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Reuters: At least two people were killed and one wounded in an attack on Kyiv on Wednesday morning, as debris from targets destroyed by air defences fell on several buildings in the Ukrainian capital.
AP News: Drones hit an airport in Russia’s western Pskov region near the border with Estonia and Latvia, and started a massive fire, the governor and local media reported. More drones were shot down over Oryol, Bryansk, Ryazan, Kaluga and the Moscow region surrounding the Russian capital.
Reuters Exclusive: Russia has informed Brazil's aircraft investigation authority that it will not probe the crash of the Brazilian-made Embraer jet that killed mercenary boss Yevgeny Prigozhin under international rules "at the moment", the Brazilian agency told Reuters on Tuesday.
WSJ: The war in Ukraine is a meat grinder of artillery, missiles and deadly minefields. Running silently aside all that is a test of battlefield marksmanship for snipers pursuing the fight one shot at a time.
ISW: Ukrainian intel reported that the Kremlin is currently focused on promoting 5 main information operations against Ukraine. The Russian narratives include claims that: Ukraine is conducting mass mobilization regardless of age, gender, or health; Ukraine’s Western partners are disappointed in its prospects for victory; Ukrainian counteroffensive is failing; Ukrainian govt is completely corrupt and is not fighting corruption; Russian authorities provide good living standards and conditions in occupied Ukraine.
UK Ministry of Defence: Although some soldiers have refused to fight and attrition rates remain high, Russia highly likely mitigates their loss by committing a mass of poorly trained soldiers to the frontline. Since Russia’s September 2022 ‘partial’ mobilisation, Russia has adapted its approach to warfare by utilising sheer mass for offensive and defensive operations.
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The War Zone: The modified Neptune anti-ship missiles give Ukraine its longest-range and hardest-hitting locally made weapon, which has big implications.
Sky News: Russia has "sunk" a number of vessels by the Crimean bridge using what analysts call a "200-year-old strategy" to defend itself against the emerging threat of Ukrainian sea drones. Satellite images gathered by Sky News show six dark objects in a row appearing over a seven-day period by the Crimean bridge, also known as Kerch Bridge.
CNN: A Russian network of internet trolls has begun to spread messages online blaming “enemies from the West” for the plane crash that killed Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin last week, according to two experts who monitor the activity of the trolls.
swissinfo: A Swiss remote-controlled mine-clearing machine is ready to be sent to Ukraine, the defence ministry said on Tuesday.
Bloomberg: Wheat from European Union nations bordering the Black Sea is trading cheaper than rival origins like Russia, raising its relative attractiveness for buyers.
Reuters: U.S. authorities said an international law enforcement operation had taken down the notorious "Qakbot" malware platform used extensively by cybercriminals in a variety of financial crimes. Security researchers say they believe Qakbot originates from Russia and has attacked organizations around the world, from Germany to Argentina.
AP News: U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday announced a new package of military assistance to aid Ukraine. The package includes additional mine clearing equipment, missiles for air defense, ammunition for artillery and high bar systems, and over 3 million rounds of small arms ammunition.
Reuters: Russia's Gazprom said on Tuesday it generated a net loss of 18.6 billion roubles ($197 million) in the second quarter of 2023 after a net profit of 1.03 trillion roubles a year earlier following the collapse of gas exports to Europe.
RFE/RL: The Czech Republic has launched an investigation against Raiffeisen Bank International due to its activities in Russia, Czech TV reported on August 29. The Czech Association for the Rights of Citizens and Entrepreneurs filed a complaint against Raiffeisen, accusing it of continuing activities in Russia and sponsoring Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.
POLITICO: Ukraine faces a conundrum: use Chinese telecom kit to repair its shattered infrastructure or side with Western allies in icing out the likes of Huawei and ZTE.
Forbes: In the 13 weeks since launching a long-anticipated counteroffensive along several axes in southern and eastern Ukraine, the Ukrainian army has lost just five of its 71 Leopard 2 tanks. Many more of the German-made tanks—at least 10—have suffered damage. But the Ukrainians are repairing the damaged tanks at depots in Poland and Germany and returning them to the front.
Reuters: Russian and Belarusian athletes will be allowed to compete as "individual neutral athletes" at events sanctioned by the Badminton World Federation from next February, the sport's governing body said on Tuesday.
AFP: As the war grinds on, Ukrainians are accelerating efforts to expunge Russian cultural influences. “De-Russification” predates Moscow’s 2022 invasion but the war has intensified a campaign to purge Soviet and Russian symbols from public spaces.
AP News: A German-Russian dual citizen has been arrested in Germany on allegations of violating the country’s foreign trade act multiple times by exporting electronic components to a company in Russia involved in the production of military materiel and accessories.
Reuters: More than 1,300 schools have been totally destroyed in government-held areas of Ukraine since Russia's 2022 invasion and others have been badly damaged, the U.N. children's fund UNICEF said on Tuesday.
The Insider: The Russian foreign exchange market has done a one-eighty, faced with an unprecedented near-absence of foreign investors. This indicator was similar only in the mid-1990s, according to Mikhail Zadornov, Russia’s former Minister of Finance.
CNN: Ukrainian officials have criticized Pope Francis’ recent address to Russian youth, calling his remarks “imperialist propaganda.”
Reuters: South Korea unveiled on Tuesday financial aid of 520 billion won ($394 million) for Ukraine next year, an eightfold increase from this year.
worth mentioning
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