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Ukraine Invasion
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Ukraine Invasion

• Crimea official: Ukraine strikes with missiles oil drilling platforms in Black Sea Press TV 20 Jun 2022 -- The head of pro-Russian forces in the Crimean Peninsula says Ukrainian government troops have struck oil drilling platforms in the Black Sea, amid Russia's months-long military offensive in the former Soviet republic.
• Ukraine says lost control of Severodonetsk village amid Russia's advances Press TV 20 Jun 2022 -- Ukraine has admitted to losing control of a village adjacent to the key industrial city of Severodonetsk, which has been the flashpoint of fierce battles between the Ukrainian and Russian forces in recent weeks.
• Zelenskyy Acknowledges Difficulties Defending Country's East VOA 20 Jun 2022 -- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy acknowledged difficulties trying to defend the country's eastern region but said Russian forces would continue to be met with Ukrainian resistance.
• Third-Party Missiles Possibly Used in Attack on Crimean Drilling Platforms - Lawmaker Sputnik 20 Jun 2022 -- The strike at the drilling platforms of Crimea-based energy company Chernomorneftgaz could have been carried out with the use of foreign long-range missiles, Mikhail Sheremet, Crimea's representative in Russia's lower house of parliament, told Sputnik on Monday.

Defense Policy / Programs

• Russia's Medvedev: No point in nuclear disarmament talks with US until Americans beg for them Press TV 20 Jun 2022 -- Former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev says there is currently "no need to negotiate" with the United States on nuclear arms reduction, stressing that Moscow should wait until the Americans "crawl" back to talks and "beg" for them.

Foreign Policy

• Medvedev Says Russia-US Relationship Currently Null, Should Not Be Resumed Yet Sputnik 20 Jun 2022 -- The current state of relations between Russia and the United States corresponds to the lowest limit of the thermodynamic temperature scale, which is absolute zero, Dmitry Medvedev, the deputy chair of Russia's Security Council, said in an interview with Sputnik on Monday.
• Moscow Reels, Lashes Out At Lithuania Over Kaliningrad Cutoff RFE/RL 20 Jun 2022 -- Russia has demanded that Vilnius immediately reverse new restrictions on shipments of Russian goods that are subject to EU sanctions through Lithuanian territory to the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad.
• 'Violation of Everything': Kremlin Blasts Lithuania's Rail Blockade of Russia's Kaliningrad Region Sputnik 20 Jun 2022 -- On Saturday, Kaliningrad governor Anton Alikhanov reported that Lithuanian Railways, a state-owned enterprise, had stopped the rail-based transit of sanctioned goods between Russia and its Baltic Sea exclave, citing "EU restrictions". The measure has cut the region off from up to half of all its rail-based imports.
• Netherlands Unable to Fill Gas Storage Facilities by Winter Without Additional Measures Sputnik 20 Jun 2022 -- The Netherlands, like Europe as a whole, will not be able to pump enough gas into the storage facilities by winter without contingency measures, Dutch climate and energy minister Rob Jetten said on Monday.
• China's Russian Oil Imports Spike, Surpassing Saudi Supplies RFE/RL 20 Jun 2022 -- Chinese imports of oil from Russia in May increased by more than half from a year earlier, an indicator of a growing trade since many Western countries imposed fuel and other sanctions to punish President Vladimir Putin's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.
• Crude Awakening: Unquenchable China Snaps Up Russian Oil Sanctioned by the West Sputnik 20 Jun 2022 -- Oil imports accounted for about 62 percent of the Asian economic giant's total crude consumption in 2021. Warm ties with Moscow, discounts offered by Russian producers, and threats by the United States and its allies to cut access to sea-based trade routes have prompted Beijing to look to its northern neighbor for more and more of its energy needs.

News Reports

• One Of The Authors Of Accords Dissolving U.S.S.R., Gennady Burbulis, Dies At 76 RFE/RL 20 Jun 2022 -- Gennady Burbulis, one of the most influential Russian politicians in the early 1990s and a co-author of the Belavezha accords that effectively ended the existence of the Soviet Union, has died at the age of 76 in Baku.