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AFP: President Joe Biden made an impassioned call for the United States to show global leadership by backing Israel and Ukraine, saying in a speech from the Oval Office Thursday that defeating Hamas and Russia was a vital US interest.
ISW: A Russian milblogger observed that Ukrainian forces are successfully and asymmetrically attriting Russian reserves in ongoing offensive operations. The milblogger noted that Ukrainian forces are purposefully conducting offensive operations to attrit limited Russian reserves while preserving their own reserves to the utmost possible extent.
Reuters: The share of Russian oil in India's overall imports rose to about two-fifths in the first half of fiscal 2023/24, consolidating Moscow's position as the top supplier as refiners curbed purchase from the Middle East, industry data showed.
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Axios: The Pentagon plans to send Israel tens of thousands of 155mm artillery shells that had been destined for Ukraine from U.S. emergency stocks several months ago, three Israeli officials with knowledge of the situation tell Axios.
AML Intelligence: Russia has been suspended from the Egmont Group of financial intelligence units. The group brings together more than 160 intelligence units from around the world, including the US Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, to cooperate and share information on money laundering, terrorist financing and other related crimes.
The Kyiv Independent: Berlin is not planning to greenlight the transfer of Taurus long-range missiles to Ukraine at the moment, Germany's Ambassador to Ukraine Martin Jaeger said in an interview with European Pravda.
Ukrainska Pravda: The US Defence Department analysts point to China's political, diplomatic and limited military support for Russia amidst Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, but add that Beijing's relationship with Moscow is marked by strategic distrust.
Reuters: NATO is stepping up patrols in the Baltic Sea following recent damage to undersea infrastructure in the region, the transatlantic military alliance said on Thursday.
The Kyiv Independent: Global attention on the war in Israel will not weaken Western support for Ukraine, Lithuanian Prime Minister Ingrida Simonyte said in an interview with Deutsche Welle.
Bloomberg: Hungary’s NATO allies raised security concerns as they condemned Orban for his meeting with Putin this week, laying bare widening divisions over Budapest’s ties with Moscow.
The Moscow Times: In an effort to rally Russians behind him, state media has painted Putin’s visit to China as a triumph over the West by a leader who they say enjoys global prestige and respect despite attempts to isolate him. Reality told a different story.
Reuters: Ukraine will receive U.S.-supplied long-range ATACMS missiles on a regular basis, its foreign minister said on Thursday, two days after Kyiv confirmed using them for the first time.
The Kyiv Independent: The Kremlin-linked Russian Orthodox Church is building and running private military companies, which recruit and train fighters for deployment in Ukraine, the Security Service of Ukraine reported on Oct. 19.
France 24: Ukrainian soldiers defending the frontline city of Avdiivka are bracing for a new "massive attack", after Russian forces threw their might at it earlier this month but failed to break through.
Reuters: Ukrainian grain and oilseeds crop sector losses could exceed $3.2 billion in 2023 due to the high cost of logistics as well as fuel and fertiliser price hikes, which threaten to reduce sown areas in the next and coming years, farmers unions said on Thursday.
Meduza: Ukraine’s Verkhovka Rada has passed the first reading of a bill to ban the activities of all religious organizations that have ties to Russia. The legislation was supported by 267 deputies, with 14 against and two abstaining.
Reuters: A Russian appeals court has imposed interim measures against Credit Suisse and ruled that funds totalling $20.9 million held by the Swiss bank in Russia may be seized, court filings published on Thursday showed.
The Moscow Times: Kazakhstan has restricted the export of more than 100 military products to neighboring Russia, a senior trade official told local media Thursday.
Reuters: Finland's ministry of defence said on Thursday it had blocked three planned property transactions involving Russian buyers on grounds that allowing the acquisitions to take place could hamper the defence of Finnish territory.
Meduza: Construction is complete on a new manufacturing plant in Moscow that will be used to produce anti-aircraft missiles. The facility is located less than a third of a mile from residential buildings.
Reuters: Russia wants to increase trade with China via the Northern Sea Route and become its top supplier of liquefied natural gas, Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said on Thursday.
Reuters: Ukraine is desperately short of judges, and is kick-starting a long-delayed nationwide hiring spree to fill more than 2,000 vacancies and vet around as many sitting judges for potential malfeasance.
worth mentioning
Russian oligarchs with gang ties and Ukraine war profits buy villas in France
Counterintelligence officer at Russian Embassy in Moldova accused of child molestation
‘Major expansion’: China now has more than 500 nukes, Pentagon says
Russia working on infrastructure design for far eastern gas pipeline to China
Climate Science in Arctic ‘Broken’ as US and Europe Isolate Russia
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