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Reuters: Blasts were heard in Kyiv and parts of the city were left without power early on Monday after Ukraine's air force put the whole country under air raid alerts following the launch of Russian missile attacks.
Meduza: Trump spoke over the phone to Putin last week. Trump's team did not inform Kyiv about the conversation beforehand, and he engaged Putin without the support of the US State Department and without government interpreters.
Reuters: Russian air attacks killed at least five people overnight, injured 19 more including five children and set on fire to several buildings in southern Ukraine, regional governors said on Monday.
10.11.2024
AFP, Yahoo News: The White House will spend its remaining $6 billion of Ukraine funding before Donald Trump's presidential inauguration in January, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said Sunday, warning of the global risks of ending US support for Kyiv.
WSJ: A State Department office that uses high-level U.S. intelligence to combat Russian and Chinese information operations abroad faces a possible shutdown at the end of the year, just weeks before Trump returns to the White House (archive).
The Moscow Times: The secretary of Russia's Security Council Sergei Shoigu will visit China next week for talks with top Chinese officials, Russian state news agencies reported.
Reuters: Moldova said two Russian "decoy" drones that are used to mislead Ukrainian air defences during attacks violated Moldovan airspace and crashed deep inside its territory on Sunday, endangering the population.
The Kyiv Independent: Russia is preparing to launch an offensive in Kursk Oblast with a force of 50,000 soldiers, including North Korean troops, the New York Times reported on Nov. 10, citing U.S. and Ukrainian officials.
Bloomberg: Street battles have started in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kurakhove, Russian security agencies told state-run Tass, as Kremlin troops attempt to press their ground advantage at a time each side has ramped up drone launches (archive).
Politico: Russia last month suffered its most significant troop losses since the start of the war in Ukraine while making territorial gains, the United Kingdom's Chief of the Defence Staff Tony Radakin said Sunday.
The Guardian: The UK is examining all possible options when it comes to Trump’s approach to Ukraine, the chief secretary to the Treasury has said, as the UK’s chief of the defence staff said approximately 1,500 Russian troops were being killed and injured every day.
Kyiv Post: As part of a coordinated attack on Russian territory, Ukrainian forces targeted an ammunition depot in Bryansk Oblast, less than 150 km from the Ukrainian border.
CNN: Russia and Ukraine have exchanged record numbers of drone strikes, with Moscow launching a total of 145 drones on Saturday night – the most ever in a single night-time attack of the war. Ukraine meanwhile fired an unprecedented number of drones towards Russia’s capital overnight on Saturday into Sunday.
09.11.2024
The Kyiv Independent: The situation on the front lines in Ukraine is "challenging" and "trending towards escalation," Ukraine's Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi said on Nov. 9.
Reuters: Putin signed into law a treaty on the country's strategic partnership with North Korea which includes a mutual defence provision, according to a decree published on Saturday.
The Kyiv Independent: A video circulating online shows the latest instance of Russian forces executing a Ukrainian soldier, Ukraine's Ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets said on Nov. 9.
Reuters: Trump's presidential transition effort said on Saturday that a Republican operative who outlined some potential contours of a U.S.-backed peace plan in Ukraine earlier in the day was not speaking on behalf of the president-elect.
The Kyiv Independent: Russia will be able to produce 30% more artillery shells than all EU member states combined next year, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said at a press conference in Kyiv on Nov. 9.
AP News: Russia on Saturday opened the first ministerial conference of the Russia-Africa Partnership Forum in the city of Sochi, seeking to deepen ties with African nations and dispel a notion that it’s isolated by Western sanctions.
Reuters: The United States will ship more than 500 interceptor missiles to Ukraine in the weeks ahead, speeding up Washington's military aid delivery to the war-ravaged country, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday.
AFP: Burkina Faso's foreign minister praised cooperation with Russia on Saturday as "suiting" his country better than its historic ties with France.
Reuters: Ukrainian drones struck a munitions factory in central Russia in an overnight attack, a source in Ukraine's SBU Security Service told Reuters on Saturday.
Reuters: Russian drones attacked Ukraine's Black Sea port of Odesa overnight, killing one person and injuring 13 others, including two boys, regional governor Oleh Kiper said on Saturday.
Reuters: Russia is working on a plan to merge state-backed Rosneft Oil with Gazprom Neft and Lukoil, creating the world's second-biggest crude oil producer, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.
08.11.2024
Meduza: Russia’s police will soon be responsible for "preserving and strengthening traditional Russian spiritual and moral values.” How they're supposed to do that and what those actually are is still unclear.
WSJ: European leaders have quietly launched talks on how to help Ukraine fend off Russia’s invasion without Washington’s support, even as they try to persuade Trump not to cut aid to Kyiv (archive).
The Guardian: Ukraine’s relationship with the UK has “got worse” since the Labour government took power in July, officials in Kyiv have told the Guardian, voicing frustration over Britain’s failure to supply additional long-range missiles.
Reuters: The European Union could consider replacing Russian liquefied natural gas imports with those from the United States, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen told reporters on Friday.
CNN: The Biden administration has lifted a de facto ban on American military contractors deploying to Ukraine to help the country’s military maintain and repair US-provided weapons systems, particularly F16 fighter jets and Patriot air defense systems.
Axios: Donald Trump's phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday included two surprises: Elon Musk was also on the line, and Zelensky was somewhat reassured by what he heard from the president-elect.
ERR: The residence of the Estonian Ambassador to Ukraine Annely Kolk was damaged in a drone attack on Kyiv on Thursday morning.
The Kyiv Independent: The Estonian arms company Frankenburg Technologies will transfer air defense missiles to Ukraine for testing, Ukraine's Defense Ministry announced on Nov. 8.
Meduza: From July to September alone, 3,765 North Koreans arrived in Russia for “educational purposes.” This surge coincides with reports of North Korean military personnel being sent to Russia to support the war in Ukraine.
Reuters: Russian intelligence services were likely behind a series of parcels that exploded in courier depots across Europe, Polish prosecutors said on Friday, pointing the finger at Moscow in a case officials say could have caused an air disaster.
Reuters: Pro-Russia hacking groups have conducted cyberattacks against South Korea after North Korea dispatched troops to Russia to support its war against Ukraine, Seoul's presidential office said on Friday.
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