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Reuters: Russian oil firms face delays of up to several months to be paid for crude and fuel as banks in China, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates become more wary of U.S. secondary sanctions.
Reuters: The United States and South Korea this week launched a new task force aimed at preventing North Korea from procuring illicit oil. The two sides expressed concern over the possibility of Russia providing refined oil to North Korea, and discussed ways to suspend illegal cooperation between Moscow and Pyongyang.
ISW: Putin and other senior Kremlin officials appear to be struggling to maintain a consistent rhetorical line about the Crocus City Hall attack, indicating that the Kremlin has not fully figured out how to reconcile its information operations with the reality of its intelligence and law enforcement failure.
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The Kyiv Independent: At least 32 Ukrainian prisoners of war, recently captured by Russia, have been executed between Dec. 1, 2023, and Feb. 29, a report by the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights said on March 26.
POLITICO: Belarus dictator Lukashenko said on Tuesday that the gunmen who attacked Moscow's Crocus City Hall music venue on Friday tried initially to flee to Belarus, not Ukraine as Russian officials including Putin have insisted.
Reuters: The director of Russia's most powerful security agency said on Tuesday that he believed Ukraine, along with the United States and Britain, were involved in the attack on a concert hall just outside Moscow that killed at least 139 people.
The Kyiv Independent: Some members of Putin's inner circle think that there is no evidence of Ukraine's involvement in the Crocus City Hall terrorist attack outside Moscow, Bloomberg reported.
BBC News: Security researchers believe a Russia-based disinformation group amplified and added to the frenzy of social media conspiracies about the Princess of Wales's health.
ABC News: France will soon be able to deliver 78 Caesar howitzers to Ukraine and will boost its supply of shells to meet Kyiv's urgent needs for ammunition to fight Russia's two-year invasion, the defense minister said Tuesday.
The Kyiv Independent: Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavsky told journalists that Slovenia will join Czechia's initiative to supply artillery shells for Ukraine, Radio Prague International reported on March 26.
The Kyiv Independent: Czechia's initiative to supply artillery shells for Ukraine may deliver as many as 1.5 million rounds, Jan Lipavsky said in an interview with Bloomberg.
AFP: The Finnish security and intelligence service said Tuesday that Russian intelligence activities remained the biggest threat to Finland's national security, as the agency published its annual threat assessment.
Kyiv Post: Recent reports from sources close to the Kremlin suggest that Russian political elites believe that Putin is weighing two potential strategies to conclude the war in Ukraine.
Reuters: A Ukrainian missile attack struck a Russian naval reconnaissance vessel and a large landing warship that Moscow captured from Kyiv during the annexation of the Crimean peninsula in 2014, Ukraine's navy said on Tuesday.
France 24: Ukraine is ready to introduce export licences for its agricultural products to help address farmer anger in Poland, its agriculture minister told AFP, adding that he was "disappointed" by EU curbs on those goods.
Reuters: France and Poland pressed on Tuesday for greater curbs on imports of food products from Ukraine to prevent what they called the destabilisation of EU agricultural markets and further upset for angry farmers.
Reuters: French Defence Minister Sebastien Lecornu said on Tuesday he was prepared to use his powers to requisition industrial capacities or impose priorities to weapon makers to speed up production of arms and shells needed on the battlefield in Ukraine and elsewhere.
Reuters: Finland and Sweden believe the EU needs to ramp up sanctions against Russia following the death in prison of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, Swedish Foreign Minister Tobias Billstrom said on Tuesday.
AFP: Poland's deputy foreign minister on Tuesday said that NATO was considering the possibility of shooting down Russian missiles that stray too close to the alliance's borders, two days after Poland reported a breach of its airspace.
Reuters: The seventh and final tanker carrying Sokol oil and sanctioned by the U.S. will arrive at China's Tianjin port on Tuesday night to discharge its Russian oil cargo, LSEG and Kpler shipping data showed, clearing a backlog of the crude stored on ships.
Reuters: Russia remanded in custody on Tuesday a Kyrgyzstan-born man suspected of involvement in Friday's mass shooting at a Moscow concert hall, and sent investigators to Tajikistan to question the families of four men charged with carrying out the attack.
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