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Reuters: Putin's top security adviser Sergei Shoigu has arrived in North Korea and plans to meet its leader Kim Jong Un, the TASS news agency reported on Friday, his latest visit amid dramatic advances in security ties between the countries.
The Kyiv Independent: Russia launched a mass drone attack against the southern city of Odesa overnight on March 20-21, injuring three people and damaging civilian infrastructure, Odesa Oblast Governor Oleh Kiper reported.
Reuters: Ukraine's military, quoting media, reported a strike early on Friday on a recently closed gas pumping and measuring station in western Russia's Kursk region, where Ukrainian forces have been under pressure seven months after a cross-border incursion.
The Kyiv Independent: Russia attacked the outskirts of Zaporizhzhia with guided aerial bombs on the evening of March 20, Zaporizhzhia Oblast Governer Ivan Fedorov reported. Six people were injured in the attack, including a four-year-old boy.
Reuters: The Trump administration is seeking new terms for U.S. access to critical minerals and energy assets in Ukraine, widening its economic demands on Kyiv as it pushes for a peace deal with Russia, the Financial Times reported on Friday, citing two Ukrainian officials.
ISW: Kremlin officials continue advertising the possibility of future economic cooperation with the United States, likely to extract preemptive concessions from the US in ceasefire or peace negotiations.
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Reuters: Ukraine's President Volodymr Zelenskiy will be in Paris next week to hold talks with key European leaders and discuss ongoing efforts to end the war, security assurances for Kyiv and how to boost aid for his country.
AP News: Putin’s key peace demand that Western allies stop providing military aid and intelligence to Ukraine is quietly being ignored by the European Union.
Reuters: European Union leaders said on Thursday that they will continue to support Ukraine, but they did not immediately endorse a call by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to approve a package of at least 5 billion euros for artillery purchases.
The Kyiv Independent: Ukrainian troops "destroyed" a command post of the Third Motor Rifle Division of the 20th Army of the Russian Armed Forces near the village of Demidovka in Russia's Belgorod Oblast on March 18, Ukraine's General Staff reported on March 20.
Reuters: The European Commission is looking to cut Ukrainian sugar imports sharply after EU producers complained that large shipments have fuelled a collapse in sugar prices.
The Guardian: Ukraine will have a delegation in Riyadh on the same day the US is holding ceasefire talks there with a Russian negotiating team led by a secretive former FSB chief who played a key role in planning Putin’s 2022 full-scale invasion.
AFP: Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky said Moscow must stop making "unnecessary demands" that extend the war, calling for sanctions on Russia to remain in place until it begins pulling out of Ukrainian territory.
AFP: Zelensky also said he could not legally negotiate ownership of the occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station, which Trump suggested Washington could take over.
Reuters: British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Thursday it was important Britain and its allies were able to react immediately should there be a peace deal struck between Russia and Ukraine.
Politico: Britain would not deploy peacekeeping troops in Ukraine without security guarantees from the United States backing them up, a government minister said Thursday.
Bloomberg: UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is focusing a post-war European military guarantee for Ukraine on air and sea support, moving away from his previous priority of securing troops on the ground to enforce any peace deal with Russia (archive).
The Kyiv Independent: Ukrainian citizens residing in Russia and Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine must leave by Sept. 10 or "regulate their legal status," according to an official decree signed by Putin and published on March 20.
Reuters: Poland is ready to start work on resuming the production of anti-personnel mines, its defence minister said on Thursday, after Warsaw joined the Baltic states this week in announcing a plan to withdraw from a treaty that bans their use.
The European Commission has disbursed an additional 1 billion euros in Macro-Financial Assistance to Ukraine, to be repaid with proceeds from frozen Russian assets.
Reuters: Ukrainian soldiers in Kursk have lost ground in recent days but are not encircled by Russian forces, contrary to recent comments by Trump and Putin, according to three U.S. and European officials familiar with their governments' intelligence assessments.
worth mentioning
France to launch 450 million euro defence fund amid growing security concerns
Turkey and Slovakia get US waiver extension for gas payments to Russia
UK law firm slapped with £465K fine for Russian sanctions breach
How Moscow hijacked tens of thousands of local government social media pages to fill users’ feeds with ‘garbage news’
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