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AP News: Russia is rebuilding its capacity to destabilize European countries and extend its influence in the Middle East and Africa, posing a strategic threat to NATO as its members focus on the war in Ukraine, a U.K.-based think tank said Tuesday.

Reuters: An international law enforcement operation led by Britain's National Crime Agency and the FBI has arrested and indicted members of the Lockbit ransomware gang, in an unprecedented police operation that has struck one of the world's most notorious cybercrime gangs. The United States has charged two Russian nationals with deploying Lockbit ransomware against companies and groups around the world. Police in Poland and Ukraine made two arrests.

AFP: The remains of a North Korean ballistic missile recovered in Ukraine contained components with the marks of companies headquartered in the United States and Europe, a weapons tracking organization said Tuesday.

POLITICO: America’s top disinformation diplomat says he’s particularly focused on — and concerned about — how Moscow’s global web of propaganda is enveloping Africa.

RFI: The Swiss aid group HEKS said Tuesday that an investigation into the killing of two French staff in Ukraine had determined they died in a "deliberate" drone attack.

AFP: Eleven Ukrainian children crossed the border from Belarus to Ukraine Tuesday evening, in the latest return of children taken to Russia and occupied territories during the nearly two-year Ukraine war.

FT: Lawmakers in Germany’s ruling coalition are set to vote on a motion that could finally push Chancellor Olaf Scholz to deliver Taurus cruise missiles to Ukraine. Kyiv’s troops are in serious need of ammo, and long-range missiles could have a big impact (archive).

Reuters: Ukraine's military on Tuesday dismissed a statement by Russia's defence minister that Moscow's forces had secured full control over the village of Krynky on the eastern bank of the Dnipro River in southern Kherson region.

POLITICO: One reason U.S. officials didn’t widely disseminate intelligence about Russia’s efforts to develop a new space weapon: the administration was trying to start talks to convince Russia to back off the program.

AP News: The White House says it is preparing additional “major sanctions” on Russia in response to opposition leader Alexei Navalny's death in an Arctic penal colony.

AFP: The European Union summoned the Russian charge d'affaires, Kirill Logvinov, in Brussels following the death in prison of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, the EU diplomatic service said Tuesday.

AFP: Poland's foreign ministry on Tuesday summoned Russia's ambassador over the death of the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny.

The Moscow Times: A London court has charged the former Moscow-installed head of Sevastopol in annexed Crimea with violating sanctions and money laundering, BBC Russian reported Tuesday.

Bloomberg: Massive spending cuts have left the French government struggling to put together funding for a package of as much as €3 billion in military aid to Ukraine (archive).

Reuters: Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, has asked the European Union to refuse to recognise Russia's March presidential election, in a step that sharply escalates her campaign against Putin.

Reuters: Estonia's Prime Minister Kaja Kallas said on Tuesday that her country had successfully halted a hybrid operation by Russia's security services on Estonian territory.

Reuters: Protests by Polish farmers sparked anger in neighbouring Ukraine on Tuesday, as Kyiv called on the European Commission to take robust action after demonstrators blockaded the border and opened railway carriages to let grain spill out.

Reuters: Sweden's defence ministry said on Tuesday the Nordic country will donate military aid to Ukraine worth some 7.1 billion Swedish crowns ($682 million), including the transfer of equipment and fresh cash for arms procurement.

BBC News: A woman with US-Russian citizenship has been detained in Russia on suspicion of treason and fundraising for Ukraine's army. She has been named in US media as Ksenia Karelina, 33, from Los Angeles.

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