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Ukraine Invasion
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Ukraine Invasion

• Statement by Russian Defence Ministry Russia MoD 01 Feb 2024 -- At around 6.30 a.m., the Russian Armed Forces have foiled another attempt by the Kiev regime to carry out a terrorist attack by fixed-wing UAVs against facilities on the territory of the Russian Federation.
• Statement by Russian Defence Ministry Russia MoD 01 Feb 2024 -- At night, the Russian Armed Forces have foiled another attempt by the Kiev regime to carry out a terrorist attack by fixed-wing UAVs against facilities on the territory of the Russian Federation.
• Kremlin on EU's Assistance to Kiev: Ukraine Continues to Experience Problems Sputnik 01 Feb 2024 -- Kiev continues to experience problems, just like Western countries, with Europeans having to carry the burden, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday, commenting on the EU's assistance to Ukraine.
• US Patriot missiles shoot down Russian military plane: Moscow Press TV 01 Feb 2024 -- Russian investigators say they have evidence that a US Patriot air defense system was used to shoot down a Russian Il-76 military transport plane that crashed near the border with Ukraine last week.
• Russian Investigators Find Fragments of MIM-104A Patriot Missiles at Il-76 Crash Site Sputnik 01 Feb 2024 -- President Vladimir Putin announced Wednesday that Russian investigators had determined that Ukraine used a US-made Patriot missile system to bring down an Ilyushin Il-76 transport plane full of Ukrainian prisoners of war on January 24.
• Donetsk People's Republic Shelled by Ukraine 60 Times in Past Day Sputnik 01 Feb 2024 -- The Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) was shelled by Ukrainian troops 60 times over the past day, the DPR representative office in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination (JCCC) of issues related to Ukraine's war crimes said in a statement.
• Russia is inflicting hardship and suffering on Ukrainian people in territories it claims to have "liberated": UK statement to the OSCE UK FCDO 01 Feb 2024 -- Deputy Ambassador Deirdre Brown condemns reports of the declining humanitarian situation in the Ukrainian territories temporarily under Russian control and Russia's attempts to erase Ukrainian identity.

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Foreign Policy

• Press release on Russian-Chinese consultations on outer space security Russia Ministry of Foreign Affairs 01 Feb 2024
• Press release on Russian-Chinese consultations on biological security Russia Ministry of Foreign Affairs 01 Feb 2024
• Western Analysts Warn of Russia's, China's Influence in Western Balkans VOA 01 Feb 2024 -- With Russia and China increasingly aligned, Western policymakers and analysts are sounding the alarm over their influence in the Western Balkans. With so much focus on the wars in the Middle East and Ukraine, they warn that the Western Balkans should not be ignored.
• 'Russia does not violate int'l obligations with Iran, North Korea ties' IRNA 01 Feb 2024 -- Russia's foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has hailed her country's growing ties with the Islamic Republic of Iran and North Korea, saying these don't violate Moscow's international obligations.
• Analysts: Russia-North Korea Military Ties Pose Dilemma for China VOA 01 Feb 2024 -- China, dismayed by North Korea's deepening military cooperation with Russia, could try to keep that relationship from disrupting regional stability for its own benefit rather than Washington's, according to analysts.
• Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova's answer to a media question about statements by the South Korean leadership on nuclear issues Russia Ministry of Foreign Affairs 01 Feb 2024

News Reports

• Navalny Calls On Russians To Flock To Polling Stations At Noon During Election To Show Opposition To Putin RFE/RL 01 Feb 2024 -- Jailed Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny has called for a protest against incumbent Vladimir Putin during a presidential election next month by having voters turn out en masse at noon on the voting days to form huge lines as a show of opposition.
• Interview: 'I Don't See How This Cannot Happen,' Bill Browder Says Of Seizing Russian Assets RFE/RL 01 Feb 2024 -- U.S.-born British financier and political activist Bill Browder is perhaps best-known for his lobbying for the United States' Global Magnitsky Act, a sanctions list targeting Russian officials responsible for the death of Russian tax lawyer Sergei Magnitsky in 2009 in a Moscow prison and foreign officials around the world for human rights abuses.