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A bipartisan congressional committee urged the White House on July 15 to reveal whether Russia is sharing insights on U.S. weapons used on the front lines in Ukraine with China, Reuters reported. Lawmakers on the House of Representative's select committee on China delivered a letter to National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan questioning whether Moscow had shared any "lessons-learned" with Beijing, insisting that any information Russia has gained on the battlefield in Ukraine would be "likely to proliferate" to China, according to the letter seen by Reuters. Although China officially maintains ...
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Key developments on July 15: Last Russian patrol ship left occupied Crimea, Ukraine's navy saysMobilization is going 'according to plan,' but there are not enough training facilities, Zelensky saysSyrskyi orders inspection of 59th Motorized Brigade after recent losses44% of Ukrainians believe it's time to start official peace talks with Russia, survey findsSpain says 10 more Leopard 2 tanks en route to UkraineStoltenberg signals opposition to Poland downing missiles over UkraineThe last patrol ship of Russia's Black Sea Fleet left occupied Crimea on July 15, Dmytro Pletenchuk, a spokesperson f...
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The attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, the Republican Party nominee for the upcoming presidential election, prompted shock, sympathy, and concern from capitals across the world. President Volodymyr Zelensky said he wished former U.S. President Donald Trump "a speedy recovery." The response from the Kremlin stood out. Spokesperson Dmitry Peskov began his statement by dismissing something that wasn't under serious discussion – the idea that President Joe Biden and his allies were behind the shooting. "We do not at all think or believe that the attempt to eliminate presiden...
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The U.K. plans to appeal to several European Union member states to act against the so-called "shadow fleet," Bloomberg reported on July 15, citing undisclosed sources and obtained documents. An "unspecified number" of governments are expected to approve the plan on July 18, during a meeting of the European Political Community hosted by British Prime Minister Keir Starmer in the U.K., according to a draft statement. The "shadow fleet" refers to aging and largely uninsured oil tankers that Russia uses to transport oil above the $60 per barrel price cap that the EU, the U.S., and the Group of Se...
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India is exploring ways to increase its exports to Russia, including by encouraging rupee-ruble trade and pushing Moscow to remove non-tariff barriers, after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Russian President Vladimir Putin, Reuters reported on July 15. Growing Russian exports to India accounted for $61.43 billion of the $65.7 billion trade between the two states in the last fiscal year ending in March. While trade between the two countries grew by one-third year-on-year, Indian exports of pharmaceuticals, machinery, and other goods to Russia remained almost unchanged. "When we are look...
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Editor’s Note: Kyiv Independent News Editor Nate Ostiller briefly attended a summer program at the same Estonian university where the main character of this report was a professor and received a passing grade in a one-week summer school course. A university professor is not the first profession that comes to mind as being a cover for a possible Russian spy. Why would someone spend decades obtaining degrees and rigorously work in academia just to establish an elaborate cover? Viacheslav Morozov, a professor of political science at Estonia’s University of Tartu, was for years considered a quinte...
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Almost 44% of Ukrainians think that it is time for official peace negotiations with Russia, according to a survey published by the ZN.ua media outlet on July 15. At the same time, a majority of respondents were also opposed to the current ceasefire conditions laid out by Russian President Vladimir Putin, which would entail the complete Ukrainian withdrawal from the four regions that are partially occupied by Russia. Russia also illegally annexed Crimea in 2014 and currently fully controls the territory. The figure nonetheless represented an increase in the number of Ukrainians who were in favo...
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Ukraine has the right under international law to attack military targets located in Russian territory, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said during an interview on the United News telethon July 14. United States policy prohibits Ukrainian forces from using U.S.-supplied weapons to strike targets deep within Russia. President Volodymyr Zelensky has called on Washington to lift restrictions, saying the ability to use long-range U.S. weapons such as ATACMS within Russia and occupied Crimea would produce "an instant result." In the interview, Stoltenberg affirmed Ukraine's right to self-def...
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The Kremlin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in a July 13 interview that European capitals would be the “victims” if they hosted U.S. long-range missiles. Peskov said that Russia can contain U.S. missiles after the announcement that Germany will host U.S.-made long-range missiles in 2026. "Our country is in the crosshairs of American missiles located in Europe. We've been through all this before," he said in an interview with Russian TV propagandist Pavel Zarubin. "We have enough potential to deter these missiles. But the capitals of these states are potential victims." He referenced the Cold Wa...
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A Russian Shahed kamikaze drone targeting Ukraine overnight on July 13 appears to have veered off course and flew more than 350 kilometers over Belarusian airspace, according to reports. Ukrainian Air Force Commander, Mykola Oleschuk, said five drones were deployed in the attack, four of which were shot down while the fifth "left the airspace of Ukraine in the direction of the Gomel region of Belarus," he said in a post on Telegram. The Belarusian Hajun monitoring group later reported it had flown 250 kilometers "over Gomel and Zhlobyn, entered the Mogilev region, and then the Minsk region." I...
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