Military Cooperation with Sudan
Serving Objective 18: Gaining strategic presence on the waterways connecting the Atlantic and the Indian Ocean basins
Apr 2025. Russian sources report that Moscow is supplying the Sudanese ruling regime’s military with spare parts for airplanes.
https://moderngreatgame.watch/2025/04/15/mena-theater-update-15-apr-2025/
Political and Diplomatic Subversion targeting Svalbard, Norway
Serving Objective 19: Gaining strategic superiority in the Arctic region
14 Mar 2025. Russia once again accuses Norway of “growing militarization” of the Svalbard archipelago, saying that Svalbard “gets more and more involved into the orbit of military-political planning by Norway with the participation of the USA and NATO,” and adding that this “undercuts the international legal foundations of the archipelago’s regime,” and can “bring onto the territory of Svalbard and the surrounding maritime areas a conflict potential leading to the growth of tensions in the region.”
https://mid.ru/ru/foreign_policy/news/2003311/
Political Support of the Vucic Administration in Serbia
17 Feb 2025. During a joint press conference with the Serbian foreign minister, Russian foreign minister Lavrov expresses support to the “efforts of the Serbian leadership, and President Vucic personally, to prevent destabilization of the situation in the country” – in reference to the anti-government protests in Serbia.
https://mid.ru/ru/foreign_policy/news/1998052/
Diplomatic Support of Iran
Serving Objective 21: Alignment with Iran
6 Feb 2025. Russian foreign ministry criticizes the US maximum pressure effort against Iran to curb its nuclear program, says it violates the international law.
https://mid.ru/ru/foreign_policy/news/1995004/#22
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