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AP News: Trump said Thursday that he would meet with Putin even if the Russian leader will not meet with Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in comments that suggested Washington and Moscow could soon hold a summit.
The Kyiv Independent: Trump said Aug. 7 that the ceasefire deadline he set for Russia — scheduled for tomorrow, Aug. 8 — now depends on Putin.
ISW: The Kremlin is engaged in a delicate balancing act between feigning interest in negotiations to Trump and conditioning Russian society to accept nothing short of Putin's desired full victory in Ukraine, no matter how long it takes.
The Guardian: Uefa has paid more than €10.8m in “solidarity” funds to Russian football clubs since they were banned from taking part in European tournaments after the Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine. The payments were made despite five Ukrainian clubs failing to receive similar such funds allegedly due to their locations being in a “zone of military operations”.
Euronews: False claims that Russia captured three British officers in Ukraine and that NATO is actively waging a war against Moscow can be traced back to multiple fringe sources.
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Reuters: Russian gas giant Gazprom on Thursday denounced a move by Moldova's gas authority to withdraw the licence from its local subsidiary for distributing gas, saying the move damaged its affiliate and jeopardised Moldova's energy security.
The Kyiv Independent: All employees of Ukraine’s enlistment offices will be required to wear body cameras and record video while checking documents and delivering draft notices starting on Sept. 1, the Defense Ministry announced on Aug. 7.
CNBC: United Arab Emirates President Mohammed bin Zayed al Nahyan traveled to Russia on Thursday for his second visit to the country in less than a year, to meet with Putin in a sign of the ever-strengthening ties between the two states.
Reuters: As Russia sought to ratchet up military production for the war in Ukraine, a state-owned explosives manufacturer circumvented Western sanctions by purchasing equipment made by Germany's Siemens from a middleman that imports technology from China.
The Moscow Times: Ukrainian prosecutors on Thursday named the former head of a Russian detention center as a suspect in the torture and death of Ukrainian journalist Viktoriia Roshchyna, who died in Russian custody last year.
The Kyiv Independent: Russian occupation authorities in Ukraine created an online "catalog" where Ukrainian children are offered up for adoption while sorted based on physical traits like eye or hair color, the head of a Ukrainian NGO said on Aug. 6, denouncing the practice as child trafficking.
Reuters: Russia's seven-month budget deficit exceeded the target for the entire year by a quarter, Finance Ministry data showed on Thursday, highlighting the strain of financing the war in Ukraine.
ISW: Russian forces are actively achieving some effects of battlefield air interdiction of Ukrainian ground lines of communication with tactical unmanned aerial vehicles, enabling Russian advances in eastern Ukraine.
The Kyiv Independent: Drones operated by Ukraine's military intelligence agency struck multiple high-value Russian military targets in occupied Crimea, including a fast assault landing craft and three radar stations, the agency reported on Aug. 7.
Reuters: Russia and India stressed their commitment to a "strategic partnership" in bilateral security talks in Moscow on Thursday, a day after Trump announced higher tariffs on imports from India because of its purchases of Russian oil.
CNN: Russia has launched a new bid to exert control over the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson by threatening key access roads with its drones and trying to split it in two by striking a vital bridge.
The Kyiv Independent: Russia's wartime economic growth is faltering, with the Russian Central Bank forecasting near-zero GDP expansion by the end of 2025. The slowdown reflects the limits of Russia's war-fueled expansion, driven by military spending at the expense of civilian investment and private consumption.
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