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Reuters: Russia launched several waves of missile and drone attacks targeting scores of Ukrainian regions and killing at least four people, Ukraine's military said early on Tuesday, a day after Moscow's biggest air attack of the war on its neighbour.
POLITICO: Ukrainian officials are preparing to present a list of long-range targets in Russia to top U.S. national security officials that they think Kyiv’s military can hit if Washington were to lift its restrictions on U.S. weapons.
ISW: The current Belarusian build-up along the Ukrainian border is likely intended to divert and stretch Ukrainian forces along a wider frontline, as ISW continues to assess that Belarusian forces remain unlikely to invade Ukraine due to constraints facing Belarusian dictator Lukashenko.
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The Kyiv Independent: Satellite images obtained by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty suggest that an oil depot fire keeps spreading at the Kavkaz oil and petroleum storage facility just outside Proletarsk, a town in Russia’s Rostov Oblast. Over a week later, Russian emergency services are failing to contain the fire.
Reuters: Russia attacked Ukraine with more than 200 missiles and drones on Monday, killing seven people and striking energy facilities nationwide, Kyiv said, while neighbouring NATO member Poland reported a drone had probably entered its airspace.
The Kyiv Independent: Kyiv Hydroelectric Power Plant was not critically damaged in the recent Russian attack on Kyiv Oblast, Governor Ruslan Kravchenko said on Aug. 26 on national television.
AFP: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday spoke with US President Joe Biden about his visit to Ukraine, as the White House voiced hope that he embraced Kyiv's view on ending Russia's invasion.
Reuters: Pavel Durov, the Russian-born founder of messaging app Telegram, was arrested in France as part of an investigation into crimes related to child pornography, drug trafficking and fraudulent transactions on the platform, French prosecutors said on Monday.
POLITICO: German security sources tell press agency that Russia planned to use drones against the airfield, which monitors NATO’s eastern theater.
Reuters: Security services from seven European countries on Monday briefed Norwegian energy executives and officials, including from Equinor, Europe's largest gas supplier, about what they see as Russian threats to critical infrastructure.
Bloomberg: Russia is close to starting trials of cryptocurrency exchanges and the use of digital tokens for cross-border transactions to help ease payment difficulties for companies in the country, which has been hit by international sanctions (archive).
Reuters: Switzerland hosted United Nations Security Council members at a meeting in Geneva on Monday to recommit to international humanitarian law, describing an "alarming" global context characterised by over 120 armed conflicts, with Russia the only member absent.
International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Grossi has said he will visit Russia's Kursk Nuclear Power Plant on Tuesday.
Reuters: The future of Russian gas transit through Ukraine remains a key uncertainty for European gas prices, even as the continent heads into the winter with full storages, the CEO of TotelEnergies told Reuters on Monday.
The Moscow Times: A French citizen accused of gathering information about the Russian military and violating the country's laws on "foreign agents" will go on trial next week, Moscow's court system said Monday.
Reuters: Russia's Wagner mercenary group said on Monday that it only operated in Africa and in Russian ally Belarus, and its soldiers were no longer fighting in the Ukraine war.
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