Polish President Andrzej Duda has said he hopes his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy will arrive at the next Three Seas Initiative (TSI) summit in 2025 “in a suit”, symbolising that the war in Ukraine is over.
Following the example of Armenia and Kyrgyzstan, the banks of Kazakhstan, a key trade partner of the Kremlin in the post-Soviet territory that is a part of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) and the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), are refusing to accept service cards issued by the Russian Mir (Peace) system.
The foreign ministers of Ukraine and Poland have met on the sidelines of a NATO ministerial meeting in Brussels to discuss how Warsaw could help protect Ukraine from Russian airstrikes and better protect its own airspace.
Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba has said that Western countries have not given Ukraine sufficient numbers of Patriot air defence systems, despite having more than 100 Patriots in service.
Ukrainian esports team Natus Vincere (Latin for “born to win”, or NAVI for short) has won the highly prestigious Counter-Strike 2 (CS2) tournament – PGL Major Copenhagen 2024.
More than 10,000 civilian Ukrainians are being held by the Russians in temporarily occupied territories and in Russia. Moreover, 5,600 Ukrainians have been identified in criminal cases as victims of torture by the Russians; however, the real number is much higher.
The leaders of the police of Ukraine and Hungary discussed cooperation, including future assistance from Budapest in identifying people killed in the war.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has rejected Russian President Vladimir Putin’s accusations that Ukraine was involved in the terrorist attack in Moscow Oblast. Zelenskyy said that Putin considers everyone terrorists except himself.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine, and Pedro Sanchez, Prime Minister of Spain, have agreed during a phone conversation to accelerate the preparation of a bilateral security agreement between the two countries.
It was reported late in the evening of 23 March that cruise missiles have hit the main communications centre of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in occupied Sevastopol.
Russian propagandists from the NTV TV channel have released a deepfake featuring Oleksii Danilov, Secretary of the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine, attempting to convince audiences that “Ukraine was involved in the 22 March terrorist attack.”
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba shared photos of the aftermath of the morning Russian missile attack on Kyiv and called on the US Congress to finally agree to allocate funds to help Ukraine.
The new US aid package for Ukraine includes additional missiles for HIMARS, artillery shells of various calibres, anti-aircraft and anti-tank weapons, other ammunition, and maintenance equipment.
The Kremlin has estimated that about 70% of local residents in the temporarily occupied territories (TOTs) of Ukraine will seek to avoid voting in Russia’s illegal presidential elections.
Bill Blair, Minister of National Defence of Canada, has committed to joining the international Drone Coalition led by Latvia and the United Kingdom during a visit by his Latvian counterpart, Andris Sprūds.
In a meeting, the foreign ministers of France, Germany, and Poland discussed the idea of mounting a joint resistance against extensive Russian disinformation and propaganda campaigns in Europe carried out using coordinated networks of bots and trolls.