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Reuters: Britain and the European Union will ramp up pressure on Russia and boost defence initiatives, as the EU's foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, meets British foreign minister David Lammy and defence minister John Healey in London on Tuesday.
The Kyiv Independent: Eight European nations have filed a complaint with the U.N. over Russia’s interference with European satellite communications, according to documents obtained by the Dutch current affairs television program, Nieuwsuur.
The Moscow Times: Moscow is elated by Trump’s moves to gut U.S.-funded media outlets Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and Voice of America, high-ranking Russian officials and diplomats told MT.
ISW: Putin appears to have been partially successful in holding the ceasefire proposal hostage as part of his efforts to extract preemptive concessions from Trump in negotiations to end the war.
The Kyiv Independent: Trump said on March 17 that his argument with President Volodymyr Zelensky during the Ukrainian leader's visit to the Oval Office was part of a strategy to pressure Ukraine.
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Semafor: The Trump administration is considering recognizing Ukraine’s Crimea region as Russian territory as part of any future agreement to end Moscow’s war on Kyiv.
Reuters: A "significant number" of countries are willing to provide peacekeeping troops in Ukraine in the event of a peace deal with Russia, a spokesperson for British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Monday.
Bloomberg: European Union member states made progress toward a fresh military aid package for Ukraine worth up to €40 billion, just days ahead of a leaders’ summit later this week (archive).
The Kyiv Independent: President Volodymyr Zelensky announced on March 17 in his evening address that a Ukrainian long-range drone has successfully completed testing, demonstrating its ability to fly 3,000 kilometers (1,864 miles).
Yonhap: Top diplomats of South Korea and Ukraine held phone talks Monday to discuss the repatriation of North Korean prisoners of war, Seoul's foreign ministry said.
Reuters: Putin has given a U.S. hedge fund permission to buy securities in Russian companies from certain foreign stakeholders and authorised their future sale to two Russian funds, a presidential decree showed on Monday.
Meduza: Drug and alcohol abuse, unemployment, crime, debt, domestic violence — these are just some of the societal issues the Russian authorities expect to have to deal with when hundreds of thousands of soldiers return home from the war.
The Moscow Times: A group of 65 Russian dissidents who relocated to Spain last year say they have been left in legal limbo after Spanish authorities allegedly failed to follow through on promises of providing residency status, El Pais reported Monday.
The Kyiv Independent: Germany has provided three Gepard anti-aircraft systems with 10,000 rounds of ammunition, 24 mine protection vehicles, and other defense aid to Ukraine in its latest round of aid deliveries announced on March 17.
Reuters: Lithuanian prosecutors accused Russia's military intelligence on Monday of orchestrating an arson attack on an IKEA store in Vilnius in May, and suggested it may have been targeted because the chain's logo uses the same colours as Ukraine's flag.
The Kyiv Independent: Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha outlined three key conditions for future negotiations to end Russia's war against Ukraine in an interview with RBC-Ukraine published on March 17. Sybiha stressed that Ukraine's territorial integrity and sovereignty are non-negotiable, reaffirming that Kyiv will never recognize Russian-occupied territories as part of Russia.
EU: Ukraine will soon receive approximately €3.5 billion after the EU Council approved a third payment of non-repayable grants and loans to Ukraine under the Ukraine Facility.
The Kyiv Independent: Hungary's Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto on March 17 denounced EU plans to provide Ukraine with an additional 20 billion euros in aid, a step allegedly on the agenda of a ministerial meeting in Brussels later the same day.
RFE/RL: A man from a shadowy group named after Vlad the Impaler met with an alleged Russian spy at a Bucharest restaurant to plot the overthrow of the Romanian state, according to documents seen by RFE/RL’s Romanian service.
The Kyiv Independent: Russia is open to allowing unarmed observers and civilian missions in Ukraine as part of a potential peace deal, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko said.
Reuters: Talks to revive the Nord Stream gas pipelines to relaunch Russian gas flows to Germany would be "completely the wrong direction" to go, Germany's economy and energy minister said on Monday.
The Kyiv Independent: The Justice Department has quietly informed European officials that the United States is withdrawing from a multinational group created to investigate leaders responsible for the invasion of Ukraine, including Putin, the NY Times reported on March 17.
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