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The U.S. military said on Wednesday that it had intercepted two Russian and two Chinese military aircraft operating in the Alaska Air Defense Identification Zone, although they stayed in international airspace.
Bloomberg: Putin is bucking Western efforts to isolate him internationally, meeting with more than 20 world leaders just since May. Russian businesses aren’t so lucky (archive).
ISW: Russia's ability to continue gradually expanding the amount of manpower and materiel it has committed to Ukraine faces significant constraints in the medium to long term.
Reuters: A Russian Mi-28 military helicopter crashed in the Kaluga region southwest of Moscow on Thursday, killing its crew, the Interfax news agency said, citing Russia's defence ministry.
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The Kyiv Independent: Soldiers of Ukraine's 79th Tavrian Air Assault Brigade said they had repelled one of the largest Russian assaults in the Kurakhove sector since the beginning of Moscow's full-scale war.
RFE/RL: Churches in occupied Ukraine are “loyal to Moscow rather than God,” Ukrainian military chaplain Mark Serhiyev said at a July 24 congressional hearing, adding that Russia is waging a “Christian jihad” in the region.
The Kyiv Independent: Russian forces used an Iskander missile armed with cluster munitions in a "double-tap" attack on an industrial facility in Kharkiv on July 24, the head of the National Police in Kharkiv Oblast said.
United24 Media: The prisoners of war's bodies are returning to Ukraine without internal organs and could be evidence that they are being used for transplants in Russia.
The Kyiv Independent: Russia is reinforcing the Kerch Bridge in occupied Crimea, Krym Realii reported on July 24, citing witnesses.
Meduza: Russia’s 1st Slavyansk Brigade has lost so many soldiers that their relatives refer to it as the “Bermuda Triangle.” The unit’s senior officers, meanwhile, extort money from their subordinates at every turn.
FT: Banned from Summer Olympics that were once a national obsession, Russia has prepared its response: a wave of disinformation, cyber attack threats and the staging of its own “fake games” (archive).
Bloomberg: Estonia plans to raise defense spending to 4% of gross domestic product, one of the highest levels in NATO, over the next two years to buy ammunition and bolster national security after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine (archive).
The Kyiv Independent: Prague is preparing to launch a new initiative to purchase artillery ammunition for Ukraine in 2025, Czech Defense Minister Jana Cernochova said in an interview with the Deník N newspaper on July 24.
The German arms manufacturer Rheinmetall announced on July 24 that it had received an order from the Ukrainian government to begin the construction of an ammunition factory in Ukraine.
The Kyiv Independent: Fighting in the direction of the Donetsk Oblast town of Pokrovsk is "tense and difficult," Ukraine's military said on July 24. Russian forces are attempting to break through Ukrainian defenses in the area, and the sector near Pokrovsk in the western part of Donetsk Oblast has become the hottest part of the front.
The Guardian: Putin is “peddling lies” about the strength of the Russian economy that must be refuted, finance ministers from eight EU member states have said, with growing signs of deterioration in the face of biting sanctions.
Reuters: Russia has begun shipping oil and refined products to Bolivia, helping to tackle a fuel shortage in the country, and expanding its presence in Latin America as Western sanctions have forced Moscow to seek new markets, traders and shipping data show.
Reuters: Italian bank UniCredit said it aims to more than halve loans at its Russian unit by the end of next year to less than 1 billion euros, after challenging a European Central Bank request to speed up its exit.
The Kyiv Independent: Ukraine's military intelligence agency was responsible for a cyberattack that caused outages across a variety of sectors in Russia, an agency source confirmed to the Kyiv Independent on July 24.
Reuters: Ukraine's top diplomat said on Wednesday, after a day of "very deep and concentrated" talks in China, that Kyiv was prepared for talks on the conflict with Russia provided Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity were fully respected.
Reuters: A car bomb injured an officer from Russia's military intelligence agency in northern Moscow on Wednesday, the Kommersant newspaper reported.
Romania’s Defense Ministry said early on Wednesday that it scrambled fighter jets overnight as the Russian military carried out a series of drone attacks near its shared border with southern Ukraine.
The Moscow Times: A Russian man arrested this week for allegedly planning to “destabilize” the Paris Olympics is an intelligence officer for Moscow who worked undercover as a chef in France for over a decade, Le Monde reported late Tuesday, citing anonymous European security and intelligence officials.
The Kyiv Independent: A special unit of Russia's military intelligence agency recruits individuals to perform sabotage operations inside Europe through Telegram and TikTok, the independent Russian anti-corruption project Dossier Center reported.
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