United24 Media: A Russian satellite is closely shadowing European communications satellites and exploiting unencrypted channels used at least in part by European security institutions, including Germany’s Bundeswehr, according to NZZ.

RBC-Ukraine: Ukrainian defense forces have destroyed a rare Russian drone SKAT 450M, valued at hundreds of thousands of dollars, according to the Strix brigade.

The Kyiv Independent: Ukrainian drones struck two Buk air defense systems in Russia's Bryansk Oblast on March 22, amid a broader wave of strikes on additional air defense and military targets, the Ukrainian military said.

Ukrainska Pravda: A NATO delegation led by Supreme Allied Commander Transformation Admiral Pierre Vandier has visited Ukraine, marking the first visit of this level during the full-scale war.

France 24: Vietnam's prime minister left Sunday for an official visit to Russia during which the two nations will sign several agreements, including on oil and gas cooperation, Hanoi said.

The Moscow Times: A damaged Russian gas tanker that was abandoned in the Mediterranean will be towed to a Libyan port, according to a state-owned oil company in the north African country.

The Kyiv Independent: A Russian drone attack on the village of Maidan in Donetsk Oblast on March 21 killed one person and injured four others, including a 15-year-old boy, the Donetsk Oblast Prosecutor's Office reported.

ISW: Russian forces have likely begun their anticipated Spring-Summer 2026 offensive against the Ukrainian Fortress Belt, Ukraine’s main defensive line in Donetsk Oblast.

The Kyiv Independent: Ukraine hit an oil refinery in Russia's Saratov Oblast, targets in Russian-occupied Ukraine, including the command post of an elite Russian Rubikon drone unit in Mariupol, as part of its overnight attack on March 21, Ukraine's General Staff confirmed.

Ukrainska Pravda: The 3rd Army Corps of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has reported that Russia's forces mounted their largest attempted breakthrough on the Lyman-Borova front on 19 March. The assault involved troops from Russia's 1st Tank Army and 20th Combined Arms Army.

United24 Media: Russian intelligence operatives proposed staging an assassination attempt on Hungarian PM Orbán to reshape the country’s election campaign, according to The Washington Post.

Reuters: Russian ​attacks killed four people in southeastern Ukraine and left much ‌of the northern region of Chernihiv without power on Saturday, officials said. Zaporizhzhia Governor Ivan Fedorov said the morning attack on the city killed a man and ​a woman, and injured six others, including two children.

The Kyiv Independent: The United States removed two Russian citizens and other individuals and entities linked to Russia from its sanctions list on March 20, the U.S. Treasury Department announced.

AP News: Authorities in nearly a dozen Russian regions in recent weeks cited various excuses to prevent demonstrations against internet censorship and the blocking of the popular messaging app Telegram.

The Kyiv Independent: Czech authorities are investigating a fire that broke out overnight at a drone production facility, officials said March 20, with investigators treating the incident as a possible terrorist attack.

ISW: Russian forces are increasingly conducting mechanized assaults on the frontline, possibly as part of intensified preparation for their Spring-Summer 2026 offensive.

The Insider: Svetlana Pozhidayeva, a former close aide to Jeffrey Epstein who later changed her name to Sofia Platt, comes from a family with close ties to Russian security services and state structures, an investigation by the Explainer project has found.

Reuters: Hackers tied to the Russian intelligence services are targeting users of consumer messaging applications ‌such as Signal, the FBI and U.S. cyber defense agency CISA said on Friday.

The Moscow Times: Discounts that Russian oil companies have been forced to offer Chinese refiners again cost them billions of dollars in lost revenue last year, even as global prices climbed, according to new estimates.

The Kyiv Independent: Forcing Ukrainian students in Russian-occupied territories to join the Russian army if they fail an exam is another example of Russia's militarization of Ukrainian youth, Taya Avram, a lawyer within the Donbas SOS NGO, told the Kyiv Independent on March 20.

VSquare: Hungary’s Counter-Terrorism Center raided a Ukrainian state bank’s convoy not to enforce the law, but to manufacture a diplomatic crisis that could be weaponized in Orbán’s re-election campaign.

Politico: Moscow proposed a quid pro quo to the U.S. under which the Kremlin would stop sharing intelligence information with Iran, such as the precise coordinates of U.S. military assets in the Middle East, if Washington ceased supplying Ukraine with intel about Russia. The proposal was made by Russian envoy Kirill Dmitriev to Trump administration envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner during their meeting last week in Miami.

The Guardian: Hungarian security operatives administered a “forced injection” to one of the Ukrainians detained earlier this month during a dramatic raid on bank vehicles carrying gold bars and tens of millions of dollars and euros in cash.

Kyiv Post: Ukraine’s military said a Russian A-50 airborne early warning and control aircraft was damaged following a recent strike – while additional attacks targeted industrial and military sites in occupied territories.

France 24: The French navy has boarded and seized an oil tanker sailing in the Western ‌Mediterranean from the Russian port of Murmansk accused of belonging to what has been dubbed Moscow's "shadow fleet", vessels of opaque ownership suspected of dodging Western sanctions on the country's crude oil exports.

Reuters: Ukraine has deployed specialist teams to five Middle Eastern countries to ​help intercept drones and advise on air-defence measures, with officials saying they expect to conclude several significant agreements. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said ‌teams had been sent to the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, and Jordan, states that have come under fire during the Iran war.

Russa-Ukraine Daily Briefing is sent 5 days a week. Do you think your friend or colleague should know about this newsletter? Forward it to them, please. They can also sign up here.

Here are my: Telegram & Socials

Please consider supporting my work