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Reuters: France denied Russian claims that it expressed willingness to hold dialogue on Ukraine or discuss possible peace negotiations when the two countries' defence ministers spoke on Wednesday.

The Kyiv Independent: During a meeting with Ukrainian PM Denys Shmyhal in Tallinn on April 3, Estonian President Alar Karis reaffirmed support for Ukraine's attacks on military targets in Russia, stating that it was "perfectly legitimate for the Ukrainian forces to destroy infrastructure critical to the Russian army."

Reuters: Finland's president on Wednesday signed a 10-year security deal with Ukraine in Kyiv where President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said he believed Russia planned to mobilise 300,000 new troops for its war by June. Stubb said Finland would also send 188 million euros in additional military aid, including air defences and heavy-calibre ammunition.

The Kyiv Independent: Rumors of a potential Russian offensive on Kharkiv are part of a Russian "psychological operation," Andrii Yusov, a spokesperson for Ukraine's military intelligence, said on April 3. Yusov said Kyiv does not have any indication that a new Russian offensive is in the works.

NBC News: Additional funding to help Ukraine fight its war against Russia has divided Republicans on Capitol Hill — but it’s also dividing candidates and voters in GOP primaries.

Bloomberg: A US House vote on Ukraine aid isn’t likely until at least mid-April and possibly later with Speaker Mike Johnson still searching for ways to soften opposition from Republican hardliners (archive).

Reuters: NATO allies agreed on Wednesday to initiate planning on long-term military support for Ukraine, but a proposal by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg to do so via a 100 billion-euro five-year fund drew mixed responses.

France 24: The defence ministers of France and Russia on Wednesday held rare phone talks, their first such contact since October 2022, discussing the attack in Moscow claimed by Islamic State and Russia's war against Ukraine, Paris said.

Reuters: The leadership of Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany has asked one of its lawmakers to "clarify" a report that he received money from a pro-Russian news portal, amid growing scrutiny across Europe of right-wing parties' links to Moscow.

Reuters: A cargo ship leaving Russia that made an unscheduled stop at the German port of Rostock is under investigation there for carrying cargo in possible breach of sanctions, German authorities said on Wednesday.

Yonhap News Agency: South Korea has seized a stateless vessel that allegedly engaged in activities in violation of U.N. sanctions in waters off the country's south coast, security sources said Wednesday. The 3,000-ton cargo ship DEYI, reportedly en route to Russia from North Korea via China, was captured in waters off Yeosu around Saturday, they added.

RFE/RL: Kazakhstan's Qazaq Air has suspended flights for an unspecified period from the Central Asian nation's northwestern city of Aqtobe to the capital of Russia's Republic of Tatarstan.

Reuters: North Korea and Iran's military support to Russia has serious global security consequences that the 32-member NATO alliance cannot ignore, Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Wednesday.

Reuters: Ukraine's partners are not providing enough air defence to protect against Russian missile attacks even though they have more than 100 Patriot systems in their own arsenals, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said on Wednesday.

The Guardian: Donald Trump’s social media company Trump Media managed to go public last week only after it had been kept afloat in 2022 by emergency loans provided in part by a Russian-American businessman under scrutiny in a federal insider-trading and money-laundering investigation.

The Kyiv Independent: Ukraine did not use weapons provided by Western partners for the attack on facilities in Russia's Republic of Tatarstan, Andrii Yusov, a military intelligence spokesman, told Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.

Bloomberg: Ukraine and its allies are losing the race to secure the ammunition Kyiv needs to hold off Russian attacks. The flow of western military aid into Ukraine has tailed off dramatically, according to officials from allied nations familiar with the latest on the front line (archive).

The Guardian: Third attack on Kerch bridge between Russia and occupied Crimea ‘inevitable’, say Ukraine’s military intelligence.

Sky News: Dozens of Indian men are believed to have been caught up on the frontline, with their families claiming they were coerced into signing contracts.

Reuters: Western European governments have sought to reduce their energy dependence on Russia since the outbreak of the Ukraine war, but when it comes to gas, they have increasingly substituted the country's pipeline supplies with its liquefied natural gas (graphics).

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