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Perhaps the most shocking shift has been on Russia and Ukraine

President Donald Trump’s two months back in the White House have been marked by soaring friction between Washington and its European allies.

Here’s a look at the key issues where the United States has shifted gears, including tariffs, support for Ukraine, and urging Europe to take greater control of its own defense.

While passengers aren’t able to buy tickets online, the trains have run on time and information about Ukrzaliznytsia’s customers wasn’t extracted, the company says.

Russian hackers who attacked Ukraine’s State Railways Company, Ukrzaliznytsia (UZ) aimed to disrupt train schedules and destabilize control systems, Ukrzaliznytsia spokesperson Oleksandr Shevchenko told Kyiv Post. 

Another aim of the cyberattack was accessing the customer database, Shevchenko said.

The US judge blocked Trump’s attempt to shut down RFE/RL, ruling it likely violated federal law.

A US court has temporarily halted the Trump administration’s attempt to shut down Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.

On Tuesday, March 25, Judge Royce Lamberth issued an order blocking the liquidation of the media organization, saying it likely violated federal law, ABC News reports.

Perspectives on rearmament from across Europe

Trump is negotiating with Putin on the war in Ukraine and Nato is in an existential crisis as a result of current US policy. The new situation has triggered a lively discussion about rearmament, joint defence and continued support for Kyiv. Europe’s media examine the fundamental requirements for a new security model and the problems it poses.

Italy needs to participate in new dynamic

“We don’t need just 5,000 or 10,000” – deputy head of the presidential administration

Ukraine needs a “serious” contribution from Europe of troops who are ready to fight, and not peacekeepers, after any end of hostilities with Russia, a senior aide to President Volodymyr Zelensky told AFP on Wednesday.

Igor Zhovkva, who is deputy head of the presidential administration, took part in talks with US representatives in Jeddah and most recently Riyadh. 

Moscow has added three new launch sites in Primorsko-Akhtarsk, bringing the total to ten, further increasing its drone strike capabilities.

Russia has established three new drone launch sites, enhancing its ability to deploy large-scale Shahed drone attacks against Ukraine.

According to RBC-Ukraine sources, the newly added launch sites in the Sea of Azov port region of Primorsko-Akhtarsk bring Russia’s total to ten, potentially increasing the number of drones launched in a single wave.

“Our assessment is that NATO and especially European NATO countries need to take major steps in the coming years” – PM Ulf Kristersson

Sweden will increase defense spending by about 300 billion kronor ($30 billion) over the next decade, the prime minister said Wednesday, calling it the nation’s biggest rearmament push since the Cold War.

The Nordic country drastically slashed defense spending after the Cold War ended and in the early 2000s, but reversed course following Moscow’s 2014 annexation of Crimea.

From the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol to the trenches of Pokrovsk, Moscow has turned to poison gas and riot control agents, violating international law and the Chemical Weapons Convention.

“Russia must now demonstrate genuine political will to end its illegal and unprovoked war of aggression” – European Commission Spokesperson

The European Union said Wednesday that it would not lift or amend its sanctions on Russia before the “unconditional” withdrawal of Moscow’s forces from Ukraine.

Moscow and Kyiv have agreed to the contours of a Black Sea ceasefire following separate talks with US officials in Saudi Arabia, but Russia has said it would enter into force only once the West lifted certain sanctions affecting its agricultural exports.

Russia has allegedly reached a separate agreement with the US and proposed a different set of energy facilities that should not be targeted as part of a partial ceasefire.

Ukraine and the US have agreed on a list of energy facilities that Russia shouldn’t target as part of a partial ceasefire, though their ideas differ from those proposed by Moscow, Ukraine’s Ministry of Energy said.

Last week, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Kyiv has compiled a list of civilian and infrastructure sites that must not be targeted and has shared it with its US partners as part of the partial ceasefire that US President Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin were supposed to have agreed on.

