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Reuters: Russia struck the Kremenchuk oil refinery in the central Poltava region of Ukraine in an overnight drone attack, causing a fire, Governor Dmytro Lunin said on Wednesday.
RBC-Ukraine: In the city of Sochi (Russia), early in the morning on September 20, a massive fire broke out near the airport - a reservoir with diesel fuel ignited. Local residents reported hearing an explosion, according to the local media and the governor of the Krasnodar Krai.
Reuters: Russia's Stoikiy corvette of the Baltic Fleet carried out firing drills at mock targets in the Baltic Sea, the Russian defence ministry said on Wednesday.
ISW: The Russian military is unlikely to prioritize peacekeeping operations in Nagorno-Karabakh against the backdrop of the war in Ukraine, and minimal Russian peacekeeping operations in Nagorno-Karabakh are unlikely to affect Russian military operations in Ukraine.
WSJ: Using innovative attacks, Ukraine has eroded much of Russia’s vaunted naval superiority.
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CNN: Ukrainian special services were likely behind a series of drone strikes and a ground operation directed against a Wagner-backed militia near Sudan’s capital, a CNN investigation has found, raising the prospect that the fallout from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has spread far from the frontlines.
AP News: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Tuesday that Russia is “weaponizing” everything from food and energy to abducted children in its war against Ukraine — and he warned world leaders that the same could happen to them.
Reuters: Ukraine urgently needs air defenses, including ammunition, spare parts and maintenance for the systems the Ukrainian military already has, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg told Reuters on Tuesday.
Two iStories reporters have been receiving threats containing personal information that suggest they could be under surveillance in Europe. Russian journalists in the EU have faced mounting security problems lately.
AFP: Dozens of protesters gathered outside the Russian embassy in Armenia's capital Yerevan on Tuesday, amid criticism of Moscow's response to Azerbaijan's military operation against Karabakh.
U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned seven individuals and four entities based in Iran, China, Russia, and Türkiye in connection with Iran’s unmanned aerial vehicle and military aircraft development.
Britain will supply "tens of thousands" more artillery shells to Ukraine this year, the government's defence department announced on Tuesday.
Reuters: China on Tuesday urged increased cross-border connectivity with Russia and deeper mutual trade and investment cooperation, as both allies vowed ever closer economic ties despite disapproval from the West after Russian forces invaded Ukraine last year.
AFP: South Korea summoned the Russian ambassador on Tuesday, the foreign ministry said, to warn Moscow over military cooperation with North Korea.
CNN: Denmark will donate an additional 45 tanks to Ukraine, including 15 modernized T-72 tanks and 30 Leopard 1 tanks, the country's defense ministry told CNN on Tuesday. Norway is set to donate about 50 tracked cargo carriers to Ukraine, its government announced Tuesday. This type of vehicle is able to maneuver in terrain inaccessible for wheeled vehicles.
Reuters: The Czech Republic has signed a letter of intent with Denmark and the Netherlands on financial support for deliveries of Czech weapons to Ukraine, the country's Defence Ministry said on Tuesday. The ministry will help cover supplies of additional tanks, howitzers, small arms, air defence capacities and forms of electronic warfare or ammunition.
Bloomberg: Russia is lobbying nations in eastern and southern Africa in an attempt to join a regional anti-money laundering group as an observer.
The Insider: Mystical inclinations are gaining strength within the ranks of the Russian armed forces. Enchanted objects are being included in packages sent to the front lines for protection against bullets, while Orthodox priests and Buryat shamans are making their way to the front.
Reuters: Putin will meet China's Xi Jinping for talks in Beijing in October, Russia said on Tuesday, his first known trip abroad since an arrest warrant was issued against him over the deportation of children from Ukraine.
The Moscow Times: The Kremlin is considering running media personality Venediktov as Putin’s “liberal” rival in the 2024 presidential elections, the Vedomosti business daily reported Tuesday, citing four anonymous sources close to the presidential administration.
POLITICO: Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenković said his country will not import Ukrainian grain and did not rule out a ban on such imports in line with Poland, Hungary and Slovakia.
AFP: Ukraine will soon receive M1 Abrams tanks from the United States as Kyiv's forces steadily advance in their counteroffensive against Moscow's troops, US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin said on Tuesday.
The Moscow Times: The Kremlin has instructed Russian state-run media outlets to stop referring to Volodymyr Zelensky as “president” of Ukraine, the independent news website Holod reported Monday, citing the recipients of the presidential administration’s directive.
Reuters: Nine people were killed in Russian attacks across Ukraine on Tuesday, including a drone strike that set ablaze industrial warehouses and destroyed humanitarian aid supplies in the western city of Lviv, officials said.
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