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Reuters: Ukrainian troops face "difficult" defensive operations on parts of the eastern front with bitter winter cold setting in, but forces in the south are still conducting offensive actions, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Wednesday.
AFP: Moscow provided North Korea with assistance to launch its military spy satellite, Seoul's spy agency said Thursday, after Putin met Pyongyang's leader Kim Jong Un in September.
The Kyiv Independent: Several areas in Moscow Oblast including the entire town of Lytkarino are without power after explosions were reported near electricity substations early on Nov. 23.
ISW: Putin reframed the Kremlin’s stance on the Israeli-Hamas war to a much more anti-Israel position in an attempt to demonstrate the supposed hypocrisy of Western condemnations of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Meduza: Putin has transferred “temporary management” of the Prime Print chain to Moscow’s city government, completing the Kremlin’s seizure of assets owned by the Norwegian company Amedia.
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Reuters: Finland will close all but the northernmost crossing point on its border with Russia from midnight on Friday in a bid to halt a flow of asylum seekers to the Nordic nation, Prime Minister Petteri Orpo said on Wednesday.
Reuters: Estonia's interior minister accused Russia on Wednesday of being involved in "a hybrid attack operation" to bring migrants to its border, aiming to undermine security and unsettle the Baltic state's population.
The Kyiv Independent: Russia deployed several columns of armored vehicles during unsuccessful attacks near Avdiivka on Nov. 22, losing almost 80% of equipment, the Tavria group spokesperson Oleksandr Shtupun said.
AFP: A Russian independent politician was summoned to the local prosecutor's office after declaring her intention to run in next year's presidential election, she told AFP.
POLITICO: Growing worries that the EU will fall short of its pledge to supply a million artillery shells to Ukraine by March is forcing France to do an about-face on its earlier insistence that the ammunition should only be sourced in Europe. However, before resorting to foreign suppliers, the EU needs to actually miss the March target, a senior French diplomat told POLITICO.
AP News: The presidents of four Central European countries found some common ground Wednesday on Ukraine despite their governments’ diverging views on military support for its fight against Russia’s invasion. The Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary and Slovakia, all four European Union and NATO members, form an informal collective known as the Visegrad Group.
Meduza: In response to a question about whether, in his opinion, Russian-speaking people can be called Ukrainians, Ukrainian State Language Protection Commissioner said that the concept of a “Russian-speaking” population in Ukraine is purely Russian ideology, and that “we are all citizens of Ukraine.”
POLITICO: Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is threatening to block all European Union aid for Ukraine, as well as the country’s future accession to the bloc, unless EU leaders agree to review their entire strategy of support for Kyiv, according to a letter seen by POLITICO.
The Kyiv Independent: Lithuania delivered 3 million units of 7.62x51mm small arms ammunition, remote detonation systems, and winter equipment to the Ukrainian military, the Lithuanian Defense Ministry announced.
Reuters: Russia said on Wednesday it had protested to Finland after a damaged Russian tank was placed on display near the Finnish parliament.
AP News: Russia’s parliament approved a federal budget Wednesday that increases spending by around 25% in 2024-2026 and devotes a record amount to defense. The budget was passed unanimously by the upper chamber of the Russian parliament and will be sent to Putin to sign it into law.
Reuters: Putin told the leaders of the Group of Twenty on Wednesday that it was necessary to think about how to stop "the tragedy" of the war in Ukraine, some of his most placatory remarks to date about the conflict.
AFP: Poland said Wednesday it had charged 16 foreign individuals with spying for Russia, for allegedly preparing acts of sabotage and gathering information on military equipment deliveries to Ukraine.
Reuters: Hungary's main border crossing with Ukraine saw long queues on Wednesday, the customs authority said, with haulers re-routing from crossings in Poland and Slovakia amid blockades there as truckers seek restrictions on Ukrainian drivers.
Xinhua: Chinese President Xi Jinping met with Chairman of the Russian State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin in Beijing on Wednesday.
worth mentioning
The Diplomat: The West shouldn’t forget China’s pro-Russia neutrality
CEPA: Ukraine - a cross the US must be willing to bear
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Russian actress killed in Ukrainian strike while performing to soldiers
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