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Reuters: The U.S. State Department has approved a potential sale of air-launched cruise missiles and related equipment to Ukraine for an estimated $825 million, the Pentagon said on Thursday.
Politico: European leaders are weighing the creation of a 40 kilometer buffer zone between the Russian and Ukrainian frontlines as part of a peace deal, a last-ditch idea Moscow has embraced that would likely stretch the continent’s modest number of peacekeeping troops.
ISW: Russia is likely to escalate strikes against Ukraine in the coming weeks to take advantage of the missile and drone stockpile it accrued in the weeks leading up to the Alaska summit.
AFP: Ukraine said on Friday Russian overnight strikes had killed two people in Dnipropetrovsk, days after Kyiv admitted for the first time that Moscow's army was advancing into the region.
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France 24: Finland and Poland are both considering rewetting dried out peatbogs to form defence barriers against a potential Russian ground invasion. Restoring these natural carbon sinks could also bring significant environmental benefits.
The Kyiv Independent: A tanker carrying liquefied natural gas from the U.S.-sanctioned Russian Arctic LNG 2 plant docked at China's Beihai LNG terminal on Thursday, Bloomberg reported August 28. This marks the first time a vessel carrying fuel from the blacklisted facility has entered a Chinese import terminal.
RBC-Ukraine: On August 28, Ukrainian intelligence operatives destroyed the infrastructure of the key Tver railway station on Russian territory, according to the sources in Ukraine’s Defense Intelligence.
Reuters: President Volodymyr Zelenskiy expects a framework for security guarantees for Ukraine to be set out as soon as next week, as Kyiv continues talks with allies to get a robust support mechanism to prevent further Russian aggression.
The Kyiv Independent: U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff misunderstood a Ukrainian land swap offer during a meeting with Putin, reporting to Trump that the Kremlin had offered to withdraw from the partially occupied Kherson and Zaporizhzhia oblasts, Reuters reported on Aug. 28.
Reuters: Mining company Mechel reported worsening losses on Thursday and said it had suspended output at one of its mines, a sign of a deep crisis affecting Russia's coal industry.
Reuters: Russia’s Ust-Luga oil export terminal will operate at around 350,000 barrels per day in September, or about half its usual capacity, following damage to pipeline infrastructure from Ukrainian drone attacks.
Politico: European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen embarks Friday on a tour of so-called frontline states to reassure them of Europe's support against Russian aggression and bolster defense spending, a spokesperson for the EU executive said Thursday.
NY Times: Russia or its proxies are flying surveillance drones over routes that the United States and its allies use to ferry military supplies through eastern Germany, collecting intelligence that could be used to bolster the Kremlin’s sabotage campaign and assist its troops in Ukraine (archive).
The Kyiv Independent: Hungary has decided to ban the commander of a Ukrainian military unit responsible for the latest attack on the Druzhba oil pipeline from entering the country and the Schengen Area, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said on Aug. 28.
Reuters: Russian oil exports to India are set to rise in September, dealers said, as New Delhi defies U.S. punitive tariffs designed to force the country to stop the trade and push Moscow towards a peace deal with Ukraine.
The Kyiv Independent: Ukrainian military intelligence damaged a Russian Buyan-M-class small missile ship, a carrier of Kalibr cruise missiles, near Russian-occupied Crimea in the Azov Sea on Aug. 28.
The Guardian: The UK and European Union have summoned their Russian envoys after overnight missile strikes on Kyiv killed at least 21 people and damaged the city’s British Council and EU offices, in the deadliest aerial assault on the Ukrainian capital since the Alaska summit between Putin and Trump.
The Kyiv Independent: Hungary is suing the European Union over funnelling billions of euros in interests from frozen Russian assets to aid Ukraine, a case formally accepted by the European Court of Justice on Aug. 25. The lawsuit challenges last year's decision by the Council of the EU to allocate military assistance to Ukraine through the European Peace Facility.
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