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Reuters: Late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny's long-time aide Leonid Volkov was assaulted with a hammer in the Lithuanian capitol Vilnius on Tuesday, former Navalny spokesperson Kira Yarmysh said.
BBC News: Moscow has launched a wide-ranging campaign telling residents of occupied parts of Ukraine to vote in Russia's presidential 'election'. One resident complained of pro-Russian collaborators with ballot boxes going from house to house looking for voters accompanied by armed soldiers.
Reuters: Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk warned U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson on Tuesday that "the fate of millions of people" and "thousands of lives" depends on whether the Republican allows a vote on $60 billion in military aid to Ukraine.
ISW: The Kremlin continues to assert its right, contrary to international law, to enforce Russian federal law on officials of NATO members and former Soviet states for actions taken within the territory of their own countries where Russian courts have no jurisdiction, effectively denying the sovereignty of those states.
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Reuters: A Russian missile slammed into two apartment buildings in the central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih on Tuesday, killing three people and injuring at least 38, with rescue teams sifting through rubble in a night-time search for survivors. Ten children were among the injured.
Reuters: U.S. House of Representatives Democrats began collecting signatures on Tuesday for a potential bid to sidestep Republican Speaker Mike Johnson and force a vote on a $95 billion security assistance package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan.
POLITICO: French lawmakers have approved a security agreement with Ukraine in a symbolic vote which forced opposition parties to publicly reveal their doubts about sending military aid to Kyiv.
Reuters: European Union countries are close to a deal on a military aid fund for Ukraine that would pave the way for an injection of 5 billion euros, diplomats said on Tuesday.
Reuters: The United States will send a new military aid package for Ukraine worth $300 million, President Joe Biden's administration said on Tuesday, the first such move in months as additional funds for Kyiv remain blocked by Republican leaders in Congress.
The Kyiv Independent: The European Parliament has adopted a directive on criminalizing the violation and circumvention of EU sanctions, namely in relation to sanctions targeting Russia.
The Moscow Times: Russian officials have been ordered to significantly boost voter turnout among young people in the upcoming presidential 'election' as the Kremlin seeks to hand Putin a resounding re-coronation.
Reuters: Thousands of people took to the streets of Slovakia's capital Bratislava on Tuesday to show support for Ukraine and protest against the Slovak government, which critics say has veered too close to Russia.
The Kyiv Independent: The Danish Defense Ministry announced on March 12 a new 2.3 bln kroner ($336 mln) military aid package for Ukraine. The package contains Caesar self-propelled artillery systems, self-propelled 120-mm mortars, and associated ammunition. The funds will also be used as part of the Czech-led initiative to purchase artillery shells for Ukraine.
The Moscow Times: European companies have supplied over $630 million worth of equipment to Russia’s Arctic LNG 2 project since the invasion of Ukraine despite it being under Western sanctions.
Meduza: On March 12, Russian Federal Security agents and police officers raided the homes of artists and activists across the country. Many of the artists were subsequently taken in for questioning.
Bloomberg: European Union leaders will next week call for new sanctions targeting Belarus, North Korea and Iran over their role in helping Russia conduct its war against Ukraine (archive).
Reuters: Russia's elite is expecting Putin to reshuffle government positions to bring in younger people after what it sees as the formality of his resounding election victory this weekend, four sources close to the authorities said.
Bloomberg: Poland joined a Czech-led initiative to buy hundreds of thousands of artillery rounds for Ukraine with a “substantial” financial contribution, Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said (archive).
Reuters: Ukraine, particularly in the last few months, has been exporting much more grain than anyone expected despite more than two years of war with neighboring Russia.
Reuters: Russia's foreign ministry on Tuesday summoned Switzerland's ambassador over the Swiss parliament's approval of motions authorising the government to work on a way to seize and transfer Russian assets to fund reparations for Ukraine.
Reuters: Armed fighters purporting to be Russian citizens who oppose the Kremlin said they carried out cross-border incursions into western Russia from Ukraine using tanks on Tuesday, but Moscow said it had repelled the attacks.
Reuters: The first condition for any negotiations to end the war in Ukraine is that Russia should halt its aggression, the second in command to Pope Francis said in a newspaper interview on Tuesday.
Reuters: A South Korean missionary who has been arrested by Russia on spying charges was sent to do purely humanitarian and mission work and had no involvement in helping North Korean workers in the area to defect, the head of his Christian aid group said.
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