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Thursday, March 26
UK military to board Russian shadow fleet vessels in its territorial waters
"That's why we're going after his shadow fleet even harder, not just keeping Britain safe but starving Putin's war machine of the dirty profits that fund his barbaric campaign in Ukraine," U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on March 25.
Ukraine war latest: Ukraine's air defense downs 97% of Russian kamikaze drones in rare mass daytime strike
Key developments on March 25: * Ukraine's air defense downs 97% of Russian kamikaze drones in rare mass daytime strike * Russian military icebreaker damaged in unprecedented Baltic Sea drone strike, Ukraine claims * Latvia, Estonia say drones that strayed into their territory overnight were Ukrainian * Ukraine preparing 'key changes' to mobilization, AWOL policy, defense minister says after meeting infantrymen Ukrainian air defenses downed 97% of the drones launched by Russia in a rare mas
Thursday, March 26
US security guarantees tied to Ukraine's withdrawal from Donbas, Zelensky says
The United States is proposing security guarantees to Ukraine in exchange for Kyiv withdrawing its troops from parts of Donbas still under Ukrainian control, President Volodymyr Zelensky said in an interview with Reuters published on March 25.
Sanctioned Russian lawmakers to meet US officials in rare Washington visit, source says
The Russian delegation is headed by Vyacheslav Nikonov, deputy chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee and the grandson of Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov.
Zelensky appoints new heads of SBU counterintelligence departments
The two positions had remained vacant since Jan. 5, when Zelensky dismissed Andrii Tupikov and Oleksandr Dubrovin. The dismissals in January came amid a wider government reshuffle following a major corruption scandal last year.
US envoy details Belarus 'big deal' talks in interview with Kyiv Independent
A potential "big deal" between Belarus and the United States would effectively normalize relations between Washington and Minsk, U.S. Special Envoy for Belarus John Coale told the Kyiv Independent in a phone interview. The remarks follow growing outreach from Washington to Minsk and come days after Belarusian ruler Alexander Lukashenko said that the U.S. had proposed a "big deal," claiming the initiative came from U.S. President Donald Trump. Coale confirmed that normalization is part of the b
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"We need to keep milking this cow, the Russian army, for everything it’s worth, exhausting it beyond its maximum capacity," Robert "Madyar" Brovdi told the Economist.
