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Reuters: 26 European heads of state and government said in a statement that Ukrainians must have the freedom to decide their future and that a diplomatic solution must protect Ukrainian and European interests. The statement was endorsed by leaders of all EU member countries except Hungary.
Reuters: Ukraine has retaken two villages in its eastern region of Sumy, Kyiv's military said, adding to recent small territorial gains along the border with Russia ahead of peace talks at a summit of the U.S. and Russian leaders set for Friday.
BBC: Thousands of North Koreans are being sent to work in slave-like conditions in Russia to fill a huge labour shortage exacerbated by Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
The Kyiv Independent: Ukrainian forces struck a Russian command post in the partially Russian-occupied Donetsk Oblast, killing the commander of the 85th Motorized Rifle Brigade, the General Staff reported on Aug. 11.
The Kyiv Independent: Ukrainian military intelligence drones on Aug. 11 struck the Orenburg Helium Plant, a key Russian facility lying some 1,200 kilometers from the front line in Ukraine.
The Kyiv Independent: A plant producing synthetic sapphires in the Russian city of Stavropol was hit by drones overnight on Aug. 12, the Russian independent Telegram news channel Astra reported, citing local residents.
ISW: The next several days in the Pokrovsk area of operations will likely be critical for Ukraine’s ability to prevent accelerated Russian gains north and northwest of Pokrovsk.
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Reuters: European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on Monday that the EU will work on a 19th package of sanctions against Russia and warned against concessions to Moscow.
The Kyiv Independent: Russian forces have made a push toward the Dobropillia–Kramatorsk highway in Donetsk Oblast, seizing positions in nearby settlements to support further offensive operations, the Ukrainian battlefield monitoring group DeepState reported on Aug. 11.
Reuters: British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney agreed that peace in Ukraine must be built with Kyiv and not imposed upon it, a Downing Street spokesperson said on Monday.
The Kyiv Independent: Trump confirmed during an Aug. 11 press conference that Volodymyr Zelensky will not take part in his upcoming talks with Putin, set for Aug. 15 in Alaska.
The Moscow Times: Trump said he was a "little bothered" by Zelensky saying he needed constitutional approval for any territorial concessions. "I mean, he's got approval to go into war and kill everybody. But he needs approval to do a land swap?" he said.
Politico: Trump will join European leaders including Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for an emergency virtual summit on Wednesday. The call, organized by German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, comes ahead of Friday’s summit in Alaska between Trump and Putin.
Bloomberg: Citigroup oversaw more than $1 billion worth of transactions for a Delaware-based trust that US authorities say a sanctioned Russian oligarch held a concealed stake in (archive).
The Kyiv Independent: The EU has received a third 1.6-billion-euro tranche in windfall profits from frozen Russian central bank assets and will allocate 95% of it, over 1.5 billion euro, to repay Ukraine’s loans.
Reuters: Ukraine's biggest telecoms operator Kyivstar expects to raise between $50 million and $200 million through a landmark stock market listing in New York this year.
Le Monde: Pro-Kremlin figures view the Alaska summit as the prelude to lifting sanctions and absolving the Russian army for war crimes committed in Ukraine, with some even saying that 'the Kremlin's leverage has never looked stronger.' (archive)
AP News: Finnish authorities said Monday they have charged the captain and two senior officers of a Russia-linked vessel that damaged undersea cables last year between Finland and Estonia.
The Kyiv Independent: Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev signed an order on Aug. 11 allocating $2 million to the Azerbaijani Energy Ministry to provide humanitarian aid to Ukraine, Azerbaijani media outlet First News Media reported.
The Kyiv Independent: A resident of Russia's Belgorod Oblast expressed outrage after a Russian warplane purportedly dropped a bomb on civilian property, according to an alleged intercepted phone call released by Ukraine's military intelligence on Aug. 10.
Bloomberg: Russia’s second largest bank, VTB Bank, is seeing a sustained deterioration in profits made from lending, feeding concern at the bank over its stability amid the economic pressures from Putin’s war on Ukraine (archive).
The Kyiv Independent: Dmitry Kozak, a deputy head of Putin's administration, has recently urged Putin to stop the war in Ukraine and begin peace talks, the New York Times reported on Aug. 10, citing its undisclosed sources.
The Kyiv Independent: Russia has seemingly conducted its first-ever tests to block voice and video calls on Telegram and WhatsApp, Russian independent outlet Agentstvo reported on Aug. 10, citing Na Svyazi digital monitoring project.
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