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Reuters: The British government said on Friday it would provide Ukraine with 650 lightweight multi-role missiles worth 162 million pounds ($213.13 million) to help protect the country from Russian drones and bombing.
CNN: Video obtained exclusively by CNN, filmed during fighting late August near the embattled city of Pokrovsk in eastern Ukraine, shows an apparent execution by Russian troops of three surrendering Ukrainians, after their trench was overrun.
Reuters: The White House convened a meeting with representatives of Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Cloudflare and civil society activists on Thursday in a bid to encourage U.S. tech giants to offer more digital bandwidth for government-funded internet censorship evasion tools.
ISW: Russian forces have recently intensified their longstanding offensive effort to eliminate the broad Ukrainian salient west and southwest of Donetsk City and advance up to and along the H-15 (Donetsk City-Zaporizhzhia City) highway.
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CNN: Russia had been planning to launch a new attack on Ukraine from the Kursk region before Kyiv’s surprise cross-border incursion, Ukraine’s Commander-in-Chief Gen. Oleksandr Syrskyi told CNN in an exclusive interview Thursday.
Reuters: The U.S. on Thursday imposed sanctions on two companies and two vessels linked to Russia's Arctic LNG 2 project, Washington's latest step to add costs on Moscow for its invasion of Ukraine.
The Moscow Times: A joint Russian-Chinese coal project in Siberia is facing difficulties with financing due to Western secondary sanctions on cross-border payments to Russia, the CEO of Russian metals and renewables giant En+ said Thursday.
Meduza: Russia is pressing on with its offensive in Ukraine while trying to counter Kyiv’s operations in the Kursk region. To sustain both efforts, the Russian authorities have launched their largest ad campaign of the war to date.
AP News: The U.S. Justice Department has widened its indictment of Russians in the so-called ‘WhisperGate’ malware attack aimed at destroying computer systems in Ukraine and 26 NATO allies including the United States.
The Moscow Times: Russian companies have been able to purchase spare parts for outdated microchip-making machines produced by Dutch tech giant ASML through Chinese intermediaries since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Reuters: A Russian court froze the shares in Raiffeisen Bank International's local arm, the biggest Western bank in Russia said on Thursday, blocking the sale of the unit and escalating a standoff between Moscow and the West.
AFP: German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will meet on Friday in Frankfurt, a German government spokesman told AFP.
The Kyiv Independent: Ukrainian soldiers managed to halt the advance of Russian troops in the Pokrovsk sector in Donetsk Oblast, Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi said in an interview with CNN aired on Sept. 5.
Reuters: Ukrainian lawmakers voted on Thursday to appoint nine new ministers, including the foreign minister and two deputy prime ministers, signing off on President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's biggest government shakeup since Russia's 2022 invasion.
The Kyiv Independent: Romanian President Klaus Iohannis on Sept. 5 signed a decree regarding the transfer of a Patriot air defense system to Ukraine, giving final approval to the donation. The Romanian government is now expected to issue an order for the system's delivery.
Reuters: Major Russian banks have called on the central bank to take action to counter a yuan liquidity deficit, which has led to the rouble tumbling to its lowest level since April against the Chinese currency and driven yuan swap rates into triple digits.
LRT: Council of Europe Secretary General Marija Pejčinović Burić says that setting up a Special Tribunal for Russia is taking time due to efforts to create a “bulletproof” legal framework.
Reuters: Ukraine and U.N. nuclear agency IAEA have agreed that the agency's experts will monitor the situation at key Ukrainian substations in addition to nuclear plants, Ukraine's chief nuclear inspector said on Thursday.
The Moscow Times: Popular Russian YouTubers have experienced noticeable drops in view counts over the past month, with some losing as much as 80% of their audience on the platform amid what appears to be government attempts to throttle YouTube.
The Kyiv Independent: Belarus' military confirmed the downing of a drone early on Sept. 5, shortly after the monitoring group Belarusian Hajun reported that Belarus had downed two Russian attack drones.
POLITICO: The goal of the Kremlin’s campaign in Europe was to sow division, discredit America and undermine support for Ukraine, according to a host of Russian documents, memos and minutes from Russian psychological warfare meetings, FBI dossier reveals.
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Austrian chancellor invites Ukraine, Russia to hold peace talks in Vienna
Netherlands hikes defence spending to face new threats
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