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Ukraine Invasion
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Ukraine Invasion

• Moscow Accuses Ukraine of Attack on Russian Oil Depot VOA 01 Apr 2022 -- Ukrainian forces appear to be gaining momentum in efforts to push back Russian forces as the war in Ukraine rages into its sixth week.
• Ukraine-Russia Peace Talks Resume VOA 01 Apr 2022 -- Ukraine's presidential office says Ukrainian and Russian officials held online peace talks Friday, but gave no further details. The meeting follows Tuesday's face-to-face peace talks in Istanbul, which both Turkish and Ukrainian officials described as positive.
• Thousands Escape From Ukrainian Cities as Russia, Ukraine Trade Barbs VOA 01 Apr 2022 -- Thousands of Ukrainians fled brutal fighting in some of the country's key population centers Friday despite problems with maintaining some of the pre-identified humanitarian corridors.
• The operational update regarding the russian invasion on 18.00 on April 1, 2022 Ukraine MOD 01 Apr 2022
• The operational update regarding the russian invasion on 12.00 on April 1, 2022 Ukraine MOD 01 Apr 2022
• The operational update regarding the russian invasion on 06.00 on April 1, 2022 Ukraine MOD 01 Apr 2022
• The operational update regarding the russian invasion on 24.00 on March 31, 2022 Ukraine MOD 01 Apr 2022
• Ukraine Says Russia Is Blocking Aid To Mariupol, Civilians Still Trapped RFE/RL 01 Apr 2022 -- An adviser to the mayor of Mariupol says Russia is blocking aid from getting to the besieged city and is preventing a planned "humanitarian corridor" from opening to allow civilians to escape heavy fighting between Ukrainian and Russian forces.
• Russia Blames Ukraine For Cross-Border Attack On Fuel Depot RFE/RL 01 Apr 2022 -- A Russian fuel depot not far from the Ukrainian border has exploded and Russian officials say Ukrainian forces used helicopters to attack the facility.
• Talks Between Kyiv, Moscow Resume As Russia Again Blocks Aid Into Mariupol RFE/RL 01 Apr 2022 -- Negotiators have resumed talks to end Russia's 37-day-old war on Ukraine as humanitarian aid groups struggled to get food and supplies into the besieged city of Mariupol and Ukrainian forces pushed back Russian troops from the capital and another northern city.
• Governor says Ukrainian helicopters attack oil depot in Russia, causing fire People's Daily 01 Apr 2022 -- A fire broke out at an oil depot in the Russian city of Belgorod after two Ukrainian military helicopters attacked the fuel storage facility, Vyacheslav Gladkov, governor of the Belgorod Region, said Friday.
• Day 37: Europe faces gas deadline as Russia vows 'harsh response' Press TV 01 Apr 2022 -- European buyers of Russian gas faced a deadline to start paying in rubles on Friday as Moscow pledged to respond to EU sanctions and limit supplies of agriculture products to unfriendly countries.
• Ukraine tells IAEA Russian forces leaving Chernobyl plant People's Daily 01 Apr 2022 -- The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said Thursday it had been informed by Ukraine that Russian forces that had been in control of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant were leaving the facility and had "in writing, transferred control" of the plant to Ukrainian personnel.

Defense Policy / Programs

• Meeting with permanent members of the Security Council President of Russia 01 Apr 2022 -- The President held a briefing session with permanent members of the Security Council, via videoconference.

