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Ukraine Invasion
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Ukraine Invasion

• Satellite Photos Show Ukrainian Drone Strike Damaged Russian Radar Station RFE/RL 25 May 2024 -- Satellite images taken shortly after a May 23 Ukrainian drone strike in Russia's southern Krasnodar region show significant damage to a key radar installation providing air-defense coverage to the occupied Ukrainian region of Crimea, as well as the Balkans, the eastern Mediterranean, and the Persian Gulf.
• Russian Forces Hit Hypermarket In Deadly Assault On Kharkiv, Surrounding Villages RFE/RL 25 May 2024 -- Russian forces continued their intensified offensive against Kharkiv in northeastern Ukraine, where officials said a shell struck a building-materials store on May 25, killing at least six people and trapping dozens of others, while surrounding villages reported damage and injuries under a hail of drone and missile attacks.
• Russian strikes on Kharkiv kill at least 6, injure dozens VOA 25 May 2024 -- At least six people were killed and nearly 60 were injured Saturday in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv from a spate of Russian missile strikes, including two guided bombs that struck a hardware store in the city's residential area.
• Putin says ready to continue talks with Ukraine, but on previous agreements People's Daily 25 May 2024 -- Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that Russia is ready to continue negotiations with Ukraine, but only based on the agreements reached before.
• Russian Troops Take Control Over Arkhangelskoe Settlement in DPR - MoD Sputnik 25 May 2024 -- The Russian armed forces have taken control over the Arkhangelskoye settlement in the Donetsk People's Republic, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Saturday.
• 'Peace' Summit? Moscow Slams NATO Chief's Call to Let Ukraine Hit Deep Into Russia Sputnik 25 May 2024 -- On Friday, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg urged the military blocs members to lift restrictions on the use of Western weapons by Ukraine to carry out strikes against targets in Russia.

Defense Policy / Programs

• Meeting with CEOs of defence industry enterprises President of Russia 25 May 2024 -- Vladimir Putin had a meeting with heads of the Russian defence industry enterprises during his visit to the Tactical Missiles Corporation.
• NATO Forming Network of Cyber Labs Along Russia's Borders - Foreign Ministry Sputnik 25 May 2024 -- NATO is forming a network of cyber laboratories along the perimeter of Russia's borders in Estonia, Latvia, Finland and Romania, Artur Lyukmanov, the special presidential representative for international cooperation in information security of the Russian Foreign Ministry, said in an interview with Sputnik.

Foreign Policy

• Russia's Lavrov, Iran's Kani Reaffirm Commitment to Strategic Partnership - Moscow Sputnik 25 May 2024 -- Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has discussed bilateral cooperation, implementation of joint projects and agreements between Moscow and Tehran in a telephone conversation with Iran's acting Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri Kani, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.
• Press release on Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's telephone conversation with Acting Foreign Minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran Ali Bagheri Kani Russia Ministry of Foreign Affairs 25 May 2024
• Hungary Resists EU Pressure to Fund Ukraine With Profits From Frozen Russian Assets Sputnik 25 May 2024 -- Prime Minister Viktor Orban has vehemently opposed the ongoing NATO proxy war in Ukraine, with Hungary opting to chart its own independent foreign policy course. Earlier in the year, Hungary was for weeks the sole country blocking the EU's $54 billion aid package for the Kiev regime.

News Reports

• The Week In Russia: The 'Extremely Brutal' Bottom Line RFE/RL 25 May 2024 -- Amid a slew of developments from a military shakeup to tactical-nuclear arms drills and rumblings about changing maritime borders in the Baltic, images of Kharkiv region frontier towns targeted in a new Russian offensive are a stark reminder of the effects of Moscow's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.