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FT: Nato allies are discussing a more forceful response to Putin’s increasingly provocative actions, including by deploying armed drones along the border with Russia and easing restrictions on pilots to allow them to open fire on Russian aircraft (archive).
The Kyiv Independent: "Massive" Russian drone and guided bomb strikes on Sumy Oblast beginning the evening of Oct. 8 have already left three dead and two injured, Governor Oleh Hryhorov reported.
Reuters: President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Wednesday that Ukrainian forces were inflicting heavy losses in a counteroffensive in eastern Donetsk region, the main theatre of the more than 3-1/2 years of war in Ukraine.
The Kyiv Independent: US Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, a right-wing Republican from the state of Florida, will meet with Russian envoy Kirill Dmitriev in October to "foster …conversations of peace and trade" between Russia and the US.
ISW: The Kremlin’s moves to withdraw from the Plutonium Management and Disposition Agreement likely immediately aim to prevent US sales of Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine and are part of an ongoing reflexive control campaign.
The Kyiv Independent: Russian strikes have destroyed more than half of Ukraine's natural gas production capacity ahead of winter, Bloomberg reported on Oct. 9, citing its undisclosed sources.
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Reuters: Russia's central bank has ruled the state violated the rights of minority shareholders in some asset seizures it made in relation to its war in Ukraine, sources told Reuters, in a first pushback by the Russian elite on the nationalisation process.
The Moscow Times: Russia’s stock market suffered its steepest single-day decline in three years on Wednesday after a senior diplomat said that progress toward a potential peace deal to end the war in Ukraine had largely stalled.
Reuters: European Union countries' ambassadors on Wednesday agreed to move ahead with the bloc's plan to end Russian oil and gas imports by 2028, EU diplomats said, clearing the law's first political hurdle before governments vote on it later this month.
The Moscow Times: Russia has begun enforcing a 24-hour blackout on mobile data and text messaging for all foreign SIM cards that connect to its networks, authorities in neighboring Belarus said this week.
Reuters: Germany will grant police the power to shoot down rogue drones like those that have disrupted airports across Europe and that some European leaders have attributed to a hybrid war being waged by Russia.
United24 Media: Russia’s once-vast tank reserves are running dry. According to new OSINT data analyzed from satellite imagery, only 32 tanks remain in decent condition on Russian storage bases—while thousands of others sit rusting, stripped for parts, or beyond repair.
Reuters: Russia's lower house of parliament on Wednesday approved a move to withdraw from a landmark agreement with the United States aimed at reducing vast stockpiles of weapons-grade plutonium left over from thousands of Cold War nuclear warheads.
Reuters: Russia will shoot down Tomahawk cruise missiles and bomb their launch sites if the United States decides to supply them to Ukraine and find a way to retaliate against Washington that hurts, a senior Russian lawmaker said on Wednesday.
Politico: One of Europe’s biggest air defense companies is warning that its top secret factories are being overflown by increasing numbers of drones, and it wants clear rules on how to jam or bring them down.
Reuters: Taiwan's economy minister said on Wednesday that privately-run refiners are willing to stop buying Russian naphtha should the EU ask them too, after a group of non-governmental organisations criticised the island's continued business with the country.
worth mentioning
Raiffeisen 'not giving up' on finding buyer for Russian unit, CEO says
Russia says it will swiftly carry out a nuclear test if the US does the same, RIA reports
Serbia's Russian-owned oil firm NIS faces US sanctions as waiver expires
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