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BBC: Sir Keir Starmer will push allies to provide Ukraine with more long-range missiles to strike Russian targets at a meeting in London on Friday. The prime minister will host Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky along with the so-called "coalition of the willing".
Reuters: German Economy Minister Katherina Reiche arrived in Kyiv on Friday, highlighting Berlin's efforts to help Ukraine repair its energy infrastructure after recent Russian attacks severely damaged the power grid.
BBC: UK Defence Secretary John Healey has a message for Putin: "We're hunting your submarines." There has been a "30% rise in Russian vessels threatening UK waters", he says. The Ministry of Defence says Russian submarine activity in the North Atlantic is now back to the same levels as the Cold War era.
Reuters: U.S. prosecutors have accused a former executive of a government contractor that provides cyber intelligence tools to federal agencies of selling trade secrets to a buyer in Russia for $1.3 million.
ISW: Russian forces continue to increase the frequency of mechanized assaults in eastern and southern Ukraine, likely to take advantage of rainy and foggy weather conditions that complicate Ukrainian drone operations.
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Reuters: European Union leaders agreed on Thursday to meet Ukraine's "pressing financial needs" for the next two years but stopped short of endorsing a plan to use frozen Russian assets to fund a giant loan to Kyiv due to concerns raised by Belgium.
Euronews: Two Russian military aircraft entered Lithuania's airspace on Thursday for about 18 seconds, the country's military said on Thursday.
BBC: A drug dealer from Leicestershire carried out "a sustained campaign of terrorism and sabotage on UK soil" in support of Russia, the Old Bailey has heard.
Reuters: Ukrainian authorities have opened a war crime investigation into an incident in which a witness said Russian forces shot dead five civilians in a village in eastern Ukraine.
The Guardian: An attempt by Russia to connect the occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant to the Russian grid in time for Putin’s birthday earlier this month was foiled by Ukrainian forces operating behind enemy lines.
Reuters: Germany is seeking an exemption from U.S. sanctions on Russian oil company Rosneft's German business, after banks said sanctions could stop them dealing with the local energy supplier. Rosneft's German business is controlled by German authorities but Russian-owned. It is a key supplier, routing and refining oil to petrol pumps and some airports in Europe's biggest economy.
Yle: Finland will buy US weapons for Ukraine for €100m, the Finnish daily Helsingin Sanomat reported on Thursday, citing the Nordic country’s prime minister Petteri Orpo.
Reuters: Chinese state oil majors have suspended purchases of seaborne Russian oil after the United States imposed sanctions on Rosneft and Lukoil, Moscow's two biggest oil companies.
Euractiv: Belgium’s Prime Minister Bart De Wever said he will “do everything in my power” to block the EU’s floated new loan for Ukraine unless financial and legal risks are shared, and other EU countries harness Russian sovereign assets held in their own jurisdictions (archive).
Reuters: British police said on Thursday they had arrested three men suspected of assisting a foreign intelligence service, and that the alleged offences related to Russia.
WP: Russia is protecting its nuclear submarine fleet in the Arctic with an undersea surveillance system built using high-tech equipment acquired from U.S. and European companies through a secret procurement network, according to newly uncovered financial records, court documents and Western security officials (archive, more from ICIJ).
Reuters: Liquefied natural gas supplies from Russia's Sakhalin-2 project play an "extremely important role" in Japan's energy security and replacing them would be costly and cause higher electricity prices, Japan's industry minister said on Thursday.
The Kyiv Independent: Ukraine has confirmed drone strikes on two strategic Russian targets overnight on Oct. 23, the Ryazan Oil Refinery and an ammunition depot near Valuyki, Belgorod Oblast.
Reuters: Privately-owned Reliance Industries will stop importing oil under its long-term deal to buy nearly 500,000 barrels per day of crude from Russian oil major Rosneft, after the oil producer was sanctioned by the United States.
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Long read: Emergent Approaches to Combined Arms Manoeuvre in Ukraine - RUSI
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