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Ukraine Invasion
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Ukraine Invasion

• Russian Forces Reportedly Attack Ukrainian Troops In Kursk, Claim Recapture Of Some Villages RFE/RL 11 Sep 2024 -- Russian forces have begun attacking Ukrainian troops in the Kursk region and have retaken some territory, pro-Moscow war bloggers and Ukrainian military analysts said on September 11.
• Russian Defence Ministry report on repelling an invasion attempt of the AFU on the territory of the Russian Federation in Kursk region (11 September 2024) Russia MoD 11 Sep 2024 -- Units of the Sever Group of Forces supported by Army Aviation and artillery fire repelled an enemy counter-attack towards Apanasovka, as well as thwarted the enemy's attempts to launch attacks in the direction of Cherkasskaya Konopelka, Borki, and Fanaseyevka.
• Statement by Russian Defence Ministry Russia MoD 11 Sep 2024 -- Last night, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation thwarted an attempt by the Kiev regime to seize the Krym-2 drilling platform in the Black Sea waters.

Defense Policy / Programs

• Ocean 2024 CPX: Baltic Fleet's naval helicopters hone skills in searching and destroying mock enemy uncrewed surface vehicles Russia MoD 11 Sep 2024 -- As part of the Ocean 2024 CPX, naval helicopters practised a set of tasks to search and detect uncrewed surface vehicles in the Baltic Sea.
• Ocean 2024 CPX: units of Northern Fleet perform search for mock enemy submarines and deploy anti-submarine weaponry Russia MoD 11 Sep 2024 -- During the Ocean 2024 CPX, combined forces of the Northern Fleet commenced the search for the submarines of the mock enemy in the Barents Sea and countered their actions.
• Ocean 2024 CPX: Pacific Fleet's naval aviation masters evasive manoeuvre Russia MoD 11 Sep 2024 -- In Kamchatka, during the Ocean 2024 CPX, pilots of the separate mixed aviation regiment practised an evasive manoeuvre amid a mock air attack.
• Ocean 2024 CPX: Pacific Fleet's coastal missile regiment arrives on large landing ships in Chukotka to join naval strategic drills Russia MoD 11 Sep 2024 -- After being transported by Pacific Fleet's large landing ships from permanent bases to the shore of Chukotka Peninsula, coastal missile crews marched to the positioning areas during the Ocean 2024 strategic naval drills.
• Ocean 2024 CPX: Bastion coastal defence missile produces electronic launches at naval and surface targets Russia MoD 11 Sep 2024 -- In the framework of the Ocean 2024 CPX, sailors of the Baltic sea-base coastal missile formation destroyed a mock enemy warships group and struck critical coastal infrastructure with the use of the Bastion coastal defence missile.
• Ocean 2024 CPX: Caspian Flotilla ships launch missile strikes and holds live-fire artillery drills at sea Russia MoD 11 Sep 2024 -- As part of the Ocean 2024 strategic command post exercise, the missile ship Dagestan, small artillery ships Astrakhan and Volgodonsk of the Caspian Flotilla as a unit of surface task force destroyed buoyant mine threatening civil shipping. Heavy machine guns were used to fire at the targets. The target was fired from standard large-calibre machine guns.
• Ocean 2024 CPX: Pacific Fleet's minesweepers practise naval mine warfare in seas of Japan and Okhotsk Russia MoD 11 Sep 2024 -- Two surface minesweeping forces of the Pacific Fleet have performed a mission to ensure the security of deploying all-arms surface groups, surface action groups, and naval search and strike forces of the Fleet in the waters of the seas of Japan and Okhotsk during the Ocean 2024 strategic command post exercise.
• China, Russia commence joint drills, patrol Global Times 11 Sep 2024 -- Chinese and Russian militaries are holding two consecutive joint drills and a joint naval patrol, with advanced Chinese warships and warplanes having arrived in the Peter the Great Bay and Vladivostok ahead of the exercises.
• Minesweepers of Baltic Fleet search for naval mines and perform mine clearance in offshore zone Russia MoD 11 Sep 2024 -- During the Ocean 2024 strategic command post exercise, crews of minesweepers of the Baltic Naval Base of the Baltic Fleet's water area protection unit carried out exercises for their main purpose in the fleet's combat training ranges in the Baltic Sea waters.

Foreign Policy

• UK cracks down on illicit 'shadow fleet' transporting Russian oil globally UK FCDO 11 Sep 2024 -- The UK has sanctioned 10 vessels in Russia's 'shadow fleet', a group of ships that use illicit practices to avoid sanctions on Russian oil.

News Reports

• Iran Vows 'Proportionate' Response After Sanctions Over Alleged Missile Transfers To Russia RFE/RL 11 Sep 2024 -- Iran has vowed to deliver a "symmetric and proportionate" response after Britain, France, and Germany canceled air services agreements with Tehran and pledged to sanction its flag carrier, Iran Air.
• Girkin's Wife Denies Jailed Russian Nationalist Fighting In Ukraine RFE/RL 11 Sep 2024 -- Miroslava Reginskaya, the wife of imprisoned Russian nationalist Igor Girkin (aka Strelkov), has rejected reports saying her husband was released and allowed to join the Russian troops fighting in Ukraine.