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CNN: An 18-year-old man was killed and three other men were wounded after Russian shelling hit the southern Ukrainian district of Nikopol, a local military official said Wednesday.
AFP: Two Ukrainian combat drones headed for Moscow were shot down, Russian officials said on Wednesday, the latest in a surge of drone attacks targeting the capital. The attempted attack comes a day after the death toll from strikes on the eastern Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk rose to nine.
ISW: Ukrainian forces appear to have conducted a limited raid across the Dnipro River and landed on the east (left) bank of Kherson Oblast, although it remains unclear whether Ukrainian troops have established an enduring presence on the east bank.
WSJ: Ukrainian refugees returning home say the insecurity of life in a war zone is outweighed by reuniting with family.
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Sky News: Latvia is joining Lithuania and Poland in strengthening its borders with Belarus, amid the country's military exercises and Wagner mercenary presence.
The Kyiv Independent: U.S.-supplied cluster munitions are destroying Russian positions in areas where Ukrainian troops had struggled to advance, the Wall Street Journal reported on Aug. 8.
Mediazona: Russia’s censorship agency, Roskomnadzor, is escalating attacks on blacklist bypassing, blocking VPN protocols.
Russian economist Boris Grozovski told Newsweek many Russians see the war as a way to escape poverty.
BBC News: Blinken described Russia's proposal of getting 50,000 tonnes of grain to half a dozen countries is a "drop in the bucket" compared to the 20 million tonnes from the Black Sea initiative.
Reuters: Dozens of second-hand Leopard 1 tanks that once belonged to Belgium have been bought by another European country for Ukrainian forces fighting Russia's invasion, the arms trader who did the deal said Tuesday.
Novaya-Europe: The Russian military has turned to “mass recruitment” of women from prisons and detention facilities to fight in the Ukraine war, the We Can Explain Telegram channel reported last week.
Meduza: The authorities in Italy have stopped the Investor Visa for Italy program for Russian and Belarusian nationals. The program provides residence permits in Italy in exchange for investments in the country, writes Italian publication Alreconomia.
BBC News: Russia's Wagner mercenary group is "taking advantage" of instability in Niger, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has told the BBC.
Business Insider: Ukraine has launched a site to track $1.3 billion of art owned by sanctioned Russian oligarchs. The site lists artworks like Picassos and Warhols believed to be bought and sold by sanctioned figures. The nature of the art market offers many loopholes for the transfer of assets, the site says.
Reuters: Ukrainian special services have foiled an attempt by Russian hackers to penetrate the Ukrainian Armed Forces' combat information system, the SBU security service said on Tuesday.
Canada’s sanctions target individuals holding senior positions in state-directed firms that produce lethal combat drones used by Iran's armed forces or that are exported to Russia.
Reuters: Finnish and Norwegian regulators said on Tuesday they had banned Russian tech group Yandex and its Netherlands-based partner Ridetech International from transferring to Russia any personal data of customers of Yandex's Yango ride-hailing app.
BBC News: Russia has blamed Ukraine for a spate of arson attacks on military recruitment centres, alleging that callers in Ukraine are tricking elderly Russians into committing such crimes.
UK Foreign Secretary announces 25 new sanctions targeting Putin’s access to foreign military equipment. This includes individuals and businesses in Turkey, Dubai, Slovakia and Switzerland who are supporting the illegal war in Ukraine. The UK is also tackling Iranian and Belarusian support for Russia’s war machine.
Reuters: Russia's lack of ships and Western grain traders' shrinking appetite for business with Moscow are adding to rising costs of moving Russian wheat, at a time when the war in Ukraine has spilled perilously close to vital Black Sea supply routes.
The Moscow Times: Russia’s largest known military equipment storage facility has been stripped of nearly half of the Soviet-era tanks and armored vehicles that were stored on its grounds before Moscow launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, The Moscow Times’ Russian service reported, analyzing satellite imagery of the storage site.
Bloomberg: A Russian court froze shares of companies worth around $36 million owned by Goldman Sachs Group Inc. after Otkritie Bank claimed it refused to honor a swap contract due to sanctions over the war in Ukraine.
The Guardian: After the invasion of Ukraine, thousands of Russians fled to Tbilisi. But the graffiti that has sprung up across the city suggests not everyone is pleased to see them.
Reuters Exclusive: European gas traders have begun storing natural gas in Ukraine to take advantage of lower prices and available capacity there, regardless of the risks from the ongoing war, three traders and company officials said.
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