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Reuters: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has arrived in Russia, Japanese media reported on Tuesday, for what the Kremlin said would be a comprehensive discussion with Putin amid warnings from Washington they should not agree on an arms deal.
AFP: A Russian passenger Airbus A320 flying from the Black Sea resort of Sochi to the Siberian city of Omsk with 167 people on board made an emergency landing in a Siberian field on Tuesday, officials said.
ISW: Russian border guards expressed similar grievances about limited capabilities and equipment to those voiced by Russian troops serving in Ukraine and continued to express concern over potential Ukrainian raids into Russia.
AP News: More than a hundred ambassadors, journalists and representatives of a broad spectrum of society watched a U.N. screening Monday evening of the award-winning documentary “20 Days in Mariupol,” which follows a trio of Associated Press journalists during Russia’s relentless siege of the Ukrainian port city in the early days of the war.
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Reuters Exclusive: The Biden administration is close to approving the shipment of longer-range missiles packed with cluster bombs to Ukraine, giving Kyiv the ability to cause significant damage deeper within Russian-occupied territory, according to four U.S. officials.
AFP: Estonia and Latvia on Monday inked a joint deal worth around billion euros for an Iris-T SLM medium-range air defence system from German manufacturer Diehl, Tallinn said.
Meduza: The Russian National Guard (Rosgvardia) has begun enlisting former inmates who were recruited from prison to join Wagner Group and were later granted amnesty for their participation in the war in Ukraine.
BBC News: Ukraine says it has successfully retaken control of four gas drilling platforms in the northern Black Sea, close to the Crimean Peninsula.
AFP: The United States and Armenia opened military drills on Monday, the latest sign of Yerevan drifting from Moscow's orbit as Russia's invasion of Ukraine reshapes post-Soviet relations.
Reuters: German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius said on Monday that Berlin will not necessarily supply Kyiv with Taurus cruise missiles simply because the U.S. may decide to send ATACMS long-range missiles to the war-torn country.
Business Insider: Looking for ways to defend an airbase where several military transport aircraft were damaged or destroyed in a drone attack last month, Russia is turning to civilian volunteers to patrol the area, likely because it lacks enough trained security personnel to do the job, according to Western intelligence.
AFP: Russia on Monday unveiled a monument to Soviet secret police founder Felix Dzerzhinsky outside the SVR foreign intelligence headquarters, in a sign of creeping state nostalgia for the USSR. Dzerzhinsky, nicknamed "Iron Felix" for leading the Soviet secret police in the decade following the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917, presided over thousands of arrests and executions.
Reuters: Britain on Monday accused Russia of targeting a civillian cargo ship at port in the Black Sea on Aug. 24 in a previously unconfirmed missile attack it said was successfully thwarted by Ukrainian defences.
Novaya-Europe: No longer permitted to renew their passports from abroad, Belarusians who fled Alexander Lukashenko’s brutal regime may soon face a choice of going undocumented or returning home to face political persecution.
The European Union on Monday slammed elections in Russian-occupied Ukraine, warning Kremlin-backed officials and vote organizers that they would face “consequences.”
Reuters: Russia said on Monday a European Union ban on Russians bringing their cars and some personal goods into the bloc was racist, and one ally of Putin suggested that all diplomatic relations should be severed in response.
ERR: The Financial Times reports that NATO will hold the greatest exercise since the Cold War on its eastern flank next year, aimed at practicing countering a Russian attack. NATO officials said that the exercise Steadfast Defender will start next spring and involve around 50 ships and 41,000 troops.
CNN: They are created with one single aim in mind: to be destroyed as quickly as possible. And in that, the steelworks company behind them boasts, these decoy weapons are remarkably successful: hundreds have been targeted by Russian forces almost as soon as they were deployed.
Reuters: German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said during a visit to Kyiv on Monday that Ukraine's place was in the EU, but urged it do more to fight corruption. On her fourth visit to Ukraine since Russia's invasion, she said Germany would provide an additional 20 million euros in humanitarian aid, bringing the amount provided by Berlin to 380 million euros this year.
Rheinmetall said Monday that it has been commissioned by Germany to supply an additional 40 Marder infantry fighting vehicles to Ukraine.
Reuters: Ukraine said on Monday its troops had regained more territory on the eastern and southern fronts in the past week of its counteroffensive against Russian forces.
worth mentioning
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