The death of the war correspondent from the Russian state-run Channel One marks the fourth fatality among Russian war correspondents in recent days.

A pro-war Russian TV star working for the state-run Channel One, Anna Prokofieva, was killed by a landmine explosion in Russia’s Belgorod region, near the border with Ukraine.

The Russian media reported on Wednesday that Prokofieva, 35, was on assignment when her film crew struck what the channel described as an “enemy mine.” Her cameraman, Dmitry Volkov, was wounded in the blast.

“Neutral” China is a big source of high-tech weapons-making equipment used by Russia, but Kyiv’s spy agency says Germany, Austria, Italy, Taiwan and the US are helping the Kremlin as well.

A new Ukrainian study on imported equipment used for Russian weapons manufacturing says that the People’s Republic of China is Russia’s best source of high-tech machine tools for arms production, but far from the only one.

Companies in ten other countries besides China – most openly opposed to supporting the Kremlin war machine, and more than a few NATO members – also have sent Russia hundreds of advanced milling machines, lathes, heat treatment chambers and high-tech optical polishers that are now helping the Kremlin churn out weapons, a study published on Wednesday by Ukraine’s national military intelligence agency, HUR, said.

Children present at the school were sheltering in a protective structure during the attack and now they are being evacuated.

[Updated at 15:20, March 26]: The number of people injured in the March 24 missile strike on Sumy has risen to 108, First Deputy Mayor Artem Kuznetsov announced during a telethon.

“As of now, we already have 108 injured including 24 children. The number of injured has increased,” Kuznetsov said.

Zaluzhny said Romania asked him to stay silent about Russian Shaheds falling on its territory and complained about the effects of Ukrainian electronic warfare systems.

During a meeting with students in Lviv, Ukraine’s Ambassador to the United Kingdom and former Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Valery Zaluzhny, revealed that at one point he was asked not to disclose information about Russian drones falling on Romanian territory.

In his speech, Zaluzhny also criticized NATO’s Article 5, which declares that an attack on one member is considered an attack on the entire Alliance. In his view, this provision does not always work effectively in practice.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky denounced a barrage of more than 100 drones launched by Russia overnight, hours after Kyiv agreed to a framework for a halt in fighting in the Black Sea.

Russia and Ukraine accused each other Wednesday of derailing a US-brokered deal – announced a day earlier – that could see the warring countries halt attacks on the Black Sea and against energy sites.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky denounced a barrage of more than 100 drones launched by Russia overnight, hours after Kyiv agreed to a framework for a halt in fighting in the key waterway.

John Ratcliffe said that Russia is gradually gaining ground in the war, but he also said people have underestimated Ukraine’s ability to resist.

CIA Director John Ratcliffe said he was “convinced” that Ukrainians “will fight with their bare hands” if there are no just conditions for lasting peace.

Ratcliffe said that Russia is gaining ground in the war, but he also stated that people have underestimated Ukraine’s ability to resist. He said his opinion comes from years of intelligence work and observation.

NATO chief Mark Rutte warned in Warsaw on Wednesday that the  Western defence alliance would respond with a “devastating” blow to any attack by Russia on Poland or another ally.

NATO chief Mark Rutte warned in Warsaw on Wednesday that the Western defence alliance would respond with a “devastating” blow to any attack by Russia on Poland or another ally.

Poland and the nearby Baltic states -- all NATO members -- have ramped up defence spending and training since Russian troops invaded Ukraine in 2022, voicing fears that Moscow could target them next.

The world in focus, as seen by Canadian leading global affairs analyst Michael Bociurkiw in a quick review of the biggest news in international media today.

