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Ukraine Invasion
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Ukraine Invasion

• The total combat losses of the enemy from 24.02.2022 to 14.04.2023 Ukraine MOD 14 Apr 2023
• Russian Shells Kill At Least Eight In Attack On Slovyansk Residential Area, Ukraine Says RFE/RL 14 Apr 2023 -- Ukrainian authorities said Russian shells blasted a residential building in the eastern city of Slovyansk, killing at least eight people and injuring more than 20, while British military intelligence said Ukrainian troops had been forced to pull back from some areas in and around Bakhmut as the Kremlin's forces intensified their assault on the besieged and mostly ruined city.
• Video: Russia Unleashes MT-12 Guns, Pounds Ukrainian Positions Sputnik 14 Apr 2023 -- Since its inception in the 1960s, the MT-12 is a Soviet-designed 100mm AT-gun that has continued to perform splendidly as an artillery piece thanks to its light weight and advanced ballistic properties supported by a powerful high-explosive shell.
• Russian MoD: Ukraine Loses 340 Military Over Past Day in Donetsk Direction Sputnik 14 Apr 2023 -- Ukraine has lost 340 military and 14 units of military equipment in the Donetsk direction in 24 hours, as Russia's Wagner Group private military company keeps fighting for the city of Artemovsk (Bakhmut), the Russian Defense Ministry said on Friday.

Defense Policy / Programs

• Digital Dragnet: In Search Of Soldiers For Its War Against Ukraine, Russia Takes Draft Notices Online RFE/RL 14 Apr 2023 -- As the first body bags of Russian soldiers drafted in what the Kremlin called a "partial mobilization" began to return home from Ukraine last October, President Vladimir Putin announced that the unpopular call-up he had decreed just weeks earlier would soon come to an end.
• Russian Pacific Fleet on high alert, conducting snap combat drills Press TV 14 Apr 2023 -- The Russian military has put its Pacific naval fleet on high alert as part of surprise combat drills aimed at building the country's defensive capabilities amid heightened tensions in the Asia-Pacific region and wrangling with the West over Ukraine.
• Shoigu: Check of Pacific Fleet Aimed at Boosting Russian Ability to Repel Ocean Attack Sputnik 14 Apr 2023 -- The main purpose of the unscheduled inspection of Russia's Pacific Fleet is to enhance the ability of the country's armed forces to "repel the aggression of a probable enemy" from maritime directions, Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu said on Friday.

Foreign Policy

• Comment by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova on the expulsion of Russian Embassy staff in Norway Russia Ministry of Foreign Affairs 14 Apr 2023
• Press release on a ministerial meeting in the CA5+Russia format Russia Ministry of Foreign Affairs 14 Apr 2023
• Press release on Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's conversation with Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan Russia Ministry of Foreign Affairs 14 Apr 2023
• Press release on the results of the CIS Foreign Ministers Council Meeting Russia Ministry of Foreign Affairs 14 Apr 2023
• Russian Ambassador: Moscow Should Limit US Journalists in Russia VOA 14 Apr 2023 -- Russia's ambassador to the United States has said Moscow should consider cutting the number of American journalists working in Russia.
• US Cast as Villain During Meeting of Afghan Neighbors VOA 14 Apr 2023 -- A gathering of regional foreign ministers to discuss the way forward in Afghanistan this week brought little in the way of new initiatives but provided a forum for several of Kabul's neighbors to blame the country's economic plight on the United States and its Western allies.
• Russia: Respect for Women's Rights, Inclusive Government Are Keys to Taliban Recognition VOA 14 Apr 2023 -- Russia said Friday that Afghanistan's Taliban had made progress against terrorism and drug trafficking but needed to resolve women's rights issues and create an inclusive government to win recognition for their rule.
• Afghanistan should be venue for cooperation, not stage for geopolitical rivalries: joint statement Global Times 14 Apr 2023 -- A stable and peaceful Afghanistan is in the interests of all members of the international community, and the country should be a venue for international cooperation rather than a stage for geopolitical rivalries, foreign ministers of China, Russia, Pakistan and Iran stressed at the Second informal Meeting on Afghanistan in Samarkand, Uzbekistan on Thursday.
• China calls for support for Afghanistan reconstruction, development Press TV 14 Apr 2023 -- China's foreign minister has called for concerted efforts to support Afghanistan's reconstruction and development during a summit meeting in Uzbekistan with counterparts from nations neighboring the war-ravaged country.

News Reports

• Council of Europe leaders express 'deep concern' for the health of Alexei Navalnyy Council of Europe 14 Apr 2023 -- Icelandic Minister for Foreign Affairs and President of the Committee of Ministers, Thórdís Kolbrún Reykfjörd Gylfadóttir, President of the Parliamentary Assembly, Tiny Kox, and Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Marija Pejčinović Burić, have issued the following statement:
• The Week In Russia: Trial And Terror RFE/RL 14 Apr 2023 -- A gruesome video adds to apparent evidence of Russian atrocities in Ukraine. Accounts of "terrifying torture" during the occupation of Kherson expand with a Human Rights Watch report. And in Russia, a Kremlin opponent faces a verdict in a treason trial widely condemned as a farce.