Newsletter 22/03/2024
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Latest Russian strike kills five, leaves 26 injured across Ukraine
As a result of a massive Russian combined missile and drone attack in the early hours of Friday, five people were killed and another 26 were injured.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia had launched more than 60 kamikaze drones and almost 90 missiles of various types.
Ukraine’s defense forces intercepted 55 drones and 37 missiles.
Rocket hits trolleybus with people moving along Dnipro Hydroelectric Power Plant dam
A Russian missile hit a trolleybus with people moving across the Dnipro Hydroelectric Power Plant dam.
Explaining complex things in simple words:
Attack on Dnipro HPP
Security of Ukraine's power system
Security meeting in Kyiv
Ukraine’s envoy to UN: Moscow playing victim, again
At the UN Security Council on Friday, Moscow will be “cynically whining” and playing a victim of the “Kyiv regime”, demanding a halt to international arms supplies to the embattled nation.
NATO official says alliance will confirm signal about Ukraine's future membership at Washington summit
Benedetta Berti, Head of Policy Planning at the Office of the NATO Secretary General, has predicted that NATO will confirm a signal about Ukraine's future membership in the military alliance at the Washington Summit.
Nine Ukrainian children abducted by Russia returned home
Through Qatar’s mediation, Ukrainian authorities managed to bring back to Ukraine another nine children abducted by the invasion forces.
War
Russia preparing for large-scale conventional conflict with NATO - ISW
Several Russian financial, economic, and military indicators suggest that Russia is preparing for a large-scale conventional conflict with NATO…
Ukraine must further exert pressure on Russian supply routes, Crimea - General Hodges
Ex-U.S. Army Europe Commander Lieutenant General Ben Hodges believes Russia will not be able to take advantage of marginal tactical gains, such as in Avdiivka. At the same time
Politics
EU to never recognize "elections" in occupied territories of Ukraine – EU Council
The leaders of the EU member states, who met in Brussels for the European Council, separately emphasized in their final document they would never recognize the results
EU on anniversary of ICC’s arrest warrant for Putin: “No escape for perpetrators”
That’s according to a statement by the EU Delegation to the OSCE, read out before the Permanent Council in Vienna on Friday, an Ukrinform correspondent reports.
Defense
Rutte: Large batch of ammo to be delivered to Ukraine soon
The Prime Minister of the Netherlands, Mark Rutte, said that thanks to the initiative put forward by the Czech Republic, a large amount of ammunition will be sent to Ukraine in the near future.
Economy
U.S. proposes issuing $50B of bonds for Ukraine using frozen Russian assets
The United States proposed to its Group of Seven allies that they create a special purpose vehicle to issue at least $50 billion of bonds backed by the profits…
Ukraine, EU agreed to start accession talks in June - Stefanishyna
Ukraine's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration Olha Stefanishyna said this at the 16th annual Kyiv Security Forum, according to an Ukrinform correspondent.