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Ukraine

• Obtaining air defense systems is one of the priorities for Ukraine, it will ensure security to the people - Volodymyr Zelenskyy President of Ukraine 15 Sep 2022
• President of Ukraine discussed financial and energy support for our country with the President of the European Commission President of Ukraine 15 Sep 2022
• We will respond to the terrorists for each of their vile acts, for each missile - we are capable of that - address by the President of Ukraine President of Ukraine 15 Sep 2022
• Zelenskiy Assesses Damage In Liberated Area As Russia Hits Ukrainian Water Facility RFE/RL 15 Sep 2022 -- President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, who has visited areas the Ukrainian military recaptured from Russian forces, says there is large-scale devastation in towns and cities there, while the major city of Kryviy Rih struggles to contain damage to its water system from Russian missile attacks.
• Zelenskyy Hosts EU Leader as Putin, Xi Meet VOA 15 Sep 2022 -- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is hosting European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen for talks Thursday in Kyiv that von der Leyen said would include “getting our economies and people closer while Ukraine progresses towards accession.”

Russia

• Saying The Quiet Part Out Loud: Ukrainian Victories Push Kremlin Toward Potential Mobilization RFE/RL 15 Sep 2022 -- The head of Russia’s Communist Party, these days considered the closest thing to an opposition political party, had frank words about the “extremely difficult and troubling circumstances” facing lawmakers in the wake of Ukraine’s stunning battlefield successes.
• Putin Says He Understands China Has 'Concerns' About Ukraine 'Crisis' VOA 15 Sep 2022 -- Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday he understands that China has “questions and concerns” about Moscow’s military actions in Ukraine as he held talks with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Uzbekistan.

United States

• Fact Sheet on U.S. Security Assistance to Ukraine - September 15, 2022 DOD
• $600 Million in Additional Security Assistance for Ukraine DoD 15 Sep 2022 -- Today, the Department of Defense (DoD) announces the authorization of a Presidential Drawdown of security assistance valued at up to $600 million to meet Ukraine’s critical security and defense needs. This authorization is the Biden Administration’s twenty-first drawdown of equipment from DoD inventories for Ukraine since August 2021.
• Memorandum on the Delegation of Authority Under Section 506(a)(1) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 The White House 15 Sep 2022
• Ukraine Contracting Actions - September 15, 2022 DOD 15 Sep 2022
• Targeting Russia’s Senior Officials, Defense Industrial Base, Financial Infrastructure Leaders, and Human Rights Abusers US Dept. of State 15 Sep 2022 -- The United States continues to hold the Russian government to account for its war against Ukraine.
• Treasury Targets Additional Facilitators of Russia’s Aggression in Ukraine US Treasury 15 Sep 2022 -- Today, as part of its continued response to Russia’s horrific war of aggression against Ukraine, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated 22 individuals and 2 entities, including multiple individuals who have furthered the Government of the Russian Federation’s (GoR) objectives in Ukraine, both prior to and during Russia’s further invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Also included among those being designated is Task Force Rusich, a neo-Nazi paramilitary group that has participated in combat alongside Russia’s military in Ukraine, as well as two of its senior leaders.
• US Targets Russian Officials and Entities with New Sanctions VOA 15 Sep 2022 -- The U.S. on Thursday imposed new economic sanctions on an array of Russians, including some that it accused of stealing Ukrainian grain, an official who allegedly has directed the deportation of tens of thousands of Ukrainian children to Russia, and relatives of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov.
• Documenting Russia's Destructive Impact on Food Storage in Ukraine US Dept. of State 15 Sep 2022 -- President Putin's unjustified war against Ukraine puts millions around the globe at risk of increasing food insecurity.

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Foreign Reactions

• OSCE Chairman-in-Office and Secretary General deplore so-called "legal proceedings" against detained staff in Donetsk and Luhansk, demand their immediate release OSCE 15 Sep 2022 -- OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Polish Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau, and OSCE Secretary General Helga Maria Schmid today unequivocally condemned the so-called "legal proceedings" launched against two national mission members of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) and the continuing detention of one other national mission member. The three national mission members have been detained for almost five months.
• Secretary General deplores Russian plans for a referendum to annex Ukrainian territories Council of Europe 15 Sep 2022 -- The Secretary General of the 46-nation Council of Europe, Marija Pejčinović Burić, has today made the following statement:
• Press statement by President von der Leyen with Ukrainian President Zelenskyy European Commission 15 Sep 2022
• EIB Group starts disbursements from €1.59 bn EIB Ukraine Solidarity Urgent Response package European Commission 15 Sep 2022 -- Yesterday, the European Investment Bank (EIB), the EU bank, disbursed the first tranches of the €1.59 billion package of the Ukraine Solidarity Urgent Response, supported by an EU guarantee.
• 'Difficult' Discussion on Ukraine Predicted at Biden-Ramaphosa Meeting VOA 15 Sep 2022 -- South African President Cyril Ramaphosa will meet U.S. President Joe Biden at the White House Friday, with trade, energy, and security all on the agenda. What’s not officially on the program, but will likely be discussed, analysts say, are the two democracies’ differences over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
• Minister Ng speaks with Yulia Svyrydenko, First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy of Ukraine Canada 15 Sep 2022 -- The Honourable Mary Ng, Minister of International Trade, Export Promotion, Small Business and Economic Development, spoke with Yulia Svyrydenko, First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy of Ukraine on the margins of the G7 trade and investment ministers’ meeting hosted in Neuhardenberg, Germany.

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