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Reuters: Ukraine kept pounding the Russian border region of Kursk with missiles and drones on Wednesday, as Kyiv said it had made further territorial gains in an incursion that U.S. President Joe Biden called a "real dilemma" for the Kremlin's leader.
CNN: The Russian border region of Belgorod declared an emergency on Wednesday after new attacks by Ukrainian forces, with Kyiv claiming control of hundreds of square miles of Russian territory after its rare cross-border incursion.
ISW: Russian milbloggers claimed that Ukrainian forces continue to advance in Kursk Oblast amid Russian attempts to stabilize the frontline in the area.
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The Kyiv Independent: Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko ordered the transfer of some of Belarusian military equipment to the Russian Armed Forces for reinforcement in Kursk Oblast and other sectors of the front line, Belarusian outlet Belnovosti reported on Aug. 13.
Meduza: Russia has launched a secret criminal case against an army commander and his subordinates for allegedly imprisoning and torturing their own soldiers as well as murdering servicemen with grenades, according to Suspilne.
The Kyiv Independent: Russia is using only five military airfields in occupied Crimea, two of which were hit by the Ukrainian military and are now functioning "at a minimum," Navy spokesperson Dmytro Pletenchuk, said on Aug. 13 on national television.
AFP: Ukraine now controls 74 settlements in Russia's Kursk border region, the country's president Volodymyr Zelensky said Tuesday.
The Kyiv Independent: "Hundreds" of Russian soldiers have so far surrendered during Ukraine's operation in Russia's Kursk Oblast, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Aug. 13.
Meduza: The Kremlin has begun throttling YouTube to near-unusable speeds, sparking predictable backlash. Some Russians are blaming their providers and canceling contracts, while others are organizing protests. And even a few officials are speaking out.
The Kyiv Independent: Latvia is transferring another 500 Latvian-made combat drones to Ukraine, the country's defense minister Andris Spruds on Aug. 13.
Reuters: Ukraine is restricting the movement of civilians within a 20 km (12 mile) zone in a northeastern region bordering Russia, Kyiv's general staff said on Tuesday, as its troops push further into Russian territory amid a week-old surprise offensive.
The Kyiv Independent: Refugees evacuated from Kursk Oblast will be resettled in the Russian-occupied territories in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Alexey Smirnov, the acting governor of the region, said on Aug. 13.
POLITICO: Russia pulled some troops out of southern Ukraine and back into its own territory to try to fend off an escalating incursion by Kyiv’s forces, a Ukrainian official said on Tuesday.
Reuters: Russian forces stepped up their attacks on the Pokrovsk front in eastern Ukraine over the last 24 hours, the Ukrainian military said on Tuesday, reporting the largest number of battles in the area in a single day in a week.
The Kyiv Independent: Ukraine's incursion into Russia's Kursk Oblast aims to prevent Moscow from sending additional reinforcements to the front in Donbas and stop Russian cross-border strikes, a Foreign Ministry spokesperson said at a press conference on Aug. 13.
The EU has disbursed nearly €4.2 billion to Ukraine under the first Pillar of the Ukraine Facility. This brings to €12 billion the total EU funding disbursed to the Ukrainian government under the Facility so far.
The Moscow Times: Chechen special service units deployed to Russia’s border region of Kursk to repel the Ukrainian incursion are coming under strong criticism from pro-war military bloggers who accuse Kadyrov’s men of insubordination, desertion and collaboration with the Ukrainian army.
The Kyiv Independent: Niger and Mali's decisions to cut diplomatic ties with Ukraine earlier in August "were not made by these countries alone," Foreign Ministry spokesperson Heorhii Tykhyi said at a press briefing on Aug. 13.
Bloomberg: The Russian military isn’t getting enough new soldiers to keep pace with frontline losses that are at their highest since the February 2022 invasion began, according to three people close to the Kremlin and the Russian Defense Ministry (archive).
AFP: Ukrainian troops had advanced over an area of 800 square kilometres (308 square miles) of territory in Russia's Kursk region as of Monday, according to data from Russian sources relayed by the Institute for the Study of War and analyzed by AFP.
The Kyiv Independent: The U.K. government did not give Ukraine permission to use British Storm Shadow long-range missiles in Kyiv's incursion into Russia's Kursk Oblast, The Telegraph reported.
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