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Ukraine Invasion
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Ukraine Invasion

• The total combat losses of the enemy from 24.02 to 29.10 Ukraine MOD 29 Oct 2022
• Russia Halts Participation in UN Deal Allowing Ukraine Grain Exports VOA 29 Oct 2022 -- Moscow has suspended its implementation of a U.N.-brokered grain export deal that has allowed more than 9 million tons of grain to be exported from Ukraine, helping to ease the global food crisis and lower prices.
• Dozens Of Captives Released In Latest Ukraine-Russia Prisoner Swap RFE/RL 29 Oct 2022 -- Ukraine and Russia have carried out another prisoner exchange, the Ukrainian president's chief of staff announced on October 29, saying the action resulted in the release of 52 Ukrainian citizens.
• Russia thwarts drone attack on Black Sea Fleet in Crimea Press TV 29 Oct 2022 -- Russia says it has thwarted a drone attack on its Black Sea Fleet involved in ensuring the security of the 'grain corridor' in Crimea's Sevastopol port.
• Comment by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova on the United Kingdom's involvement in a terrorist attack on Sevastopol Russia Ministry of Foreign Affairs 29 Oct 2022
• Foreign Ministry statement on the Black Sea Grain Initiative for the export of Ukrainian grain Russia Ministry of Foreign Affairs 29 Oct 2022
• Russia Suspends Participation in Grain Deal, MoD Says Sputnik 29 Oct 2022 -- Over the past days, Ukrainian forces have carried out several terror attacks against Crimea and against Russian ships in the Black Sea.
• Moscow Regularly Informs UN on Failure to Implement Part of Grain Deal: Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Sputnik 29 Oct 2022 -- Russia continues to inform the UN Secretariat about the failure to fulfill the second part of the Istanbul grain deal on a regular basis, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.

Defense Policy / Programs

• Russia ends massive call-up for military operation in Ukraine Press TV 29 Oct 2022 -- Russia says it has finished calling up as many as 300,000 reservists for its ongoing military operation in neighboring Ukraine.
• Russia slams US deployment of new nukes in Europe, vows response Press TV 29 Oct 2022 -- Russia has denounced rapid deployment of modernized US B61 tactical nuclear weapons at NATO bases in Europe, saying the move would lower the "nuclear threshold" and prompt Moscow's revision of its military plans.
• Russia Monitoring US Nuclear Doctrine Amid Increasing Threat of Nukes Use, Deputy FM Says Sputnik 29 Oct 2022 -- Russia is closely monitoring the development of US doctrinal documents and is concerned over their "vague wording" as well as over an increase in the number of possible scenarios that allow the use of nuclear weapons, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko told Sputnik on Saturday.
• Russian Military Doctrine Allows No Double Interpretations on Use of Nuclear Arms: Moscow Sputnik 29 Oct 2022 -- Russia is following the evolution of doctrinal documents of Western countries, especially the US, and is concerned about their blurriness and the growing number of scenarios involving the use of nuclear weapons, while the Russian Military Doctrine does not allow any double interpretations on the possible use of nuclear arms,
• US must return overseas nukes to national territory: Russian envoy Press TV 29 Oct 2022 -- Russia has called on the United States to return all nuclear weapons stationed overseas to national territory to "prevent escalation" of tensions.

Foreign Policy

• China and Russia reaffirm deepened relations at all levels, 'embodiment of major-country diplomacy' Global Times 29 Oct 2022 -- China and Russia vowed to deepen bilateral relations at all levels, following the conclusion of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and amid the US' heightened pressure on the two countries. Chinese observers said that China-Russia relations, which set a very prominent and positive example for establishing mutually beneficial cooperation between major countries, drive the world toward a more just, effective and multipolar global order, and the deepened cooperation between the two countries also contributes to the decline of US hegemony.
• Russia slams US deployment of new nukes in Europe, vows response Press TV 29 Oct 2022 -- Russia has denounced rapid deployment of modernized US B61 tactical nuclear weapons at NATO bases in Europe, saying the move would lower the "nuclear threshold" and prompt Moscow's revision of its military plans.
• Russia Monitoring US Nuclear Doctrine Amid Increasing Threat of Nukes Use, Deputy FM Says Sputnik 29 Oct 2022 -- Russia is closely monitoring the development of US doctrinal documents and is concerned over their "vague wording" as well as over an increase in the number of possible scenarios that allow the use of nuclear weapons, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko told Sputnik on Saturday.
• Russian Military Doctrine Allows No Double Interpretations on Use of Nuclear Arms: Moscow Sputnik 29 Oct 2022 -- Russia is following the evolution of doctrinal documents of Western countries, especially the US, and is concerned about their blurriness and the growing number of scenarios involving the use of nuclear weapons, while the Russian Military Doctrine does not allow any double interpretations on the possible use of nuclear arms,

News Reports

• Russian MoD: UK Royal Navy Officials Involved in Nord Stream Terrorist Act Sputnik 29 Oct 2022 -- Moscow classifies the Nord Stream pipeline blasts as acts of international terrorism, as Denmark and Sweden bar Russia from probing the incidents. The Russian Foreign Ministry underscores that the investigation can be considered reliable and objective only if Moscow participates in it.
• Britain Denies Russian Military's Claim That U.K. Navy Blew Up Nord Stream Pipelines RFE/RL 29 Oct 2022 -- Britain on October 29 denied a Russian Defense Ministry claim that British Navy personnel blew up the Nord Stream gas pipelines last month, saying the accusation is the latest "invented story" put out by Moscow.
• Putin's Invasion of Ukraine Has Made Diplomacy 'Impossible' For Moscow, Says Former Russian Diplomat RFE/RL 29 Oct 2022 -- Moscow's invasion of Ukraine has dealt a deep blow to Russian foreign policy and left the country's diplomats with an "impossible" task of trying to pursue the Kremlin's goals amid increasing isolation.