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POLITICO: US Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell‘s sudden announcement that he’ll step down from his post in November means that Republican leadership is poised to lose its most prominent Ukraine supporter.

Reuters: French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire on Wednesday publicly challenged U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen's view that it would be legal to monetize some $300 billion in frozen Russian assets, revealing deep divisions among Group of Seven countries.

The Independent: UK’s David Cameron is to rachet up pressure on Putin by meeting the wife of Russia’s most prominent opposition leader after Alexei Navalny for crunch Whitehall talks.

Reuters: Eight European Union countries called on Wednesday for sanctions on Russia's prosecutors, courts and penitentiary officials over the death earlier this month of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, a letter seen by Reuters showed.

The Kyiv Independent: The leaders of Kosovo, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania, and Ukraine signed a joint declaration in support of Kyiv while denouncing Russian aggression during a summit in Tirana on Feb. 28.

Reuters: Russia bombed parts of Ukraine's northeastern Kharkiv region on Wednesday, killing four civilians, including a six-year old girl and a priest, regional officials and the interior ministry said.

The Kyiv Independent: Belgium will allocate 200 million euros to the Czech-led initiative to purchase artillery shells for Ukraine from outside the EU, Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo said on Feb. 28.

The Kyiv Independent: Bulgarian Defense Minister Todor Tagarev announced the delivery of 100 armored personnel carriers to Ukraine "in a few days," the Bulgarian channel BTV reported on Feb. 28.

The Moscow Times: The number of criminal cases against "foreign agents" in Russia more than doubled last year compared to the preceding two years, the investigative news outlet Vyorstka reported Wednesday.

Reuters: Moldova's breakaway Transdniestria region asked Russia on Wednesday to help its economy withstand Moldovan "pressure," at a meeting of hundreds of officials dismissed by the pro-European Chisinau government as a propaganda event to gain headlines.

POLITICO: Poland is in talks with Ukraine over “temporarily closing” the border between the two countries amid an ongoing blockade by protesting farmers, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Wednesday, drawing a direct rebuke from Kyiv.

The Moscow Times: Latvia’s Justice Minister said that Russian citizens who live in the Baltic country and plan to vote in Russia's upcoming presidential election “essentially support” Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.

Reuters: German Finance Minister Christian Lindner favours using the interest accrued from frozen Russian assets to support Ukraine in its war against Moscow, he said on Wednesday on the sidelines of a Group of 20 meeting which was discussing the issue.

Reuters: Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny's funeral will be held in Moscow on Friday, his wife Yulia announced, but she said she was unsure if it would pass off peacefully and that plans for a civil memorial service had been blocked.

CBC: A Russian defence contractor sought to acquire electronics from two Canadian companies in a broader plan to skirt international sanctions and make weapons for the war in Ukraine, according to a leaked intelligence cache provided to CBC News.

Reuters: Russia said on Wednesday it would adopt unspecified military-technical and other counter measures to protect itself against Sweden joining NATO, a move it cast as aggressive and as a mistake.

Novaya-Europe: Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny, addressed the European Parliament on Wednesday calling on Europe to investigate “Putin’s mafia associates” who, she said, were helping him evade sanctions.

Reuters: President Joe Biden's administration on Wednesday unveiled an executive order aimed at protecting American personal data by restricting its transfer to China, Russia and other countries, senior U.S. officials said, citing national security concerns.

The Kyiv Independent: Leaked military documents outline Russia's doctrine for tactical nuclear weapons use, including the minimum criteria for using tactical nuclear weapons, the Financial Times reported on Feb. 28.

Reuters: The European Union should consider using profits from frozen Russian assets to buy military supplies for Ukraine, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Wednesday.

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