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BBC: The UK was "intimately involved" in helping Ukraine and the US reach an agreement over a proposed ceasefire deal with Russia.
The Kyiv Independent: Poland is prepared to resume the transport of American aid to Ukraine through its territory, according to Minister of National Defense Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz.
ISW: Ukraine's allies and partners from Europe, Asia, and Oceania continue efforts to strengthen the Ukrainian military and back Ukraine with security guarantees — the most effective deterrent against future Russian aggression against Ukraine following a potential future peace agreement.
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Reuters: The United States agreed on Tuesday to resume military aid and intelligence sharing with Ukraine after Kyiv said it was ready to support Washington's proposal for a 30-day ceasefire with Russia, the countries said in a joint statement.
The Kyiv Independent: France will not accept "any demilitarization of the Ukrainian army," French Defense Minister Sebastien Lecornu said on March 11, The Guardian reported.
Reuters: More than 30 army chiefs among Washington's closest allies met in Paris on Tuesday without their U.S. counterparts, seeking to take on more responsibility over the Ukraine war given Trump's unpredictability and rapprochement with Moscow. The closed-door gathering of 34 army chiefs, including NATO alliance and EU members as well as Japan and Australia, was a rare - and possibly unprecedented - convening without the U.S.
The Kyiv Independent: Iceland will allocate over 2 million euros to Ukraine's Energy Support Fund, the Energy Ministry reported on March 11.
AFP: Russian strikes killed six people, including two children, in the eastern Ukraine region of Donetsk, the regional governor said on Tuesday.
BBC News: Russia poses the greatest threat to Sweden due to its aggressive attitude towards the West, the Scandinavian nation's security service Sapo has said.
Reuters: European Union finance ministers on Tuesday backed a proposal to use the flexibility in the bloc's revised fiscal rules to spend more on defence without triggering disciplinary steps from Brussels for excessive borrowing, Poland said.
The Kyiv Independent: Ukrainian forces successfully attacked the Moscow Oil Refinery and a Druzhba oil pipeline facility in Oryol Oblast overnight on March 11, the General Staff of Ukraine's Armed Forces reported.
Reuters: Shipment of crude oil via the Druzhba pipeline resumed on Tuesday afternoon after a suspension following a Ukrainian drone attack on a metering station, said Hungarian foreign minister Peter Szijjarto.
Bloomberg: An internal probe by Evraz North America found that employees at a Russian-owned steel plant in Oregon sometimes bypassed a key test meant to ensure that armor for one of the Army’s most commonly used vehicles could withstand enemy fire (archive).
The Insider: According to human rights activists, more than 16,000 Ukrainian nationals are being held in Russian captivity. Up to half of them are civilians captured in the occupied territories and sent to Russian prisons on charges of “terrorism” or “espionage.”
The Kyiv Independent: European energy firms have filed lawsuits against Russian energy giant Gazprom totaling 18 billion euros over gas supply cuts, the Moscow Times reported on March 10.
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