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Ukraine Invasion
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Ukraine Invasion

• The total combat losses of the enemy from 24.02.2022 to 23.04.2023 Ukraine MOD 23 Apr 2023
• Expectations Rise Of Ukrainian Counteroffensive After Unconfirmed Reports Of Dnieper Crossing RFE/RL 23 Apr 2023 -- Reports that the Ukrainian military has crossed the Dnieper River and established positions on the eastern side heightened expectations on April 23 that Kyiv is on the verge of its long-awaited counteroffensive.
• Latest in Ukraine: Russia, Ukraine Trade Claims in Battle Over Bakhmut VOA 23 Apr 2023 -- Russia and Ukraine traded claims on Sunday over the embattled city of Bakhmut.
• Russia gains more ground in battle for Bakhmut: Defense ministry Press TV 23 Apr 2023 -- Russia says its forces have managed to capture more territory in the heavily contested city of Bakhmut in the Donetsk region.
• In Ukraine's Mariupol, Doubts Grow Over Russia's Rush To Rebuild A Demolished City RFE/RL 23 Apr 2023 -- In June 2022, barely a month after Ukraine ended its haggard defense of Mariupol, a bustling port city that was obliterated in Russia's monthslong siege, Russia's push to rebuild began.

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Foreign Policy

• Moscow warns it will scrap grain deal if G7 'idiots' ban exports to Russia Press TV 23 Apr 2023 -- A senior Russian official has warned that Moscow would terminate an UN-brokered deal reached to facilitate grain deliveries from Ukraine's Black Sea if the Group of Seven (G7) countries moved to ban exports to Russia.
• Moscow Vows Retaliation After Claiming U.S. Denies Russian Journalists Visas For Lavrov UN Visit RFE/RL 23 Apr 2023 -- Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has expressed anger after he claimed the United States had not issued visas to journalists seeking to accompany him to the United Nations, with Russian officials vowing to retaliate against U.S. journalists in Russia.
• Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's comment on the non-issuance of US visas to Russian journalists to visit the UN headquarters during the Russian Federation's chairmanship at the UN Security Council Russia Ministry of Foreign Affairs 23 Apr 2023
• India, Russia to Strengthen Trade Ties VOA 23 Apr 2023 -- A 50-member Indian business delegation starts a four-day visit to Russia Monday as both countries seek to deepen economic ties that have grown in the aftermath of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
• China-Russia energy deals now settled in yuan, ruble: official Global Times 23 Apr 2023 -- Energy trading between China and Russia has been settled in both the yuan and the ruble, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said in interview with Russian media over the weekend, according to a report by China's state broadcaster CCTV.
• Nearly All Russians Evacuated From Khartoum Conflict Zone to Russian Embassy Sputnik 23 Apr 2023 -- Almost all Russians who had been in the conflict areas in Sudan's capital of Khartoum have now been evacuated to the Russian Embassy, Russian Ambassador to Sudan Andrey Chernovol told Sputnik.

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