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Reuters: Russia said on Friday that Ukraine had fired a missile towards Moscow and attacked the Crimean Peninsula with 42 drones, one of the biggest known coordinated Ukrainian air attacks to date on Russian-held territory. Russia's defence ministry said it had shot down a modified S-200 missile over the Kaluga region, which borders the Moscow region. The city of Kaluga is less than 200 km from Moscow.
ISW: The Wagner Group will likely no longer exist as a quasi-independent parallel military structure following Putin’s almost certain assassination of Wagner financier Yevgeny Prigozhin, Wagner founder Dmitry Utkin, and reported Wagner logistics and security head Valery Chekalov.
Business Insider: Annalena Baerbock, the German foreign minister, is disappointed by the effectiveness of sanctions against Russia over its invasion of Ukraine. She recently acknowledged that sanctions against Russia haven't achieved their desired impact.
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CNN: Ukrainian forces have carried out their most complex and ambitious operations to date against Russian military facilities in the occupied region of Crimea, officials in Kyiv have said. Special forces landed on the western shore of Crimea, near the settlements of Olenivka and Mayak, in a joint operation with the country’s Navy, according to Ukrainian Defense Intelligence.
AP News: A preliminary U.S. intelligence assessment concluded that an intentional explosion caused the plane crash presumed to have killed a mercenary leader who was eulogized Thursday by Putin, even as suspicions grew that the Russian president was the architect of the assassination.
AFP: Despite the reported death of the Russian mercenary boss Yevgeny Prigozhin, Moscow has every interest in continuing his Wagner paramilitary group's activities in Africa, experts told AFP on Thursday.
Reuters: The United States will begin flight training for Ukrainian pilots on F-16 fighter jets in October, the Pentagon announced on Thursday.
The Times of Israel: The Israeli government said Thursday it has been unable to renew health insurance and social assistance benefits for Ukrainian refugees due to a lack of funding, in response to a High Court petition on the matter.
Reuters: Norway will donate U.S.-made F-16 combat aircraft to Ukraine, the Norwegian prime minister announced during a visit to Kyiv on Thursday, joining an effort led by the Netherlands and Denmark.
The United States on Thursday announced sanctions against 11 Russians and two re-education facilities reportedly involved in the forced transfer of thousands of Ukrainian children, accusing Moscow of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
LRT: Lithuania is sending a new package of military assistance to Ukraine, worth 41 million euros, the Defence Ministry reported on Thursday.
Reuters: Ukrainian officials on Thursday asked Lebanon to bar a Syrian state-owned cargo ship carrying allegedly stolen Ukrainian grain from docking in Lebanon's Tripoli port, according to the Ukrainian embassy and a diplomatic note seen by Reuters. The Ukrainian mission said in comments to Reuters that the Finikia was transporting 6,000 metric tons of corn, which it considered stolen, from the Black Sea port of Sevastopol.
Images obtained by RFE/RL show that a suspected tent camp thought to be occupied by troops from Russia's Wagner mercenary group near the Belarusian village of Tsel is being dismantled.
Reuters: At least one person was killed and 16 people were wounded in Russian attacks across Ukraine on Thursday, local officials said, as Kyiv marked 32 years of independence from Moscow.
DW: A German businessman has been arrested over suspicions that he exported machine tools to Russia that were used to produce sniper rifles.
Reuters: Norway will send anti-aircraft missiles and mine clearing equipment to Ukraine and help the war-torn country secure its gas and power supply, Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere said on Thursday while on a visit to Kyiv.
Forbes: Russia’s domestic intelligence agency, the FSB, was likely behind the airplane crash that is believed to have killed Wagner group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin and nine others near Moscow Wednesday, according to a BBC report citing U.K. authorities.
The Kyiv Independent: Ukrainian forces conducted successful offensive operations in the directions of Melitopol and Bakhmut, the General Staff of Ukraine's Armed Forces reported on Aug. 24.
Bloomberg: Hungary’s president took the lead in trying to reset relations with Ukraine, meeting her counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskiy in a bid to push past Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s Kremlin-friendly rhetoric.
Reuters: The BRICS group of nations has decided to invite six countries - Argentina, Egypt, Iran, Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates - to become new members of the bloc, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Thursday.
Reuters: Fashion retailer H&M will reopen most of its stores in Ukraine, beginning in November of this year, the Swedish company said in a statement on Thursday. The retailer temporarily closed its stores in Ukraine following Russia's invasion of the country in February of last year.
worth mentioning
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