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Reuters: Ukraine's Defence Minister Rustem Umerov will hold talks with U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin in Washington on Tuesday on firming up military cooperation between the two countries.
Reuters: Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov said he appointed on Tuesday his 27-year-old nephew as the secretary of the Security Council of the Russian North Caucasus republic.
The Kyiv Independent: Ukraine plans to expand its Grain From Ukraine humanitarian program to further supply food to Africa, the Caribbean, and other regions, according to Andriy Yermak, head of the President's Office.
ISW: Russia assumed its one-month-long rotating presidency of the United Nations Security Council on July 1 for the first time since April 2023 and will likely use this position as a power projection base within the international system as it historically has.
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Reuters: Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban will make his first trip to Kyiv on Tuesday since Russia's invasion of its smaller neighbour in 2022, to meet with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, the Financial Times reported on Monday.
POLITICO: A group of House Democrats is urging the Pentagon to expand training for Ukrainian F-16 pilots as Kyiv races to improve its defenses against Russia.
WSJ: NATO will station a senior civilian official in Kyiv, among a raft of new measures designed to shore up long-term support for Ukraine that are expected to be announced at the summit in Washington next week.
RBC-Ukraine: The Ukrainian military is preparing solutions to increase the losses of the Russian occupiers in equipment and logistics, stated President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Reuters: Ukraine told investors it still expects to succeed in its unprecedented aim of restructuring debt in the middle of a war before payment moratoriums expire by Aug. 1, according to two sources who joined a call with the Finance Ministry on Monday.
The Kyiv Independent: Explosions were heard in Balaklava, a settlement in the city of Sevastopol in occupied Crimea after an air raid alert went off on July 1, the Telegram channel Crimean Wind reported.
AFP: Russian envoy to the UN Vasily Nebenzya suggested Monday that Moscow was considering dropping sanctions against the Taliban as the Afghan authorities met with representatives of the international community in Doha.
Reuters: Yulia Navalnaya, widow of late Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny, said on Monday she would use a new role as chair of the U.S.-based Human Rights Foundation to step up her husband's struggle against Putin.
The Kyiv Independent: Ukraine should be allowed to strike "valid military targets" in Russia, Mike Turner, chair of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and a Republican congressman from Ohio, said in Kyiv on July 1.
AP News: The U.S. military has raised the security protection measures it is taking at its bases throughout Europe, asking service members to be more vigilant and keep a lower profile due to a combination of threats it is seeing across the region.
The Kyiv Independent: A large-scale cyberattack carried out by Ukraine's military intelligence agency in late June left at least 250,000 consumers in occupied Crimea and other Russian-controlled territories without communication.
Reuters: UniCredit said on Monday it was challenging the terms set by the ECB for the Italian bank to cut its exposure to Russia, and seeking a ruling from the EU's General Court, as well as a freezing of the request in the meantime.
FT: Norway has blocked the sale of the last privately owned property on Svalbard, invoking national security considerations amid increasing activity from Russia and China in the Arctic Ocean (archive).
The Moscow Times: Russian attacks killed two elderly women in the town of Ukrainsk in the war-battered eastern Ukrainian region of Donetsk on Monday, regional authorities said.
The Telegraph: Ukraine’s SBU security forces claimed to have foiled a Russia-backed coup on Monday which had planned to overthrow Volodymyr Zelensky and install a pro-Kremlin government (archive).
Bloomberg: Turkey, Romania and Bulgaria started a joint mine-hunting force in the Black Sea on Monday to increase shipping safety, particularly for Ukrainian grain exports (archive).
WaPo: The powerful glide-bombs that Russia has used to such great effect to pound Ukrainian cities into rubble have also been falling on its own territory, an internal Russian document has revealed (archive).
LRT: Significantly higher import duties on some of Russian and Belarusian agricultural products, including grain, enter into force in the European Union from Monday.
Meduza: A subsidiary of Russia’s Gazprombank has been operating in the heart of Europe for over a decade. It survived sanctions against Russia, and the full-scale invasion of Ukraine brought the bank record profits. Meduza explains how.
POLITICO: Ukraine cannot stop the deadly rain of Russian bombs unless the U.S. gives permission to use long-range missiles to hit airfields in Russia, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a new interview.
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