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Ukraine Invasion
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Ukraine Invasion

• The operational update regarding the russian invasion on 18.00 on April 27, 2022 Ukraine MOD 27 Apr 2022
• The total combat losses of the enemy from 24.02 to 27.04 Ukraine MOD 27 Apr 2022
• The operational update regarding the russian invasion on 06.00 on April 27, 2022 Ukraine MOD 27 Apr 2022
• Ukraine Braces For 'Much Pain' From Russia's Offensive In East As EU Responds To Gas Cut RFE/RL 27 Apr 2022 -- Ukraine's defense minister says the country has "extremely difficult weeks" ahead, warning of major "destruction" in an ongoing large-scale Russian offensive in the east of the country.
• Pro-Ukraine Rally Dispersed By Russians In Kherson After City Administration Forced Out RFE/RL 27 Apr 2022 -- Russian forces have used tear gas and stun grenades to disperse a pro-Ukrainian rally in the occupied city of Kherson, Kyiv said, a day after Russia claimed to have taken control of the southern region.
• Facts about Russia-Ukraine conflict: Russia's missile strike damages key bridge in Ukraine's south People's Daily 27 Apr 2022 -- A missile strike carried out by Russian forces has damaged a key road-railway bridge over the Dniester Estuary in Ukraine's southern Odesa region, the Odesa City Council said Tuesday.
• Putin warns of 'quick-fire response' to interventions in Ukraine war Press TV 27 Apr 2022 -- Russia's President Vladimir Putin has warned of a quick-fire military response to any other country that intervenes in Moscow's military operation in Ukraine.
• Putin Vows Swift Response If Anyone Intervenes in Ukraine, Posing a Strategic Threat to Russia Sputnik 27 Apr 2022 -- Russia has also repeatedly condemned foreign shipments of weapons to Ukraine, arguing that it prolongs the conflict. The Kremlin accused western countries of turning Ukraine into a front for its attempts to undermine Russia and of willingness to fight until the "last Ukrainian standing".
• Russia's FSMTC Protests Illegal Transfer of Russian-, Soviet-Made Weapons to Ukraine Sputnik 27 Apr 2022 -- Russia's Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation (FSMTC) protests any illegal transfer of Russian- or Soviet-made weapons to Ukraine, including helicopters delivered to Afghanistan under a major contract with the Pentagon, the FSMTC said on Wednesday.
• Moscow Sends Note to IAEA Regarding Fake News About Russian Actions in Chernobyl Sputnik 27 Apr 2022 -- The Russian Permanent Mission to the International Organizations in Vienna said it has sent a note to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Secretariat because of the dissemination of fakes about the actions of the Russian Armed Forces at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant (NPP).
• Russian MoD Warns West That Kiev Plans to Spread 'Bloody Fakes' About Russian 'Atrocities' Soon Sputnik 27 Apr 2022 -- Moscow repeatedly rejected Kiev's past accusations of war crimes, including the claims of mass killings of civilians in Bucha. Russia, in turn, is collecting evidence of war crimes committed by the Ukrainian military, such as unprovoked killings of captured Russian servicemen.
• Putin agrees to involvement of UN, ICRC in civilian evacuation from Azovstal: UN People's Daily 27 Apr 2022 -- Russian President Vladimir Putin has agreed in principle to the involvement of the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in the evacuation of civilians from the Azovstal plant in Mariupol of Ukraine, said a UN spokesman on Tuesday.
• Putin, UN chief meet to discuss Ukraine People's Daily 27 Apr 2022 -- Russian President Vladimir Putin met with visiting United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in the Kremlin on Tuesday to discuss the situation in Ukraine.
• Lavrov, Guterres agree on need to continue Russia-Ukraine peace talks People's Daily 27 Apr 2022 -- Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and visiting United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday agreed on the need to continue the negotiation process and seek a diplomatic solution to the Ukrainian crisis.
• Russian military appoints new "head" of Kherson region in Ukraine People's Daily 27 Apr 2022 -- The Russian military appointed a new "head" of the Kherson region in southern Ukraine on Tuesday after seizing the Kherson city council on Monday, said Gennady Laguta, the head of the Kherson Regional Military Administration.

Defense Policy / Programs

• Meeting with Council of Lawmakers President of Russia 27 Apr 2022 -- On the Day of Russian Parliamentarism, the President met with members of the Council of Lawmakers at the Federation Council of the Russian Federation. The meeting was held in the Tauride Palace, per tradition.

