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Ukraine Invasion
Defense Policy / Programs
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Ukraine Invasion

• Ukraine Said To Claim Attack On Murmansk Airfield, Notes Russian Helicopter Losses RFE/RL 27 Jul 2024 -- Ukraine's military intelligence (GUR) on July 27 claimed its drones attacked the Olenya airfield in Russia's far northern Murmansk region, saying it struck a TU-22M3 strategic bomber, and said three Russian army helicopters had been destroyed in Russian territory over the previous week.
• Russian Strikes Target Ukraine's Southern Kherson Region; Ambulance Hit By Drone RFE/RL 27 Jul 2024 -- Russian forces targeted more than a dozen settlements in Ukraine's southern Kherson region, an official said, and a Russian drone hit an ambulance, wounding its driver.
• Russian Troops Liberate Lozovatskoye Settlement in Donetsk Region - MoD Sputnik 27 Jul 2024 -- Russia's Battlegroup Tsentr liberated the settlement of Lozovatskoye in the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), the Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) said on Saturday.
• Man Who Blew up Russian Railway at Ukraine's Behest Formally Charged Sputnik 27 Jul 2024 -- Ruslan Sidiki, who blew up a railway near Russia's Ryazan in exchange for $15,000 promised by Ukrainian security services, is accused of committing nine serious crimes, court documents obtained by Sputnik revealed Saturday.

Defense Policy / Programs

• Warships of Russia's Baltic Fleet Arriving at Cuba's Havana Port Sputnik 27 Jul 2024 -- Warships from Russia's Baltic Fleet began to arrive at the Cuban port of Havana on Saturday, a Sputnik correspondent reported.
• Russia's Yakovlev Design Bureau Ready to Resume Development of Vertical Take-Off Jets Sputnik 27 Jul 2024 -- The Moscow-based design bureau developed the USSR's first vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) enabled fighter jet, the Yak-38, in the 1970s. The Yak-38's successor, the Yak-141 program, reached an advanced stage of development, but was cancelled on the eve of the Soviet Union's dissolution in 1991.

Foreign Policy

• Russia's Lavrov says US-South Korea nuclear plan adds concern in region Press TV 27 Jul 2024 -- Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said that the US-South Korea nuclear cooperation guidelines add to security concerns in the region.
• Russia Adapted to Sanctions, Demonstrating Flexibility in Various Areas - Orban Sputnik 27 Jul 2024 -- Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Saturday refuted claims that Russia is an autocracy, saying that the country had adapted to Western sanctions and demonstrated economic and social flexibility.

News Reports

• At Viktor Orban's Romanian Summer Camp, He Praises Trump And Says The Ukraine War Is Our 'Red Pill' RFE/RL 27 Jul 2024 -- For Hungary's controversial national-conservative Prime Minister Viktor Orban, the annual jamboree in the Romanian region of Transylvania for supporters of his ruling Fidesz party is clearly a place where he feels at home.
• In Speech To Romanian Town, Hungary's Orban Again Rails Against The West RFE/RL 27 Jul 2024 -- Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban again ripped into the European Union, using a speech in a Romanian spa town to trumpet his nationalist-tinged agenda, including a full-throated embrace of former U.S. President Donald Trump.