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Reuters: Trump said on Monday he would want to know what Ukraine planned to do with U.S.-made Tomahawk missiles before agreeing to supply them because he does not want to escalate Russia's war against Ukraine.
FT: EU governments have agreed to limit the travel of Russian diplomats within the bloc, in response to a surge in sabotage attempts that intelligence agencies say are often led by spies operating under diplomatic cover (archive).
ISW: Russia appears to be accelerating the informational and psychological condition setting phase — “Phase 0” — of its campaign to prepare for a possible NATO-Russia war in the future.
The Kyiv Independent: Ukrainian drones "detected and burned" a Russian signal jamming station in occupied Luhansk Oblast, the Unmanned Systems Forces announced on Oct. 6.
The Kyiv Independent: Ukraine and Denmark signed a memorandum of understanding, which will allow Ukrainian defense companies to set up joint manufacturing in the Nordic country, Defense Minister Denys Shmyhal announced Oct. 6.
The Kyiv Independent: Ukraine will receive several Bozena demining vehicles and additional non-lethal equipment from Slovakia, Ukrainian Defense Minister Denys Shmyhal announced on Oct. 6.
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Reuters: Any European Union decision on using frozen Russian state assets to help Ukraine must follow international law and the European Central Bank is "very attentive" to the process, ECB President Christine Lagarde said on Monday.
Business Insider: A Russian attack on trucks said to be transporting Ukrainian drones appears to have instead targeted grain shipments and killed a civilian, according to Kyiv and satellite imagery analysis (archive).
Reuters: The Kirishi oil refinery, one of Russia's largest, has halted a crude distillation unit, CDU-6, its most productive unit, following a drone attack and subsequent fire on October 4, with its recovery expected to take about a month.
The Kyiv Independent: Ukrainian drones reportedly attacked the city of Tyumen in the Russian region of Siberia late on Oct. 6, local officials reported.
Reuters: Russian sabotage groups are operating inside the embattled eastern Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk, where forces from both sides have clashed, said the commander of a Ukrainian drone unit.
Bloomberg: The European Union has proposed imposing sanctions on A7A5, a ruble-backed stablecoin tied to sanctioned Russian actors, according to documents seen by Bloomberg News (archive).
The Kyiv Independent: Ukraine is investigating evidence that Russian forces executed at least 322 Ukrainian prisoners of war, the Prosecutor General's Office reported on Oct. 6 in response to a request from Ukrinform.
Reuters: The Czech president pressed political parties on Monday to maintain an ammunition supply programme for Ukraine against Russia's invasion following the election victory of a populist party that has pledged to scrap the scheme.
United24 Media: Ukraine has established a network of battery parks designed to sustain the national power grid in case of Russian missile or drone strikes, The Wall Street Journal reported on October 6. The locations of these sites, as well as their protective systems, remain undisclosed for security reasons.
AP News: Long-range Ukrainian drones and missiles hit a major Russian ammunition plant, a key oil terminal and an important weapons depot behind the front line, Ukraine’s president and military said Monday.
Bloomberg: Denmark is tightening regulation of oil tankers passing through its waters as Europe targets the shadow fleet that’s helping Russia skirt sanctions (archive).
Reuters: Former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev said on Monday that it remained a mystery who was behind a wave of drone disruption in various European countries, but that the incidents served as a useful reminder to Europeans of the dangers of war.
United24 Media: Russian air defense units are reportedly using a Chinese-made commercial radar system together with FPV interceptors to track and destroy Ukrainian drones, Militarnyi reported.
Reuters: Senior European Union officials who visited Ukraine have delivered a stern message to Kyiv that it has a lot more to do to secure membership, while they work on overcoming Hungary's opposition to Ukrainian accession.
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