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The Guardian: Germany’s chancellor, Friedrich Merz, will meet the European Commission chief, Ursula von der Leyen, and Belgium’s prime minister, Bart De Wever, for emergency talks on Friday as the EU races to save its sorely needed financing plan for Ukraine.
Reuters: Putin will hold summit talks with PM Modi in New Delhi on Friday, aiming to boost trade with the top buyer of Russia's arms and seaborne oil as Western sanctions squeeze their decades-old ties.
The Kyiv Independent: FIFA has pressured multiple European football clubs to pay outstanding transfer fees to Russia, despite international sanctions and banking restrictions, according to an investigation by Follow the Money published on Dec. 5.
Reuters: Russian lenders Gazprombank and Alfa Bank have sought clearance to begin operating in India, as Moscow pushes to grow trade with its top seaborne oil customer.
The Kyiv Independent: Ukrainian drones hit Russia's Temryuk seaport in Krasnodar Krai and the Syzran Oil Refinery in Samara Oblast in overnight strikes on Dec. 4-5, Russian officials and media reported.
ISW: Russia appears to have launched a new cognitive warfare campaign aimed at spreading narratives about Russian preparations for an offensive on Chernihiv City against the backdrop of the ongoing peace negotiations.
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The Irish Times: An Irish navy ship spotted up to five drones operating near the flight path of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's aircraft as he arrived for a state visit to Ireland on Monday, local media reported on Thursday.
The Guardian: Russian authorities blocked access to Snapchat and imposed restrictions on Apple’s video calling service FaceTime, the latest step in an effort to tighten control over the internet and communications online, according to state-run news agencies and the country’s communications regulator.
Reuters: Germany has deployed five Eurofighter jets and some 150 military personnel to the Polish town of Malbork to help secure the country's airspace, the German air force said on Thursday, in response to Russian drone incursions in September.
The Insider: Polish Telegram chats affiliated with the Bomba Poland Media network are posting “job ads” on a daily basis. In reality, the objective of these ads is to recruit saboteurs, who are tasked with perpetrating acts of arson and infrastructure attacks, mostly in Ukraine.
Reuters: The Trump administration extended a waiver for Lukoil PJSC’s gas stations outside of Russia, allowing them to continue operations until late April 2026.
The Kyiv Independent: Ukraine's military intelligence agency struck a Russian MiG-29 fighter jet and an Irtysh radar system in Russian-occupied Crimea, the agency said.
Reuters: Hungary's MOL has told U.S. officials it is interested in buying international assets of sanctioned Russian oil major Lukoil, joining a growing list of contenders.
Britain on Thursday announced new sanctions against Russia, including the entire GRU military intelligence agency, which was singled out in a UK public inquiry into the 2018 death of a woman poisoned by the nerve agent Novichok.
Reuters: Russia is considering retaliatory measures against the Faroe Islands after the Faroese parliament passed a law giving the government the authority to bar Russian fishing companies from its waters.
Politico: French President Emmanuel Macron warned the U.S. could be about to “betray” Ukraine, according to a leaked transcript of a call between European leaders strategizing about how to protect Kyiv.
The UK and Norway are poised to sign a landmark defence pact, establishing a combined naval fleet specifically designed to track Russian submarines across the North Atlantic.
The Kyiv Independent: A Czech foreign fighter taken into Russian captivity has been sentenced to 13 years behind bars for "mercenary work," after he was captured near Pokrovsk in August this year.
Business Insider: Russia's oil companies are still shipping nearly the same amount of oil after the US Treasury cracked down on its biggest producers recently — but the country's energy profits are falling fast, a Goldman Sachs analysis shows.
Reuters: Putin said in an interview published on Thursday that Russia would take full control of Ukraine's Donbas region by force unless Ukrainian forces withdraw.
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