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Reuters: Operators carrying out maintenance at Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant have switched the shutdown mode of two reactors, the Moscow-installed administration of the plant, located on the war's front-line, said on Tuesday.
Reuters: Russia spoke of taking harsh retaliatory measures against Ukraine after two drones damaged buildings in Moscow early on Monday, including one close to the Defence Ministry's headquarters, in what it called a brazen act of terror.
AP News: The Biden administration is sending up to $400 million in additional military aid to Ukraine, including a variety of munitions for advanced air defense systems and a number of small, surveillance Hornet drones, U.S. officials said Monday, as attacks in the war escalated to include strikes in Moscow and Crimea.
Reuters: A top U.S. Treasury official will highlight Washington's efforts to facilitate Russian grain and fertilizer exports during a visit to Kenya and Somalia and stress that Moscow's exit from the Black Sea grain deal will hurt African states, a spokesperson said on Monday.
WaPo: When Yevgeniy Prigozhin, the head of the Wagner mercenary group, launched his attempted mutiny on the morning of June 24, Vladimir Putin was paralyzed and unable to act decisively, according to Ukrainian and other security officials in Europe. No orders were issued for most of the day, the officials said.
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AFP: The UN's atomic watchdog said it saw anti-personnel mines at the site of Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant which is occupied by Russian forces.
CNN: Leopard 2 tanks are among a new batch of military and humanitarian equipment en route from Spain to Ukraine, the Spanish defense ministry said Monday.
Newsweek: Russian military officers can be heard threatening Russian troops in Ukraine with a gunshot in an audio recording shared on social media Monday.
AP News: Thousands of Russia-linked Wagner group mercenaries have arrived in Belarus since the group’s short-lived rebellion, a military monitoring group said Monday.
Reuters: Russia destroyed Ukrainian grain warehouses on the Danube River in a drone attack on Monday, targeting a vital export route for Kyiv in an expanding air campaign that Moscow began last week after quitting the Black Sea grain deal.
Newsweek: Poland is creating a new military engineering battalion close to the contentious Suwałki Gap after Belarus' leader, Alexander Lukashenko, said Wagner Group mercenaries were itching to move into Warsaw's territory.
AP News: Mali’s army together with suspected Russia-linked Wagner group mercenaries have committed summary executions, lootings, forced disappearances and other abuses, said a leading human rights group Monday.
Reuters: The Ukrainian military has retaken over 12 square km of territory in southern Ukraine in the past week in their counteroffensive against Russian forces, Deputy Defence Minister Hanna Maliar said on Monday. Maliar said the advances brought the territory recaptured since the counteroffensive began in early June to more than 192 square km in the southern sector.
Newsweek: Ukraine's military destroyed a high-value Russian counter-battery radar system using advanced precision-guided artillery shells, according to new footage.
Reuters: The head of Russia's space agency on Monday suggested Moscow's partners in the BRICS group - Brazil, India, China and South Africa - could build a module for its planned orbital station, the Interfax news agency reported.
POLITICO: China secretly sends enough gear to Russia to equip an army. Shipments of military-capable hardware expose a China-sized loophole in Western sanctions.
Reuters: China and Russia on Sunday wrapped up an air and naval exercise in the Sea of Japan aimed at "safeguarding" the security of waterways, the Chinese defence ministry said. The show of solidarity between the militaries comes at a time when the United States is beefing up ties with Japan and South Korea and NATO is looking to deepen its presence in the region, to the anger of China and Russia.
Reuters: The Ukrainian government has completed the takeover of Sense Bank, the country's top commercial lender, and appointed a new supervisory board and management team.
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