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Ukraine Invasion

• Zelenskyy Urges Allies To Respond As Ukraine Battles To Restore Power After Attacks RFE/RL 08 Nov 2025 -- According to Kyiv, the city of Pokrovsk remains a priority for the Kremlin as Russian forces claim to have captured dozens of buildings in house-to-house fighting for Ukraine's key eastern stronghold.
• Homes, Energy Sector Hit In Deadly Russian Attack On Ukraine RFE/RL 08 Nov 2025 -- Russia carried out a large, overnight combined strike using drones and missiles across multiple regions of Ukraine, with Ukrainian officials emphasizing that energy infrastructure and civilian facilities were key targets.
• Update 327 - IAEA Director General Statement on Situation in Ukraine IAEA 08 Nov 2025 -- Ukraine's Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) has regained its access to back-up electricity from the grid for the first time in six months, after today's completion of repairs to a second power line under the protection of a localized ceasefire brokered by the IAEA, Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said. /li>

• Statement by Russian Defence Ministry Russia MoD 08 Nov 2025
• Russian Forces Complete Liberation of Volchye in Dnepropetrovsk Region Sputnik 08 Nov 2025 -- Russia's Vostok Battlegroup has completed the liberation of the village of Volchye in the Dnepropetrovsk Region, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Saturday.
• Russian Forces Destroy Surrounded Ukrainian Troops in Krasnoarmeysk - Defense Ministry Sputnik 08 Nov 2025 -- Russian Armed Forces keep eliminating surrounded Ukrainian armed forces units in Krasnoarmeysk (Pokrovsk), mopping up militants from Gnatovka and Rog, and have liberated 39 buildings, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Saturday.
• Russian Forces Eliminate Last Ukrainian Group in Kupyansk Sputnik 08 Nov 2025 -- Russian troops eliminated 10 Ukrainian military personnel who were holding their last positions in the city of Kupyansk, the commander of the assault unit of the 121st Motorized Rifle Regiment of the Russian Zapad Battlegroup, with the service name Lavrik, said.

Defense Policy / Programs

• Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's answer to a media question Russia Ministry of Foreign Affairs 08 Nov 2025
• Russia Received No Diplomatic Clarification on Trump's Call to Resume Nuclear Tests - Lavrov Sputnik 08 Nov 2025 -- Russia has not received any explanation through diplomatic channels as to what US President Donald Trump meant when he announced the resumption of nuclear testing, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told reporters.
• Putin Appoints Colonel General Sanchik as Russian Deputy Defense Minister Sputnik 08 Nov 2025 -- Russian President Vladimir Putin has appointed Colonel General Alexander Sanchik as Russian Deputy Defense Minister, according to a relevant decree released on the official portal of legal acts on Saturday.
• US Nuclear Test Plan Risks New Global Arms Race - Russia's UN Envoy Sputnik 08 Nov 2025 -- US President Donald Trump's statement on nuclear testing has caused chaos worldwide and following through could lead to a renewed arms race with dire implications, Russian Ambassador to the UN Vassily Nebenzia told RIA Novosti.

Foreign Policy

• Russian Delegation Leaves Here KCNA 08 Nov 2025 -- The delegation of the Military-Political General Department of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation headed by Director Viktor Goremuikin, vice-minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, left here for home on Nov. 7.

News Reports

• Anger In Russia Over Muslim Migrants Praying In Public RFE/RL 08 Nov 2025 -- A bus driver in Russia's Far Eastern city of Khabarovsk was investigated last month after he prayed at a bus terminal while passengers waited inside the vehicle.