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AP News: NATO leaders prepared to provide Ukraine with more military assistance for fighting Russia but only vague assurances of future membership as the alliance's summit draws to a close on Wednesday.
BBC News: G7 members are expected to ratify a long-term security arrangement with Ukraine at the Nato summit on Wednesday. It will include defence equipment, training and intelligence sharing.
Reuters: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy meets NATO leaders on Wednesday after they declared his country's future lay inside the alliance but rebuffed his call for a timeline to membership.
Reuters: Russia launched a wave of kamikaze drone attacks on Kyiv and its region for a second night in row, Ukraine's military said on Wednesday, hours before President Volodymyr Zelenskiy was due to meet NATO leaders at a summit that has backed Ukraine's independence.
ISW: Russian forces conducted a series of Shahed 131 and 136 drone strikes across Ukraine on July 11, likely in a demonstrative response to the 2023 NATO Summit in Vilnius and to threaten the Black Sea grain deal.
WSJ Exclusive: In occupied Ukraine, corporate mergers and acquisitions begin with a visit from masked gunmen.
Reuters: Hackers suspected of working for Russia's foreign intelligence agency targeted dozens of diplomats at embassies in Ukraine with a fake used car advert in a bid to break into their computers, according to a cybersecurity firm report seen by Reuters.
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POLITICO: A leaked internal document shows the EU suggesting a long-term security umbrella to bolster Ukraine’s defenses.
Reuters: Ukraine's military on Tuesday reported heavy fighting in the east and southeast, the main theatres of its drive to recapture land seized by Russian invaders, saying its forces had repelled dozens of enemy attacks.
AP News: In a cramped municipal building in a residential area of the Ukrainian capital, a group of people take turns training to shoot using a replica of a machine gun with the help of a weapons training simulator relying on virtual reality.
Reuters: President Volodymyr Zelenskiy voiced disappointment that Ukraine was not invited to join NATO on Tuesday, telling supporters in the Lithuanian capital: "Is this too big of a wish?" | "NATO will make Ukraine safer, Ukraine will make NATO stronger," he told the thousands of people, many waving Ukrainian flags, who gathered in central Vilnius.
CNN: NATO allies have called on China to abstain from supporting the Russian war effort in Ukraine "in any way," stressing that China’s "deepening" partnership with Russia runs against the alliance’s values.
Reuters: Russia on Tuesday signaled the demise of a long-running United Nations humanitarian operation in Turkey delivering aid to 4 million people in rebel-held northwest Syria after it vetoed a 9-month authorization renewal at the U.N. Security Council.
Bloomberg: NATO members pledged to invite Ukraine to join the bloc “when allies agree and conditions are met” and to eliminate bureaucratic hurdles in order to speed up the process.
Reuters: A coalition of 11 nations will start training Ukrainian pilots to fly F-16 fighter jets in August in Denmark, and a training centre will be set up in Romania. NATO members Denmark and the Netherlands have been leading international efforts to train pilots as well as support staff, maintain aircraft and ultimately enable the supply of F-16s to Ukraine in its war with Russia.
CNN Exclusive: More than 1,000 major companies pledged to leave Russia after Vladimir Putin launched his devastating war in Ukraine, but some well-known firms stand accused by researchers of violating their pledge.
POLITICO: France and Germany on Tuesday announced new arms deliveries for Ukraine, pledging to send more of the missiles that have been used to pound Russian supply depots, as well as more armored vehicles and ammunition.
The Moscow Times: Russian officials are working to lure back the hundreds of thousands of citizens who moved abroad since the invasion of Ukraine — but have so far given them little, if any, incentive to go back. Between 700,000 and 1.5 million Russians are estimated to have left the country following the February 2022 invasion, either out of opposition to the war or fear of being sent to the frontlines.
CNN: The Ukrainian military said Tuesday its forces had launched an offensive in Bakhmut, and were "entrenching themselves" and "inflicting artillery fire on the identified enemy targets." Troops conducted offensive operations "at the Melitopol, Berdiansk and Bakhmut directions,” according to the Ukraine Defense Force in a Telegram statement.
Reuters: Norway will increase its military support to Ukraine by 2.5 billion crowns ($239 million) this year to 10 billion, the Nordic country’s government said on Tuesday.
worth mentioning
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Russia Condemned Over 'Ineffective' Nemtsov Murder Probe
China Exports Far More Vehicles to Russia Than Anywhere Else
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