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Ukraine Invasion
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Ukraine Invasion

• SSU detains FSB agent who guided russian missiles at Defense Forces installations in five regions of Ukraine Security Service of Ukraine 27 Aug 2025 -- The Security Service of Ukraine has detained another enemy agent in Kyiv region. He is a 40-year-old employee of a local chemical plant who, on the orders of russia's federal security service, adjusted russian air strikes on Ukraine.
• Following SSU investigation, traitor who prepared second russian attack on Dnipro Hydroelectric Power Plant sentenced to 15 years in prison Security Service of Ukraine 27 Aug 2025 -- Based on evidence collected by the Security Service, another enemy agent, who operated in Zaporizhzhia, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison with confiscation of property. On orders of russia's federal security service, he was preparing a repeat attack by russia on the Dnipro Hydroelectric Power Plant.
• Ukrainian Commander Says 'More Effort' Needed To Push Back Russian Advance In East RFE/RL 27 Aug 2025 -- The commander of a Ukrainian unit fighting near the town of Dobropillya in eastern Ukraine has told RFE/RL that it will not be easy to regain territory seized by Russian forces in a sudden advance earlier this month.
• Trump Raises Possibility Of 'Economic War' If Russia Refuses To Move Toward Peace RFE/RL 27 Aug 2025 -- US President Donald Trump again played down the likelihood of a quick meeting of the Russian and Ukrainian leaders and raised the possibility of new sanctions on Moscow, although he also said the Ukrainian side is not without blame.
• FSB Detains Ukrainian Spy Plotting UAV Attack on Russian Airfield Sputnik 27 Aug 2025 -- The Russian Federal Security Forces (FSB) has detained a Ukrainian spy trained to install a navigation module for drone attacks on a Russian military airfield in Engels.
• West Discussing Sending 4-5 Brigades to Ensure Security in Ukraine - Yermak Sputnik 27 Aug 2025 -- Western states are discussing a possibility of sending 4-5 brigades by the group of countries supporting Ukraine - the so-called "coalition of the willing" - to ensure security in Ukraine along with "strategic enablers" from the US, the Financial Times newspaper reported, citing Head of the Office of the Ukrainian president Andriy Yermak.

Defense Policy / Programs

• Meeting with Government members President of Russia 27 Aug 2025 -- Vladimir Putin held a meeting with Government members.
• China, Russia conduct 1st joint submarine patrol in Asia-Pacific: Russian media Global Times 27 Aug 2025 -- Diesel-electric submarines of the Chinese and Russian navies have conducted a joint patrol in the Asia-Pacific region for the first time earlier this month, Russian media reported on Wednesday, citing a statement by Russia's Pacific Fleet. A Chinese expert said that the joint patrol displayed the two navies' underwater interoperability.

Foreign Policy

• Press release on Deputy Foreign Minister Andrey Rudenko's telephone conversation with Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs of the CPC Liu Bin Russia Ministry of Foreign Affairs 27 Aug 2025
• Putin's attendance at China's V-Day commemorations demonstrates high-level partnership, unity in safeguarding WWII victory: official Global Times 28 Aug 2025 -- Russian President Vladimir Putin's visit to China to attend the China's V-Day commemorations in Beijing further highlights the high-level China-Russia comprehensive strategic partnership of coordination for the new era, and demonstrates the two countries' unity and determination in jointly safeguarding the victory of World War II, said China's Assistant Foreign Minister Hong Lei.
• Truth of the Nord Stream pipeline explosions must not be covered up: Chinese envoy to UN Global Times 27 Aug 2025 -- The truth about the Nord Stream pipeline explosions must not be covered up. The investigation should not be politicized, such incidents must not be allowed to happen again, Geng Shuang, China's deputy permanent representative to the United Nations, said at a meeting of the UN Security Council on Tuesday.
• Xi meets Russian State Duma chairman Global Times 27 Aug 2025 -- Chinese President Xi Jinping met with Vyacheslav Volodin, chairman of the Russian parliament's lower house, the State Duma, in Beijing on Tuesday, the Xinhua News Agency reported.
• Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova's answer to a media question on the UK's new anti-Russia sanctions which also target Kyrgyzstani individuals and legal entities Russia Ministry of Foreign Affairs 27 Aug 2025
• Press release on Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's telephone conversation with Foreign Minister of the Republic of Uzbekistan Bakhtiyor Saidov Russia Ministry of Foreign Affairs 27 Aug 2025
• Tsahkna to Braže: The Baltics are leading the way in the use of Russia's frozen assets Estonia MFA 27 Aug 2025 -- Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna met today, 27 August, with Latvian Foreign Minister Baiba Braže in the framework of the joint session of the Latvian and Estonian governments.
• Statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine on Russia's systemic disinformation campaign against Ukraine in African countries Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine 27 Aug 2025 -- The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine has recently observed a significant intensification of Russian disinformation targeting our state in African countries.
• Comment by the MFA of Ukraine on the Decision of the Russian Government to Denounce the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine 27 Aug 2025 -- The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine draws the attention of the international community to the decision of the Government of the Russian Federation to initiate the denunciation of the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.

News Reports

• US Citizen On Trial In Russia After Abrupt Arrest, Alleged Abuse RFE/RL 27 Aug 2025 -- On the morning of November 19, 2024, US citizen Timur Kishukov was to fly back to his home near Chicago, where the truck driver had started his own logistics company earlier in the year, after a visit to his native region of Kabardino-Balkaria, in Russia's North Caucasus.