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29  mars     06h13
Zelenskyy tells US House speaker: Quick passage of military aid is vital
Georgi Gotev    Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told the speaker of the US House of Representatives on Thursday March that it was vital for Congress to pass a new military aid package for Kyiv rapidly in order to maintain international unity on the conflict with Russia.
28  mars     05h54
Czechs sanction Medvedchuk, website over pro-Russian EU political influence
Georgi Gotev    The Czech government on Wednesday March sanctioned two people including pro Russian Ukrainian politician Viktor Medvedchuk and the news website voiceofeurope.com for leading a pro Russian influence operation in Europe, the Czech Foreign Ministry said.
27  mars     09h00
Sanctions (don’t) work to stop the war? How Russia uses the narrative against the West
Olena Churanova    Western sanctions and their effectiveness are one of the favourite topics of Russian propaganda, demonstrating both the importance for the Kremlin of managing this narrative and the real impact sanctions are having on the Russian economy.
    07h15
US secondary sanctions work: Russia struggles to collect oil payments
Georgi Gotev    Russian oil firms face delays of up to several months to be paid for crude and fuel as banks in China, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates become more wary of US secondary sanctions.
    06h38
Zelenskyy replaces top security official in new reshuffle
Georgi Gotev    President Volodymyr Zelenskyy dismissed the secretary of Ukraine’s national security council and replaced him with the head of his foreign spy agency on Tuesday March .
    05h08
Ukraine electricity imports soar after Russian attacks
Georgi Gotev    Ukraine’s daily electricity imports reached their highest this year on Tuesday March after a series of Russian missile strikes on critical infrastructure caused blackouts in many regions, the energy ministry said.
25  mars     14h41
Can a robot compete with a human in the field of wealth management?
Illia Kyslytskyi, Maksym Koretskiy    Advanced technologies, especially the development of AI, are significantly modernising wealth management services, write Max Koretskiy and Illia Kyslytskyi.
    05h49
Ukraine says it hit two Russian warships in strikes on Crimea
Georgi Gotev    The Ukrainian military said it hit two large Russian landing ships in attacks on the annexed Crimean peninsula early on Sunday March , as well as a communications centre and other infrastructure used by the Russian navy in the Black Sea.
    05h00
Europeans keep away from Russia’s blame game over Moscow terror attack
Alexandra Brzozowski, Euractiv Network    While European countries sent condolences and largely stayed away from commenting further on its implications, some fear the Russian terrorist attack could lead Putin to a more forceful response in Ukraine.
24  mars     06h50
Biden signs 1.2 trillion US spending bill not including Ukraine aid
Georgi Gotev    US President Joe Biden on Saturday March signed into law a . trillion spending package, keeping the US government funded through a fiscal year that began six months ago.
    06h31
Putin vows to punish those behind Russia concert massacre, strikes Ukraine
Georgi Gotev    Russia said on Saturday March it had arrested all four gunmen suspected of carrying out a shooting massacre in a concert hall near Moscow, and President Vladimir Putin pledged to track down and punish those behind the attack.
23  mars     06h54
Ukraine hopes to start installing nuclear reactors from Bulgaria in June
Georgi Gotev    Ukraine hopes to sign a deal in June to buy two nuclear reactors from Bulgaria as it seeks to compensate for the loss of its vast Russian occupied six reactor Zaporizhzhia plant, the head of nuclear firm Energoatom said in an interview.
22  mars     13h50
Kremlin, in change of language, says Russia is at war’ due to West’s role in Ukraine
Alexandra Brzozowski    Russia regards itself to be at war due to the West’s intervention on Ukraine’s side, the Kremlin said on Friday March , shifting the language it uses to describe the conflict in an apparent move to prepare Russians for a longer and harder struggle.
    09h42
Russia hits vast dam in war’s largest strike on Ukrainian energy infrastructure
Georgi Gotev    Russia launched the largest missile and drone attack on Ukrainian energy infrastructure of the war to date on Friday March , hitting the country’s largest dam and causing blackouts in several regions, Kyiv said.
    06h46
Pressure mounts on Ukraine to scrap sponsors of war’ blacklist
Georgi Gotev    Ukraine could dismantle within days its sponsors of war blacklist, central to Kyiv’s campaign to expose companies doing business with Russia, after a backlash from countries including China and France, two people familiar with the matter said.
    05h37
NATO military committee chief, in Kyiv, calls for strong allied support
Georgi Gotev    NATO Military Committee Chief Rob Bauer said during a visit to Kyiv on Thursday March that Ukraine’s allies should not be too pessimistic about its ability to repel Russian troops and called for important aid to be delivered quickly.
    04h30
EU leaders divided over how to finance weapons
Alexandra Brzozowski, Aurélie Pugnet    Since Russia invaded Ukraine, ramping up EU defence industry production has been on the agenda of member states’ leaders, but it is only slowly beginning to gain traction.
