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The Kyiv Independent: The Atesh partisan group sabotaged a key railway connection between Russia's Rostov-on-Don and the occupied Ukrainian city of Mariupol used by the Russian military, the group claimed on July 9.
CNN: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday criticized his Indian counterpart’s visit to Moscow as a “huge disappointment and a devastating blow to peace efforts,” on the same day that a Russian missile smashed into a children’s hospital in Kyiv.
Reuters: A North Korean elite military training delegation has left for a visit to Russia, the North's state media said on Tuesday, the first military exchange between the two countries since their leaders signed a pact pledging closer military cooperation.
ISW: Russian officials and information space actors are attempting to deflect responsibility for the Okhmatdyt Children's Hospital strike by making false claims about the missiles involved and the state of the hospital — all contrary to available evidence.
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Reuters: The United Nations Security Council will meet on Tuesday over a Russian attack on Ukraine that struck Kyiv's main children's hospital, said diplomats.
The Kyiv Independent: Berlin has delivered new military equipment to Ukraine that includes its third Patriot air defense system with spare parts and additional missiles, the country's defense ministry confirmed on July 8.
Reuters: Russia blasted the main children's hospital in Kyiv with a missile in broad daylight on Monday and rained missiles down on other cities across Ukraine, killing at least 41 civilians in the deadliest wave of air strikes for months.
Bloomberg: Poland and Moldova are looking for ways to help Ukraine boost its electricity security amid a barrage of recent Russian attacks on power facilities (archive).
Novaya-Europe: Family members of Russian soldiers sent to fight in Ukraine gathered in front of the Russian Defence Ministry in Moscow on Monday to demand a meeting with Defence Minister Andrey Belousov.
The Kyiv Independent: Russian forces have improved their ballistic and cruise missiles, making them more difficult to detect and shoot down, Yurii Ihnat, former Air Force spokesman, said.
Meduza: Hundreds of former prisoners who were recruited by a military formation affiliated with the Russian occupation administration in Ukraine’s Donetsk region are being coerced into signing indefinite contracts with the Russian army.
AFP: Russia is the greatest security threat facing Sweden and its allies in the next several years, Stockholm said in a strategy outline published Monday.
Reuters: Armenia's foreign minister will travel to Washington on July 9-10 during the NATO summit, his ministry said on Monday, as the country, once a top Russian ally, seeks to build closer ties with the West.
CNN: China and Belarus announced they were holding joint military training exercises just miles from the border of Poland – a NATO and European Union member.
Bloomberg: Russia and India are likely to agree on a long-term uranium supply pact for a nuclear power plant coming online in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, said senior officials with knowledge of the matter (archive).
POLITICO: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed bilateral security agreement with Poland in Warsaw on Monday — aimed at strengthening ties with one of the country’s closest wartime allies. Poland has already provided 44 military aid packages to Ukraine worth €4 billion and has pledged to provide several more this year and into the next decade.
The Moscow Times: A provider of stolen personal data sold on the black market has compiled a list of Russians who left the country following the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the independent investigative news outlet Agentstvo reported Sunday.
Reuters: Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Monday he would go to Washington after discussing a Chinese peace plan for Ukraine in Beijing.
FT: Nato leaders are expected to make a one-year, €40bn pledge of support for Ukraine this week, as the alliance’s most important members are engulfed in domestic political turmoil that limits their capacity to commit more long-term resources to Ukraine in its defence against Russia (archive).
AP News: Chinese President Xi Jinping called on world powers to help Russia and Ukraine resume direct dialogue during a meeting Monday with Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, state broadcaster CCTV reported.
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