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Reuters: Germany's domestic intelligence agency has warned against a cyber group belonging to Russian military intelligence (GRU) Unit 29155, saying it has carried out cyberattacks against NATO and EU countries.
AFP: China said Monday it would hold joint military drills with Russia this month, as the allies deepen ties that have seen NATO dub Beijing an "enabler" of Moscow's war in Ukraine.
Bloomberg: A sanctioned Russian liquefied natural gas export facility is sending a shipment to Asia for the first time, as Moscow continues a search for customers willing to take the fuel and circumvent US restrictions (archive).
ISW: CIA Director William Burns cautioned the West against concern about boilerplate Russian nuclear saber-rattling, which ISW has long identified as part of a Kremlin effort to promote Western self-deterrence and influence key moments in Western policy debates about support for Ukraine.
08.09.2024
Reuters: Romania and Latvia, both NATO members and supporters of Ukraine in its 2 1/2-year-old war with Russia, on Sunday were investigating instances of Russian drones that crashed after breaching their airspace, authorities in both countries said.
AP News: German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Sunday he and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy agree that Russia should be included in a future peace conference aimed at ending Russia’s war against Ukraine. He called for stepped up efforts to solve the conflict.
Euromaidan Press: Iranian lawmaker Ardestani acknowledges ballistic missile deliveries to Russia, contradicting Iran’s official denials after the media reported Tehran’s short-range missile shipments to Russia.
Reuters: Russian state media outlet RT, which the United States has accused of trying to influence its presidential election, will continue to work in the West by going around any limits or sanctions, its editor-in-chief said on Sunday.
FT: Insurers and reinsurers must ditch “arbitrary” exclusions that cut Ukraine from policies and resume cover to support the war-torn country’s economic recovery, the world’s two biggest insurance brokers have said (archive).
The Kyiv Independent: Portugal is advocating for Ukraine's entry into the European Union and is urging the EU to start preparing for this possibility, Bloomberg reports.
Reuters: The governor of Russia's southern Belgorod region said on Sunday Ukrainian forces attacked a fuel depot, triggering a series of fires after Moscow and Kyiv accused each other of launching overnight attacks on border regions.
Ukrainska Pravda: As many as 220 people remain in hospitals in the city of Poltava, some of them in a critical condition, following the Russian strike on the Institute of Communication on 3 September.
ISW: Ukraine continues to successfully adapt and develop its anti-drone capabilities, allowing Ukrainian forces to leverage lower-end systems to offset Russian pressures on Ukraine's limited air defense umbrella.
07.09.2024
The Kyiv Independent: Ukraine is building weapons underground to supply the military with arms in the event of delays in military aid from abroad, President Volodymyr Zelensky said at the Ambrosetti International Economic Forum in Italy on Sept. 7.
AP News: The United States has informed allies that it believes Iran has transferred short-range ballistic missiles to Russia for its war in Ukraine, according to two people familiar with the matter.
The Kyiv Independent: Russian forces have captured considerably less territory in the Pokrovsk direction over the past week than during earlier periods, the independent Russian outlet Agentstvo reported on Sept. 7.
AFP: Ukraine's security services said Saturday they had struck a Russian ammunition depot in a border region, as Moscow's forces claimed yet another advance on the battlefield.
FT: Ukraine’s Kursk offensive has dented Putin’s war narrative and triggered “questions” among the Russian elite about the point of the war, two of the world’s leading spy chiefs have said (archive).
The Kyiv Independent: A Russian artillery attack on the city of Kostiantynivka killed three people and injured three others, Donetsk Oblast Governor Vadym Filashkin reported on Sept. 7.
CNN: Ukraine appears to be calling on a fleet of fire-spewing “dragon drones” in its war with Russian invaders, putting a modern twist on a munition used to horrific effect in both world wars.
The Kyiv Independent: Ukraine's consul-general in Toronto, Oleh Nikolenko, has urged the Toronto International Film Festival to remove a documentary centering Russian soldiers fighting on the front lines in Ukraine.
ISW: Russian forces are increasingly executing surrendering Ukrainian soldiers throughout the frontline likely in part because Russian commanders appear to be endorsing the proliferation of such war crimes.
06.09.2024
NY Times: The Ukrainian offensive over the border caught Moscow’s intelligence agencies by surprise, experts say. It wasn’t the first time that has happened during the war (archive).
The Kyiv Independent: Lithuania will allocate 10 million euros to buy new Ukrainian-made Palianytsia missile-drones for Kyiv, former Strategic Industries Minister Alexander Kamyshin said on Sept. 6 after the meeting of Ukraine Defense Contact Group in Germany.
Bloomberg: Russia’s efforts to influence the US election are more sophisticated than in past cycles, a US intelligence official said, warning the country’s activities go well beyond an alleged plot revealed in a Justice Department indictment this week (archive).
The Kyiv Independent: Russia is preparing to launch new mass attacks against Ukraine's energy system, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said on Sept. 6, citing military intelligence data.
AFP: France will use a share of 1.4 billion euros in revenues from frozen Russian assets to finance purchase of military equipment for Ukraine, the defence ministry said Friday.
Reuters: Russian state media outlet RT is using American and other personalities to try to sway U.S. voters into backing Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump over his Democratic foe, Kamala Harris, a senior U.S. intelligence official said on Friday.
The Netherlands is going to provide maintenance equipment and materials for Ukraine’s F-16s, as well as air-to-air missiles that the aircraft can use to defend Ukrainian airspace.
The European Commission announced Friday an additional €40 million in humanitarian aid for vulnerable people in Ukraine ahead of the approaching winter and the ongoing attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure.
Reuters: Canada plans to send 80,840 surplus small unarmed air-to-surface rockets to Ukraine as well as 1,300 warheads in the coming months, Defense Minister Bill Blair said in a statement on Friday.
The United States pledged a new package of weapons, ammunition and other defense aid for Ukraine worth $250 million, the Pentagon announced on Sept. 6.
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