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Reuters: Russian forces are conducting drills involving Yars mobile nuclear missile launchers, Russian media reported on Tuesday, in what would be the second such exercise in less than a month.
ISW: Russia is taking steps to codify terms broadly expanding the Russian official definition of prosecutable extremism as part of its ongoing effort to criminally prosecute and stymie domestic opposition to the Kremlin and its war in Ukraine.
The Kyiv Independent: Russia claims its forces downed 21 Ukrainian drones over occupied Crimea and the Black Sea overnight on July 23, while local Telegram channels reported explosions on the peninsula. Traffic was reportedly halted on the Kerch Bridge.
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Reuters: Russia and China are increasingly cooperating in the Arctic region, which could impact regional stability, the U.S. military said as it released its strategy for the Arctic region on Monday.
The Kyiv Independent: A total of 1,642 medical facilities have been damaged, and another 214 facilities have been completely destroyed since Russia launched its full-scale invasion in February 2022, Ukraine's Health Ministry reported on July 22.
The European Investment Bank commits more than €450 million to support Ukrainian energy infrastructure crucial for upcoming winter.
The Kyiv Independent: Sofia is open to transfer surplus and unnecessary shells to Ukraine, Bulgarian acting Defense Minister Atanas Zapryanov said, Bulgarian National Radio reported on July 22.
Reuters: The European Union's top diplomat, Josep Borrell, stripped Hungary on Monday of its role as host of an EU foreign ministers meeting in a sign of widespread anger in the bloc at Budapest's overtures to Russia about the war in Ukraine.
The Kyiv Independent: Riga has prepared a batch of more than 500 drones to be sent to Ukraine, Latvian Defense Minister Andris Spruds said on July 22.
Ukrainska Pravda: Ukrainian forces have struck a hidden Russians TOR air defence system in the occupied settlement of Olenivka.
Bloomberg: Slovakia’s defense minister is pushing for a major boost to ammunition production. Yet while his government steadfastly refuses to arm Ukraine, Slovak-made shells are ending up there (archive).
The Swedish government has decided that Svenska kraftnät, Sweden’s power grid authority, may provide backup power generators to Ukraine, to support the country’s energy supply.
POLITICO: A controversial law allowing Finland to turn asylum seekers away at its long eastern border with Russia came into force Monday, despite criticism from human rights bodies that it violates international migration law and sets a dangerous precedent.
The Guardian: A Czech initiative to supply Ukraine with 800,000 shells by the end of the year will fall short by more than a third unless donor countries come forward with more money, the Czech foreign minister has said.
Reuters: Hungary and Slovakia have asked the European Commission to mediate a consultation procedure with Ukraine, Hungary's foreign minister said on Monday, after Kyiv placed Russian group Lukoil on a sanctions list, stopping its supplies to the two countries.
The EU Council has renewed the EU restrictive measures in view of the Russian Federation's continuing actions destabilising the situation in Ukraine for a further 6 months, until 31 January 2025.
POLITICO: Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba will visit China this week. It will be his first trip to Beijing since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion.
RFE/RL: Germany's investigative journalism association, the Netzwerk Recherche, has expelled influential broadcaster and author Hubert Seipel after it became known that he received money from Moscow for writing laudative books about Putin.
The Guardian: Hong Kong has become a global trade hub for “the world’s most brutal regimes”, according to a report examining the city’s role in facilitating the flow of goods to countries under sanctions by the west, including Russia, Iran and North Korea.
Reuters: Ukraine's top commander said on Monday that Russian forces were staging relentless assaults to try to advance towards the town of Pokrovsk, a logistics hub in the east, and that there was active fighting taking place along the entire front line.
The Insider: The Russian army’s gulag-style methods of abuse: Those who attempt to escape or stand up for their rights are confined in pits and basements, handcuffed to tree trunks, and beaten up.
FT: Mysterious buyers with suspected links to Russia have begun amassing dozens of vessels capable of carrying liquefied natural gas, in moves that suggest Moscow is expanding its “dark fleet” of energy tankers (archive).
Bloomberg: Ukraine reached a deal in principle with some of its private creditors to restructure more than $20 billion of international debt, in a move that will help the country finance its fighting against Russia (archive).
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Poland considers suspending goods transport through Belarus
Slovakia receives first F-16s to replace MiG-29s donated to Ukraine
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