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Reuters: Japan protested to Russia on Wednesday over curbs denying entry to 13 Japanese business executives, including the Toyota Motor chairman, as part of counter-sanctions measures.
The Guardian: Col Gen Oleksandr Syrskyi weighs Ukraine’s recent setbacks, counter strikes and the changing face of Europe’s biggest war since 1945 (interview).
Reuters: Unofficial Libyan banknotes have been exchanged for real dollars and contributed to the dinar's devaluing, three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters, adding that some notes were printed by Russia and exported to eastern Libya this year.
The Kyiv Independent: The European Union must stay committed to its policy that any discussions about ending the war in Ukraine should be led by the government in Kyiv, according to Portuguese Foreign Minister Paulo Rangel.
ISW: The Russian State Duma proposed an amendment that would allow commanders to punish subordinates for using personal communications and navigation devices at the frontline, prompting significant milblogger backlash and highlighting how Russian forces continue to struggle with command and control issues and overreliance on insecure technologies to conduct combat operations in Ukraine.
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AFP: French police on Tuesday arrested a Russian man suspected of plotting acts of "destabilisation" during the Paris Olympics, prosecutors said.
RFE/RL: Russian disinformation threatens to interfere with Moldovan elections later this year just as the country begins to make significant progress on reforms under pro-Western President Maia Sandu, U.S. and Moldovan officials said at separate events in Washington on July 23.
Reuters: Paying claims for ships involved in accidents or collisions with other vessels covered by sanctions-hit Russian insurer Ingosstrakh will prove difficult, UK ship insurer West said, in another sign of complications with Moscow's oil trade.
The Kyiv Independent: A Ukrainian attack on occupied Crimea overnight resulted in a ferry used by Russian forces to transport military equipment being "seriously damaged," the General Staff of Ukraine's Armed Forces said on July 23.
Sky News: Britain's army must be ready in three years to fight a war against an "axis of upheaval" of Russia, China, Iran and North Korea, the force's new chief has warned.
Reuters: President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's chief of staff spoke by phone with U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris's national security adviser, Ukraine said on Tuesday, the first such call since she emerged as the frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Bloomberg: The European Union has presented member states with two options to freeze Russian Central Bank assets for a longer period of time as it seeks to assuage US concerns over a Group of Seven plan to leverage the profits to provide Ukraine with some $50 billion in aid (archive).
The Kyiv Independent: Russia is building up its forces in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, adding at least 2,000 more troops there within the last few weeks, the spokesperson for Ukraine's Tavria group of forces said.
Ukrainska Pravda: Bank of China, one of China's largest state-owned banks, has ceased cooperation with the Moscow Exchange after it was hit by US sanctions.
The Moscow Times: Lawmakers in Russia’s lower-house State Duma voted Tuesday to expand the criteria for blacklisting organizations as “undesirable” to include any entity affiliated with a foreign government.
The Kyiv Independent: The Ukrainian government decided to attract a $3.9 billion grant from the U.S. for salaries and social support programs, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal announced on his Telegram channel on July 23.
Reuters: Residents of Moscow who sign up to fight in Ukraine will receive a down payment of 1.9 million roubles ($21,777) from the city, taking their annual pay in their first service year to 5.2 million roubles ($59,600), the mayor's office said on Tuesday.
The Moscow Times: A group of Russian opposition figures living in exile has formed a team of "consuls" to help prevent anti-war Russian nationals from being deported back to Russia, where they would face criminal prosecution.
The Guardian: Allegations of rape by Russian mercenaries, who have a large presence in Central African Republic’s restive north-west region, have escalated in recent months.
AP News: Belarus’ foreign minister arrived in North Korea on Tuesday as experts predicted that he and North Korean officials would discuss forming a trilateral anti-Western front also involving Russia.
Reuters: Estonia's incoming government will support Ukraine ‘until victory’ in its war with Russia, Prime Minister Kirsten Michal told Reuters in an interview on Tuesday, pledging continuity on the issue with the former administration.
POLITICO: From the moment U.S. President Joe Biden dropped out of the race for president and backed Kamala Harris as his replacement on Sunday, Russia’s propagandists have whipped up a cacophony of unbridled racism, sexism and conspiracies.
The Kyiv Independent: Ukrainian soldiers shot down a Russian Su-25 attack jet near Pokrovsk, Donetsk Oblast, the Khortytsia group of forces said on July 23.
Reuters: Russia has accused a dual Russian-German national and lawyer, German Moyzhes, of state treason, the TASS state news agency reported on Tuesday, citing law enforcement agencies.
The Kyiv Independent: Boeing has signed a memorandum with Ukraine's largest aircraft manufacturing company, Antonov, to further collaborate on defense-related projects, according to a statement published on July 22.
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