17.11.2024

Reuters: President Joe Biden's administration has allowed Ukraine to use U.S.-made weapons to strike deep into Russia, two U.S. officials and a source familiar with the decision said on Sunday, in a significant reversal of Washington's policy in the Ukraine-Russia conflict.

The Times of Israel: Arguing that Jerusalem and Kyiv face the same enemy, Ukraine’s ambassador to Israel praises Deputy Foreign Minister Sharren Haskel’s proposal to give any Russian-made weapons seized by the IDF in Lebanon, the Gaza Strip or the West Bank to Ukraine.

Reuters: Russia unleashed its largest air strike on Ukraine in almost three months on Sunday, launching 120 missiles and 90 drones that killed at least seven people and caused severe damage to the power system, officials said.

Bloomberg: North Korea may deploy as many as 100,000 troops to aid Russia’s war on Ukraine if the alliance between Pyongyang and Moscow continues to deepen (archive).

Reuters: Russian gas flows to Austria were suspended for a second day on Sunday because of a pricing dispute but other buyers in Europe stepped in to snap up unsold volumes, companies and sources said and data showed.

The Kyiv Independent: A drone strike damaged a factory on Nov. 17 in the Russian city of Izhevsk, more than 1,300 kilometers (800 miles) from the Ukrainian border, according to Alexander Brechalov, head of Russia's Udmurt Republic.

Bloomberg: Ukraine has turbocharged its pitch for international help to clear thousands of mines, attracting a rush of special machinery from Japan and funds from philanthropist Howard Buffett, with astonishing results (archive).

ISW: The Russian military command reportedly arrested and removed several commanders within the Russian 3rd Combined Arms Army following inaccurate reports they made about alleged Russian advances near Bilohorivka and repeated outcries from the Russian milblogger community.

The Kyiv Independent: Estonia's cabinet approved a proposal to deliver another package of military aid for Ukraine on Nov. 16, the country's Defense Ministry announced.

16.11.2024

FT: North Korea sent Russia 50 domestically produced 170mm M1989 self-propelled howitzers and 20 updated 240mm multiple launch rocket systems that can fire standard rockets and guided ones, according to Ukraine. Some were sent to Kursk region (archive).

Euromaidan Press: Trump adviser Boris Epshteyn, currently coordinating the president-elect’s legal defenses, proposed himself as special envoy for the Russia-Ukraine war during Trump’s recent flight to meet Biden, according to NYT sources.

The Kyiv Independent: A day after videos showed Russian troops planting a Russian flag in a grey zone near the border in Ukraine's Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine's State Border Guard Service released a video showing a drone destroying the flag on Nov. 16.

Euromaidan Press: BAE Systems will establish an artillery manufacturing facility in Sheffield to produce M777 howitzers, supporting Ukraine’s defense efforts against Russia, The Telegraph reports.

The Kyiv Independent: The United States will partner with Ukraine to transition Ukraine's coal-fired plants to small modular nuclear reactors, and to use them to help decarbonize its steel industry, the countries announced on Nov. 16 at the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Baku, Azerbaijan.

The Guardian: A Russian spy ship has been escorted out of the Irish Sea after it entered Irish-controlled waters and patrolled an area containing critical energy and internet submarine pipelines and cables.

The Kyiv Independent: A drone unit in the National Guard's 27th Pechersk Brigade destroyed a Russian anti-aircraft missile BUK-M1 system worth $10 million, Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko reported on Nov 16.

Reuters: Leaders of the Group of Seven major democracies on Saturday reiterated a pledge to keep imposing severe costs on Russia for its invasion of Ukraine, through sanctions, export controls and other measures, and vowed to support Kyiv for as long as it takes.

AP News: At a secretive factory in Russia’s central grasslands, engineers are manufacturing hundreds of decoy drones meant to overwhelm Ukrainian defenses as they try to protect against a horrific new weapon, an Associated Press investigation has found.

ISW: The Kremlin is intensifying its reflexive control campaign aimed at influencing Western decision-making in Russia's favor ahead of or in lieu of possible future negotiations about the resolution of the war in Ukraine.

15.11.2024

Reuters: Reports that billionaire Elon Musk has held multiple calls with Russian officials, including Putin, should be investigated by the Pentagon and law-enforcement agencies on national-security grounds, two senior Democratic senators said in a letter seen by Reuters on Friday.

The Kyiv Independent: The European Union is preparing to implement additional sanctions against Iranian individuals and entities involved in propping up Russia's war machine, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reported on Nov. 15.

RFE/RL: Russia appears to be offering consular services in the Black Sea resort city of Varna, despite Sofia expelling diplomats in 2022 and closing the consulate down a year later, an investigation by RFE/RL's Bulgarian Service has found.

Politico: The EU will press Beijing for answers over reports that a China-based company is producing military drones for use in Russia's war against Ukraine, a senior EU official said Friday.

AFP: Ukraine on Friday condemned Germany's Olaf Scholz call to Putin as an "attempt at appeasement" that Moscow would see as a sign of weakness. "Talk only gives Putin hope of easing his international isolation," Ukraine's foreign ministry said.

Reuters: Russia has imposed restrictions on the export of enriched uranium to the United States, the government said on Friday, creating supply risks for U.S. nuclear power plants which last year imported a quarter of their enriched uranium from the country.

AFP: The UN warned on Friday that renewed Russian targeting of Ukraine's already devastated energy infrastructure this winter could cause severe hardship and spur new mass movements of people.

Reuters: At least three Russian refineries had to halt processing or cut runs due to heavy losses amid export curbs, rising crude prices and high borrowing costs.

Meduza: Russia’s federal censorship agency, Roskomnadzor, will conduct tests this December that will involve disabling access to the foreign segment of the Internet “in certain regions.”

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