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The Kyiv Independent: Russian forces attack Kyiv with Shahed drones.
Reuters: Russian forces have made no headway along the front lines, but are entrenched in heavily mined areas they control, making it difficult for Ukrainian troops to move east and south, Ukrainian officials said on Wednesday.
The Guardian: Ukrainians living in Russian-occupied territory are being forced to assume Russian citizenship or face harsh retaliation, including possible deportation or detention, U.S.-backed research published on Wednesday said.
Reuters: The European Union has warned developing countries that Russia is offering cheap grain "to create new dependencies by exacerbating economic vulnerabilities and global food insecurity," according to a letter seen by Reuters on Wednesday.
ISW: A dispute among prominent voices in the Russian information space highlights the Kremlin’s sensitivity to Russian reporting about setbacks in Crimea in particular and possibly in Ukraine in general and has further exposed fault lines within the milblogger community.
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Microsoft: A Russian government-linked hacking group took aim at dozens of global organizations with a campaign to steal login credentials by engaging users in Microsoft Teams chats pretending to be from technical support, Microsoft researchers said on Wednesday.
Meduza: According to istories, Wagner Group continues to recruit mercenaries, primarily for operations in Africa, despite having publicly announced they would close regional recruitment centers “indefinitely.”
POLITICO: The incursion into Poland by two Belarusian choppers was a deliberate move intended to provoke Warsaw, according to a report published Wednesday in Polish media outlet Onet.
The Defense Post: Local militia groups in two Russian regions bordering Ukraine were provided with weapons on Wednesday to defend their territory from Ukrainian attacks, local officials said.
AFP: Poland on Wednesday adopted an amended version of a panel to probe "Russian influence", after an avalanche of EU and US criticism of the move, widely seen as targeting the opposition.
Reuters: President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Wednesday he hoped a Ukraine "peace summit" could be held this autumn, and that this week's talks in Saudi Arabia were a stepping stone towards that goal. Zelenskiy told Ukrainian diplomats in a speech published on the president's website that almost 40 countries would be represented at the meeting in Jeddah on Aug 5 and 6.
Novaya-Europe: It has been a year since the so-called battle for Bakhmut, or the “Bakhmut massacre”, began on 1 August 2022. Novaya Gazeta Europe has talked to experts about how the events unfolded and what is happening in the city now.
WSJ: Ukraine’s ability to strike the same Moscow office building twice this week shows how far its homegrown drone industry has progressed in response to Russia’s full-scale invasion.
AFP: Paris on Wednesday accused Moscow of deliberately putting global food security at risk after Russian drone strikes damaged infrastructure at a Ukrainian port on the Danube vital for grain exports.
AP News: NATO allies located along the alliance’s eastern front are growing increasingly worried about the presence of Russia-linked Wagner group mercenaries in Belarus, where some have been deployed since a short-lived mutiny in Russia in June.
CNN: Poland will deploy more troops at the border with Belarus after it accused Minsk of violating its airspace, raising tensions between the NATO member and a key Kremlin ally in an increasingly volatile security landscape in Europe.
AP News: Russia’s Ministry of Defense said it began begun live-fire naval exercises in the Baltic Se a on Wednesday, ratcheting up tensions with nearby European nations that are already high over NATO and Ukraine.
Bloomberg: Several of Russia’s refined oil products are trading above the price cap imposed by Group of Seven nations, in another sign that the value of its barrels is rising in defiance of sanctions.
Daily Sabah: Erdoğan and Putin on Wednesday agreed on the Russian president paying a visit to Türkiye, as the Turkish leader said Ankara would continue to engage in diplomacy to reinstate the landmark Black Sea grain deal.
The Moscow Times: Putin is working to silence his most vocal pro-war nationalist critics on the eve of this fall’s regional elections and the 2024 presidential election in which he is expected to seek six more years in power.
Novaya-Europe: The Moldovan police have detained a man who drove his Mercedes car into the gates of the Russian embassy in Chișinău, the Moldovan Interior Ministry reports.
The Moscow Times: Demand for abortion drugs in Russia reached an all-time high in 2022, the Kommersant business daily reported Wednesday, citing data by the RNC Pharma consultancy.
Reuters: Russia attacked Ukraine's main inland port across the Danube River from Romania on Wednesday, sending global food prices higher as it ramps up its use of force to prevent Ukraine from exporting grain. The attacks destroyed buildings in the port of Izmail and halted ships as they prepared to arrive there to load up with Ukrainian grain in defiance of a de-facto blockade Russia reimposed in mid-July.
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