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• Russia said it had shot down two Ukrainian drones near Moscow on Wednesday, one near a major airport to the south of the city and one to the west of the capital. READ MORE BELOW

• Dozens of second-hand Leopard 1 tanks that once belonged to Belgium have been bought by another European country for Ukrainian forces, the arms trader who did the deal said Tuesday.

• Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Tuesday that the revival of a deal with Russia to allow Ukrainian grain exports, brokered by Ankara and the UN, "depends on Western countries which must keep their promises."

• Ukrainian nuclear power plants located in territories controlled by Kyiv will be at full capacity before winter to supply the country with electricity, the Ukrainian nuclear operator assured Monday.

• Poland will send 2,000 troops to the Belarus border to support the Border Guard, Deputy Interior Minister Maciej Wasik told state-run news agency PAP on Wednesday. The move comes after Belarus conducted military drills near its border with Poland and Lithuania.

• Russia will build up forces at its western borders, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu told the Collegium of the Defense Ministry on Wednesday.

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More drones shot down near Moscow

Russia said it had shot down two Ukrainian drones near Moscow on Wednesday, one near a major airport to the south of the city and one to the west of the capital. 

"An attempt by the Kyiv regime to carry out a terrorist attack with unmanned aerial vehicles was prevented over the territory of the Moscow region," the defense ministry said. "Two UAVs were destroyed by air defenses." 

One was shot down near Domodedovo, where one of Russia's biggest international airports is located, and another near the Minsk motorway, Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin said. 

Drone air strikes deep inside Russia have increased since a drone was destroyed over the Kremlin in early May. Civilian areas of the capital were hit later in May and a Moscow business district was targeted twice in three days earlier this month. 

In recent days, Ukrainian remotely piloted boats, also referred to as drones, have attacked a Russian fuel tanker and a navy base at Russia's Novorossiysk port on the Black Sea. 

Ukraine typically does not comment on who is behind attacks on Russian territory, although officials have publicly expressed satisfaction over them. The New York Times reported in May that U.S. intelligence agencies believed Ukrainian spies or military intelligence were behind the drone strike on the Kremlin. 

Russia has launched thousands of long-range drone strikes on Ukraine throughout the war, often striking civilian targets far from the front, but Moscow denies intentionally targeting civilians.

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