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Reuters: Russia launched a large-scale air attack on Ukraine's western region of Lviv and the northwestern region of Volyn, killing at least three people and wounding scores of others, officials said.
BBC: At least 30 people have been killed in an explosion and fire at a petrol station in Dagestan in southern Russia.
ISW: Crimean occupation authorities are attempting to impose new federal penalties on individuals who publish content revealing the locations and operations of Russian military assets in occupied Crimea, likely in response to Ukraine’s ongoing interdiction campaign.
Reuters: North Korea leader Kim Jong Un and Russian President Vladimir Putin exchanged letters on Tuesday pledging to develop their ties into what Kim called a "long-standing strategic relationship," Pyongyang's state media KCNA said.
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Business Insider: Ukrainian schoolchildren will enroll in mandatory landmine safety courses this year. Meanwhile, Russian students learn how to operate drones and clean guns. The moves show the contrasting sides of the war — and a heartbreaking reality for children.
Forbes: It was all but inevitable that the Russian garrison in occupied Urozhaine would fall. Advancing in a pulse of rapid assaults since early June, a powerful division-size Ukrainian force—including all four Ukrainian marine corps brigades—had flanked Urozhaine, a tiny settlement with a few hundred structures arrayed along three parallel north-south roads in southern Ukraine’s Donetsk Oblast.
The Norwegian defense and aerospace company KONGSBERG secured a major contract with the International Fund for Ukraine for the delivery of advanced Unmanned Aerial Countermeasures Systems (C-UAS) to the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The systems, valued at 65 million euros, are designed to counter a wide range of drone threats and will be a crucial addition to Ukraine's defense capabilities.
The U.S. has announced a $200 million military aid package for Ukraine, including munitions for Patriot air defense systems and HIMARS, as well as other support, the Pentagon said on Aug. 14.
Reuters: Russia's central bank will hold an extraordinary meeting on Tuesday to discuss the level of its key interest rate, it said on Monday, as the sharply weakening rouble prompted calls for higher borrowing costs.
The Insider: Russian PM Mikhail Mishustin recently bragged about the relocation of 50,000 residents from slums in the first half of 2023. He failed to mention that over 1.6 million Russians were in line for emergency housing assistance as of last December.
Meduza: Convoy, the private military company created by the Kremlin-appointed head of Crimea, Sergey Aksyonov, is financed in part by Russia’s VTB Bank and by a company owned by businessman Arkady Rotenberg, according to a new investigation from Dossier Center.
Reuters: Twenty-two Russian diplomats flew out of the Moldovan capital of Chisinau on Monday, leaving behind a skeleton staff as relations between the two countries deteriorate.
Sky News: RAF Typhoon jets have intercepted Russian bombers flying north of Scotland, the UK government has said. Typhoon fighters were launched to intercept two Russian long-range maritime patrol bombers as they transited near the Shetland Islands within NATO's northern air policing area, the government added.
Reuters: The Danish air force has intercepted two Russian bombers that were identified over Denmark and flying towards the area that the Netherlands monitors for the NATO military alliance, the Dutch Royal Airforce said on Monday.
CNBC: China's relationship with Russia has deepened in recent years. Both countries share a similar aim in challenging what they see as the West's dominance in global affairs. The dynamic between Beijing and Moscow is more nuanced than it appears on the surface, however, with neither side wanting the other to become too powerful in the relationship.
Business Insider: Russia's fighter planes are malfunctioning because of overuse, handing Ukraine a potential advantage in its air battles against the Russian air force, an expert said. In an article for Defense News, Michael Bohnert, an engineering expert at the Rand Corporation think tank, said that Russia's warplanes are running out of "aircraft life".
Reuters: Romania aims to double the monthly transit capacity of Ukrainian grain to its flagship Black Sea port of Constanta to 4 million tonnes in the coming months, particularly via the Danube river, Transport Minister Sorin Grindeanu said.
AFP: The Ukrainian military on Monday said it had pushed Russian forces out of pockets of territory along front lines in the east and south of the country, building on a gruelling counteroffensive launched two months ago.
Ukrainska Pravda: The Greek arms manufacturing company Hellenic Defence Systems is in talks with international ammunition manufacturers to participate in a programme to produce 155mm shells to support Ukraine and replenish EU stockpiles.
Bloomberg: Kremlin economic aide Maxim Oreshkin blamed the central bank for contributing to declines in the ruble, an unusual rebuke made public just moments before the Russian currency broke through 100 to the dollar for the first time since March last year.
AP News: Chinese Defense Minister Li Shangfu is visiting Russia and Belarus in a show of support for those nations which the West has sought to isolate over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Reuters: German defence group Rheinmetall said on Monday that it has received an order worth a low double-digit million-euro amount to supply its Luna drone system to Ukraine this year.
AFP: Poland has detained two Russian citizens who were "distributing propaganda materials of the Wagner Group" in Warsaw and Krakow, the two biggest Polish cities, the interior minister said Monday.
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