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Reuters: Ukraine's military said on Friday that its troops have captured a village near Bakhmut, the eastern city that fell into Russian hands in May after being besieged for many months.
AP News: Zelenskyy is expected at the White House and on Capitol Hill next week as he visits the U.S. during the United Nations General Assembly. Zelenskyy's trip comes as Congress is debating Biden's request to provide as much as $24 billion in military and humanitarian aid for Ukraine as it fights the Russian invasion.
Reuters: Cuban Foreign Minister said on Thursday his country rejects the participation of its citizens as mercenaries in war, contradicting a statement by Cuba's ambassador in Moscow hours earlier saying his government did not oppose the legal participation of its citizens in Russia´s war in Ukraine.
WSJ Exclusive: As the U.S. and Russia vie for greater influence in Africa, Moscow is seeking access for its warships to a Mediterranean port in Libya that could expand its naval footprint in NATO’s backyard.
Reuters: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un arrived in the town of Komsomolsk-on-Amur in Russia's Far East on Friday and headed straight to a vast aviation plant that produces warplanes and other equipment.
ISW: Russian State Duma and Federation Council members proposed blocking WhatsApp likely as part of the Kremlin’s broader initiative to establish central control over the Russian information space.
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Reuters: Ukraine said on Thursday it attacked two Russian patrol ships and destroyed a sophisticated air defence system in the west of occupied Crimea, ramping up its strikes to challenge Moscow's dominance in the Black Sea region.
AFP: Ukrainian officials Thursday ordered the evacuation of civilians from the southern Kherson region, partly controlled by Russian forces and regularly hit by shelling.
Ukrainska Pravda: Dutch servicemen have collected more than 65 cubic metres of clothes, shoes and other equipment for Ukrainian women fighting in the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine against the Russians.
AFP: The United States on Thursday denounced Russia's expulsion of two US diplomats for their work with an embassy contractor and promised to take countermeasures soon.
Euronews: Bulgaria’s parliament has voted to lift its ban on the import of Ukrainian grain from Sept. 15. Poland has insisted it will extend the ban, while Romania, Hungary and Slovakia await a ruling by the EU on whether the embargo should continue.
Reuters: Ukraine said on Thursday that any move by eastern European states to extend restrictions on Ukrainian food exports that are due to expire on Sept. 15 would be illegal and harm common economic interests.
AFP: NATO-member Romania broadened Thursday a restricted flight zone following the discovery of drone debris on its territory near Ukrainian ports on the Danube river.
AP News: Slovakia said Thursday it was expelling a diplomat from Russia’s embassy in the Slovak capital for violations of international conventions, but gave no details of the alleged wrongdoing.
Reuters: Satellite images of a military base southeast of the Belarus capital Minsk appear to show dismantling of tents in recent weeks, which may indicate the winding down of the base for Wagner, the Russian mercenary company behind an abortive mutiny.
AFP: US President Joe Biden on Thursday tapped Penny Pritzker, a billionaire businesswoman who served as commerce secretary, to encourage investment in Ukraine, which is expected to need hundreds of billions of dollars to recover from Russia's invasion.
Axios: The U.S. targeted a slew of foreign individuals and companies accused of aiding Russia in a slate of new sanctions announced by the State and Treasury Departments Thursday.
Reuters: The Biden administration on Thursday imposed sanctions on five Turkish companies and a Turkish national, accusing them of helping Russia evade sanctions and supporting Moscow in its war against Ukraine.
AFP: Ukraine's prosecutor general said Thursday the International Criminal Court had opened a field office in Kyiv, as part of efforts to hold Russian forces accountable for potential war crimes.
The Guardian: A Ukrainian missile strike on a shipyard in occupied Crimea has severely damaged and possibly destroyed a Russian amphibious landing ship and a Kilo class submarine, new satellite footage has shown.
Business Insider: Oil prices are surging again – and that's making Russia a lot richer. The Kremlin's crude export revenues jumped $1.8 billion last month, according to the International Energy Agency. The surge comes with key benchmarks close to 10-month highs on recent OPEC+ production cuts.
Bloomberg: European Union Energy Commissioner Kadri Simson called for reducing imports of Russian liquefied natural gas after shipments of the fuel to the bloc rose over the past seven months.
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