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Ukraine Invasion

• UN Commission Accuses Russia Of New Crime Against Humanity In Ukraine RFE/RL 28 Oct 2025 -- Russia forces have used drones to chase civilians from their homes near the front line in Ukraine, following them with cameras and attacking them as they sought shelter, a UN inquiry released on October 27 found.
• Russian authorities committed crimes against humanity targeting civilian population through drone attacks as well as war crimes of forcible transfer and deportation of civilians OHCHR 28 Oct 2025 -- Russian authorities have systematically coordinated actions to drive out Ukrainian civilians from their homes through recurrent drone attacks, as well as deportations and transfers, said the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine in a new report submitted to the UN General Assembly.
• Russia's War Dead In Ukraine Believed To Include Hundreds Of Central Asians RFE/RL 28 Oct 2025 -- Sundet Pernebek moved to Russia last year to take up a new lucrative job that would allow him to pay for his wedding.
• Kremlin 'Alarmed' at France's Gamble to Send Troops to Ukraine Sputnik 28 Oct 2025 -- A recent intelligence report about French troops preparing to enter Ukraine has been described as "alarming" by Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov.
• NATO Doing Everything to Persuade US to Abandon Idea of Ukraine Settlement - Lavrov Sputnik 28 Oct 2025 -- Russia has no intention of attacking NATO and EU countries, Russia is prepared to include this in future security guarantees, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said.
• French General Staff Gearing Up To Send 2,000 Troops To Ukraine - Russian Foreign Intel Sputnik 28 Oct 2025 -- French Foreign Legion assault troops, currently stationed in Poland, are preparing for redeployment to central Ukraine, Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) has revealed.

Defense Policy / Programs

• Russia Awaits Positive US Response to Putin's New START Proposal - Lavrov Sputnik 28 Oct 2025 -- Russia expects to receive a positive response from the United States to Russian President Vladimir Putin's proposal on the New START (New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty), Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Tuesday.
• Statement by the Deputy Head of the Delegation of the Russian Federation, Deputy Director of the Department for Non-Proliferation and Arms Control of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Konstantin Vorontsov at the Thematic Debate on Cluster III "Outer Space (Disarmament Aspects)" in the First Committee of the 80th session of the UN General Assembly, New York, October 27, 2025 Russia Ministry of Foreign Affairs 28 Oct 2025
• Statement by the Deputy Head of the Delegation of the Russian Federation, Deputy Director of the Department for Non-Proliferation and Arms Control of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Konstantin Vorontsov at the Thematic Debate on Cluster V "Other disarmament measures and international security" in the First Committee of the 80th Session of the UN General Assembly, New York, October 27, 2025 Russia Ministry of Foreign Affairs 28 Oct 2025

Foreign Policy

• Putin Receives North Korea's Top Diplomat As Zelenskyy Pushes Long-Range Missile Development RFE/RL 28 Oct 2025 -- Russian President Vladimir Putin received North Korea's top diplomat at the Kremlin on October 27 as Russian forces continued their push in eastern Ukraine, penetrating a key city amid fierce fighting.
• Press Statement on Talks of Foreign Ministers of DPRK and Russia Released KCNA 28 Oct 2025 -- A press statement on the talks between the foreign ministers of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and the Russian Federation was released on October 27.
• DPRK Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui Meets with Russian President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin KCNA 28 Oct 2025 -- Choe Son Hui, foreign minister of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, who is on a visit to the Russian Federation at the invitation of its Foreign Ministry, met with Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, president of the Russian Federation, in Kremlin of Moscow on Oct. 27.
• Russian, Syrian Defense Ministers Discuss Promising Areas of Cooperation Sputnik 28 Oct 2025 -- Russian Defense Minister Andrei Belousov held a meeting with Syrian Defense Minister Murhaf Abu Qasra and discussed the practical implementation of promising areas of cooperation, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Tuesday.
• Press release on the UN Convention against Cybercrime Signing Ceremony and High-Level Conference in Hanoi (Vietnam), October 25-26, 2025 Russia Ministry of Foreign Affairs 28 Oct 2025
• Press release on Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's meeting with Foreign Minister of the Republic of Belarus Maxim Ryzhenkov Russia Ministry of Foreign Affairs 28 Oct 2025
• Press release on Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's meeting with Foreign Minister of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar Than Swe Russia Ministry of Foreign Affairs 28 Oct 2025
• Press release on Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's meeting with Jan Kubis, Foreign Affairs and International Politics Adviser to the President of the Slovak Republic Russia Ministry of Foreign Affairs 28 Oct 2025
• Press release on Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's meeting with Serbian leader of Bosnia and Herzegovina Milorad Dodik Russia Ministry of Foreign Affairs 28 Oct 2025
• Press release on Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's meeting with Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó Russia Ministry of Foreign Affairs 28 Oct 2025
• Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's remarks at the high-level plenary session of the 3rd Minsk International Conference on Eurasian Security, Minsk, October 28, 2025 Russia Ministry of Foreign Affairs 28 Oct 2025
• Orban Urges EU to Start Negotiations With Russia Sputnik 28 Oct 2025 -- Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Monday called the European Union's reluctance to negotiate with Russia a catastrophic mistake, because others would decide Europe's future.

News Reports

• Russia using 'rule of fear' to silence anti-war dissent, says UN independent human rights expert UN News 28 Oct 2025 -- Russia's abuse of national security and public safety laws to silence opposition to the war in Ukraine has reached "alarming levels", the UN independent expert who monitors human rights in Russia has warned.
• Rule of fear in Russia: A strategy to silence anti-war dissent says UN expert OHCHR 28 Oct 2025 -- Russia's abuse of national security and public safety legislation to silence opposition to its war against Ukraine has reached alarming levels, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Russian Federation, Mariana Katzarova, warned today.
• Zelenskyy Urges Trump to Pressure Xi Over China's Support For Russia In Ukraine War RFE/RL 28 Oct 2025 -- President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has urged Donald Trump to press China to end its support for Russia in its war against Ukraine when the US President meets his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, during a tour of Asia this week.