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Reuters: Ukraine's Zelenskiy is in Belgium this Wednesday, Belgian media reported, where a meeting of NATO defence ministers is taking place. NATO ministers are also due to meet in Brussels with their Ukrainian counterpart, Rustem Umerov, in a session of the NATO-Ukraine Council.
AFP: Britain and other northern European allies announced a new £100 million military support package Wednesday for Ukraine, aimed at helping its armed forces clear minefields, maintain vehicles and protect key infrastructure.
Reuters: Putin will visit Kyrgyzstan on Thursday, the presidential office of the Central Asian country said, in what would be the Russian leader's first known trip abroad since the International Criminal Court issued a warrant for his arrest.
POLITICO: NATO’s 31 defense ministers — and their Ukrainian counterpart — arrive in Brussels for today’s ministerial meeting. But the initial agenda — Russia’s invasion of Ukraine — has been derailed by Hamas’ massive attack on Israel.
WSJ Video: Retired Brigadier Gen. Mark Kimmit and WSJ Ukraine correspondent James Marson explain Ukraine’s evolving counteroffensive military strategy and what could be next for Europe’s biggest land war since World War II.
ISW: Russian forces launched localized offensive operations in the Avdiivka area of Donetsk Oblast and southwest of Orikhiv in western Zaporizhzhia Oblast on October 9, which are likely intended to fix Ukrainian forces away from the Robotyne area.
UK Ministry of Defence: The Russian military is facing a mental health crisis. In December 2022, Russian psychologists identified approximately 100,000 military personnel suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. This number is almost certainly now higher as the Russian military fails to provide sufficient rotation and recuperation from the battlefield.
Bloomberg: The conflict between Hamas and Israel is looking like it might end up helping Russia and its war in Ukraine.
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The Insider has unearthed documents indicating that Russia acquired technologies to block websites and applications based on the protocol they use. This would enable the Russian government to restrict access to YouTube, WhatsApp, Telegram, and other services.
Reuters: Russia failed in its bid to return to the United Nations' top human rights body on Tuesday, with rivals winning considerably more votes at the General Assembly in an election seen as a key test of Western efforts to keep Moscow isolated.
AP News: Bulgarian police have arrested 12 people accused of illegally exporting dual-use goods to Russia that can be used by the Russian military in the war in Ukraine.
Reuters: Germany on Tuesday unveiled a fresh support package for Ukraine worth around 1 billion euros, its defence ministry said, adding the programme covered air defense, weapons and ground vehicles.
Bloomberg: Slovakia’s election-winner Robert Fico secured a pledge from his preferred coalition partner to assemble a new government, opening a path for the pro-Russian populist to return to power.
Reuters: Putin discussed trade and security with Mali's leader on Tuesday in their third phone conversation in less than two months. The frequency of Putin's contacts with Mali's interim president Assimi Goita underlines Moscow's strong interest in building its influence in the coup-prone Sahel region of West Africa where it is cultivating strong security ties at the expense of France and the US.
Bloomberg: Italy’s diversification of gas supplies from Russia is becoming “more complex” in light of the Israel-Hamas conflict, Eni SpA’s chief executive officer Claudio Descalzi said.
AFP: Russian forces closed in on the frontline town of Avdiivka in east Ukraine on Tuesday, as Kyiv warned Moscow was stepping up strikes in an attempt to encircle it completely.
Reuters: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday he had "good news" on artillery and air defence supplies after talks with Romanian President Klaus Iohannis in Bucharest, but gave no details.
AFP: Armenian leader Nikol Pashinyan will skip a summit that Putin is expected to attend, host country Kyrgyzstan said Tuesday, amid a growing rift between Yerevan and Moscow.
BBC Sport: Uefa has abandoned plans to reinstate Russian U17 teams into next year's youth European Championships.
AFP: Ukraine said Tuesday that it was holding two senior defence ministry officials on suspicion of embezzling $7 million earmarked for buying bulletproof vests.
Reuters: Russia accused the United States on Tuesday of carrying out preparatory work at a nuclear testing site in Nevada but said that Moscow would not restart its own nuclear testing programme unless Washington did.
RFE/RL: Russian military intelligence is using a fictitious private military company as a front to recruit and deploy soldiers for the Kremlin’s war in Ukraine, an RFE/RL investigation has found.
Euronews: Letting convicts loose in a war zone and then releasing them back into society shows the state has "little regard for ordinary people", one expert told Euronews.
Bloomberg: Turkey, Romania and Bulgaria are discussing the creation of a joint force to clear any mines that drift into their waters from Russia’s war against Ukraine, according to three officials familiar with the talks.
Rheinmetall has received a further order for artillery ammunition destined for Ukraine under a framework agreement with the German military, the company said on Tuesday.
worth mentioning
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