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Reuters: The Sevastopol Shipyard on the Crimean Peninsula was on fire early on Wednesday and two ships were damaged after Ukraine launched 10 missiles and three speedboat attacks on the port, Russia's defence ministry said.
WSJ: Russia has stalled despite sending 50,000 troops to retake the eastern city of Kupyansk, where Ukrainians are holding their ground and maintaining a semblance of normal life.
Reuters: Putin promised help to North Korea build satellites and showed Kim Jong Un around Russia's most modern space launch facility on Wednesday before talks that were expected to include military matters.
ISW: Russian insider sources claimed that the Kremlin’s inner circle is again actively disagreeing about the necessity of and preparations for a second wave of reserve mobilization ahead of the semi-annual fall conscription cycle, which starts on October 1.
UK Ministry of Defence: Elements of Russia’s new 25th Combined Arms Army have highly likely deployed to Ukraine for the first time. The formation is likely focused on Luhansk Oblast in the north-east of the country.
Bloomberg: European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is expected on Wednesday to underscore just how fundamentally Russia’s war in Ukraine has altered the European Union when she delivers her state of the union address.
Reuters: Russia's VTB Bank said on Wednesday that it will launch money transfers in Indian rupees by the end of September.
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PACE: Russia has become "a de facto dictatorship" says PACE, pointing to Putin's long term in office - based on 2020 changes which violate the Russian Constitution - and the lack of an independent parliament, judiciary, media or civil society.
UK: Foreign ministers of the Group of Seven (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, UK and US) and the High Representative of the European Union have “unequivocally condemned” the staging of “sham elections” held by Russia in occupied Ukrainian territories over the weekend.
AP News: The U.S. could have the first Ukrainian pilots trained on F-16 fighter jets before the end of the year, though it will be longer than that before they are flying combat missions, the director of the U.S. Air National Guard said Tuesday.
Ukrainska Pravda: Russian investigators have found foreign suppliers of originally sanctioned parts for Boeing and Airbus planes in the United Arab Emirates, China, Türkiye and "unfriendly" Europe.
POLITICO: The belligerent Russian president was back on the warpath Tuesday in Vladivostok, firing off hot takes about Trump, Musk, the Olympics and Britain’s help for Ukraine. Speaking at the pauper’s version of the World Economic Forum in Russia’s Far East, Putin pontificated on all sorts of topics, while he waited for North Korean dictator to arrive on his armored train.
The Kyiv Independent: President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a decree on the review of all decisions by Ukraine's military medical commissions to issue certificates of disability or unfitness for military service made since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion.
POLITICO: Russia’s Deputy Health Minister Oleg Salagay was turned away at Copenhagen airport en route to a World Health Organization conference in Denmark.
AFP: The Polish government on Tuesday agreed to extend a ban on Ukrainian grain imports unilaterally even if the current EU restrictions expire on Sep. 15.
Reuters: Britain's BAE Systems has won a further 130 million pound ($162 million) order from the government for munitions, as the Ukraine war continues to boost the UK defence industry.
AFP: German imports of refined oil products from India soared in the first seven months of the year, official data showed Tuesday, much of which was likely made using crude oil from sanctions-hit Russia.
Reuters: Denmark will donate a package worth 5.8 billion Danish crowns ($833 million) to Ukraine, including tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, tank ammunition and anti-aircraft guns, the ministry of defence said in a statement on Tuesday.
Reuters Exclusive: Ukraine's Antonov is expanding in drone making, a presentation by the country's umbrella defence group seen by Reuters shows, as it diversifies its core cargo plane business in response to Russia's invasion.
Reuters: The Swedish government is considering donating Gripen fighter jets to Ukraine to help it fight Russia, Swedish public radio (SR) reported on Tuesday, citing unnamed sources. The government wants to know, among other things, how a handover would affect Sweden's defence capabilities and how quickly Sweden could get new Gripen fighters, SR reported.
Reuters: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Tuesday vetoed a parliamentary bill that sought to retain closed asset declarations for officials. "The reason (for the veto) is clear: declarations must be fully revealed. Right now. Not in a year. The register must be opened right now," Zelenskiy said.
Bloomberg: Senator Elizabeth Warren is demanding an investigation into SpaceX after Elon Musk acknowledged he had blocked Ukraine from extending the private Starlink satellite network for an attack on Russian warships near the Crimean coast.
Reuters: Putin said on Tuesday that the Soviet Union's decision to send tanks into Hungary and Czechoslovakia to crush mass protests during the Cold War was a mistake. "It is not right to do anything in foreign policy that harms the interests of other peoples," said Putin, who in 2022 sent tens of thousands of troops into Ukraine, triggering the biggest land war in Europe since World War Two.
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