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AP News: The U.S. military has moved about 130 soldiers along with mobile rocket launchers to a desolate island in the Aleutian chain of western Alaska amid a recent increase in Russian military planes and vessels approaching American territory.
Reuters: A Ukrainian drone attack sparked a fire and forced partial evacuation of residents in the town of Toropets in the western part of Russia's Tver region, regional authorities said on Wednesday.
FT: Russian and Ukrainian fighters, whose countries are locked in a full-scale war, have both been helping to train the same side in Sudan’s civil conflict, according to senior military intelligence officers from the African state (archive).
Reuters: The International Monetary Fund has postponed its planned consultation mission with Russia indefinitely because of 'technical issues', TASS agency cited Alexei Mozhin, Russia's director at the IMF, as saying on Wednesday.
ISW: Russian forces recently advanced near Toretsk, Pokrovsk, and SW of Donetsk City. Neither Ukrainian nor Russian forces made confirmed advances in Kursk Oblast.
The Kyiv Independent: Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha will visit Romania on Sept. 18, paying his first official visit to a foreign state since entering office earlier this month, Ukraine's foreign ministry announced.
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POLITICO: Russian government-linked efforts to interfere in the upcoming U.S. presidential election have increasingly shifted to target the presidential campaign of Vice President Kamala Harris, Microsoft reported in findings published Tuesday.
The Kyiv Independent: Italy will deliver a second SAMP/T air defense battery to Ukraine by the end of September, Italian Defense Minister Guido Crosetto said on Sept. 17.
Reuters: Support for Ukraine guarantees the survival of neighbouring Moldova, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said on Tuesday at a conference to address concerns about broadening Russian interference in the region.
The Kyiv Independent: Donald Trump Jr. and former U.S. presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. opposed permitting Ukraine to strike Russian territory with Western-supplied long-range missiles, calling on the Biden-Harris administration to negotiate with Moscow.
POLITICO: Russia and other foreign adversaries are using AI to barrage U.S. voters with an onslaught of false and misleading information ahead of Election Day, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco said at the POLITICO AI & Tech Summit on Tuesday.
Reuters: President Joe Biden's administration is probing a surge in imports of enriched uranium from China since late 2023 amid concerns the shipments are helping Moscow sidestep a U.S. ban on imports of the power plant fuel from Russia.
The Kyiv Independent: None of the plans Ukraine is developing to end Russia's war envisages a ceasefire or ceding territory to Moscow, Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to the Presidential Office, told Current Time on Sept. 17.
AFP: Central Asian states on Tuesday urged Germany to invest in their energy and transport sectors, and to help create links with Europe that bypass Russia. The five landlocked countries in a region rich in natural resources want to implement transport links to Europe via the Caspian Sea, thus circumventing both Russia and Iran.
The Kyiv Independent: Russian forces attacked the city of Kharkiv with guided aerial bombs on Sept. 17, injuring at least seven people, local authorities reported.
Reuters: Germany will provide an additional 100 million euros in aid for Ukraine this winter, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock announced during a visit to Moldova on Tuesday.
The Kyiv Independent: The Ukrainian Navy recently carried out a missile strike on ammunition depots near the Russian-occupied Ukrainian city of Mariupol, according to a Sept. 17 statement. The strike destroyed both the storage infrastructure and tons of ammunition that Russian troops were stockpiling for use against Ukraine, the Navy said.
Reuters: Ukrainian prosecutors said on Tuesday they had opened an investigation into a suspected Russian execution of a Ukrainian serviceman found dead with a sword in his body.
The Kyiv Independent: Russia is luring men from Syria to use them as cannon fodder in battles in Ukraine's east, the Ukrainian military intelligence agency said on Sept. 17.
Reuters: NATO's newest member Sweden plans to raise its defence spending by 13 billion crowns ($1.3 billion) in the state budget for 2025 to a total of 138 billion, Defence Minister Pal Jonson said on Tuesday.
The Kyiv Independent: Roughly 1 million Ukrainians and Russians have been killed or wounded in Moscow's all-out war against Ukraine, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sept. 17, citing undisclosed sources and Western intelligence estimates.
Reuters: Russian company RusChemAlliance has filed new lawsuits against five European banks that stopped financing the construction of a gas project in Russia after the West imposed sanctions against Moscow over the 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
The Kyiv Independent: The EU is preparing plans to gather up to 40 billion euros in loans for Ukraine as Budapest keeps disrupting plans on a joint loan with the U.S., the Financial Times reported on Sept. 16, citing sources and a draft proposal.
Reuters: Russia fired missiles at energy infrastructure in the northeast Ukrainian city of Sumy on Tuesday hours after an overnight drone strike on the region, reducing power in some areas and forcing authorities to use back-up power systems.
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