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Ukraine Invasion
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Ukraine Invasion

• Pokrovsk Is In Danger Of Falling To Russia. Ukrainian Soldiers Are Fuming. RFE/RL 30 Oct 2025 -- Since midsummer, Ukrainian forces have played a game of whack-a-mole in Pokrovsk, watching individual Russian soldiers and small units pop up in building ruins or basements in the frontline Donetsk region city, and then hammering them one by one.
• Russian Strikes Kill Civilians Across Ukraine As Fighting Intensifies In Pokrovsk RFE/RL 30 Oct 2025 -- Russian missile and drone strikes across Ukraine have killed at least five people and injured dozens of others, including children, as Russian troops step up assaults around the country's strategic eastern city of Pokrovsk.
• Update 324 - IAEA Director General Statement on Situation in Ukraine IAEA 30 Oct 2025 -- Efforts to facilitate the repair of the 330 kV Ferosplavna-1 power line at Ukraine's Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) are ongoing, following the discovery last week of additional damage to the line during the successful reconnection of the plant to Ukraine's power grid, IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said today.
• Statement by Russian Defence Ministry Russia MoD 30 Oct 2025 -- The Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation received an order from the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Federation to ensure the unrestricted travel for foreign journalists, including Ukrainian ones, upon their address to the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, to visit the areas blocked by Ukrainian troops in Krasnoarmeysk, Dimitrov, Kupyansk.
• Russian Forces Liberate Two Settlements in Zaporozhye and Kharkov Regions Sputnik 30 Oct 2025 -- The Russian armed forces have taken control of the settlement of Krasnogorskoye in the Zaporozhye region, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Thursday.
• Russian Forces Hit Ukrainian Military-Industrial Sites in Overnight Long-Range Strike Sputnik 30 Oct 2025 -- Russian forces carried out a massive strike with high-precision weapons on facilities of Ukraine's military-industrial complex, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.

Defense Policy / Programs

• Russian Defence Minister Andrei Belousov arrives in Kazakhstan on working visit Russia MoD 30 Oct 2025 -- Russian Defence Minister Andrei Belousov has arrived in Almaty, the Republic of Kazakhstan, where he will take part in a meeting of the Council of Defence Ministers of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).
• Kremlin: Burevestnik Test Was Non-Nuclear Sputnik 30 Oct 2025 -- US President Donald Trump has claimed that other countries are conducting nuclear weapon tests, but if he was referring to Russia's Burevestnik missile, such claims are incorrect, Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.
• Burevestnik Tests Aim to Strengthen Russia's Strategic Deterrence - MFA Sputnik 30 Oct 2025 -- Russia's nuclear-powered Burevestnik cruise missile tests are aimed at ensuring the effectiveness and reliability of national strategic deterrent forces and assets, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Thursday.

Foreign Policy

• New Zealand expands sanctions on Russia's oil industry and shadow fleet New Zealand Government 30 Oct 2025-- Foreign Minister Winston Peters has announced a new round of sanctions targeting Russia's oil trade while meeting with the Nordic 5 Foreign Ministers in Stockholm.

News Reports

• Statement by Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Aleksandr Pankin at the APEC Foreign and Trade Ministers' Meeting, Session 1: Innovation and Prosperity, Gyeongju, Republic of Korea, October 30, 2025 Russia Ministry of Foreign Affairs 30 Oct 2025
• Remarks by Deputy Foreign Minister Dmitry Lyubinsky at the G20 Anti-Corruption Ministerial Meeting, Skukuza, Republic of South Africa, October 30, 2025 Russia Ministry of Foreign Affairs 30 Oct 2025
• National Guardsman Arrested and Charged with Export Violation US Dept. of Justice 30 Oct 2025 -- Canyon Anthony Amarys, 28, of Alamogordo, New Mexico, was arrested on October 28 in connection with his indictment for the attempted violation of the Export Control Reform Act. Amarys will make his initial appearance today in federal court in the District of Kansas at 1:30 p.m. Central Time.