Russia is the only way to force Putin to the negotiating table as part of a “psychological” tactic to win the war, president Volodymyr Zelensky’s chief adviser has told The Independent.

AFP: Poland confirmed on Wednesday that it had received a German arrest warrant for a Ukrainian man who is reportedly a suspect over the sabotage of the Nord Stream gas pipelines in 2022.

The Kyiv Independent: The Security Service of Ukraine said on Aug. 14 it had uncovered a Russian intelligence cell that included two former members of ex-President Viktor Yanukovych's security detail and an active member of Ukraine's National Guard.

AFP: Ukraine said Wednesday its army would allow the evacuation of civilians from Russia's Kursk region into Russia and Ukraine and admit international humanitarian organisations to the area where its troops have launched a major offensive.

The Kyiv Independent: The creation of different civil administrative bodies in Russia's Kursk Oblast should not be ruled out, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Aug. 14.

Reuters: Hackers linked to Russian intelligence are targeting the Kremlin's critics around the globe with phishing emails, according to new research published on Wednesday by digital rights groups Citizen Lab and Access Now.

The Moscow Times: The Russian government announced Wednesday that it was reintroducing a ban on gasoline exports for another six months to "maintain a stable situation" on the domestic fuel market after major price hikes.

AP News: A German military base that is an important hub for support for Ukraine was sealed off on Wednesday as authorities investigate suspected sabotage, the defence ministry said.

The Kyiv Independent: Ukrainian forces operating in Kursk Oblast have captured more than 100 Russian troops since midnight on Aug. 14, Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi said in a report to President Volodymyr Zelensky.

Bloomberg: Russian businesses saw a massive jump this year in the amount of cash piling up abroad as the threat of secondary financial sanctions from the US causes increasing delays in international trade settlements (archive).

The Kyiv Independent: Ukrainian forces shot down a Russian Su-34 fighter jet over Russia's Kursk Oblast overnight on Aug. 14 amid Kyiv's incursion into the region, Ukraine's General Staff reported.

Reuters: Ukraine carried out its largest long-range drone strike of the war on four Russian military airfields overnight, a Kyiv security source said, an attack hailed by President Volodymyr Zelenskiy as "timely" and "accurate".

The Kyiv Independent: Ukrainian TSN news program showed Ukrainian soldiers removing the Russian flag in the town of Sudzha in Kursk Oblast on Aug. 14, reporting from embattled Russia's region for the first time after Kyiv's incursion.

The Moscow Times: Reports of Russian young men on their compulsory military service being drawn into combat in the Kursk region have prompted their families to appeal to the authorities.

Novaya Europe: Dozens of Chechen prisoners were granted early release from Russian prisons last year to fight in Ukraine due to the lobbying efforts of Chechen autocrat Ramzan Kadyrov, a source in the Chechen Interior Ministry has told Novaya Europe.

Reuters: A Russian court has ordered that assets worth around $1.15 billion of a British subsidiary of German industrial gases company Linde be frozen in a dispute over a gas processing plant, court filings showed on Wednesday.

The Nightly: Accused Russian spy Kira Korolev, once celebrated by the Australian Defence Force as a model soldier, was secretly employed by a Kremlin-backed war machine powering Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

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