MILNEWS.ca #UKR + Eastern Europe Update as of 221040UTC October 2017

Cold War 2.0:  Russia/Baltics/Eastern Europe

• “NATO Faces Serious Shortcomings in Command Revamp” – “Report: NATO Insufficiently Ready In Case Of Russian Attack” – “NATO not ready to confront hypothetical attack by Russia, – Der Spiegel” – “L’Otan n’est pas en mesure de contrer une agression russe à l’est tant sa capacité militaire s’est « atrophiée » depuis la fin de la Guerre froide, affirme Der Spiegel, s’appuyant sur un rapport confidentiel de l’alliance …” – “NATO rejects media claims alliance unable of quick deployment” – “Report: NATO Insufficiently Ready In Case Of Russian Attack” – “NATO report casts doubt on ability to defend against Russian attack on eastern flank”
• “Zapad 2017 Lessons Learned – a new report of Warsaw Institute” – “Zapad 2017 Lessons Learned” (Warsaw Institute Russia Monitor)
• “Will Russia & America go to War?”
• “Hundreds Rally In Minsk To Condemn Hazing In Army And Tax On ‘Social Parasites’ “ – “Belarusian opposition activists rally urging leader to go”
• “Russia in Review, Oct. 13-20, 2017” (Harvard Belfer Center)
• “Minister of Defence of Belgium to conduct a visit in Lithuania, meet with Belgian soldiers serving in the NATO enhanced Forward Presence Battalion Battle Group” (Lithuanian MoD)
• “If Russia Ever Invades the Baltics, This Is the Plan to Make It as Painful as Possible”
• “1,500 troops taking part in joint military exercises in Kazakhstan”
• “Slovak military inspect artillery brigade of Belarusian Armed Forces”
• “Lithuania goes online with files local spies wrote for KGB”
• “NATO Is Building A ‘Silver Bullet’ To Destroy Russia’s New Tanks”
• “BMD-modified SMART-L tested in ‘Formidable Shield 2017’ “
• “Russian planemaker Sukhoi may start exporting jets to Africa in 2019”
• “No comment on border posts at Belarusian-Russian border during 2018 FIFA World Cup” – “Russian diplomat says temporary checkpoints may appear on border with Belarus”
• “Russia-NATO Council To Meet For Second Time This Year”
• “Does Russia interfere in Czech, Austrian and Hungarian elections?”

#Ukraine

• “Ukraine to enhance security at military bases to protect assets from aerial threats”
• “Putin: Russia to grant its citizenship to millions Donbass refugees”
• “U.S. envoy Volker to visit Ukraine Oct 27 – media” – “Poroshenko to meet Volker next week”
• “Ukraine needs further NATO support, Vice Minister of National Defence V. Umbrasas says “ (Lithuanian MoD) – “Lithuanian delegation visits east of Ukraine” (UKR MoD)
  
• “Conflict in Ukraine to be discussed at Russia-NATO Council meeting in Brussels on Oct 26”
• Updates from All Sides
• “Latest from the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM), based on information received as of 19:30, 20 October 2017”
• “Latest from the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM), based on information received as of 19:30, 19 October 2017”
• UKR govt ATO map, 21 Oct 2017
• “Donetsk Defense: Situation Report, 10/21/2017”
• “Donetsk Defence: Weekly Situation Report, 10/20/2017”
• “Ukraine reports 9 attacks on its troops in Donbas Oct 20”
• “DPR Command: Ukrainian forces shell Republic with almost 1,300 rounds this week”
• “Russian proxies attack Ukraine 14 times, 1 WIA in last day”
• “Two DPR soldiers killed, two civilians wounded by Kiev’s shelling this week”
• “ATO report: Donbas militants violate truce 24 times in last day”
• “Two DPR soldiers perish due to Ukrainian shelling over past week”
• “One soldier wounded in Donbas over 24 hours”
• “DPR Command reports 22 ceasefire violations over past 24 hours”
• “Day in Donbas: militants used grenade launchers, one Ukrainian military wounded”
• “DPR serviceman dies in Ukrainian army’s shelling over 24 hours”
• “Donbas conflict: militants shell Ukrainian positions nine times, no losses”
• “ATO HQ reports 24 enemy attacks in Donbas over last day”
• “OSCE SMM again urges conflicting sides in Donbas to disengage”
• MH17 Shootdown  “New MH17 Photograph Geolocated to Donetsk” (bellingcat)
• “The case of the downed Il-76 against the leader of the LPR Plotnitsky transferred to the High Specialized Court of Ukraine”
• “69 border guards died since beginning of Donbas Conflict, – Poroshenko”
• Kiev Protest Latest  “Situation near Rada calm, Hrushevskoho Street still closed to traffic” – “In Ukraine, people power rattles another government”
• “Russia steadfast on remaining guarantor of Minsk Accords on Donbass”
• “Switzerland sends medical equipment to Luhansk region hit by tuberculosis outbreak”
• Elsewhere in the ‘Hood  “Ukraine seeking to intensify 5+2 talks on Transdniestria”

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