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RFE/RL: Russian forces shelled Ukraine's southern region of Kherson 100 times over the past 24 hours, killing at least two people and causing damage to civilian and industrial infrastructure, regional Governor Oleksandr Prokudin reported early on October 13.
ISW: Russian forces have not secured any major breakthroughs near Avdiivka as of October 12 and are unlikely to immediately cut off Ukrainian forces in the city. Geolocated footage indicates that Russian forces have likely lost at least a battalion tactical group’s worth of armored vehicles in offensive operations around Avdiivka.
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European Council: The finance ministers and heads of central banks of the G7 countries pledged in a joint statement on 12 October to keep Russian assets worth approximately US$280 billion until Russia compensates for the damage caused to Ukraine during the full-scale invasion.
AFP: The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe on Thursday recognised the 1930s starvation of millions in Ukraine under Soviet leader Joseph Stalin a "genocide".
Yahoo News: The Estonian government has approved a draft law that, if passed by parliament, will allow frozen Russian assets to be transferred to Ukraine, Prime Minister Kaja Kallas announced on Oct. 12.
AFP: US military officials displayed what they said were pieces of Iranian drones recovered in Ukraine to UN member states on Thursday -- evidence, according to the Pentagon, of growing ties between Iran and Russia.
AP News: NATO will hold a major nuclear exercise next week, the alliance’s chief said Thursday, an announcement that came after Russia warned it would pull out of a global nuclear test ban agreement.
France 24: The UN Human Rights Council on Thursday extended the mandate of its rapporteur on rights violations in Russia by a year, in a second diplomatic defeat for Moscow in three days.
Reuters: The United States must prepare for possible simultaneous wars with Russia and China by expanding its conventional forces, strengthening alliances and enhancing its nuclear weapons modernization program, a congressionally appointed bipartisan panel said on Thursday.
AFP: French prosecutors Thursday opened a probe into the suspected poisoning in France of exiled Russian journalist Marina Ovsyannikova who brandished an anti-war slogan on state TV after Moscow invaded Ukraine last year.
AP News: The Pentagon calls it FrankenSAM — a project that cobbles together air defense weapons for Ukraine from an array of parts from around the world.
Bloomberg: Latvia said it’s closing a border crossing point that Russia announced would be the sole entry point for most Ukrainians arriving from the European Union by land.
The Moscow Times: The threat of Russian operations against Finland's critical infrastructure "has increased" since the country joined NATO, the Finnish intelligence service said Thursday as Helsinki investigates potential sabotage of its natural gas pipeline.
Bloomberg: An attack on FTX that siphoned an estimated $477 million in digital assets just as the crypto exchange entered bankruptcy last year is now showing a “stronger possibility” of being connected to Russia, according to blockchain analytics firm Elliptic.
Le Monde: In the coming months, Kyiv expects to face more intense bombings than last year on its energy infrastructure, as Moscow has since strengthened its drone capabilities.
Reuters: The U.S. on Thursday imposed the first sanctions on owners of tankers carrying Russian oil above the G7 price cap of $60 a barrel, one based in Turkey and one in the United Arab Emirates, in an effort to close loopholes on the mechanism designed to punish Moscow for the war in Ukraine.
IOC Executive Board suspends Russian Olympic Committee with immediate effect.
Reuters: Russia's parliament will vote next week on withdrawing Moscow's ratification of the global treaty that bans nuclear tests, lawmakers said on Thursday.
AP News: Romanian authorities said Thursday they found a crater from a suspected drone that may have exploded on impact on its territory near the border with Ukraine, reviving concerns about possible spillover of Russia’s war in Ukraine onto a NATO member country.
Reuters: The Czech Republic and Denmark will jointly supply heavy military equipment to Ukraine in the coming months, the Czech Defence Ministry said on Thursday. It said the supplies would be from Czech defence companies and financed from the Danish budget.
The Moscow Times: Russia’s Orthodox Church on Wednesday appointed a bishop who is reputed to be President Vladimir Putin’s spiritual adviser to head the diocese of annexed Crimea.
Bloomberg: Google says it has worked hard to disrupt the ability of Putin’s government to use its services to spread disinformation since the 2022 invasion of Ukraine. But a widely used Android service called Discover continues to serve up misleading propaganda to Russian audiences.
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