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AP News: Ukraine will find a way to deal with whatever comes if Trump wins a second term, throwing into doubt vital U.S. support for its defense against Russia’s invading forces, Ukraine’s defense minister said Wednesday.
ISW: Russian officials continue to seize on diplomatic meetings with European states to create the impression that Russia is normalizing its relations with the West and claim that there is limited Western support for Russia.
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The Kyiv Independent: Ukrainian forces are still fighting in Krynky, a key village in the heavily-contested Dnipro bridgehead in Russian-occupied Kherson, but their positions are "completely destroyed," the Defense Forces of Southern Ukraine said on July 17.
Bloomberg: Several major Russian commodity exporters say trade with China has become a gamble as direct payments made in yuan are increasingly being frozen or delayed after the US in June broadened the criteria for imposing sanctions (archive).
POLITICO: Former Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš accused the current Czech government of "dreaming about war with Russia" in a controversial interview with pro-Kremlin outlet Parlamentní listy.
Reuters: NATO said on Wednesday it had appointed a senior official to lead the alliance's work in Ukraine as part of a broader effort to intensify support for Kyiv as it fights Russia's invasion.
Meduza: Russia paid soldiers and their families about 3 trillion rubles (over $30 billion) in the last year, accounting for roughly 8 percent of its federal budget expenditures, according to a new estimate.
RFI: Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof vowed Wednesday to bring to justice those behind the downing Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, as relatives of those killed gathered to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the disaster.
Reuters: Switzerland has opened investigations into more than 50 cases of possible sanctions violations and has found breaches in 15 of them so far, the government said in a statement on Wednesday.
Meduza: Russia’s Interior Ministry has published a draft law that would mandate the deportation of foreigners convicted of a new litany of offenses, including participating in an “undesirable” organization and “discrediting” the Russian army.
Reuters: Germany plans to halve its military aid to Ukraine next year, despite concerns that U.S. support for Kyiv could potentially diminish if Republican candidate Donald Trump returns to the White House.
AFP: The Kremlin on Wednesday denied a major ground offensive on Ukraine's northeastern Kharkiv region had failed, after Russian officials said they would seal off border villages to protect civilians from Ukrainian shelling.
Reuters: A German court on Wednesday sentenced a dual German-Russian citizen to six years and nine months in prison for selling electronics to Russian companies for military use in violation of sanctions.
AFP: Russia and Ukraine have released a total of 190 captured soldiers in the latest prisoner exchange between the two countries, officials in Moscow and Kyiv announced on Wednesday.
Reuters: The Greek navy this week extended an advisory effectively banning ship traffic off the coast of the southeastern Peloponnese and further, in a bid to deter ship-to-ship transfers of Russian oil off Greece.
Bloomberg: Hungary and Russia are working to resume oil deliveries by Lukoil PJSC after tougher sanctions by Ukraine kicked in against the company (archive).
Reuters: The European Parliament strongly criticised Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Wednesday for meeting Putin in Moscow, in the latest reprimand of Budapest's self-styled Ukraine "peace mission".
The Kyiv Independent: Russian companies have exponentially increased their recruiting in Africa, the Russian state-controlled media outlet RBC reported on July 17, citing industry data.
With Russia’s war against Ukraine raging on, European Parliament reconfirmed on Wednesday its view that the EU must continue to support Kyiv for as long as it takes until victory.
Kyodo News: Japan is arranging to shoulder $3.3 billion in loans to Ukraine as part of support to be provided by Group of Seven members utilizing interest from Russian sovereign assets frozen as part of the sanctions.
worth mentioning
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Germany to provide 10m euros for reconstruction of Kyiv children's hospital
A nuclear physicist born and educated in Ukraine who worked with CERN is now designing drones for Russia’s military
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