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The Kyiv Independent: The three-day NATO summit in Washington, D.C., concluded on July 11 with the launch of the Ukraine Compact, a security framework signed by 32 allies.
Reuters: Australia said on Friday it had arrested a Russian-born married couple on espionage charges, alleging the woman who was an information systems technician in the Australian Army sought to access defence material and send it to Russian officials.
AP News: The U.N. General Assembly adopted a resolution Thursday demanding that Russia urgently withdraw its military and personnel from Europe’s largest nuclear power plant and immediately return the facility to Ukraine.
Reuters: Finland's parliament is set to vote on a bill on Friday granting border guards the power to turn back asylum seekers crossing from Russia, after more than 1,300 people arrived in the country forcing Helsinki to close its border.
AP News: The U.S. and South Korea signed joint nuclear deterrence guidelines, weeks after North Korea and Russia struck a defense pact that deepened concerns in the region about the North’s growing nuclear threats.
ISW: Finnish authorities reported an increase in GPS "malfunctions" in the past week and that most disruptions to aviation and maritime GPS and radar originate from within Russia.
Reuters: Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban met with Donald Trump on Thursday and the pair discussed the "possibilities of peace", a spokesperson for the prime minister said as he pushes for a ceasefire in Ukraine.
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AP News: President Joe Biden announced a new $225 million aid package for Ukraine on Thursday, including a Patriot missile system to bolster its air defenses against a deadly onslaught of Russian airstrikes.
CNN: NATO officials are discussing taking action to reclaim some Chinese-owned infrastructure projects in Europe should a wider conflict with Russia break out in the east of the continent.
The Kyiv Independent: A Russian pilot passed on confidential information to Ukraine's military intelligence that helped identify 30 commanders of the Russian heavy bomber aviation division.
Bloomberg: Ministers from Sweden, Finland, Poland and three Baltic nations of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania will skip informal meetings in Hungary during the first phase of its six-month EU presidency this summer (archive).
Reuters: Romania, Bulgaria and Greece signed a deal on Thursday to enable swift cross-border movement of troops and weapons to NATO’s eastern flank, Romania's defence ministry said.
The Moscow Times: Russian lawmakers have called on the country’s largest lender Sberbank to remove a rainbow-colored unicorn from its bank cards for kids, saying that “rainbow symbols” are an attribute of the “international LGBT movement.”
CNN: US intelligence discovered earlier this year that the Russian government planned to assassinate the chief executive of a powerful German arms manufacturer that has been producing artillery shells and military vehicles for Ukraine.
Bloomberg: An initiative to deliver a million drones to Ukraine by next February is moving ahead as contributions from allies pile up, Latvia’s defense chief said (archive).
In Washington, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy and President of Romania Klaus Iohannis signed an Agreement on Security Cooperation between Ukraine and Romania.
The Australian government is set to give Ukraine another $250 million in military support — its largest contribution to the war effort since Russia invaded.
AP News: The United States, Canada and Finland will work together to build up their icebreaker fleets as they look to bolster their defenses in the Arctic, where Russia has been increasingly active, the White House announced Thursday.
Reuters: France, Germany, Italy and Poland on Thursday kicked off an initiative to develop ground-launched cruise missiles with a range beyond 500 kilometres to fill a gap in European arsenals that they say has been exposed by Russia's war in Ukraine.
POLITICO: The Polish government will train a unit of Ukrainian exiles to be deployed in their home country, Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski said on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Washington.
Meduza: In the spring of 2023, Russia introduced “temporary measures” prohibiting anyone who’s been served a summons from leaving the country. Now, the authorities are developing a new “electronic data exchange” system to streamline enforcement of this policy.
The Kyiv Independent: Foreign partners have so far pledged to invest around $675 million in the Ukrainian defense industry to arm Kyiv's forces, Ukrainska Pravda reported on July 11, citing data from the Strategic Industries Ministry.
Reuters: Norway will give 1 billion crowns ($92.69 million) to boost Ukraine's air defences, Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere said on Thursday at a NATO summit where alliance members have promised more aid to Kyiv as it fights Russian invaders.
Reuters: Russia will act to counter the planned U.S. deployment of long-range missiles in Germany, the Kremlin said on Thursday, as it regarded the NATO military alliance's actions as a serious threat to Russia's national security.
Reuters: Jailed human rights campaigner Oleg Orlov compared Russia's justice system to that of Nazi Germany on Thursday as a judge rejected his appeal against his two-and-a-half-year prison term.
Reuters: Ukraine seized a foreign cargo ship on the Danube River and detained the captain on suspicion of helping Moscow export Ukrainian grain from Russian-occupied Crimea, officials said on Thursday.
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