President Trump characterized an extraordinary security breach as a minor transgression on Tuesday, insisting that top administration officials had not shared any classified information as they discussed secret military plans in a group chat that included the editor in chief of The Atlantic magazine. “So this was not classified,” Mr. Trump said during a meeting with U.S. ambassadors at the White House. “Now if it’s classified information, it’s probably a little bit different, but I always say, you have to learn from every experience.” Mr. Trump also stood by his national security adviser, Michael Waltz, who had inadvertently added the journalist Jeffrey Goldberg to the chat on the Signal app, which included Vice President JD Vance and others. In the chat, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared information on timing, targets and weapons systems to be used in an attack on Houthi militants in Yemen, according to Mr. Goldberg. “I think it was very unfair the way they attacked Michael,” the president said of Mr. Waltz. Former national security officials said they were skeptical that the information shared by Mr. Hegseth ahead of the March 15 strike was not classified, given the life-or-death nature of the operation. The president and the secretary of defense have the ability to assert, even retroactively, that information is declassified. But officials have refused to answer questions about the specifics of the information or who, exactly, determined that it was unclassified and could be shared on Signal, an encrypted commercial app. Mr. Hegseth denounced Mr. Goldberg late Monday, saying he had been “peddling hoaxes time and time again.” But on Tuesday morning, testifying in the Senate, the nation’s top two intelligence officials conceded that the exchanges released by The Atlantic were accurate - NYT

Russia will only implement a White House-brokered agreement to stop using force in the Black Sea when sanctions imposed on its banks and exports over its invasion of Ukraine are lifted, the Kremlin said Tuesday, adding further uncertainty to both ongoing peace negotiations and the wider ambition of establishing a full cease-fire. Following days of separate talks with Ukrainian and Russian officials in Saudi Arabia, the White House said the two sides had agreed “to ensure safe navigation, eliminate the use of force, and prevent the use of commercial vessels for military purposes in the Black Sea” while also agreeing to implement a previously announced pause on attacks against energy infrastructure. The agreements – which represent a potentially significant step forward, while falling far short of a 30-day full ceasefire initially proposed by the White House – were outlined in two separate, but very similar statements from the White House on Tuesday. But while Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed in a news conference that Ukraine had agreed to stop using military force in the Black Sea, the Kremlin released its own statement on the talks, which included far-reaching conditions for signing up to the partial truce. Those included lifting sanctions on its agricultural bank and other financial institutions and companies involved in exporting food and their re-connection to the US-controlled SWIFT international payments system. Those sanctions were imposed after Moscow launched its unprovoked full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. On Tuesday afternoon, US President Donald Trump told reporters that his administration was looking at Russia’s conditions. “We’re thinking about all of them right now. There are five or six conditions. We are looking at all of them,” the US president said at the White House. The Russian stipulations raise fresh questions as to how or when such a limited agreement could be implemented, and highlight what remains a significant gulf in expectations between the two warring sides - CNN

For sure the Kremlin is sending fewer tanks to the battlefield. It could be they’re saving tanks for a big offensive. It could be FPV drones have pushed Russia to the bottom of its tank barrel.

The Ukrainian first-person-view (FPV) drone hit the Russian tank and exploded. It was a commonplace incident of the Russo-Ukrainian War that is becoming less common.

These days, on Ukraine’s battlefields, there are fewer Russian tanks to hit.

Anyone who has been studying the Kremlin’s methods over the years can recognize exactly how Putin is stringing the Americans along so that Washington winds up pressuring Kyiv.

US negotiators met with their Russian counterparts in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Monday morning to discuss a potential ceasefire and peace deal to end the war in Ukraine. They came away with neither.

Talks focused on creating safe commercial shipping lanes in the Black Sea. Initially, on Tuesday, even that appeared to have failed. Vladimir Chizhov, told Russian media that no agreement would be announced given Ukraine’s position.”

The convictions targeted members and former members of Ukraine’s Azov brigade, a unit Russia declared a “terrorist and extremist” organization in August 2022.

A Russian court on Wednesday sentenced a group of Ukrainian captives, including soldiers and ex-soldiers, to prison terms of up to 23 years on “terrorism” and other charges. The group was captured early in Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

According to the independent news site Mediazona, a total of 23 Ukrainians were sentenced on March 26. Twelve were in Russian custody, while the other 11 had already been exchanged for Russian prisoners and were sentenced in absentia.

