- The Ukrainian foreign minister says grain exports from his country’s ports won’t resume without security guarantees for ship owners, cargo owners and Ukraine as an independent nation
- Military officials from Russia and Ukraine were set to hold their governments’ first face-to-face talks in months Wednesday during a session in Istanbul devoted to a United Nations plan to export blocked Ukrainian grain to world markets through the Black Sea
- Russia is allegedly asking Iran to rush “hundreds” of drones so Vladimir Putin can continue his Ukraine invasion, U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan told reporters Monday at the White House
- Lego has made the decision to close its shops in Russia “indefinitely” following Vladmir Putin’s launch of war on Ukraine
- The UN refugee agency said a survey shows that about two-thirds of Ukrainians expect to stay in their host countries until hostilities subside back home, but most hope to eventually return
- The European Council stated that total macro-financial support from the EU to Ukraine since the beginning of the war now amounts to €2.2 billion, together with the emergency MFA aid of €1.2 billion disbursed at the beginning of this year, SchengenVisaInfo.com reports
- Cyber-attacks have been increasing since Russia’s invasion, but there has been a rise in the second quarter of 2022, which saw 19 billion events processed by Ukraine’s national Vulnerability Detection and Cyber Incidents/Cyber Attacks System, the cyber agency reports. The number of registered and processed cyber incidents increased from 40 to 64
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- Russia has learned from the humiliation by drones in the first months of the invasion. Experts told Insider that the drone wonder weapons are becoming increasingly ineffective because Russia has improved its defense systems and is downing and jamming many of Ukraine’s drones
- The Pentagon has sent more than 700 Switchblade drones armed with warheads to Ukraine since Vladimir Putin’s invasion, giving little-known AeroVironment more visibility in a US defence industry dominated by five much larger contractors