12.11.2023

Reuters: At least three Russian officers were killed in the Moscow-controlled Ukrainian city of Melitopol in a blast Ukraine's intelligence said on Sunday was an "act of revenge" by local resistance groups.

AP News: Russian forces have ramped up attacks in eastern Ukraine in an attempt to gain ground near two key front line cities, Ukrainian military officials said Sunday.

Ukrainska Pravda: Finland supports the transfer of Russia’s assets frozen abroad to Ukraine as financial aid for the latter.

Reuters: German chancellor Olaf Scholz's governing coalition has agreed in principle to double the country's military aid for Ukraine next year to 8 billion euros, a political source in Berlin said on Sunday.

DW: Ukraine's army is running short on personnel. In an effort to make military service more palatable, the government is overhauling its recruitment policy.

Ukrainska Pravda: Ukrainian forces will try to cut off Russian forces’ supply chains when cold weather arrives and "freeze them out" of Ukraine.

FT: A rare look inside a covert Russian-led operation to get strategic technology protected by European export controls into the hands of the state.

Reuters: Russia plans to block certain Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) and protocols which are deemed by a commission of experts to pose a threat, state news agency RIA reported citing correspondence from the digital ministry.

AP News: Latvian President Edgars Rinkēvičs told the AP he believes Moscow is well prepared for a long war and that the West must keep providing Ukraine with security assistance or else Russia will be emboldened to threaten other countries in the future.

Reuters: Ukraine will have enough energy resources to get through the coming winter, but an expected surge in Russian attacks may disrupt the supply networks, Ukraine's Energy Minister German Galushchenko said late on Saturday.

11.11.2023

Reuters: A Ukrainian military officer coordinated last year's attack on the Nord Stream natural gas pipeline, the Washington Post reported on Saturday, citing anonymous sources in Ukraine and Europe.

The Kyiv Independent: The Hungarian government plans to ask its citizens whether they support Ukraine's potential EU membership in its upcoming questionnaire sent via mail, known as the "National Consultation," the country's Foreign Ministry's State Secretary Tamas Menczer said on Nov. 11.

AFP: Russian authorities said Saturday they had launched a "terrorism" probe after the derailment of a goods train southwest of Moscow.

The Guardian: A former Nato secretary general has put forward a proposal for Ukraine to join the military alliance but stripped of the territories occupied by Russia.

AFP: Russia on Saturday denied stealing Carlsberg's business, saying its seizure was legal, in reaction to remarks made almost two weeks ago by the head of the Danish brewery company.

AP News: Russian forces targeted Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, as part of an overnight bombardment felt across the country, local officials said Saturday, while drones that Russian officials blamed on the Ukrainian military targeted areas around Moscow and the region of Smolensk.

The Kyiv Independent: Russian forces became once again more active near Avdiivka in Donetsk Oblast, resulting in heavy losses on their side, the Ukrainian army's Tavria group spokesperson Oleksandr Shtupun said.

France 24: Russia has been spreading disinformation about the situation in the Middle East, the president of Microsoft said Saturday, as tensions soar in the region due to the Israel-Hamas war.

Euronews: Spillover from Moscow's invasion of Ukraine has made Russian society far more insecure, researchers found.

Reuters: The Czech and Taiwanese governments signed an agreement on Friday to work together to help reconstruction work in Ukraine, with a senior Czech envoy praising Taipei as a "great ally" despite the absence of formal diplomatic ties.

10.11.2023

Reuters: U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Friday said the U.S. government had seen evidence that Chinese firms may be aiding in the flow of equipment to Russia's war effort despite Western sanctions, and said she had urged China to crack down.

Canada is imposing new sanctions against persons who, by their role in the Kremlin-backed orchestration of disinformation and war propaganda, directly promote Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine.

POLITICO: Ukraine is open to the possibility of attacking Russia’s oil and gas infrastructure if Moscow ramps up its targeting of Ukraine’s electric system this winter, Ukraine Energy Minister German Galushchenko said in an interview.

Reuters: Russian artillery and drone attacks on Friday killed three people and damaged an unspecified infrastructure facility, power lines and a gas pipeline in the Dnipropetrovsk and Kherson regions of Ukraine, local officials said.

The Kyiv Independent: Lithuania has delivered National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile Systems (NASAMS) to Ukraine, the Lithuanian Defense Ministry announced on Nov. 10.

The world’s largest crypto exchange Binance said Friday that it will stop providing Russian ruble deposits starting next week as it prepares to leave the Russian market.

AFP: Russian prisoners sent to fight in Ukraine are atoning for their crimes "with blood," the Kremlin said Friday, answering questions about the controversial pardon of a man who had murdered his ex-girlfriend.

The Kyiv Independent: The EU believes it is unlikely to deliver all of the pledged 1 million artillery shells to Ukraine by the March 2024 target, Bloomberg reported on Nov. 10, citing undisclosed sources.

POLITICO: Russia's invasion of Ukraine is forcing Germany to turn its military into a powerful and well-financed fighting force focused on defending the country and NATO allies, Germany's chancellor said on Friday.

Reuters: The European Union will be able work around any Hungarian veto and give Ukraine 50 billion euros in aid, officials in the bloc said, as Kyiv struggles to push back Russia's invasion 21 months into the war.

The Kyiv Independent: A car belonging to a Russian policeman was blown up in occupied Mariupol, said Petro Andriushchenko, an adviser to the city’s exiled mayor, on Nov. 10.

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