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Ukraine Invasion
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Ukraine Invasion

• Zelenskiy Arrives In Liberated Izyum As Ukraine Works To Consolidate Gains In East RFE/RL 14 Sep 2022 -- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has traveled to Izyum, one of the largest cities recently retaken from Russia in a lightning counteroffensive in the eastern part of the country.
• Ukrainian President Visits Recaptured Izium VOA 14 Sep 2022 -- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited the city of Izium on Wednesday where he met with soldiers and thanked them for their efforts in retaking the area from Russian forces last week.
• Ukrainian Prosecutor-General's Office Says No Russian Teachers Detained In Liberated Territories RFE/RL 14 Sep 2022 -- The Ukrainian Prosecutor-General's Office has denied a statement by Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk that Russian teachers in territories liberated from Russian occupying troops had been detained.

Defense Policy / Programs

• 'Up To 1,500' Russian Troops Redeployed To Ukraine From Tajik Base, Investigation Reveals RFE/RL 14 Sep 2022 -- DUSHANBE -- Some 1,500 troops have been sent from a vast Russian military base in Tajikistan to Ukraine, multiple sources told RFE/RL, where the Russian Army is said to have suffered enormous casualties in its unprovoked war.

Foreign Policy

• Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with Khovar National Information Agency of Tajikistan under the Government of Tajikistan marking the 30th anniversary of diplomatic relations, September 14, 2022 Russia Ministry of Foreign Affairs 14 Sep 2022
• Von Der Leyen Says EU Cannot Appease Russia Over Ukraine, Putin Will 'Fail' RFE/RL 14 Sep 2022 -- European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says the European Union must show "resolve, not appeasement" as it deal with Russia over its war with Ukraine.
• Germany's Scholz Says Putin Still Believes Ukraine Invasion Correct Move RFE/RL 14 Sep 2022 -- German Chancellor Olaf Scholz says Russian President Vladimir Putin hasn't changed his thinking on invading Ukraine.

News Reports

• Another Russian Executive Dies In String Of Strange Deaths Of Tycoons RFE/RL 14 Sep 2022 -- The top manager at Russia's Corporation for the Development of the Far East and the Arctic (KRDV), Ivan Pechorin, has been found dead after media reports said last weekend that he fell out of a motorboat in the Sea of Japan close to the city of Vladivostok.
• UN rights expert: Russian Government is 'destroying civil society day by day' UN News 14 Sep 2022 -- A United Nations independent human rights expert called on the Russian Government on Wednesday to halt its clampdown on human rights defenders.