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Reuters: Swiss commodity trader Gunvor said on Thursday it has withdrawn its proposal to buy foreign assets of Russian energy company Lukoil after the U.S. Treasury called it Russia's "puppet" and signaled Washington opposed the deal.
Reuters: Federal prosecutors are preparing grand jury subpoenas to investigate Obama-era intelligence officials who produced an assessment finding Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election in a bid to help Trump.
Reuters: Ukraine is engaged in “positive” talks about buying Tomahawk missiles and other long-range weaponry with the United States, Ukraine's ambassador to the U.S., Olha Stefanishyna, told Bloomberg News on Thursday.
CNN: China has undertaken a massive expansion of sites linked to missile production since 2020, bolstering its ability to potentially deter the US military and assert its dominance in the region, a new CNN analysis of satellite images, maps and government notices reveals.
Reuters: Trump sits down for talks with Hungarian PM Orban on Friday, and the two leaders are expected to discuss Hungary's reliance on Russian oil at a time when Trump has been working to wean nations off of it.
The Kyiv Independent: Ukraine has submitted a draft education law to Hungary that partly addresses Budapest’s demands related to language policy in schools, Deputy Prime Minister Taras Kachka said on Nov. 6.
ISW: Russian forces are intensifying their battlefield air interdiction campaign against Ukrainian railway infrastructure, seeking to disrupt Ukrainian rear logistics hubs to erode frontline forces and eventually facilitate frontline gains.
The Kyiv Independent: The Kremlin has officially incorporated the occupied parts of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson regions into Russia’s Southern Military District, the Center for Countering Disinformation reported on Nov. 6. The district already included occupied Crimea, and the move creates a basis for the expansion of conscription in currently occupied territories.
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Reuters: Two lawmakers from the far-right Alternative for Germany travel next week to Russia while under fire from opponents for the party's ties to the Kremlin and accusations - strongly denied - that it could be passing on sensitive military information.
Politico: A conservative lawmaker in Berlin called for action against German conductor Justus Frantz, who traveled to Moscow this week to receive the Order of Friendship from Putin.
Reuters: Sweden and Ukraine are making progress on financing for a major deal that could include Kyiv buying up to 150 Gripen E fighter jets, Sweden's defence minister told Reuters on Thursday, adding that Stockholm could fund part of the deal via military aid.
The Insider: Russia’s rail freight collapse exposes a deeper industrial crisis. Railway statistics show freight volumes have fallen to near record lows, indicating a sweeping, simultaneous decline across 20 of 24 key industries.
The Moscow Times: Authorities in Russia’s Sverdlovsk region have launched the first known case under a new law that penalizes online searches for extremist materials, local media reported.
Reuters: Russian oil major Lukoil's Volgograd refinery has halted operations after it was struck by Ukrainian drones.
The Insider: Bulgarian President vetoes law regulating sale of Lukoil assets, easing potential buyouts by companies linked to Russia. Radev previously blocked the transfer of 100 armored vehicles to Ukraine, saying they were needed for border security.
The Moscow Times: Putin has elevated at least 24 relatives to government positions or jobs in state companies, likely a record number for Russian rulers over the last 100 years, the independent investigative outlet Proekt reported on Thursday.
Politico: Czechia — one of Ukraine’s staunchest allies — is considering cutting the flow of much-needed arms and ammunition to Kyiv’s forces when its new government takes control in the coming weeks, according to a key leader of the incoming coalition.
Reuters: A Ukrainian court sentenced a Russian soldier on Thursday to life in prison after finding him guilty of killing a Ukrainian prisoner of war, the first time Ukraine has jailed a suspect on such charges.
United24 Media: A series of sabotage operations have struck the military logistics network on the territory of Russia.
Reuters: Belgium will work to improve surveillance of its airspace following repeated sightings of drones over its airports and military bases, Defence Minister Theo Francken said on Thursday.
The Guardian: Ukraine is facing a “forever war” and a slow erosion of territory unless Europe dramatically increases pressure on Russia, including by deploying troops and establishing a missile and drone shield on Nato territory to protect Ukraine from Russian attacks on its infrastructure, a former Nato secretary general has said.
The Telegraph: Russia sends disabled soldiers to the slaughter. Sources inside the Ukrainian military have shared research with The Telegraph detailing five cases that they say expose how Russia is willing to send soldiers who are disabled or suffering from disease to the front line (archive).
Ukrainska Pravda: Robert "Magyar" Brovdi, Commander of the Unmanned Systems Forces of Ukraine, has reported that a storage, assembly and launch base for Shahed loitering munitions was struck in the area of the former Donetsk airport on the evening of 5 November.
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