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Reuters: A billion-dollar money laundering network that operated across Britain bought a controlling stake in a Kyrgyzstani bank to facilitate sanctions evasion and support Russia's war in Ukraine, Britain's National Crime Agency said on Friday (more).
Bloomberg: US sanctions that came into force on Friday could leave nearly 48 million barrels of Russian crude stranded on the water, pushing dozens of tankers to scramble for alternative destinations in the latest overhaul of the global oil trade (archive).
BBC: WhatsApp messages have revealed how a prominent MEP for Nigel Farage's Brexit Party took bribes as part of a pro-Russian influence campaign in the European Parliament.
Axios: Trump's 'peace plan' for Ukraine includes a security guarantee modeled on NATO's Article 5, which would commit the U.S. and European allies to treat an attack on Ukraine as an attack on the entire "transatlantic community," according to a draft obtained by Axios.
ISW: There are no provisions in the reported 'peace plan' in which Russia makes any concessions, and ISW continues to assess that accepting Russian demands would set conditions for renewed Russian aggression against Ukraine.
Reuters: The chief of Russia's general staff told Putin on Thursday that Russian forces had taken control of the northeastern Ukrainian city of Kupiansk, but Ukraine's military denied the city had changed hands.
The Kyiv Independent: Russian forces launched an overnight attack on the city of Zaporizhzhia on Nov. 20-21, killing five people and wounding eight others, local officials said.
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Reuters: President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said after talks with a top U.S. Army official on Thursday he was ready for "honest" work with Washington on a plan to end the war in Ukraine, while European allies pushed back against punishing concessions to Russia.
The EU has imposed restrictive measures on ten individuals responsible for serious violations or abuses of human rights and the repression of civil society and democratic opposition in Russia.
Reuters: Chinese and Indian banks and refineries are moving to comply with the U.S. sanctions on Russia's two biggest oil companies, a U.S. Treasury official said on Thursday.
Reuters: India's Reliance Industries has stopped importing Russian crude oil into its refining complex at Jamnagar in western Gujarat state, effective November 20, its spokesperson said on Thursday.
Reuters: U.S. and Bosnian officials have discussed ways to speed up a long-delayed project to build a natural gas pipeline with Croatia that is seen as an alternative to Russian gas, the U.S. Embassy in Sarajevo said.
Meduza: Despite Austria’s declared neutrality and its refusal to send weapons to Kyiv, the country’s Swarovski Optik has continued supplying high-end rifle scopes to Russia throughout the full-scale war.
Reuters: Russia and China held talks in Moscow this week on missile defence and strategic stability and agreed to strengthen cooperation in those areas, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Thursday.
RBC-Ukraine: Poland will allocate $100 million for military aid and the purchase of American weapons for Ukraine as part of the PURL initiative, according to Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski.
The Moscow Times: Poland’s ambassador to Russia was confronted and nearly assaulted in St. Petersburg over the weekend by a group of people protesting Warsaw’s support for Ukraine, Polish media reported Thursday.
Reuters: Poland has asked Belarus to extradite two Ukrainian citizens accused of carrying out railway sabotage on behalf of Russia, the Polish foreign ministry said on Thursday.
Reuters: Ukraine and Russia have carried out a new exchange of bodies of dead soldiers, Ukrainian officials and Russian state media said on Thursday.
The Insider: The military junta in Mali, heavily backed by Russian mercenaries, is on the verge of losing power.
The Kyiv Independent: Search and rescue operations in the western Ukrainian city of Ternopil have entered the third day, with 16 people still missing after a Russian attack, local officials reported.
NBC News: Trump this week approved a 28-point plan for 'peace' between Russia and Ukraine that top admin officials have quietly developed over the last several weeks in consultation with Russian envoy Kirill Dmitriev and Ukrainian officials. Trump's special envoy, Steve Witkoff, Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the president's son-in-law Jared Kushner were involved in formulating the plan.
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