News from Ukraine, Eastern Europe

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on March 6 that Washington is considering lifting some sanctions on Russian oil to address a global supply shortage linked to recent military operations in Iran.

Russia attacked Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities with ballistic missiles and drones overnight on March 7, the Air Force reported.

"At the moment, they are already safe and have crossed the Ukrainian border," Ukraine's Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said.

Ukraine’s General Staff of the Armed Forces confirmed that two Russian Black Sea Fleet frigates, Admiral Essen and Admiral Makarov, were damaged during a Ukrainian strike on the Russian naval base in Novorossiysk on March 2.

One unnamed U.S. official described the support as "comprehensive," the Washington Post reported.

The War Crimes Investigations Unit of the Kyiv Independent marks its third anniversary today: three years of documenting, exposing, and investigating war crimes committed during Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.t

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) announced the program with Ukrainian real estate developer Stolitsa Group on March 6.

"The Russians are not abandoning the war, and here, in Donetsk Oblast, they are preparing an offensive for the spring," President Volodymyr Zelensky said.

"It doesn't matter to us what they have done in the past in the combat field," International Paralympic Committee President Andrew Parsons said.

The long-range drones hit the production workshops of the Yevpatoria Aircraft Repair Plant, located in western Crimea, as well as two Pantsir-S2 systems near a Russian military airfield in Dzhankoi, which sits in the peninsula's northeast, according to the SBU source.

Peter Magyar, the leader of the Tisza Party, urged EU leadership to "sever all ties with Ukraine until President Zelensky clarifies his words and apologizes to all Hungarian citizens for his statements."