Foreign Policy

• Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's remarks and answers to media questions following talks with Foreign Minister of the State of Eritrea Osman Saleh, Moscow, April 27, 2022 Russia Ministry of Foreign Affairs 27 Apr 2022
• Press statement by President von der Leyen following the announcement by Gazprom on the disruption of gas deliveries to certain EU Member States European Commission 27 Apr 2022
• Statement by Commission President von der Leyen following the announcement by Gazprom on the disruption of gas deliveries to certain EU Member States European Commission 27 Apr 2022 -- "The announcement by Gazprom that it is unilaterally stopping delivery of gas to customers in Europe is yet another attempt by Russia to use gas as an instrument of blackmail."
• Poland Prepares Plan B to Restrict Gas Supplies to Businesses Sputnik 27 Apr 2022 -- Poland is preparing a plan B to limit gas supplies to businesses, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said at a press conference on Wednesday.
• The return of geopolitics: Foreign Secretary's Mansion House speech at the Lord Mayor's 2022 Easter Banquet UK FCDO 27 Apr 2022 -- Liz Truss said that geopolitics is back, and argued for a reboot in the free world's approach to tackling global aggressors in the wake of the Ukraine crisis.
• In Tit-For-Tat Move, Russia Expels Japanese, Norwegian Diplomats, Puts Sanctions On U.K. Lawmakers RFE/RL 27 Apr 2022 -- Moscow says it is expelling several Japanese and Norwegian diplomats and placing sanctions on 287 British lawmakers in retaliation for similar steps against Russians over the Kremlin's invasion of Ukraine.
• French Finance Ministry Seizes Villas of Russia's Deripaska, Bazhaev on Riviera - Reports Sputnik 27 Apr 2022 -- The French authorities, as part of the implementation of anti-Russian sanctions, arrested three villas located in the south of the country and allegedly owned by Russian entrepreneurs, the Nice-Matin newspaper reported on Wednesday.

News Reports

• Microsoft Report Details Relentless Russian Cyberattacks On Ukraine RFE/RL 27 Apr 2022 -- Microsoft says its researchers have determined that Russian hackers have conducted destructive cyberattacks on Ukraine, including some that date back to a year before it launched its invasion on February 24.
• Russia Halts Gas Supplies to Poland, Bulgaria VOA 27 Apr 2022 -- Russia's Gazprom halted natural gas supplies Wednesday to Poland and Bulgaria, the latest step in the economic fight linked to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
• Russia cuts gas to Poland and Bulgaria, 'a deterrent' amid West's stepped-up aid to Ukraine Global Times 27 Apr 2022 -- Russia on Wednesday cut off gas to Poland and Bulgaria, the first since Moscow demanded ruble payments to buyers, which observers saw as "a substantial deterrent" when the West steps up support for Ukraine.
• Russia to cut gas supplies to Poland, Bulgaria amid tensions over Ukraine Press TV 27 Apr 2022 -- Russia's energy giant Gazprom is reportedly going to cut off natural gas deliveries to Poland and Bulgaria, after they refused to pay for their supplies in rubles.
• Russia to suspend natural gas supplies to Poland, Bulgaria People's Daily 27 Apr 2022 -- Russia is to halt natural gas supplies to Poland and Bulgaria from Wednesday, according to energy companies and authorities.
• Release of U.S. Citizen Trevor Reed from Russia US Dept. of State 27 Apr 2022
• Senior Administration Officials on the Release of Trevor Reed US Dept. of State 27 Apr 2022
• Statement from President Joe Biden on the Return of Trevor Reed The White House 27 Apr 2022
• US, Russia Swap Prisoners Facing Lengthy Sentences VOA 27 Apr 2022 -- The United States and Russia exchanged high-profile prisoners on Wednesday even as the two countries remain sharply at odds over Moscow's two-month invasion of Ukraine.
• Moscow exchanges ex-US Marine for Russian pilot in dramatic prisoner swap Press TV 27 Apr 2022 -- Moscow has released an American ex-Marine for a Russian pilot in a dramatic Russia-US prisoner swap, as bilateral relations between the Kremlin and the White House are worryingly strained over the war in Ukraine.
• Russia Swaps Former U.S. Marine Reed For Drug Smuggler Yaroshenko RFE/RL 27 Apr 2022 -- Washington and Moscow have completed a prisoner swap involving Russian pilot Konstantin Yaroshenko, jailed on U.S. drug-smuggling charges, and former U.S. Marine Trevor Reed, jailed in Russia on charges of assaulting police, despite deteriorating diplomatic relations over the Kremlin's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.
• Russia Exchanges US Citizen Trevor Reed for Russian Pilot Konstantin Yaroshenko Sputnik 27 Apr 2022 -- The Russian pilot was sentenced to 20 years in prison in the US in 2011 on charges of transporting large shipments of cocaine into the country. Trevor Reed, in turn, was sentenced to 9 years in prison in Russia in 2019 after he assaulted police officers, who had tried to detain him for his unruly behaviour.
• Russia Adds Two More Navalny Associates To Wanted List RFE/RL 27 Apr 2022 -- Russia's Interior Ministry has added two more associates of jailed opposition politician Aleksei Navalny to the federal wanted list.
• Moldova's Separatist Transdniester Claims 'Drones Seen, Shots Fired' Near Huge Ammo Depot RFE/RL 27 Apr 2022 -- The self-styled Interior Ministry of Moldova's separatist Transdniester region that borders Ukraine claimed on April 27 that shots were fired at a village housing a sprawling Russian munitions depot after drones flew over from Ukraine.
• First Ukraine, Now Moldova? Is The Kremlin About To Expand Its War? RFE/RL 27 Apr 2022 -- A series of alleged attacks inside Transdniester, a breakaway region of Moldova, has triggered a stream of people to leave and deepened fears that Russia is bent on expanding its war beyond Ukraine.