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Ukraine Invasion
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Ukraine Invasion

• The total combat losses of the enemy from 24.02.22 to 22.01.23 Ukraine MOD 22 Jan 2023
• Ukrainian Military Says Russia Advancing In Three Directions As Air Strikes Increase RFE/RL 22 Jan 2023 -- Russian forces are advancing in three directions but continue to concentrate their main efforts on an offensive in the Bakhmut direction, the General Staff of the Ukrainian military said on January 22.
• Russia says West's supply of heavy arms to Ukraine will trigger 'global catastrophe' Press TV 22 Jan 2023 -- A senior Russian official has warned that deliveries of offensive weapons to Ukraine by the United States and NATO for attacks on Russia would lead to a global catastrophe.
• Western Arms Deliveries to Kiev Will Lead to Global Disaster, Russian State Duma Speaker Says Sputnik 22 Jan 2023 -- Russian State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin said on Sunday that the supply of offensive armament from Western countries to Kiev will lead to a global disaster and retaliatory measures from Moscow with the use of more powerful weapons.
• Russian State Duma Head Joins Officials Warning Of Nuclear Retaliation In Ukraine RFE/RL 22 Jan 2023 -- The head of Russia's State Duma has said that the promised deliveries of additional weapons to Kyiv by Western countries could heighten the war in Ukraine to a new level that could result in a "global catastrophe."

Defense Policy / Programs

• UK: Russia Will 'Likely Struggle' to Staff, Equip Planned Force Expansion VOA 22 Jan 2023 -- The British Defense Ministry said Sunday that Russia "highly likely assesses that an enhanced conventional military threat will endure for many years beyond the current Ukraine war." In the intelligence update posted on Twitter Sunday, the ministry said, Russia would "highly likely struggle to staff and equip the planned expansion."

Foreign Policy

• Russia Successfully Supplies Grain to Turkey for Rubles Sputnik 22 Jan 2023 -- Turkey has successfully completed a transaction and paid for Russian grain in rubles, and now Moscow is discussing the possibility of similar supplies to Egypt, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Viktoria Abramchenko told Sputnik.

News Reports

• Living In Fear Of The Draft, Russian Émigrés In Kazakhstan Have No Plans To Go Home RFE/RL 22 Jan 2023 -- Marat makes a net income of about $215 a month, which he says is enough for a comfortable life as a young, single man in the Kazakh town of Oral, which he now calls home.
• Kyrgyz Workers With Russian Citizenship Prevented From Leaving Russia, Urged To Fight In Ukraine RFE/RL 22 Jan 2023 -- The fear of a fresh military mobilization by Moscow to support its war in Ukraine has prompted many Kyrgyz workers in Russia to return to their home country. But some of the workers who have got Russian passports, and are eligible for the military draft, say they have been prevented from leaving Russia in recent weeks.
• South Africa Hopes Naval Exercises with Russia and China Become Annual - Ambassador Sputnik 22 Jan 2023 -- South Africa is the continent's most industrialized country and has the most diversified economy in Africa. The nation joined the BRIC bloc (Brazil, Russia, India, China) in 2010, after which the organization changed its name to BRICS.