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Friday, August 14
SpaceX backs down after Poland spat, calming fears in Ukraine over Starlink access
"The declaration I received is clear: Poland will be included in the intra-European Starlink Roam travel area," Poland's Digital Minister said on Aug. 13.
Thursday, August 13
Head of Mykolaiv draft office arrested on corruption charges
The suspect had been documented accepting $15,000 in bribes for assisting in draft evasion, Ukraine's Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko said.
Poland thwarts alleged Kremlin plot to assassinate US-Ukrainian national, Tusk says
"This marks the first instance where someone, acting on Russian orders, has attempted to assassinate an American citizen on the territory of another NATO country," Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said.
Russian strikes leave Kyiv supermarkets with empty shelves
Ukrainian supermarkets have rarely hinted at the ongoing war, with grocery stores remaining well stocked with local and imported goods despite Russia's full-scale invasion. It all changed late last week. A deadly Russian ballistic missile attack on Aug. 5 targeted warehouses belonging to various supermarket chains and other civilian enterprises, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on social media. Since then, supplies of everyday products such as vegetables, dairy, and meat have been noticeably
Is Wildberries a legitimate military target?
For more than a year, Ukrainian drones have struck Russian oil refineries and military-industrial facilities with remarkable consistency. Yet nothing seems to have rattled ordinary Russians quite like drones hitting "Russian Amazon" — Wildberries, shattering the sanctuaries that housed their eagerly awaited online orders. Beginning on July 18, Ukrainian forces launched a sustained campaign against the company's logistics network. The first strikes hit distribution hubs in Elektrostal and Kotov
Ukraine's new plan to pressure Russia remains a mystery to Washington
Washington has not yet received President Volodymyr Zelensky's new plan to pressure Russia into ending its war, a U.S. official familiar with the matter told the Kyiv Independent. Zelensky said on Aug. 12 that Kyiv and its international partners have developed a joint plan based on pressure against Russian President Vladimir Putin. The plan comes as U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner prepare to visit Ukraine and Russia in another attempt to revive stalled peace talks. "Putin does not
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A fire broke out at an oil refinery over 6,000 kilometers (4,000 miles) from Ukraine in Russia's Far East, as a Voronezh Oblast logistics hub belonging to major Russian online retailer Wildberries was targeted overnight on Aug. 11, monitoring channels reported.