Foreign Policy

• Telephone conversation with President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko President of Russia 01 Apr 2022 -- Vladimir Putin and President of the Republic of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko had a telephone conversation ahead of the Day of Unity between the Peoples of Russia and Belarus, marked on April 2.
• Telephone conversation with President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan President of Russia 01 Apr 2022 -- Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with President of the Republic of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
• Telephone conversation with Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan President of Russia 01 Apr 2022 -- Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan.
• Comment by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova on the end of mandate of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Russia Ministry of Foreign Affairs 01 Apr 2022
• Russian Foreign Minister Praises Indian Position on Ukraine Crisis VOA 01 Apr 2022 -- Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov praised India for not judging the Ukraine crisis in a "one-sided way," and said that the two countries would find ways to trade using local currencies.
• Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's answers to media questions following talks with Minister of External Affairs of India Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, New Delhi, April 1, 2022 Russia Ministry of Foreign Affairs 01 Apr 2022
• Russian Foreign Ministry: Moscow Will Not Leave Hostile EU Actions Unanswered Sputnik 01 Apr 2022 -- The EU sanctions against Russia are negatively affecting lives of Europeans, and Moscow hopes that Brussels will understand that the confrontation with in bilateral relations is not in its interests, Director of the Department of European Cooperation of the Russian Foreign Ministry Nikolay Kobrinets told Sputnik.
• Commerce Adds 120 Entities in Russia and Belarus to the Entity List, Further Limiting the Russian and Belarusian Militaries' Access to Items That Support Aggression Against Ukraine US Dept. of Commerce 01 Apr 2022 -- The U.S. Commerce Department, through its Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), has taken additional action to degrade Russian and Belarusian defense, aerospace, maritime, and other strategic sectors in response to Russia's brutal assault on the sovereignty of Ukraine.
• US to impose more sanctions targeting Russia's defense, aerospace and maritime sectors: White House Press TV 01 Apr 2022 -- The US Commerce Department will impose further sanctions on Russia ratcheting up pressure on Moscow over its military campaign in Ukraine, according to the White House.
• 'Putting My Country's Interests First': India Buying Discounted Oil From Russia - Finance Minister Sputnik 01 Apr 2022 -- India has purchased oil from Russia at a discount, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Friday, without specifying the volume.
• Top Official Says Kazakhstan Won't Help Russia Evade Western Sanctions RFE/RL 01 Apr 2022 -- Kazakhstan will not help Russia to evade Western sanctions imposed on Moscow over its ongoing invasion of Ukraine, a top Kazakh official has said.

News Reports

• Russia's Gazprom exits German energy market amid row over gas payments Press TV 01 Apr 2022 -- Russia's energy giant Gazprom says it is quitting its business in Germany, as Moscow's deadline passes for a switch in gas payments from euro to rubles.
• Russian Presidential Decree on Ruble Payments for Gas Goes Into Effect on Friday Sputnik 01 Apr 2022 -- The Russian presidential decree stipulating that all contracts for pipeline gas deliveries with companies registered in "unfriendly" countries be settled in rubles is set to go into effect on Friday.
• US investigators: Russian oligarchs trying to evade sanctions Press TV 01 Apr 2022 -- US investigators claim that they have found Russian oligarchs are trying to evade sanctions which are part of Washington's offensive against Moscow over the military campaign in Ukraine, according to the head of a new Justice Department task force.
• The Week In Russia: Carnage And Climbdown In Ukraine RFE/RL 01 Apr 2022 -- His initial push for the conquest of Ukraine rebuffed, Russian President Vladimir Putin is recalibrating. But with thousands of people dead and millions driven from their homes, how and when the war will end may be no clearer than when he launched the invasion five weeks ago.
• Poll Shows Putin Ratings Climb Among Russians Since Ukraine Invasion RFE/RL 01 Apr 2022 -- A new Russian opinion poll shows that President Vladimir Putin has gotten a boost in ratings since the start of the war in Ukraine.
• How Russia's disinformation on Ukraine is spreading to democratic Taiwan, via China Radio Free Asia 01 Apr 2022 -- Russian and Chinese disinformation about Ukraine, which is ideologically linked to ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) propaganda on Taiwan, is breaking through into online discourse on the democratic island, a fact-checking organization based there has said.
• Germany charges former reserve officer with spying for Russia People's Daily 02 Apr 2022 -- The German Public Prosecutor General said on Friday that it had filed charges against a former Bundeswehr reserve officer who allegedly supplied a Russian intelligence agency with information between 2014 and 2020.
• Bulgaria expels Russian diplomat People's Daily 02 Apr 2022 -- Bulgarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Friday evening that it has declared one diplomat at the Russian Embassy in Sofia persona non grata and given him 72 hours to leave the country.