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Ukraine Invasion
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Ukraine Invasion

• U.S. Defense Chief Says Ukraine Seeing Battlefield Successes Near Kherson, Kharkiv RFE/RL 09 Sep 2022 -- Ukrainian forces are showing signs of battlefield successes in two counteroffensives, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said, adding that the United States will support Kyiv in its fight against invading Russian troops "as long as it's needed."
• Ukraine Claims New Gains in Counteroffensive Against Russia VOA 09 Sep 2022 -- Ukraine claimed new gains in its counteroffensive against Russian forces Friday as a Russian-appointed administrator for the eastern Kharkiv region acknowledged that Kyiv had achieved a "substantial victory."
• The total combat losses of the enemy from 24.02 to 09.09 Ukraine MOD 09 Sep 2022
• Official In Ukraine's Northeast Says Russian Attack Hits Hospital, People Wounded RFE/RL 09 Sep 2022 -- The regional governor of the northeastern Ukrainian region of Sumy says Russian air strikes have destroyed a hospital in the town of Velyka Pysarivka.
• Russia sending reinforcements to Kharkiv amid Ukrainian 'gains' Press TV 09 Sep 2022 -- Russian state media outlets say the country is sending reinforcements to Kharkiv amid reported intensification of the battle in the northeastern Ukrainian region.

Defense Policy / Programs

• Meeting with permanent members of Security Council President of Russia 09 Sep 2022 -- The President chaired a regular meeting with permanent members of the Security Council, via videoconference.

Foreign Policy

• Telephonic Press Briefing on G7 Price Cap on Russian Oil US Dept. of State 09 Sep 2022
• Council adopts full suspension of visa facilitation with Russia EC/CEU 09 Sep 2022 -- Today the Council adopted a decision that fully suspends the visa facilitation agreement between the EU and Russia. Consequently, the general rules of the visa code will apply to Russian citizens.
• Commission presents guidelines on stricter visa processing for Russian citizens European Commission 09 Sep 2022 -- Today, the Commission is presenting guidelines to support Member States' consulates in handling short-stay visa applications lodged by Russian citizens.
• Hungary Warns Ahead Of EU Energy Ministers Meeting That Price Cap On Russian Gas Will Trigger Cutoff RFE/RL 09 Sep 2022 -- Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto has warned ahead of an emergency meeting of EU energy ministers that a proposed European price cap on Russian natural gas will result in an immediate cutoff in supplies to Europe by Moscow.

News Reports

• The Week In Russia: Freedom And Its Betrayal RFE/RL 09 Sep 2022 -- In the days after Mikhail Gorbachev's death, Moscow's war on Ukraine and developments in Russia underscore the erosion of his achievements. Imprisoned opposition leader Aleksei Navalny comes under additional pressure in prison, a former reporter is handed a 22-year sentence, and the paper Gorbachev helped create is targeted -- again and again -- by the state.
• Russian Sanctions, The Hungarian Veto, And The Long Road Ahead RFE/RL 09 Sep 2022 -- This week we saw the first real challenge to the EU's ever-growing sanctions regime against Russia. Predictably, it was Hungary who threatened to derail what should have been a standard renewal of the over 1,200 people and 100 companies that the bloc has slapped visa bans and asset freezes on since Russia's full invasion of Ukraine in February.
• Don't Mention The War? In Russian Regional Voting, Glimpses Of A Closing Society RFE/RL 09 Sep 2022 -- On the first day of the new school year, the head of the city council in Kamensk-Uralsky, a city of about 160,000 located deep in central Russia and very far away from Ukraine, took the microphone in front of a tired-looking school building and exhorted voters to reelect the regional governor.
• Moscow Court Rejects Google's Appeal Against Order To Pay $352 Million Fine RFE/RL 09 Sep 2022 -- A court in Moscow has rejected an appeal by Google against an order to pay a fine of more than 21.7 billion rubles ($352 million) over information distributed about Russia's ongoing unprovoked invasion of Ukraine on its YouTube video-sharing platform.
• Russian Lawmakers Who Demanded Putin Be Charged With Treason Summoned By Police RFE/RL 09 Sep 2022 -- Seven lawmakers in Russia's second-largest city, St. Petersburg, have been summoned by the police after they demanded parliament's lower chamber, the State Duma, charge President Vladimir Putin with high treason over his decision to launch the unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.