21  mars     08h00
Green light for Bosnia’s EU talks could be a tough call at summit
Alexandra Brzozowski    EU leaders are set to give the political green light to open accession talks with Bosnia and Herzegovina on Thursday March , but the outcome still hangs in the balance as several member states aim to tie the decision to progress on Ukraine and Moldova.
    05h42
UN says Russia consolidates control of occupied Ukraine with climate of fear’
Georgi Gotev    Russia is illegally consolidating its control over occupied Ukrainian territory by creating a climate of fear with practices such as arbitrary detention, killings and torture, the head of a UN reporting mission in Ukraine said.
    05h00
As Europe wakes up to Russia’s danger, it faces tough spending trade-offs
Alexandra Brzozowski    Facing a new sense of urgency, EU leaders are set to meet in Brussels on Thursday March to discuss making military support to Ukraine more sustainable while ramping up their own defences.
20  mars     05h56
Ukraine’s survival in danger, Pentagon chief warns
Georgi Gotev    US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Tuesday March warned that Ukraine’s survival was in danger and sought to convince allies that the United States was committed to Kyiv, even as Washington has essentially run out of money to keep arming Ukrainian forces.
19  mars     06h32
Out of money, Pentagon chief looks to convince allies of commitment to Ukraine
Georgi Gotev    US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Tuesday March will try and convince European allies that President Joe Biden’s administration is still committed to supporting Ukraine, even as Washington has essentially run out of money to continue arming Kyiv.
18  mars     13h00
If we want peace, we must prepare for war
Charles Michel    As Europe faces the biggest security challenge since the Second World War, it must build its defence readiness, writes Charles Michel.
    05h30
Ukraine’s EU accession will have more benefit than cost, says PM Shmyhal
Alexandra Brzozowski    Ukraine’s future accession to the bloc will bring more benefits than costs, and EU member states should approve the next formal steps later this week, the country’s Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal told Euractiv. We are waiting and wishing to have...
17  mars     06h30
Russia’s presidential vote starts final day with accusations of Kyiv sabotage
Georgi Gotev    Russia started its final day of presidential voting on Sunday March with Moscow accusing Ukraine of using air attacks to try to sabotage the election that is expected to keep President Vladimir Putin in power for another six years.
16  mars     06h41
Russian missiles kill 20 in Odesa, Zelenskyy vows response
Georgi Gotev    A Russian ballistic missile attack struck a residential area in Ukraine’s Black Sea port city of Odesa on Friday March , killing at least people and wounding more than , in Moscow’s deadliest attack in weeks, Ukrainian officials said.
    06h29
Putin vows revenge for Ukrainian attacks as Russians vote
Georgi Gotev    President Vladimir Putin on Friday March vowed a strong military response to a string of Ukrainian attacks on Russia’s border that he described as an attempt by Kyiv to derail his bid for re election.
15  mars     16h15
France, Germany, Poland try to mend cracks by setting out joint Ukraine priorities
Nick Alipour    German, French and Polish leaders highlighted on Friday March a joint set of priorities in supporting Ukraine, including stronger defence industrial cooperation, to quell rumours of disunity.
    07h12
Ukraine official: two Russian border regions are now active combat zones
Georgi Gotev    A senior Ukrainian intelligence official said on Thursday March that armed groups he described as Russians opposed to the Kremlin were pressing an incursion into Russian territory and had turned two border regions into active combat zones .
14  mars     06h20
Ukrainian drones damage Russian oil refineries in second day of attacks
Georgi Gotev    Ukraine struck Russian oil refineries on Wednesday March in a second day of heavy drone attacks, causing a fire at Rosneft’s biggest refinery in one of the most serious attacks against Russia’s energy sector in recent months.
    05h20
Sliver of hope for unity in French left collapses over war in Ukraine
Théo Bourgery-Gonse    Whatever hope remained that the French left may find common ground ahead of June’s EU elections has collapsed over the radically different approaches to handling and resolving the war in Ukraine.
13  mars     17h02
EU’s Ukraine war fund ready for sign off, with flexibility in buying non-EU weapons
Aurélie Pugnet    EU ambassadors gave their green light on the creation of the long awaited fund for Ukraine’s military support on Wednesday March , after removing French and German concerns, in a bid to ensure more sustainable aid flow to the war torn country.
    09h18
Estonia puts forward 100 billion funding plan for Ukraine
Aurélie Pugnet    Borrowing on the market or taking from national budgets are the best ways to give Ukraine what it needs to win the war, according to Estonia, looking for more than billion to achieve that goal.
    05h49
Putin says Russia ready for nuclear war, but not everything rushing to it’
Georgi Gotev    Russia remains in a state of combat readiness and is fully ready for a nuclear war, but not everything is rushing to it at present, President Vladimir Putin said in remarks published on Wednesday March .
