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Ukraine Invasion
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Ukraine Invasion

• The total combat losses of the enemy from 24.02 to 17.10 Ukraine MOD 17 Oct 2022
• Senior Military Official Holds a Background Briefing on Ukraine DoD 17 Oct 2022
• Russia Trying Terror Attacks on Ukrainian Civilians DoD News 17 Oct 2022 -- It is a sign of the bankrupt Russian strategy that they continue to conduct indiscriminate strikes across Ukraine, senior military officials said at the Pentagon today.
• Multiple explosion rip through Kiev while heavy fighting rages in Donbas Press TV 17 Oct 2022 -- Multiple explosions ripped through the Ukrainian capital Kiev in the wee hours of Monday morning, according to local officials.
• Russia Launches Wave Of Drone Strikes Across Ukraine, Killing Four In Kyiv RFE/RL 17 Oct 2022 -- Fresh Russian air strikes have targeted Kyiv with Iranian-made drones, killing at least four people in the Ukrainian capital, while other regions in southern and eastern Ukraine were also were hit, local officials said.
• Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Plant Again Runs Safety Systems On Backup Power RFE/RL 17 Oct 2022 -- Ukraine's Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant has again lost the connection to its last remaining power line, the director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has said.
• Ukraine Announces Release Of 108 Women In First All-Female Prisoner Exchange With Russia RFE/RL 17 Oct 2022 -- Ukraine says another "large-scale" prisoner swap has taken place with Russia, describing it as the first all-female exchange since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
• Russia Attacks Ukrainian Capital With Waves of Drones, Killing 4 VOA 17 Oct 2022 -- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged allies to provide Ukraine with air defense weapons after a wave of explosives-laden Russian drones hit Kyiv on Monday, killing four people.
• Israel will 'destroy' relations with Moscow if Tel Aviv sends arms to Ukraine: Medvedev Press TV 17 Oct 2022 -- Russia's former President Dmitry Medvedev says Israel will "destroy" all ties with Moscow if Tel Aviv insists on the "very reckless move" of supplying Ukraine with weapons.
• Medvedev: Israeli Arms Deliveries to Kiev Will Destroy Moscow-Tel Aviv Ties Sputnik 17 Oct 2022 -- Kiev began asking Israel to deliver air defense systems and other advanced weaponry earlier this year. Last month, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky expressed "shock" over Tel Aviv's continued intransigence on the matter. On Sunday, Israeli minister of diaspora affairs Nachman Shai said it was time for Israel to reverse course.

Defense Policy / Programs

• Instructions following plane crash in Yeisk President of Russia 17 Oct 2022
• At Least Four Dead, Six Missing After Military Jet Crashes Near Russian Apartment Building RFE/RL 17 Oct 2022 -- Emergency services in the Russian city of Yeisk say at least four people were killed and six remain missing in the crash of a Russian military jet on October 17 near a residential building, engulfing the high-rise in flames.
• Su-34 Jet Crashes Next to Residential Building in Russia's Krasnodar Region Sputnik 17 Oct 2022 -- A Su-34 fighter-bombers crashed into a residential apartment building in the resort town of Yeysk, southern Russia on Monday evening.
• Russian Warplane Crashes in Russian City of Yeysk, Killing 4 VOA 17 Oct 2022 -- A Russian warplane has crashed into a residential area in the Russian port city of Yeysk, causing a massive fire at an apartment building and killing four people.
• Amid A Chaotic Call-Up, Some Russian Draftees Are Returning Home In Body Bags. Now Putin Says Mobilization Is Ending RFE/RL 17 Oct 2022 -- As Russian President Vladimir Putin's unpopular mobilization drive extends into its fourth week, body bags containing the remains of draftees have begun to arrive back home, compounding fear and disgruntlement among citizens over a process that has appeared disorganized and arbitrary.
• Moscow Mayor Says Mobilization In Russian Capital Is Over RFE/RL 17 Oct 2022 -- Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin has announced that the military mobilization for the war in Ukraine is over for the Russian capital region.
• Dushanbe Probes Reports That Tajik Nationals Were Involved In Deadly Russia Shooting RFE/RL 17 Oct 2022 -- Tajik authorities are investigating media reports that say at least two Tajik nationals were involved in a shooting spree at a military training base in Russia over the weekend that left at least 11 Russian men dead and at least 15 wounded.
• Some 100 terrorists killed as Russian warplanes hit their positions in NW Syria Press TV 17 Oct 2022 -- The Russian Defense Ministry says the country's fighter jets have carried out airstrikes against the positions of foreign-sponsored Takfiri terrorist outfits in the militant-held northwestern flank of Syria, killing dozens of terrorists in the process.
• Syria, Russia forces kill 20 Daesh terrorists in 'special operation': Tass Press TV 17 Oct 2022 -- Russian and Syrian forces have reportedly killed at least 20 members of the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group during a "special operation" conducted in the south of the Arab country.
• AK-203 Rifle Production in India to Start By End of Year: Russia's Arms Exporter Sputnik 17 Oct 2022 -- The international defense exhibition DefExpo India-2022 will be held from October 18 to 22 in Gandhinagar. Rosoboronexport is participating in the exhibition as co-founder of the Russian-Indian joint venture Indo-Russian Rifles Private Limited, founded for the production of Kalashnikov assault rifles in India.

Foreign Policy

• Press release on Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's meeting with Ambassador of the Syrian Arab Republic to Russia Riad Haddad Russia Ministry of Foreign Affairs 17 Oct 2022
• U.S., British Sanctions Implementation Authorities Aim To Deepen Russia Cooperation RFE/RL 17 Oct 2022 -- The United States and Britain will increase their cooperation on sanctions against Russia over its invasion of Ukraine, top officials for the two countries' sanctions authorities have said.
• Tbilisi May Change 'Liberal' Visa Regime For Russians, Georgian President Says RFE/RL 17 Oct 2022 -- Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili says her country may change its "liberal" visa regime for Russian citizens amid an unprecedented influx sparked by the Kremlin's mobilization of troops for the war against Ukraine.
• Putin Agrees To Present Archive Maps To Help Solve Border Disputes Between Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan RFE/RL 17 Oct 2022 -- Russian President Vladimir Putin has agreed to provide Bishkek with archive Soviet-era maps to help resolve the ongoing dispute between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan over segments of their border.

News Reports

• 'It's Time To Ignore' The Traps: Disinformation Expert Says Kremlin's 'Empty Threats' Have Paralyzed West RFE/RL 17 Oct 2022 -- A prominent Czech expert on disinformation and "hybrid threats" says that while the West spent years underestimating the danger emanating from Moscow, a resolute response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine and its "nuclear blackmail" could help reverse years of "paralysis" in the face of "empty threats" oft-repeated by the Kremlin.
• Four Russians Caught Taking Pictures Illegally In Norway RFE/RL 17 Oct 2022 -- Four Russian citizens - three men and one woman - were arrested last week and placed in custody in Norway after they were seen taking photographs of objects that are subject to a ban on photography, Norwegian police said on October 17, without specifying what they had photographed.