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Reuters: The United States on Tuesday imposed sanctions on hundreds of people and entities, including in China, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates, as it targets Russia's sanctions evasion, future energy capabilities, banks and its metals and mining sector.

Reuters: A declassified U.S. intelligence report assessed that the Ukraine war has cost Russia 315,000 dead and injured troops, or nearly 90% of the personnel it had when the conflict began, a source familiar with the intelligence said on Tuesday.

POLITICO: Hungary has issued its ransom demand to Brussels. Budapest is ready to retract its veto on a new package of EU aid to Ukraine if Brussels agrees to unblock all the funds that have been frozen by the bloc over concerns about the rule of law in the country, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s political director said.

Blood Gold Report: The Kremlin has laundered $2.5 billion of African gold since the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, according to a report by an international group of researchers and human rights activists.

RTL: Regional authorities in Sofia on Tuesday began dismantling a towering Soviet-era monument prominently featuring a soldier following years of controversy between Bulgaria's opposing camps of pro-Europeans and Russophiles.

Canada is imposing new sanctions against 30 Russian nationals who ran as candidates in the sham Kremlin-organized “elections” held on Sep. 8 to 10, 2023, in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine.

The Kyiv Independent: Ukrainian cyber units hacked into thousands of servers of Russia's tax system, extracting sensitive information before destroying the tax database, Ukraine's military intelligence said.

RFE/RL: A Russian diplomat and alleged spy expelled by the European Union for "illegal and disruptive actions" is serving as an election observer for upcoming parliamentary and local elections in Serbia as part of a mission with Europe's largest security body.

BBC News: The Republic of Ireland is to reduce welfare rates and limit state accommodation for new arrivals from Ukraine to 90 days. The current rate of €220 per week will fall to €38.80 for the period that Ukrainian people are in state accommodation.

AFP: Ukraine pointed the finger at Russia's secret service over a major hacker attack on Tuesday that disrupted services for the country's main telecommunications operator. Kyivstar said it had "partially restored" fixed-line phone services and was "doing its best" to have all services back up and running by Wednesday.

Bloomberg: Finland will more than double the production of heavy ammunition to improve its ability to defend itself as well as to ensure long-term support to Ukraine.

AFP: Radio Free Europe/Liberty (RFE/RL) on Tuesday denounced fresh charges filed against its journalist held in Russia after reports she has also been accused of violating rules against Ukraine war criticism.

AP News: The loss of contact with Alexei Navalny at the prison colony where the opposition leader was being held likely signals a Kremlin effort to tighten his isolation while Putin runs for reelection over the next three months, Navalny’s spokeswoman said Tuesday.

POLITICO: Finland will reopen parts of its border with Russia, two weeks after Helsinki closed the entire frontier following a Moscow-backed increase of undocumented migrants attempting to cross into the EU country.

AFP: Slovak truckers have resumed their blockade of a border crossing with Ukraine, the country's road carriers association said Tuesday, to protest a no-permit system for their Ukrainian counterparts.

AP News: An appeals court in Moldova’s capital on Tuesday annulled a decision that banned hundreds of candidates from an alleged pro-Russia political party from participating in an electoral race days ahead of a nationwide ballot.

Reuters: The European Union reached agreement on Tuesday on rules to make freezing and confiscation of criminal assets more effective, including boosting the capacity of EU countries to identify assets of Russian or Belarusian people subject to sanctions.

Reuters: New Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Poland would be a strong backer of Ukraine, a loyal ally of the United States and a committed member of the NATO military alliance.

Reuters: Russia's increasing cooperation with China, Iran, North Korea and its other global allies is a serious, long-term threat to European countries, Finland's Defence Minister Antti Hakkanen said on Tuesday.

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