    05h30
EU leaders to call for more sanctions targeting Belarus, North Korea, Iran
Alexandra Brzozowski    EU leaders are next week expected to call for new sanctions targeting Belarus, North Korea, and Iran over their support to Russia’s war efforts in Ukraine as the bloc attempts to further crack down on circumvention by third countries
    05h23
Ukraine knocks out Russian refinery in major attack
Georgi Gotev    Ukraine pounded targets in Russia on Tuesday March with dozens of drones and rockets in an attack that inflicted serious damage on a major oil refinery and sought to pierce the land borders of the world’s biggest nuclear power with armed proxies.
    04h30
EU, US move on military aid to Ukraine
Alexandra Brzozowski    EU member states are set to close a deal on a billion Ukrainian military aid fund, as the United States on Tuesday March signed off a million stop gap military aid package for Kyiv.
12  mars     05h29
Zelenskyy says frontline situation better than in prior three months
Georgi Gotev    President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Monday March that the situation along the front of Ukraine’s war with Russia was the best it had been in three months, with Moscow’s troops no longer advancing after their capture last month of the eastern city of Avdiivka.
    05h06
Kremlin, NATO at odds over pope’s call for Ukraine to show white flag’
Georgi Gotev    The Kremlin on Monday March said a call by Pope Francis for talks to end the Ukraine war was quite understandable , but NATO’s boss said now was not the time to talk about surrender .
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Confiscation of Russian frozen assets: EU should not bend to Moscow’s blackmail
Andrii Mikheiev, Olena Halushka    If the West fears that their companies in Russia would suffer reciprocal measures in case of confiscation of Russian assets, it should be advised that the total absence of rule of law in this country makes them vulnerable to expropriation anyway, write Valeriia Radchenko, Olena Halushka and Andrii...
11  mars     11h32
Trump won’t give money to Ukraine if elected, says Orbán
Georgi Gotev    Former US leader Donald Trump will not give money to help Ukraine fight Russia if he wins the presidency again and that will hasten an end to the war, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orb n said on Sunday March after meeting him.
    06h13
Macron postpones trip to Ukraine for third time
Georgi Gotev    A visit by President Emmanuel Macron to Ukraine should take place in the coming weeks, the French Presidency said on Sunday March , the third time a planned trip to the country has been postponed since February.
09  mars     06h06
ErdoÄ an offers to host Ukraine-Russia peace summit after meeting Zelenskyy
Georgi Gotev    Turkey is ready to host a summit between Ukraine and Russia to end the war, President Recep Tayyip ErdoÄ an said on Friday March after talks with his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Istanbul.
08  mars     14h54
Ukraine’s battle for civic services as war rages [Advocacy Lab Content]
Xhoi Zajmi    Ukrainian municipalities battle at a local level to keep contact with citizens and ensure services continue, despite continuous shelling. Municipal representatives spoke with Euractiv, telling their civic story as Ukraine enters its third year since the Russian invasion.
    06h32
Ukraine presses its peace plan in talks with Chinese envoy
Georgi Gotev    Senior Ukrainian officials, in a meeting with a Chinese regional envoy on Thursday March , pressed Kyiv’s plan to end the two year conflict with Russia and presented what they said was evidence of North Korean weaponry supplied to Moscow.
07  mars     09h45
EU’s Ukraine war fund remains stuck with France’s buy-European’ demand
Aurélie Pugnet    France’s request for the EU’s Ukraine war fund to include a ’buy European’ clause when countries purchase armament together keeps complicating member states’ efforts to find an agreement on the file before the next EU summit on March.
    06h55
Russia hits Ukraine’s port of Odesa during Zelenskyy and Greek PM visit
Georgi Gotev    A Russian missile missed Ukraine’s president and the prime minister of Greece by hundreds of metres on Wednesday March when it slammed into port infrastructure in the Black Sea city of Odesa.
    05h56
Top US sanctions official delivers warning to Austria on Russia
Georgi Gotev    A top US sanctions official will visit Austrian authorities as well as Raiffeisen Bank International on March, the US embassy to Austria said on Wednesday March , ratcheting up pressure on the biggest Western bank in Russia.
06  mars     07h04
Putin’s spy chief scolds Macron for dangerous, irresponsible’ remark on Ukraine
Georgi Gotev    Russian President Vladimir Putin’s foreign intelligence chief has said French President Emmanuel Macron’s refusal to rule out sending European troops to fight Russian soldiers in Ukraine was extremely dangerous and irresponsible.
05  mars     08h07
Ukrainian sea drones damage Russian Black Sea fleet patrol ship near Crimea
Georgi Gotev    Ukrainian sea drones damaged a Russian Black Sea Fleet patrol ship off occupied Crimea, Ukrainian military intelligence said on Tuesday March .