The use of unmanned aerial vehicles to deliver medical products in hard-to-reach areas of the country is “taking off,” with the third such service beginning next month.

Oksana Melnyk, director of the Tlumach Primary Medical Care Center (TPMC) told the Suspilne news outlet that the rural community her facility serves in the Ivano-Frankivsk region will start to deliver medicines and other related necessities using drones from this coming April. This will be the third time such a system has been used to support hard to reach areas of the country.

In May 2022 the Canadian drone manufacturers Draganfly in partnership with Coldchain Delivery Systems, specialists in transporting temperature-sensitive medical material, deployed specially designed medical response drones to Ukraine. The company then trained wounded Ukrainian servicemen from the “Revived Soldiers Ukraine (RSU)” charity to operate and maintain the drones.

Russia has entirely ruled out the return or transfer of control to Ukraine or any other states of the plant because it views the facility as part of its own nuclear sector.

The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has stated that Moscow “does not consider it possible” to transfer the Ukrainian Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP), or control over it, to Ukraine or any other country.

“The return of the plant to the Russian nuclear industry is a long-accomplished fact, which the international community simply has to recognize. The transfer of the ZNPP itself or control over it to Ukraine or any other country is impossible,” the official statement by the Russian ministry reads.

Politicians and diplomats have blasted Trump’s special representative Richard Grenell over his claim that the nuclear weapons Ukrainians gave up weren’t theirs, they belonged to Russia.

US President Donald Trump’s envoy for special missions, Richard Grenell, claimed that Ukraine never had its own nuclear weapons and that the arsenal it once possessed always belonged to Russia – sparking an immediate backlash from politicians and diplomats.

Grenell took to X to “clarify” the Budapest Memorandum, writing:

The parliamentary vote is in response to security concerns over Russia’s war in Ukraine. Estonia has been a steadfast supporter of Kyiv since the invasion in February 2022.

Estonian lawmakers will decide on Wednesday whether to amend the constitution to ban non-EU residents from voting in municipal elections, a measure targeting the Baltic state’s large Russian-speaking minority.

The parliamentary vote is in response to security concerns over Russia’s war in Ukraine. Estonia has been a steadfast supporter of Kyiv since the invasion in February 2022.

Top Baltic diplomats meet with Rubio to urge continued aid to Ukraine and more pressure on Russia to achieve sustainable peace.

Top diplomats of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania on Tuesday expressed their cautious support for the Trump administration’s peace efforts with Ukraine and Russia, as they remain skeptical of Moscow’s intentions, and urged for proper monitoring and verification mechanisms to be in place in order to force the Kremlin to honor the agreements reached.

During their meeting with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio at the State Department, the foreign ministers of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania also called for continued military assistance to Ukraine on the one hand, and economic pressure on Russia on the other, to secure tangible results, Kyiv Post’s Washington correspondent reports.

With Trump pushing for a rapid end to the war, White House negotiators shuttled separately over three days between delegations from Ukraine and Russia in the Saudi capital of Riyadh.

US President Donald Trump admitted that Russia may be delaying the signing of a ceasefire agreement with Ukraine, though he did not confirm it outright.

With Trump pushing for a rapid end to the war that has killed hundreds of thousands of people, White House negotiators shuttled separately over three days in the Saudi capital Riyadh between delegations from Ukraine and Russia.

The massive drone strike on Kryvyi Rih ignited fires and damaged an administrative building, warehouses, an industrial enterprise, and a fire station.

Russia launched its most extensive Shahed drone attack on Kryvyi Rih, the hometown of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, overnight, causing fires and damaging multiple buildings, including an industrial enterprise and a fire station.

Serhiy Lysak, head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Administration, reported via Telegram that Russian forces targeted the region with drones, igniting several fires in Kryvyi Rih.

