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Ukraine Invasion
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Ukraine Invasion

• Russia Launches 'Massive' Attack On Ukraine's Energy Facilities RFE/RL 12 Dec 2024 -- U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has criticized the Biden administration for giving Ukraine permission to strike inside Russia with powerful U.S. missiles, claiming it is intensifying the war.
• Russia Closes In On Key Ukrainian City As Zelenskiy Visits Front Line RFE/RL 12 Dec 2024 -- Russian forces continue to creep closer to the strategic eastern Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk amid a surge in diplomacy to end Europe's biggest war in decades.
• Comment by Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov President of Russia 12 Dec 2024 -- During yesterday's telephone conversation with President Vladimir Putin, Prime Minister of Hungary Viktor Orban suggested carrying out a major prisoner exchange between Russia and Ukraine ahead of Christmas, as well as declaring a Christmas ceasefire.
• Russian Defence Ministry reports on repelling AFU attempt to invade Russian territory in Kursk region (12 December 2024) Russia MoD 12 Dec 2024 -- The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the operation to neutralise an enemy group, which broke into the territory of Kursk region.

Defense Policy / Programs

Foreign Policy

• Press release on Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's telephone conversation with Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan Russia Ministry of Foreign Affairs 12 Dec 2024
• Press release on Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's telephone conversation with Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó Russia Ministry of Foreign Affairs 12 Dec 2024
• Xi Jinping Meets with Chairman of the United Russia Party of Russia Dmitry Medvedev PRC MofA 12 Dec 2024 -- On December 12, 2024, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee and President Xi Jinping met with Chairman of the United Russia Party of Russia Dmitry Medvedev at the Great Hall of the People.
• Two negative decisions on real estate transactions Finnish MoD 12 Dec 2024 -- On 10 December 2024, Minister of Defence Antti Häkkänen made two negative permit decisions concerning real estate acquisitions by buyers from outside the EU and EEA.

News Reports

• Noted Russian Missile Designer Reportedly Shot Dead Near Moscow RFE/RL 12 Dec 2024 -- A senior official from a Russian company that develops cruise missiles used by Moscow in its war with Ukraine has reportedly been shot and killed just outside the capital.
• Inside A Secret, Expanding Russian Lab Site With A Bioweapons Legacy RFE/RL 12 Dec 2024 -- Little-noticed video footage reviewed by RFE/RL's Russian Service sheds light on a secretive military research center that is notorious for its role in the Soviet Union's biological weapons program and has undergone a major expansion since Moscow's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
• Russian National Indicted for Assisting Sanctioned Oligarch in Schemes to Employ an American Citizen to Launch and Operate Russian Television Network US Dept. of Justice 12 Dec 2024 -- A superseding indictment was unsealed today charging Alexey Komov, 53, of Russia, with conspiracy and violations of U.S. sanctions arising from his assistance to sanctioned Russian oligarch Konstantin Malofeyev, who was previously charged with sanctions violations in April 2022.