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05  mars     10h08
Russia has been quietly stockpiling reserves near Pokrovsk....
   Russia has been quietly stockpiling reserves near Pokrovsk. Now Ukraine's East grouping says the buildup is nearly ready more airstrikes, a two-front squeeze on Hryshyne, and fresh troops massing on the northern outskirts. https: euromaidanpress.com 2026 03 05 russian-forces-massing-reserves...
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Russia is forcing Shaheds into Ukraine's near...
   Russia is forcing Shaheds into Ukraine's near-frontline zone the 15-20 km strip already saturated with FPV drones to demolish fortifications its smaller drones can't breach.ISW's 4 March assessment: the payload advantage lets Russian forces destroy hardened Ukrainian positions that...
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Brutal 16-year sentence against 67-year-old Crimean...
   Brutal 16-year sentence against 67-year-old Crimean pensioner for being from Western Ukraine https: khpg.org en 1608815575
04  mars     23h38
Schoolkids in occupied Ukraine to face mandatory historyâ...
   Schoolkids in occupied Ukraine to face mandatory history’ exam denying Russia’s invasion of Crimea and other crimes https: khpg.org en 1608815574
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The Royal Opera House gets 23m in public money. Five...
   The Royal Opera House gets 23m in public money. Five government bodies were asked if taxpayers paid her. None could answer. Nobody built a way to check.Full FOI paper trail by Ben Fletcher euromaidanpress.com https: euromaidanpress.com 2026 03 05 uk-government-knew-anna-netrebko-was-sanctioned-by...
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Ukraine's ambassador objected to a Putin-backed...
   Ukraine's ambassador objected to a Putin-backed singer at the Royal Opera House. The Foreign Office called it "perceived closeness with Russia." That ambassador is Zaluzhnyi.Arts Council England labeled the objectors seven MPs, a former New Zealand PM "Ukraine-linked groups...
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Ukraine's labor paradox: more job vacancies than...
   Ukraine's labor paradox: more job vacancies than registered unemployed yet employers can't fill a third of positions.The reason isn't only mobilization or emigration. Researchers from Bocconi University and Ukraine's National Bank just published the first study of job-matching in a...
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Four years of Western sanctions didn't break...
   Four years of Western sanctions didn't break Russia's small businesses. Moscow's own budget may.In 2025, the Kremlin cut state support to small firms by a third. A fifth of microenterprises corner shops, workshops, sole traders lost all support. By year-end, only 2.2% of Russian small...
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A Russian drone hit a passenger train in Mykolaiv during the...
   A Russian drone hit a passenger train in Mykolaiv during the morning commute. Hours earlier, another struck meters from a locomotive on the Dnipro-Kovel route passengers had just been evacuated.Russia is now averaging six railway strikes a day. Ukrzaliznytsia says trains themselves are a primary...
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Russia spent a winter targeting Ukraine's power grid...
   Russia spent a winter targeting Ukraine's power grid. The grid held. Kyiv's three million people kept functioning.ISW says the campaign failed on every front. Russia's response: start targeting water instead. https: euromaidanpress.com 2026 03 04 russias-winter-campaign-was-supposed-to...
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And the deeper it gets, the less bandwidth Washington has...
   And the deeper it gets, the less bandwidth Washington has for Ukraine weapons, sanctions, leverage over Moscow. All of it competes with Iran now. FPRI's Stephen Blank explains why Iran compounds Washington's Ukraine failure not just parallels it. https: euromaidanpress.com 2026 03 04...
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The Pentagon told Congress there was no imminent threat from...
   The Pentagon told Congress there was no imminent threat from Iran.The US attacked anyway.Three officials gave three different reasons for the war Trump says nukes, Rubio says preemption, the Pentagon can't back either story up.Air power has never achieved regime change. Anywhere. Iran's...
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Russia hit one village 40 times on 2 March more than any...
   Russia hit one village 40 times on 2 March more than any other sector of the entire frontVerkhnia Tersa is the first domino. Take it, and Russia can push to Orikhiv. Take Orikhiv, and Zaporizhzhia city is in rangeUkrainian engineers have been fortifying it since 2022. Analyst Thorkill calls it...
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Russia claims Ukrainian naval drones attacked its LNG tanker...
   Russia claims Ukrainian naval drones attacked its LNG tanker Arctic Metagaz near Malta on 3 March, setting it ablazeAll 30 crew rescued. Moscow calls it "an act of international terrorism and maritime piracy." Kyiv has not commented. Reuters: drone attack possible, but no evidence...
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Poland joins France's nuclear deterrence program ...
   Poland joins France's nuclear deterrence program and PM Tusk says Warsaw eventually wants its own nuclear capability. Eight European nations invited into France's nuclear orbit, but launch codes stay in Paris. https: euromaidanpress.com 2026 03 04 eight-european-nations-invited-into-frances...
    12h38
German Chancellor Merz brought a Ukraine front-line map to...
   German Chancellor Merz brought a Ukraine front-line map to the Oval Office on 6 Feb., arguing Kyiv cannot concede territory Trump called the war "very high" on his priority list but repeated that "tremendous hatred" between Putin and Zelenskyy was blocking a dealhttps...
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The US is striking Iran's drone missile...
   The US is striking Iran's drone & missile factories the same targets Ukraine asked Washington to hit in Russia with Tomahawk missiles. The US said no in Fall 2025. Now it's doing exactly that for Israel, ISW reports.https: euromaidanpress.com 2026 03 04 us-is-hitting-irans-drone...
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It would be an act of war,’ ...
   quot;It would be an act of war," Iran's FM spokesperson, warning Europe not to join the conflict. Hours earlier, Iran-linked drones hit a British base in Cyprus. Greece, France & Germany have already sent warships.https: euromaidanpress.com 2026 03 04 tehran-vows-to-strike-european...
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Russia's command has missed every deadline since...
   Russia's command has missed every deadline since trying to take Kyiv in days in 2022. Now it's planning to seize all of Odesa Oblast a region ISW says its forces can't even approach.Meanwhile, Ukrainian forces gained more ground in February than they lost the first time that's...
03  mars     22h38
Zelenskyy says Ukrainian troops should push into Russian...
   Zelenskyy says Ukrainian troops should push into Russian territory to create a buffer zone that puts Kharkiv out of artillery range.Ukraine's second-largest city 30km from the border has been under sustained shelling, drone, and missile attacks since 2022.https: euromaidanpress.com 2026 03 03...