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CNN Exclusive: Inside Ukraine’s offensive in the East.
The Guardian: Iranian kamikaze drones used in the latest attacks on Ukrainian cities are filled with European components, according to a secret document sent by Kyiv to its western allies in which it appeals for long-range missiles to attack production sites in Russia, Iran and Syria.
ISW: Russian and Western sources largely claimed that Russian Black Sea Fleet Commander Admiral Viktor Sokolov is alive after the Russian MoD posted footage of Sokolov allegedly attending a meeting on September 26, although the situation remains unclear at this time.
The Kyiv Independent: The delivery of the promised F-16 fighter jets from the Netherlands to Ukraine will start sometime in the next year, Dutch Defense Minister Kajsa Ollongren said in an interview with MSNBC.
Bloomberg: Russia’s rising trade in the yuan in the wake of the war in Ukraine and western sanctions may end up undermining the US dollar, according to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
AFP: Slovak voters are being flooded with disinformation from home and abroad ahead of Saturday's elections set to determine whether the country will change its foreign policy in Russia's favour.
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AP News: Russia struck the Black Sea region of Odesa in a drone barrage that damaged a warehouse, charred dozens of trucks and injured two drivers in fiery explosions that led to the suspension of the ferry service between Romania and Ukraine, officials said Tuesday.
Meduza: Russia is unofficially but systematically dismantling many monuments to Polish, Lithuanian, and Finnish victims of Soviet Terror.
Sky News: England will oppose playing matches against Russian football teams after UEFA lifted its blanket ban on the country taking part in its competitions to allow under-17s fixtures.
Seeking Alpha: Glencore bought at least 5K metric tons of Russian copper routed through Turkey to Italy in July, Financial Times reported Tuesday, highlighting how shipments through third countries obscure Europe's true reliance on Russian commodities.
AFP: Libya's eastern strongman Khalifa Haftar travelled to Russia on Tuesday for talks on the situation in the war- and flood-ravaged North African country, his self-styled army said.
The Guardian: The Everton Football Club owner, Farhad Moshiri, received more than £400m from Alisher Usmanov companies in the run-up to the Russian billionaire being placed under sanctions, documents suggest, raising fresh questions about the financial ties between the two men.
Reuters: Russia's most prominent opposition leader, Alexei Navalny, lost his appeal on Tuesday against a new 19-year prison term that extends his total sentence to more than 30 years.
The Sofia Globe: Members of the Bulgarian parliament have tabled a draft decision to give unserviceable S-300 anti-aircraft missiles to Ukraine, for the Ukrainians to render them fit for use in air defence.
The Moscow Times: Residents in Russia-annexed Crimea were turned away from a bomb shelter during an air raid alert Monday evening, video shared on social media showed. The woman who filmed the video said several families were barred from entering the bomb shelter located inside a community center in the port city of Sevastopol.
Meduza: Oleksiy Danilov, the secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, has told the Spanish outlet ABC that Ukraine has moved some of its missile production facilities abroad, after a Russian strike on an assembly plant.
Bloomberg: Egypt is in talks to buy 1 million tons of Russian wheat through a government-to-government deal, people familiar with the matter said.
BBC News: Five people accused of being part of a Russian spy ring operating in the UK have appeared in court. Bulgarian nationals allegedly conspired to gather information which would be useful to an enemy. It is alleged they carried out surveillance on people and places targeted by Russia between August 2020 and February 2023.
The Insider: Arrested Bulgarian spies in Britain worked for Jan Marsalek, who had ties to Russian intelligence services.
AP News: A top European Union official said Tuesday that the social network X, formerly known as Twitter, is the biggest source of fake news and urged owner Elon Musk to comply with the bloc’s laws aimed at combating disinformation.
Reuters: Romania plans to buy 32 latest-generation F-35 fighter planes from U.S. manufacturer Lockheed Martin, for $6.5 billion, the defence ministry said on Tuesday. Romania shares a 650-km border with Ukraine, and has seen the conflict approach its borders as Moscow has repeatedly attacked Ukrainian ports across the River Danube.
Ukrainska Pravda: Ukraine’s Defence Forces targeted the temporary command post of the Russians in Kherson Oblast, following a tip-off from the Security Service of Ukraine.
The Moscow Times: U.S. tech company Meta will not launch its WhatsApp Channels service in Russia following threats that it could be blocked for allowing the public dissemination of information, The Moscow Times’ Russian service reported Monday.
euronews: The Open Minds Insitute, a research hub focused on disinformation and propaganda, found in a recent poll that around 80% of Russians were worried about their financial wellbeing. This figure was a noticeable 30-point jump since the question was last asked in May.
Bloomberg: The European Union’s top trade negotiator blasted Beijing’s failure to condemn Russia’s war in Ukraine, making it clear the bloc won’t separate economics from key political issues.
worth mentioning
Russia mulls joining China in banning Japanese seafood imports
Russia restarts propane and butane exports via Crimea's Kerch port
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