Russia has “embarked on a Kremlin-directed, deeply institutionalized project to abduct Ukrainian children and forcibly turn them into the next generation of Russians,” according to a new report.

The research, published by the U.S.-based Institute for the Study of War (ISW), claims that Moscow made plans to relocate and Russify young Ukrainians in occupied territories even before it launched its full-scale invasion of its neighbor. 

Officials in Kyiv have managed to document around 20,000 cases of children who have been deported to Russia during the conflict, but the real number is likely to be far higher. 

In a war-torn country that not long ago considered business to be an unethical form of speculation, integrating entrepreneurial activity into benign society requires effort and ingenuity.

When the communist economy system collapsed in Ukraine 30 years ago, many Ukrainian private companies were born, which began to operate in the new free market, but without that network of public relations and political representation for entrepreneurs that we usually find in Western countries.

The first entities of this type were the chambers of commerce, which offer services to associated companies. But a few years ago, in 2017, Board was born, a different form of association, because it is neither a chamber of commerce nor a business association, as we know them in the West.

Ukrainian refugees say the winds of anti-migrant intolerance blowing from Washington are completely out of step with their daily experience in a country where he has always felt welcomed.

With Russian troops ravaging their native Kharkiv, Nikita Demydov and his wife Alina were offered a way out when the United States welcomed them and their five-year-old daughter as part of a humanitarian program.

But that welcome is now being withdrawn under President Donald Trump, whose administration has suspended “Uniting for Ukraine,” which allowed more than 200,000 Ukrainians to legally reside in the country.

Latest from the Institute for the Study of War.

Key Takeaways from the ISW:

• US, Ukrainian, and Russian officials reached some agreements for temporary ceasefires on strikes against energy infrastructure and in the Black Sea. The details of these ceasefires remain unclear and evaluating the ceasefires’ specifics in the absence of officially published joint texts of the agreements signed by Russia and Ukraine remains difficult.
• The Kremlin’s and Umerov’s statements suggest that Russia and Ukraine may not yet be in agreement about whether the ceasefire has gone into effect or not as of March 25.
• Putin continues to reject Trump’s and Zelensky’s proposed temporary frontline ceasefire, despite agreeing to some form of ceasefire for strikes on energy infrastructure and in the Black Sea. Putin’s persistent stalling and intransigence are inhibiting Trump’s efforts to secure a lasting and stable peace settlement.
• The Kremlin stated that it will not implement the agreed ceasefire in the Black Sea until the United States lifts sanctions on Russian state-owned agricultural bank Rosselkhozbank and other unspecified financial organizations involved in international food and fertilizer trade.
• Russian forces recently advanced in the Kursk-Sumy Oblast border area, near Toretsk, and in western Zaporizhia Oblast.
• The Russian military continues to deny rotations to soldiers who have been fighting in the war in Ukraine for years.

The proportion of its GDP that Ukraine spent on defense last year was more than four times higher than that of Russia as the war started by Moscow’s 2022 full-scale invasion continues.

In 2024, Ukraine allocated a record 30% of its GDP to defense, the highest share of any country in the world, the Ukrainian center for economic strategy (CES) reported.

By comparison, Russia spent a smaller part of GDP on its defense sector – around 7%, based on available data analyzed by the CES. 

“No one can accuse Ukraine of not moving towards sustainable peace after this,” Zelensky said after grain passage deal is okayed, but wonders if US envoy is again parroting Kremlin talking points

President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday welcomed the deal made in Saudi Arabia on Monday that purports to halt hostilities in the Black Sea. However, he openly fretted about comments made by US special envoy to Moscow, Steve Witkoff, to a Kremlin-friendly US political media personality.

In an interview posted last week, fired Fox News host Tucker Carlson, who gave Russian autocrat Vladimir Putin free rein in an interview last year to expound his propaganda, allowed Witkoff to parrot much the same.