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Reuters: Finance leaders from the Group of Seven industrial democracies on Wednesday condemned Iran's attack on Israel and pledged to continue work on "all possible avenues" to harness frozen Russian sovereign assets to aid Ukraine.
The Guardian: Russia appears prepared to create “environmental havoc” by sailing unseaworthy oil tankers through the Baltic Sea in breach of all maritime rules, the Swedish foreign minister has said.
ISW: Ukraine’s Main Military Intelligence Directorate reportedly targeted Russian aviation assets in the Republic of Mordovia, the Republic of Tatarstan, and Samara Oblast on April 17.
Reuters: Water levels have continued to rise in the Tobol and Ob rivers in Russia's Kurgan and Tomsk regions, respectively, local authorities said on Thursday.
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Reuters: President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Wednesday that the Ukrainian military had attacked a large Russian airfield in occupied Crimea and thanked his top military commander for staging the strike.
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POLITICO: Sen. J.D. Vance on Wednesday encouraged a group of House Republicans to block debate on their own speaker’s foreign aid plan — an uncommon effort by a member of one chamber to sway policy across the Capitol.
The Hill: Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi said former President Trump is “palsy-walsy” with Putin, as she criticized the presumptive GOP presidential nominee for his tepid approach to aiding Ukraine.
Reuters: Belgium and the Czech Republic are calling for new European Union sanctions to counter Russian influence in the upcoming European elections after several countries discovered early interference, an open letter to EU leadership showed.
The Kyiv Independent: The U.S. House of Representatives published the content of the aid bill for Ukraine, which allocates over $60 billion in assistance and mandates the delivery of long-range ATACMS missiles after the day of enactment.
POLITICO: "If allies face a choice between meeting NATO capability targets and providing more aid to Ukraine, my message is clear: Send more to Ukraine," NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Wednesday, adding that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy would attend a NATO-Ukraine Council on Friday.
Bloomberg: Ukraine faces “dire” battlefield conditions as delays to US military aid drag on, the top American military officer warned Wednesday (archive).
WP: Russia’s Foreign Ministry has been drawing up plans to try to weaken its Western adversaries, including the United States, and leverage the Ukraine war to forge a global order free from what it sees as American dominance, according to a secret Foreign Ministry document (archive).
The Kyiv Independent: FBI questioned far-right German lawmaker Maximilian Krah last December in New York over suspicion that he was receiving money from Kremlin agents, an investigation by Spiegel and ZDF uncovered.
Reuters: The Netherlands on Wednesday has handed over another three F-16 fighter jets to a training facility in Romania, where Ukrainian pilots and ground staff are being taught to fly and maintain the planes in battle.
Reuters: Germany has appealed to European Union and NATO member states to bolster Ukraine's air defences as quickly as possible as Russian missiles pounded Ukrainian cities on Wednesday and its president repeated urgent calls for support.
Kyiv Post’s HUR sources confirm that on Wednesday morning its drones hit a Russian factory in Kazan where Tu-22M and Tu-160M bombers are built and repaired (HUR - Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine).
AFP: Organisers of a Slovak crowdfunding campaign said Wednesday they hoped to raise one million euros for ammunition for Ukraine, rejecting their government's refusal to send military aid to their war-torn neighbour.
POLITICO: Putin now has one more friend in Russia’s highest court. Irina Podnosova, his university classmate, has been confirmed as the new chair of Russia’s Supreme Court.
Reuters: Three Russian missiles slammed into the city centre of Chernihiv in northern Ukraine on Wednesday, killing at least 17 people, wounding dozens more and damaging civilian buildings, officials said.
Reuters: The Ukrainian military says Russia has ramped up its illegal use of riot control agents on the front to try to clear trenches as it begins to make bigger advances in the east more than two years since its full-scale invasion.
The Moscow Times: Telegram founder Pavel Durov said he fled Russia over Kremlin pressure to share Ukrainian pro-democracy protesters’ personal data in 2013 in a rare interview with U.S. right-wing "journalist" Tucker Carlson.
POLITICO: A well-known disinformation network is growing on Facebook by pushing pro-Kremlin narratives with ads purchased through fake accounts, just weeks ahead of Europe's major election in June, according to an investigation shared exclusively with POLITICO.
The Kyiv Independent: Canada’s budget for 2024 proposes to supply Ukraine with 1.6 billion Canadian dollars (about $1.16 billion) of defense aid during the next five years, according to the Canadian government’s website.
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