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Ukraine Invasion
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Ukraine Invasion

• Foreign Ministry delivers a note to the Russian Embassy over promoting studies in Russia and the occupied territories of Ukraine Estonia MFA 19 Sep 2025 -- The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has delivered a note to the Russian Embassy concerning an announcement published on the embassy's website and social media about study opportunities in Russia and in the Ukrainian territories illegally occupied or annexed by Russia.

Defense Policy / Programs

• Meeting of the Military-Industrial Commission President of Russia 19 Sep 2025 -- During a working visit to the Perm Territory, Vladimir Putin held a meeting of the Military-Industrial Commission of the Russian Federation at the Motovilikha Plants.
• China's Defense Universities Help Russia Offset Sanctions And Export Controls, New Research Shows RFE/RL 19 Sep 2025 -- New research shared with RFE/RL shows that leading Chinese universities linked to the country's defense sector have significantly increased their research partnerships with Russian institutions, providing Moscow with access to new technology and expertise that can help counteract Western sanctions applied since the Kremlin's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
• Estonia Seeks To Invoke NATO Article 4, As EU Plans New Round Of Russian Sanctions RFE/RL 19 Sep 2025 -- Estonia said that three Russian MiG-31 fighter aircraft entered its airspace, hours after the European Commission proposed a 19th package of sanctions on Moscow over its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
• Russian Federation aircraft violated Estonian airspace Estonia Defence Forces 19 Sep 2025 -- On friday, the morning of September 19, three Russian fighter jets MIG-31 entered Estonian airspace in the Vaindloo Island area without permission, and remained there for approximately 12 minutes.
• Foreign Minister Tsahkna: Foreign Ministry summons Russia's chargé d'affaires over another violation of Estonia's airspace Estonia MFA 19 Sep 2025 -- Today, 19 September, the Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs summoned the chargé d'affaires of the Russian Federation in Estonia to lodge a protest and deliver a note concerning the violation of Estonia's airspace that occurred on 19 September.
• Statement by Minister of Foreign Affairs Espen Barth Eide on Russia's Violation of Estonian Airspace Government of Norway 19 Sep 2025 -- 'Russia's violation of Estonian airspace is grave and unacceptable,' says Minister of Foreign Affairs Espen Barth Eide.

Foreign Policy

• Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's opening remarks at a meeting of the Business Council under the Foreign Minister, Moscow, September 19, 2025 Russia Ministry of Foreign Affairs 19 Sep 2025
• Congress Wants To Label Russia A Terrorism Sponsor. Will It Happen? RFE/RL 19 Sep 2025 -- Russia's State Duma has passed a bill to withdraw from the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture, formally ending an international commitment to maintain human rights that has in any case almost completely ceased to have any effect in the country.
• Russia: Statement by the High Representative/Vice-President Kaja Kallas on the 19th package of sanctions European External Action Service (EEAS) 19 Sep 2025
• Statement by President von der Leyen on the 19th package of sanctions against Russia European Commission 19 Sep 2025
• Statement by High Representative / Vice-President Kallas on the 19th package of sanctions against Russia\ European Commission 19 Sep 2025

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