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Ukraine Invasion
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Ukraine Invasion

• The total combat losses of the enemy from 24.02.2022 to 21.04.2023 Ukraine MOD 21 Apr 2023
• Latest in Ukraine: Zelenskyy Says Counteroffensive Is Coming VOA 21 Apr 2023 -- In his nightly video address, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Ukraine was readying for a counteroffensive.
• Press release on the Ukrainian crisis Russia Ministry of Foreign Affairs 21 Apr 2023

Defense Policy / Programs

• Missile Buildup by US, Allies Aimed at Achieving Global Superiority Over Russia, China - Moscow Sputnik 21 Apr 2023 -- Russia suspended its participation in the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty in late February in the wake of Ukrainian drone attacks on an airbase used by Russian strategic aviation. Before that, Washington unilaterally scrapped multiple agreements designed to ensure strategic stability, including the ABM and INF treaties.
• Danish, Swedish Jets Scrambled to Escort Russian Military Aircraft Over Baltic Sea Sputnik 21 Apr 2023 -- Danish and Swedish scrambled fighter jets to escort Russian military aircraft IL-20 transiting over the Baltic Sea between Sweden and Danish islands of Zealand and Bornholm, the Danish air force said on Friday.
• Russia Creates 1st Jet-Powered Kamikaze Drone Equipped With AI, Computer Vision- Developer Sputnik 21 Apr 2023 -- Russia's Unmanned Vehicles company has created a prototype of the country's first jet-powered FPV (first person view) Kamikaze drone of the K-5 aircraft type equipped with artificial intelligence and computer vision, in Moscow, the developer said on Friday.
• Chinese defense minister's Russian trip signals closer cooperation with Moscow Radio Free Asia 21 Apr 2023 -- China's new U.S.-sanctioned Defense Minister Li Shangfu visited Russia this week, his first foreign trip since taking office, as Beijing and Moscow align closer to confront the U.S.
• 'We Are Waiting For You': Nearly Five Months After Deadly Strike, Dozens Of Russian Families Search For Missing Soldiers RFE/RL 21 Apr 2023 -- "Looking for my brother," reads a social-media post published on March 26. "Mozharov, Stanislav Vitalyevich, 10.10.77 D.O.B., Mobilized. Last contact was December 31, 2022. Forty-Fourth regiment. Was in Makiyivka during the strike. Come back, brother! We are all waiting for you. Please help a mother get her son back. Maybe someone has seen him? Please, help us."

Foreign Policy

• Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova's answer to a media question in connection with Denmark, Norway, Finland and Sweden publishing materials on Russia's intelligence activities Russia Ministry of Foreign Affairs 21 Apr 2023
• Anyone trying to resist global trend towards multipolarity will lose: Putin People's Daily 21 Apr 2023 -- The global trend towards multipolarity will intensify, and those who choose to resist this shift will ultimately lose and face new challenges, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday.
• Moscow strongly condemns Washington's foreign policy for intimidation of other countries Press TV 21 Apr 2023 -- Russia has slammed the United States, saying the "only method" the US uses to reach its objectives in international relations is coercion.
• Telephone conversation with Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud President of Russia 21 Apr 2023 -- Vladimir Putin spoke by telephone with Crown Prince and Prime Minister of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud, with the Saudi side initiating the conversation.
• Russia Suspends Dairy Products From Kyrgyzstan After Calls In Bishkek To Drop Cyrillic Script RFE/RL 21 Apr 2023 -- Russia has suspended the import of dairy products from Kyrgyzstan after the chairman of Kyrgyzstan's National Commission for the State Language and Language Policies, Kanybek Osmonaliev, said his country is ready to start working on switching the Kyrgyz language from Cyrillic to a Latin-based alphabet.

News Reports

• The Week In Russia: A Long Prison Term And A 'Risky Path' For Putin RFE/RL 21 Apr 2023
• U.K. Sanctions Five Russian Nationals Over Jailing Of Kremlin Critic Vladimir Kara-Murza RFE/RL 21 Apr 2023 -- The United Kingdom has sanctioned five Russians after the sentencing to 25 years in prison earlier this week of opposition politician Vladimir Kara-Murza, a British-Russian dual national.
li>UK sanctions FSB agents and Russian investigators behind arrest of British-Russian national Vladimir Kara-Murza UK FCDO 21 Apr 2023 -- Foreign Secretary James Cleverly has sanctioned five individuals connected to the poisoning and arrest of politician and journalist Vladimir Kara-Murza
• 'Creative Diplomacy' And The FSB: Was A Russian NGO Bridging Divides Or Spying On Unwitting Participants? RFE/RL 21 Apr 2023 -- In November 2018, at Tufts University's Fletcher School, near Boston, Natalia Burlinova, a Russian foreign policy expert visiting from Moscow, was the featured guest for a discussion on the importance of public diplomacy. The event featured a small group discussion with graduate students, meetings with professors, and a dinner.