Ukraine and Russia keep firing drones and rockets at each other.…
Threats come form Russian sources every week…..
US lawmakers have indicated that aid to Ukraine is a matter or ‘When’ NOT ‘If’ despite Donalkd Trump efforts against it……..
In a acknowledgement that one of Russian President’s Ukraine conflict goals he has BADLY lost…He is now sayingb thgat Russian will have send more forces to sit on the border of Finland…..NATO has grown due the Ukraine conflict ….
Euroepean leaders want abducted Ukrainian chilkd ren returned home…..
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Lithuanian president Gitanas Nauseda blamed a hammer attack on Leonid Volkov, the top aide to late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny who lives in Lithuania, on Moscow, saying it was clearly pre-planned and ties in with other provocations against the Baltic nation.Addressing Russian president Vladimir Putin, Nauseda said: “I can only say one thing to Putin – nobody is afraid of you here.”
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Russian foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova has warned that the war in Ukraine could spin out of control due to the actions of countries in the west. She told Reuters she believed the west was walking “on the edge of the abyss” and pushing the world to the edge too with its actions over Ukraine.
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Russia has claimed to have thwarted a drone attack on a thermal power plant in Belgorod, according to state-owned Russian news agency Tass. The agency quotes State Duma deputy Alexander Khinshtein saying: “When [Ukrainian forces were] trying to break through the state border in the Belgorod region, military personnel and employees of the Russian Guard did an excellent job … six attack drones were neutralised, including when approaching the Belgorod thermal power plant.”
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Ukrainian justice minister Denys Maliuska said on Wednesday that he had received “quite optimistic” messages from lawmakers in the US House of Representatives and Senate about the passage of a bill that would provide aid for Ukraine. “What we call for is to put aside any divisions or political disputes aimed at internal needs, since we see that in both camps – Republicans and Democrats – they all agree that support shall be provided,” Maliuska told reporters during a news conference at the Ukrainian embassy in Washington.
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Vladimir Putin signalled that he intends to boost forces along the country’s border with Finland. The Russian leader criticised Finland and Sweden’s Nato accession and said: “This is an absolutely meaningless step [for Finland and Sweden] from the point of view of ensuring their own national interests. We didn’t have troops there [at the Finnish border], now they will be there.”
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European lawmakers are stepping up calls for the return of Ukrainian children who had been forcibly moved to Russia. “At least 20,000 Ukrainian children have been forcibly deported to Russia or relocated to Belarus,” said Michaela Šojdrová, a Czech centre-right member of the European parliament….
Mar 13, 2024 – ISW Press
Ukrainian shortages of ammunition and other war materiel resulting from delays in the provision of US military assistance may be making the current Ukrainian front line more fragile than the relatively slow Russian advances in various sectors would indicate. Ukrainian prioritization of the sectors most threatened by intensive Russian offensive operations could create vulnerabilities elsewhere that Russian forces may be able to exploit to make sudden and surprising advances if Ukrainian supplies continue to dwindle. Russia’s retention of the theater-wide initiative increases the risks of such developments by letting the Russian military command choose to increase or decrease operations anywhere along the line almost at will.