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U.K. Tracking Russian Warships Sailing Near British Isles

HMS Westminster monitoring cruiser Marshal Ustinov. U.K. Royal Navy

The U.K. Royal Navy shadowed thee Russian warships as they sailed past the British Isles, London announced in a Tuesday press release.

HMS Westminster (F237), HMS Lancaster (F229) and HMS Richmond (F239), all type 23 frigates, monitored Russian ships Slava-class cruiser RTS Marshal Ustinov (055), Udaloy-class destroyer RFS Vice Admiral Kulakov (626) and tanker Vyazma as they passed by the British Isles on their way home from the...

https://news.usni.org/2022/09/06/u-k-tracking-russian-warships-sailing-near-british-isles

Sister Ship of Sunken Russian Cruiser Moskva Departs Mediterranean, U.S. Destroyers Follow Behind

RTS Marshal Ustinov (055) departing the Mediterranean Sea on Aug. 24, 2022. Photo by Michael J. Sanchez used with permission.

The sister ship of the Russian guided-missile cruiser sunk by the Ukrainian Navy has left its position in the Mediterranean Sea after six months, USNI News has learned.

RTS Marshal Ustinov (055), sister ship to the former RTS Moskva (121), passed through the Strait of Gibraltar on Thursday after operating in the Mediterranean Sea since early February, according to ship...

https://news.usni.org/2022/08/24/sister-ship-of-sunken-russian-cruiser-moskva-departs-mediterranean-u-s-destroyers-follow-behind

Russian Building Pontoon Bridge in Kherson, Satellite Imagery Shows

UK Ministry of Defense Image

The Russian military is building a pontoon bridge in Kherson along the Dnipro River, according to satellite imagery.

Ukrainians have been hitting bridges, which might explain why the Russians are building the pontoon bridge, a senior military officials told reporters Friday.

“They’re probably quite honestly trying to figure out how to get across the river and go back to Crimea,” the senior military official said.

The pontoon bridge under construction is next to the site...

https://news.usni.org/2022/07/29/russian-building-pontoon-bridge-in-kherson-satellite-imagery-shows

Ukraine Faces Hurdles Before Grain Exports Can Start Under New Deal with Russia, Expert Says

Wheat fields in midsummer in Ukraine, Oblast Lviv in 2012. Raimond Spekking Photo

Ukraine still faces hurdles in grain exportation despite an agreement with Russia, brokered by Turkey and the United Nations, to allow shipments of the food stuff to leave the country.

Russia and Ukraine signed an agreement on Friday that would allow merchant ships to take grain out of three Ukrainian ports, including Odesa. But 12 hours later Russia bombed a port in Odesa, although it did not hit the grain...

https://news.usni.org/2022/07/25/ukraine-faces-hurdles-before-grain-exports-can-start-under-new-deal-with-russia-expert-says

DoD: Ukraine Sinks Russian Supply Ship With Harpoon Missile

Danish land-based Harpoon launcher in 2002.

Ukrainian forces used a Harpoon missile to sink a Russian resupply ship headed to Snake Island, a senior defense official told reporters Friday afternoon.

The sinking of the ship helped Ukrainian forces retake Snake Island, which had been in Russian control since the early days of the invasion. The island, called Zmiinyi Ostriv in Ukraine, was the symbol of Ukrainian resistance after a Ukrainian service member on the island told Russian warship Moskva t...

https://news.usni.org/2022/07/01/dod-ukraine-sinks-russian-supply-ship-with-harpoon-missile

VIDEO: Ukraine takes out Russian Navy tug

Within weeks of receiving Harpoon shore-based anti-ship missiles from Denmark, Ukraine appears to have been using them to good effect. Ukraine’s defense forces tweeted today that the Russian Navy tug Spasatel Vasily Bekh had been “successfully demilitarized” by the Ukrainian Navy.

Spasatel Vasily Bekh, a tug of the russian black sea fleet, successfully demilitarized by the @UA_NAVY. The ship was transporting personnel, weapons and ammunition to the occupied Snake Island.
Moskva never be alone…

https://www.marinelog.com/news/video-ukraine-takes-out-russian-navy-tug/

Overview of U.S. Security Assistance to Ukraine

The following is the June 6, 2022, Congressional Research Service In Focus report, U.S. Security Assistance to Ukraine.

From the report

The United States has been a leading provider of security assistance to Ukraine, both before and after Russia renewed its invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022. From 2014, when Russia first invaded Ukraine, through June 1, 2022, the United States has provided more than $7.3 billion in security assistance “to help Ukraine preserve its territorial integrity,...

https://news.usni.org/2022/06/07/overview-of-u-s-security-assistance-to-ukraine

Ukraine Will Make ‘No Deals’ To Cede Territory to End War With Russia, Says Ambassador

UK MoD’s Ukraine Conflict Map on March 31, 2022

Ukrainian leaders will make “no deals” for peace that cede territory to Russia, as the nation is braced for a long war lasting into next winter, Ukraine’s United Nations ambassador said on Wednesday.

“It’s a matter of principle” not to accept new boundaries between Ukraine and Russia, Sergiy Kyslytsya said at an event at The Washington Post.

He called former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger’s suggestion that such a concession could lead to peace...

https://news.usni.org/2022/06/01/ukraine-will-make-no-deals-to-cede-territory-to-end-war-with-russia-says-ambassador

‘More Ugliness’ Coming For Ukraine, Says Former Top NATO Commander

A street in Mariupol Ukraine from the Facebook page of the 36th Marine Brigade on April 7, 2022.

A “whole lot more ugliness” for the Ukrainian people and countryside is likely to unfold over the coming weeks as Moscow concentrates forces and long-range artillery in the Donbas and near the Sea of Azov and Black Sea, a former top commander for NATO said Monday.

Retired Air Force Gen. Philip Breedlove said, “there can be no rush to do business as usual with Russia,” in light of its continued attacks...

https://news.usni.org/2022/05/02/more-ugliness-coming-for-ukraine-says-former-top-nato-commander

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