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Ukraine Invasion
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Ukraine Invasion

• Zelenskyy Says Signals From Russia 'Outrageous' As He Pushes Allies For Quick Security Plan RFE/RL 21 Aug 2025 -- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia's behavior since a US-Russia summit last week and high-profile talks in Washington with European leaders is a sign that Moscow does not intend to negotiate peace agreement to end the war in Ukraine.
• Andrii Sybiha comments on Russia's latest night attack Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine 21 Aug 2025
• Evidence mounting about Russian tactics of sexual torture against Ukrainian civilians: UN expert OHCHR 21 Aug 2025 -- The Special Rapporteur on Torture, Alice Jill Edwards, and several other experts have sent a dossier of sexual torture allegations to the Russian Federation involving the cases of 10 Ukrainian civilians abused in occupied regions of Ukraine, including Kherson, Kharkiv and Zaporizhzhia.
• Comment by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova on the Ukraine crisis Russia Ministry of Foreign Affairs 21 Aug 2025
• Russia Backs Istanbul 2022 Security Guarantees, Rejects Other Ideas - Lavrov Sputnik 21 Aug 2025 -- Russia supports the principles of security guarantees agreed upon in Istanbul in 2022, while all other proposals are futile ventures, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said.

Defense Policy / Programs

• Thousands Of Central Asians Enlisted To Fight Russia's War In Ukraine Through 'Coercion, Enticements' RFE/RL 21 Aug 2025 -- Kazakhstan and other Central Asian countries have repeatedly warned their citizens against taking part in Russia's war in Ukraine, warning them that if they did, they would face mercenary charges at home. But Russia continues to recruit Central Asian nationals to fill the ranks of its depleting forces in Ukraine. Russia hosts millions of migrant workers from the former Soviet region.

Foreign Policy

• Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's statement and answers to media questions at a joint news conference following talks with Minister of External Affairs of India Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, Moscow, August 21, 2025 Russia Ministry of Foreign Affairs 21 Aug 2025
• Meeting with Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar President of Russia 21 Aug 2025 -- Vladimir Putin met in the Kremlin with Minister of External Affairs of the Republic of India, co-chair of the Intergovernmental Russian-Indian Commission on Trade, Economic, Scientific, Technical and Cultural Cooperation Subrahmanyam Jaishankar.
• Press release on Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's talks with India's Minister of External Affairs Subrahmanyam Jaishankar Russia Ministry of Foreign Affairs 21 Aug 2025
• Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's opening remarks during talks with India's Minister of External Affairs Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, Moscow, August 21, 2025 Russia Ministry of Foreign Affairs 21 Aug 2025
• India, Russia aim for $100bn trade despite US pushback Press TV 21 Aug 2025 -- India has disclosed plans to increase its annual trade with Russia to $100 billion by 2030, despite US opposition to the growing cooperation between Moscow and New Delhi.
• Russia: European states 'snapback' activation push fundamentally illegal Press TV 21 Aug 2025 -- A senior Russian diplomat has roundly rejected the UK, France, and Germany's push to invoke the so-called "snapback" mechanism inside the UN Security Council Resolution 2231 that has endorsed a 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world countries, including the trio.
• MFA statement on note of protest sent to Russian Federation Poland - Ministry of Foreign Affairs 21 Aug 2025

News Reports

• Ukrainian Arrested In Connection To 2022 Nord Stream Explosions RFE/RL 21 Aug 2025 -- A Ukrainian national has been arrested in Italy in connection with explosions, carried out in 2022, that damaged the Nord Stream gas pipelines.
• Ukrainian Suspect in Nord Stream Sabotage Arrested in Italy - German Prosecutors Sputnik 21 Aug 2025 -- German prosecutors have announced the arrest of Ukrainian citizen Sergei K. in Italy, suspected of coordinating the sabotage of the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines in 2022.
• Prosecutors Fine Top Official At Yeltsin Presidential Library For Anti-War Post RFE/RL 21 Aug 2025 -- Russian prosecutors fined a top official at the Yeltsin Center, the library and cultural center dedicated to the late Russian president, after she re-posted an anti-war message on social media.