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Ukraine Invasion
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Ukraine Invasion

• The total combat losses of the enemy from 24.02.2022 to 06.09.2023 Ukraine MOD 06 Sep 2023
• Russian Missile Strike Kills At Least 17 In East Ukraine, Overshadowing Blinken Visit RFE/RL 06 Sep 2023 -- Ukrainian officials said at least 17 people were killed and many others wounded in a Russian missile strike on a busy market in the eastern city of Kostyantynivka, sparking immediate condemnation from President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, the United Nations, and Kyiv's allies.
• Breakthrough. Bridgehead. Salient. Glimmers Of Progress, And Hope, In Ukraine's Advances RFE/RL 06 Sep 2023 -- The landscape between the Ukrainian villages of Robotyne and Verbove, in Ukraine's southern Zaporizhzhya region, is open and flat, rectangular farm fields now pocked with blackened artillery craters and lined by shrapnel-shredded trees that provide spotty cover. Scratched into the fields are rows of man-made trenches, tunnels, triangular concrete blocks called dragons' teeth, and an impossible number of anti-tank and anti-soldier land mines.
• 17 Killed in Russian Attack on Shopping Area in Eastern Ukraine City VOA 06 Sep 2023 -- At least 17 people were killed and nearly three dozen more injured in a Russian assault Wednesday on the central market in the eastern Ukraine city of Kostiantynivka, Ukrainian officials reported.
• Foreign Ministry statement on the grain deal Russia Ministry of Foreign Affairs 06 Sep 2023
• Statement by Russian Defence Ministry Russia MoD 06 Sep 2023 -- On 5 September at about 23:30 Moscow time, an attempt by the Kiev regime to carry out a terrorist attack by a fixed-wing UAV against facilities on the territory of the Russian Federation was foiled.
• Russia destroys drones in Kaluga, Moscow regions: defense ministry People's Daily 06 Sep 2023 -- Russian air defense forces have destroyed Ukrainian drones in the Kaluga and Moscow regions, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Tuesday.
• Russian air defense shots down Ukrainian drone over Bryansk region Press TV 06 Sep 2023 -- Russian Governor of the Bryansk region has said that the air defense systems defending the region successfully downed a Ukrainian drone flying over its airspace, foiling another "terrorist" attack by Kiev.
• Ukraine Loses Up to 285 Military in Donetsk Direction in Past Day Sputnik 06 Sep 2023 -- Ukraine has lost up to 285 military in the Donetsk direction over the past 24 hours, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Wednesday.
• Russia's Air Defenses Down Ukrainian Drone Over Bryansk Region Sputnik 06 Sep 2023 -- Russian air defenses have thwarted Kiev's attack by destroying a Ukrainian drone over the Navlinsky district of the Bryansk region, Governor Alexander Bogomaz said early Wednesday.
• Russian Troops Kill Up to 30 Azov Battalion Militants Near Krasny Liman Sputnik 06 Sep 2023 -- Russian troops fired at militants of Ukraine's Azov battalion* near the Serebryanskoye forestry, Alexander Savchuk, the head of the press center of Russia's Center Group of Forces, told Sputnik.

Defense Policy / Programs

• Briefing by Chief of Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Protection Troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation on U.S. military-biological activity Russia MoD 06 Sep 2023 -- The Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation continues to analyse the military and biological activities of the U.S. and its allies in Ukraine and on the territory of other countries.
• US Seeks to Establish Global Biological Control - Russian Defense Ministry Sputnik 06 Sep 2023 -- The United States is looking to establish worldwide dominance over biological situations and is making administrative, financial and diplomatic efforts to achieve this goal, Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, head of Russia's Radiation, Chemical and Biological Defense Forces, stated.
• What is Russia's Dragon Teeth Defense? Sputnik 06 Sep 2023 -- The Russian defense has impeded Ukraine's advance along the front line, despite being earlier mocked by the Kiev regime and its Western patrons.
• Russian Army Gets Upgraded BMP-2M Infantry Fighting Vehicles Sputnik 06 Sep 2023 -- The High-Precision Systems holding company (part of Rostec) has supplied the Ministry of Defense with a new batch of modernized BMP-2M infantry fighting vehicles containing Russia's"Berezhok" (or "Coast") fighting compartments, the press service of the state corporation reported.
• Russia to Analyze, Monitor Situation With Armenian-US Drills - Kremlin Sputnik 06 Sep 2023 -- Yerevan's plans to hold joint Armenian-US military drills causes suspicion, especially in the current situation, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Wednesday, adding that Moscow will analyze this information and monitor developments.

Foreign Policy

• Telephone conversation with Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud President of Russia 06 Sep 2023 -- Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with Crown Prince and Prime Minister of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud.
• UK set to declare Russia's Wagner as 'terrorist organization' Press TV 06 Sep 2023 -- Russian private military company (PMC) Wagner Group is set to be proscribed as a terrorist organization by the British government, according to the UK Home Office.
• Moldova Kicked Out Most Of Russia's Diplomats, But The Embassy In Chisinau Still Has Close Ties To Spies RFE/RL 06 Sep 2023 -- In August, Moldova kicked out 45 Russian diplomats and embassy staff, citing fears of Moscow's efforts to "destabilize" the country after a media investigation found an "excessive" number of antennas on the roof of the embassy buildings.
• Moldova To Propose $8.6 Million Payment To Gazprom To Settle Debt That Moscow Says Exceeds $700 Million RFE/RL 06 Sep 2023 -- Moldova's energy minister says the government will propose that Moldovagaz, a subsidiary of Gazprom, pay the Russian gas giant $8.6 million to settle a debt that Gazprom says is more than $700 million.
• Ukrainian Foreign Ministry Rebukes Putin For Latest Anti-Semitic Comments RFE/RL 06 Sep 2023 -- The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry has said the latest statements by Russian President Vladimir Putin about Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's Jewish roots are "another manifestation of deep-rooted anti-Semitism of the Russian elites."

News Reports

• Russia finalizing second gas pipeline route to China Press TV 06 Sep 2023 -- Russian authorities say a decision on the route planned for the country's second gas pipeline to China, known as Power of Siberia-2, is at the final stage.
• Russia Owns A Slice Of Bulgaria's Black Sea Coast, And Sofia Doesn't Seem To Care RFE/RL 06 Sep 2023 -- Set back from a stretch of isolated beach on the southern Black Sea coast of Bulgaria and nestled among trees lies the sprawling Kamchia Sanitary and Health Complex, or SOK for short in Bulgarian.