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Reuters: Britain plans to ban companies from providing services such as shipping and insurance for Russian liquefied natural gas exports, in its latest attempt to help Ukraine in its war against Russia by trying to choke off Kremlin revenue.
France 24: Russia's government lost on Wednesday a legal bid at Australia's High Court to build a new embassy less than a kilometre from the country's parliament.
Bloomberg: China is stepping up its efforts to import US-sanctioned Russian gas, building the beginnings of a domestic “shadow fleet” of vessels that can transport the super-cooled fuel and circumvent restrictions imposed on one of the Kremlin’s flagship industries (archive).
Reuters: Japan decried as "absolutely unacceptable" on Wednesday Russia's extension of an entry ban to 30 more citizens, among them a foreign ministry spokesperson, after Tokyo's sanctions over Moscow's nearly four-year-old war in Ukraine.
ISW: The rate of Russian advances in the Pokrovsk direction remains relatively slow, likely in part because the Russian military command continues to pursue grinding offensive operations throughout the theater.
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Reuters: Romania must take control over the Romanian local company of Russia's Lukoil to ensure the national energy system is stable, international sanctions are enforced and jobs are protected, Energy Minister Bogdan Ivan said on Tuesday.
France 24: The Kremlin has employed a shadowy recruitment network to lure young Indian men with promises of jobs, only to trap them into fighting for Russia. Experts say Russia is using manpower from the Indian subcontinent to build a reserve of expendable soldiers to fight in its grinding war against Ukraine.
Reuters: Group of Seven foreign ministers will meet in Canada on Tuesday, with Ukraine and the Middle East set to be high on the agenda as Trump's efforts to broker peace face headwinds.
Politico: Top European ministers will travel to Ukraine next month in a show of support for the country’s application to join the EU, a move that comes as allies work around delays caused by opposition from Hungary.
Ukrainska Pravda: The German government intends to raise its support for Ukraine's defence against Russian aggression to more than €11.5 billion next year.
Reuters: A teenage Russian street musician who has spent nearly a month in jail after singing anti-Kremlin songs was handed more jail time on Tuesday in a case rights activists say shows how stifling wartime censorship has become.
RFE/RL: An investigation reveals that the Kremlin has repeatedly misled the public about the location of Putin, who uses three nearly identical offices in different parts of the country.
Reuters: Lithuania's foreign minister said he would refuse talks with Belarus on reopening their border, after its President Alexander Lukashenko on Tuesday ordered his foreign minister to open the negotiations.
The Moscow Times: Russia’s lower-house State Duma on Tuesday passed a bill requiring new medical school graduates to work in state-run hospitals and clinics for up to three years, a proposed measure aimed at easing chronic staff shortages in the country’s public health system.
Reuters: Ukrainian authorities charged seven individuals on Tuesday in relation to an alleged $100 million kickback scheme involving senior energy officials that has caused public anger and focused attention on Kyiv's battle against corruption.
The Moscow Times: Mobile internet access will be restricted in parts of the central Ulyanovsk region for the duration of Russia’s so-called “special military operation” in Ukraine, regional authorities said Tuesday, marking the first permanent internet blackout in the country.
Politico: The Romanian government vowed new measures against Moscow after fragments from a Russian drone strike on Ukraine landed on its territory overnight, the latest in a string of cross-border incidents.
The Kyiv Independent: Ukrainian troops have pulled back from positions near five settlements in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Vladyslav Voloshyn, spokesperson for Ukraine's Southern Defense Forces, told Suspilne on Nov. 11.
BBC: Thick fog has enabled Russian troops to move further into the key strategic city of Pokrovsk in eastern Ukraine. Ukraine's 7th Airborne Assault Corps says weather conditions, particularly dense fog, have prompted Moscow to intensify its bid to get increasing numbers into the ruined city and then encircle Ukrainian forces.
United24 Media: Ukraine’s Defense Forces carried out overnight drone strikes against multiple Russian targets, including an oil terminal in occupied Feodosia and military logistics facilities in the Donetsk region, according to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on November 11.
Reuters: NIS' Russian owners are ready to give up control of the Serbia-based oil firm as U.S. sanctions threaten fuel supplies to the Balkan country ahead of winter, Serbian Energy Minister Dubravka Dedovic Handanovic said on Tuesday.
Kyiv Post: In a surprise reversal that has alarmed Ukraine and its allies in the UN, the Trump administration is pushing to strip language from a resolution that affirms the country’s territorial integrity and condemns Russia’s occupation of Crimea and other regions.
United24 Media: Russia has faced a sweeping diplomatic setback, losing elections to several UNESCO advisory bodies and being excluded from every institution it sought to join, according to Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
worth mentioning
CNN: UK suspends some intelligence sharing with US over boat strike concerns in major break
Germany to spend €26.5 billion on clothes for soldiers, armoured vehicles
Lithuanian president sceptical of US efforts to engage with Belarus
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